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A Scorsese Flick! Martin Scorsese is in my Top 5 Favourite Directors so I was automatically exhilarated to watch Raging Bull. I’ve heard this film is an absolute masterpiece! And cinephiles state it as a piece that will be remembered forever. So I sat down in my cinema room and asserted with confidence “IM WATCHING RAGING BULL RIGHT NOW!” And the results of this experience, grievously it is a tad bit overrated.

The one MASSIVE POSITIVE I can declare is…

“20$? Let’s go to the movies!”

Mean Streets is often remembered as the film that put Martin Scorsese on trails once and for all. It’s a true claim since much all of his signatures are settled here: Italian-American crime, non-stop use of copyrighted music, energetic editing, carefully sliding dollies, frequent profanity, etc. 

But it’s not just about these, Mean Streets is a really great film overall. The plot is very loose as this feels more like a document of a lifestyle or…

Really enjoyed this, good gangster film. I know ‘Boxcar Bertha’ is officially Marty’s first feature film but this definitely gave first film vibes and reminded me a lot of ‘Resevoir Dogs’ in that you can see so much off the directors vision and film making abilities that just aren’t quite refined yet. 

I’m not sure why Robert De Niro was given leading credit for this on this by Letterboxd and the Blu ray box, Harvey Keitel stole the show with…

From the mean streets of Spielberg’s “Duel”, and “Amblin’” to Scorsese’s “Mean Streets”, I continue watching some of the earliest works from Spielberg and Scorsese, two of the greatest Hollywood filmmakers! This is a strong early effort for Scorsese, and is so assured and authentic, with all his hallmarks. A really good soundtrack too! Not only was he off to an impressive early career, but so was Robert DeNiro in one of his earliest roles. He looks so young and…