Product: Mean Streets (1973)
Rating: 1.0
Mean Streets
After (re-seeing) Taxi Driver recently, I was eager to see Mean Streets on satellite.After 25 minutes, I couldn't stand it anymore, and deleted it.This movie is drivel, about a group of worthless losers who somehow think that their pathetic lives are important to anyone but themselves.Yes, there are some stylistic similarities to Taxi Driver (along with some of the same actors, of course), but the result is dramatically different.I am guessing that a good bit of the dialogue in this movie was improvised, but in order for that to be a success, it would need to have some reasonable framework to hang on.This movie is tedious, a total waste of time.It may be that "students of film" find this movie worthy of study, but it's a clunker.