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Post by sterlingarcher86 on Apr 20, 2024 1:06:21 GMT
Just discovered that these two classic debuts by legends premiered at the same festival. I can only imagine attending that one. So which you prefer. Both great but Badlands may actually be my favorite Malick so I’ll say that.
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Post by Archie on Apr 20, 2024 1:09:00 GMT
Mean Streets is aces, but Badlands is just magical.
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Post by Joaquim on Apr 20, 2024 1:10:11 GMT
It’s Badlands for me but I rate them both 9/10
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 20, 2024 1:29:05 GMT
Extremely close but Mean Streets resembles my actual life - and at various times I've been Charlie and Johnny Boy on Northeast city streets.......and this line of dialog is how I try to live my life which is incredibly stupid, childish and difficult ........but here we are.......  "I fuck you right where you breath, because I don't give two shits about you or nobody else" |
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Post by JangoB on Apr 20, 2024 1:34:52 GMT
It’s Badlands for me but I rate them both 9/10
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Post by stephen on Apr 20, 2024 1:39:15 GMT
Mean Streets is not Scorsese's debut.
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Post by sterlingarcher86 on Apr 20, 2024 1:41:32 GMT
Mean Streets is not Scorsese's debut. Breakthrough then |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Apr 20, 2024 2:27:39 GMT
no contest
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Post by futuretrunks on Apr 20, 2024 3:00:55 GMT
Mean Streets, easily. Badlands is rudimentary; plain and quite dull.
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Post by BlackCaesar21 on Apr 20, 2024 10:05:18 GMT
Badlands is magical but as an Irishman riddled with Catholic guilt who grew up around so many Johnny Boys I can't help but relate to so much of Mean Streets.
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Post by PromNightCarrie on Apr 21, 2024 15:22:25 GMT
Badlands for me is one of those lightning in a bottle films where everything that shouldn't work somehow does anyway. It crosses that line that movies try to avoid from involving us to distancing us and it's still so great. It's the only one of the two in my top 20. Not only does (wonderful) Mean Streets not top it, but Malick hasn't topped it.
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