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on 7/8/2009
Really wish I'd seen Mean Street at some point in the last 5 years... but alas, it's been even longer than that.
on 1/13/2010
The Departed is more polished and exciting, but I feel Mean Streets is the more insightful, powerful, and important film.
on 11/21/2012
Mean Streets would have been better if it had, you know, an actual plot. The Departed absolutely destroys it here.
on 1/5/2013
The Departed wins for me. Leonardo DiCaprio is pretty much flawless in that movie and it is really suspenseful toward the end.
on 6/11/2013
To the guy who said Mean Streets needed a plot, that wasn't the objective of the movie. It was a STORY, not a plot. It told the story of Johnny Boy and Charlie, and their time in the mob. Plot doesn't always make a movie good, either. Mean Streets had more of Scorsese's soul in it, so I gotta go with that.
Can't help but choose The Departed here...
