I purchased this DVD the other day. The film is brillant with a very strong performance from Robert DeNiro, and was also the first film to bring together the talents of DeNiro and one Martin Scorsese. While the film was great, the DVD was a travesty! The picture, sound etc was diabolical for a DVD, and the worst thing was the amount of extras. We say Goodfellas is bad with only trailers, notes and biographies, but ALL this has is a photo gallery! Thats all! maybe they have that so you can actuall see the shots properly instead of in the film ones?

Unfortunately, that seems to be the trend with the studios: (1) Release a substandard DVD with zero decent special features; (2) later, re-release the same movie in a "Special Collectors Edition" with better features; and (3) laugh all the way to the friggin' bank! But, whaddayagonnado? :rolleyes:

I hope Scorsese does some commentaries for the special editions of his films.

"Mean Streets" in some ways is even better than "Goodfellas," but the DVD is substandard. All that fine music and not even a stereo soundtrack.