Streets of Fire - Full Reaction
Added 2021-11-12 06:39:12 +0000 UTCEdit: I mixed up the winners with the movies, this one was picked by Matt C. not Joel C whoopsadaisy!! Hey guys! This was one of the picks from our little "event" we had the other day. This sure was unlike anything I have ever seen! I'm not sure I'm over him punching his girlfriend in the face... or those leather overalls for that matter haha. Hope you guys enjoy the reaction! Have a great weekend!
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I’ve been with you from the beginning on YouTube and I just joined so I just watch this movie for the first time with you. I just have one thing to say Cassie” “you gotta suffer if you want to sing the blues “ that’s what this movie is about. And I guess it’s a romantic but from a guys POV. Like “Dave “ is Except Dave is what you would call nicer Lol
Nolofinwe
2024-10-17 01:13:13 +0000 UTCNow THIS is a movie. None of your mass produced, safe, geriatric, coffee table, Hollywood BS
Butt Head
2024-08-26 02:24:23 +0000 UTCWilliam Defoe as the biker?! That was classic. It was a "Rock and Roll Fable"....go with it for 90 minutes or so.
crazyivan
2024-05-17 02:04:32 +0000 UTCA movie that works so much better as a trailer, or as a few music videos since it does have some great music and I love the look of it but the writing is lackluster and some of the casting choices are odd.
thansen
2024-02-02 07:11:48 +0000 UTCThis is a favorite of mine. You need to remove the RomCom love goggles and accept the characters explanation of their motives.
John Hagan
2022-09-18 02:22:48 +0000 UTCJust finished this :) Another music movie (that no one else is requesting :D ) is "Tonight You're Mine" (2011): https://popcornrequests.com/title/tt1672845
Planner
2022-07-19 10:26:58 +0000 UTCI have love this movie! Sue me!
TommyJ.
2022-07-05 19:14:15 +0000 UTCBest thing about this movie was getting to see the gorgeous Diane Lane and the song Tonight Is What It Means to Be Young.
surtt Mcmuffen
2022-03-30 14:15:31 +0000 UTCIf you like Michael Pare and movies with music, you should watch Eddie and the Cruisers 1 and 2. About a band trying to make it. Excellent watch and excellent soundtrack
Jeff Finley
2022-01-30 07:49:03 +0000 UTCBest thing about this movie was getting to see the gorgeous Diane Lane and the song I Can Dream About You.
Shawn Kildal
2022-01-25 08:28:04 +0000 UTCLol Omg I love these cheesy 80s movies. Girl, you're hilarious.. you made it soooo much fun to revisit this rock n' roll fairy tale.
Doc Savage
2022-01-12 02:30:45 +0000 UTCI hear that brother!
Doc Savage
2022-01-12 02:28:16 +0000 UTCI will never urge anyone I know to watch this movie. I get why people don't like it, I shouldn't either. Call it a cult movie, so bad it's good, guilty pleasure. whatever. but damn it, I love this movie.
Mr Jordan
2021-12-02 18:56:32 +0000 UTCSeems like you've never rocked out to a Meat Loaf song
Godzilla Jones
2021-11-15 06:26:17 +0000 UTCI wasn't a fan of this film but the fact it flopped at the box office is insignificant.
Jay
2021-11-13 17:56:45 +0000 UTCi love that!!
Ann Peterson
2021-11-13 17:42:39 +0000 UTCyes! and in terminator and roxanne that ive seen>
Ann Peterson
2021-11-13 17:42:30 +0000 UTCsounds interesting, Ill add it to the "master list"
Ann Peterson
2021-11-13 17:42:12 +0000 UTCneed to!!
Ann Peterson
2021-11-13 17:41:56 +0000 UTCI love Diane Lane. If she were president, she'd be Baberaham Lincoln.
Brian McGovern
2021-11-13 08:32:31 +0000 UTCThought the same thing when I was watching it many years ago and looked up the song writer. Made perfect sense that it was Jim Steinman, totally his style..
Eric Denney
2021-11-13 07:53:13 +0000 UTCnice choice! An oldie with Willem Dafoe... and...
Em McG
2021-11-13 05:55:59 +0000 UTCHave to be honest - this was hard to get through even with Cassie's reaction. Definitely not a movie I would watch again. Walter Hill wanted to reproduce his success with The Warriors five years prior - but I would watch that instead for the 50th time instead of this. While The Warriors deserves its place as a cult classic (and one of my favorites of all time), it's easy to see why Streets of Fire was a forgettable flop. Ghostbusters, Gremlins, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom were the competition during its release...way better movies.
inpham0us
2021-11-13 05:17:39 +0000 UTCYou mean to tell me that William dafoe was actually young at one point?
Nick Deuchars
2021-11-13 03:17:01 +0000 UTCCotton Candy and a movie.
Grinznmore
2021-11-13 02:33:16 +0000 UTCMy brother and I took a photo with Rick Moranis at a local convention two years ago. Took one look at us and said, "Wow, what handsome men!" The sweetest, nicest guy ever.
Alex Villarreal
2021-11-13 02:15:36 +0000 UTCI agree about Southern Comfort, brilliant film.
Jay
2021-11-13 02:00:00 +0000 UTCRick Rossovich, who played the white cop was Slider in Top Gun.
Grinznmore
2021-11-13 01:56:45 +0000 UTCI think the point of this draw (or maybe just my hope?) was to get 2 more obscure titles that were never going to win any polls, so mission accomplished guys 👍 I wasn't crazy about this film tbh. Not surprised people had said they enjoyed it as teenagers. Pretty sure if I'd seen it 15 years ago, I'd be much more positive about it. Visually striking with some great action, as you'd expect from Mr Hill, but lacking in other departments IMHO. Still though, Cassie had fun and she has now seen a film directed by Walter Hill, that's a good thing. And next week, she will be introduced to Paul Thomas Anderson. That man has been a gift for movie lovers, delivering stone cold classics on a regular enough basis for 25 years now. Haven't seen Phantom Thread since it came out. It will be great to revisit it right before Licorice Pizza gets released.
Jay
2021-11-13 01:52:52 +0000 UTCThis IS a “long music video.” It’s also all of Jim Steinman’s lyrics distilled into a story that’s all tropes and nothing else. It’s all about mood and style. The substance is pretty awful. It’s a lot of fun.
Andrew Pulrang
2021-11-12 23:50:38 +0000 UTCCan you watch Snowpiercer?
LionBro
2021-11-12 21:04:00 +0000 UTCCome on, Michael Pare isn’t that bad. He did that werewolf movie, “Bad Moon”, and that was pretty good. Granted, Primo’s performance as the dog Thor was infinitely more compelling, but Pare was…there.
Matthew Clark
2021-11-12 20:55:29 +0000 UTCGet the soundtrack. I have it listed as listened to well over a thousand times.
Jason Mangen
2021-11-12 18:58:15 +0000 UTCI’ve never even heard of this
James Little
2021-11-12 17:27:53 +0000 UTCIf I was 12 years-old and had parents who thought rock and roll was "the devil's music" when this first came out... I'm sure I would have loved it ;)
Uncle 'Traveling' Matt
2021-11-12 17:21:25 +0000 UTCI think this pic has a cult-like following but I don't know that I'd have picked this movie. I have been a sucker for Diane Lane forever so it has that going for it. I remember seeing it for that reason alone.
softshoes
2021-11-12 16:49:11 +0000 UTCI was born the same year it was released, and seeing it today doesn't speak to me. I tried watching it a few years ago, but after 15 minutes I stopped. there are films like that...
Grégory Gautier
2021-11-12 12:54:53 +0000 UTCI saw this around when it first came out when I was like 14 or 15. I thought it was a fun movie back then, but damn this didn't age well. The writing is so bad, and Michael Pare's acting was so stiff with no depth. It was mostly a cringe fest.
Johnny
2021-11-12 11:07:52 +0000 UTCThis movie has a small but dedicated cult following but it's never really worked for me. It's very thin material treated with excessive seriousness; it should be a lot lighter and more energetic, more like a music video or a classic 1950s Hollywood musical. I think people like the idea of the movie more than the actual movie itself. Michael Pare seemed like he was on the edge of becoming a movie star when this was made but he never really broke through, headlining a string of box office disappointments. Several people involved with making STREETS OF FIRE felt he was miscast and not up to the task of carrying the movie. By the end of the decade his time as a major leading man was over. STREETS OF FIRE came and went from theaters pretty quickly but the movie lingered for a while on MTV with the hit single and video "I Can Dream About You" by Dan Hartman. (Strangely enough, a previous film starring Michael Pare, EDDIE AND THE CRUISERS, was also a box office bomb redeemed by a hit video on MTV, in that case "On the Dark Side" by John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band.) In the movie, a group of actors "perform" the song as if they were a 1960s Motown band, but Hartman doesn't actually appear in the movie or the video. Apparently he was greatly annoyed that people identified actor Stoney Jackson as "Dan Hartman" for many years. He passed away from AIDS in the 1990s.
Patrick Flanagan
2021-11-12 09:49:07 +0000 UTCCheck out some Behind the scenes to the film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKQgXVRWT1Y
Chris Reise
2021-11-12 09:14:55 +0000 UTCThanks for the fun pick, Joel! (jk) Cassie, I’m glad you thought it was fun. When you said, “‘80s boy’s dream movie,” I was just like, “Yeah, pretty much.” But thanks for letting me pick a movie and reacting to it. I’ll be honest, I completely forgot that he punches out Ellen on the train. I think that was just one of those things from old, favorite movies that you just edit out of your memory. (Like that part in “Princess Bride” when Wesley threatens to backhand Buttercup.) Usually when I watch this movie nowadays I only watch the opening and closing musical numbers and, of course, the sledgehammer fight. And I always liked that he leaves at the end. It’s a “lost love story” instead of a “love story”. “The one that got away” and all that. No one writes love songs about the stories where they live happily ever after. I don’t know, one man’s opinion. And the leather overalls?! Come on! Those are stylish! They’re coming back, just you wait.
Matthew Clark
2021-11-12 09:08:49 +0000 UTCI thought the songs sounded familiar. Jim Steinman who wrote all or most of MeatLoaf's songs. He has a particular style to his songs.
Brian McGovern
2021-11-12 08:15:36 +0000 UTCFun Fact - The girl who was dancing on the bar at Torchy's (Biker's Bar) is that same woman who was the dance double for Jennifer Beals in "Flashdance".
Chris Reise
2021-11-12 07:53:50 +0000 UTCI haven't seen this movie since I was a teen. I liked it so much (back then) because of how unique and bizarre it was, labeled as a "Rock and Roll Fable". The scene with Tom punching Ellen out... Well, that's Walter Hill for you. His stories and characters were commonly written with violence that made you take notice, even for the time. Funny you mentioned Willem Defoe looking like a vampire. He played Max Schreck in a movie called "Shadow Of The Vampire" (2000). Schreck was the vampire in the 1922 silent classic "Nosferatu". My favorite movie of Walter Hill would be "Southern Comfort" (1981). Hill directing Eddie Murphy in "48 Hours" (1982) comes in at a close second.
Prof. Writhms
2021-11-12 07:50:19 +0000 UTCYou may be wishing you didn't do that, but I am sure EVERYONE is glad you did. LOL. I always forward to the end. I am like that with books as well.
Brian McGovern
2021-11-12 06:49:20 +0000 UTCNo worries, keep up the great work!
Joel
2021-11-12 06:46:42 +0000 UTCYours willl be up next week :)
Cassie
2021-11-12 06:45:22 +0000 UTCoh my goodness, edited the post!! Sorry, I am struggling over here 🤪
Cassie
2021-11-12 06:45:00 +0000 UTCI picked Phantom Thread lol, it’s okay though. Pretty sure Matthew C chose Streets
Joel
2021-11-12 06:41:15 +0000 UTC
