comment #1

Edward says ...

Loved Diane Lane in this, but the movie just isn't very good. If it was a Rock and Roll Fable, it needed more edginess. Hill still has it, though. Broken Trail was a very good TV movie. I hope Bullet to the Head is a return to form.

comment #2

The Hey says ...

Granted that this film was a folly given to Walter Hill off the success of 48hrs and wouldn't have been made otherwise but I love this movie and I think it holds up brilliantly.

The big reason it bombed was two-fold. It is not a film that you can describe to someone in a short sentence and it was released in the summer the same weekend as a Star Trek (The Search for Spock) at the height of the franchise's popularity and targeted the same audience.

It deserved a better fate. And I bet the audience last night was rocking.

comment #3

Mr. F. says ...

I was a young teenager, and an SCTV-obsessive, when STREETS OF FIRE opened in '84. I saw it just for Rick Moranis.

It was not at all the movie I was expecting, and I've never given it a fair shake since -- my own fault. Like you, it's been 28 years since my one and only viewing. I really should see it again to see what I was missing.

comment #4

bondjamesbond says ...

Joel Silver is going to have more than a five paragraph obit?! Well, I guarantee I'm not reading that far into it. Two and a half at most.

comment #5

sumo-pop says ...

Two words: Michael Fucking Pare.

comment #6

George Prager says ...

The video for "I Can Dream About You" was on MTV constantly. It made you think that the movie was a hit.

comment #7

corey3rd says ...

This was the poster they made for when it ran in Raleigh a couple months back.
http://www.cinemaoverdrive.net/images/posters/StreetsofFire.jpg

comment #8

Jesse Crall says ...

@corey3rd: Awesome poster. I'd probably like this movie a lot and I'm pissed that I didn't check the New Beverly schedule.

comment #9

erniesouchak says ...

I love this movie, and when the Egyptian screened it a few years back it had an enthusiastic audience.

comment #10

bitplaya says ...

My sisters were in love with Stonie Jackson, who danced and lip synched the big song from the movie. If I recall, "I Can Dream About You" was a big song.

comment #11

Alboone says ...

Total crack movie. If it is on I am watching. Can't help it. Tom Cody is one of my movie character idols. Best line ever: "give him some of your money, if you don't then I'll give him some of your money."

I live for dialogue like that!

comment #12

Gabe@ThePlaylist says ...

That dark opening, and the bang BANG synth drums leading into "Nowhere Fast" has to be one of the best openings of any film in goddamned HISTORY. Ridiculous, really fun movie.

comment #13

MikeSchaeferSF says ...

Dan Hartman's "I Can Dream About You" is one of the great pop singles of the '80s.

comment #14

qdpsteve says ...

Still remember the headline of the original Streets of Fire review in the Long Beach Press-Telegram back in 1984: "Soundtrack sizzles, but the movie fizzles."

Having said that, (a) I just downloaded the soundtrack from Amazon a few weeks ago, and (b) it's surprising how many movies don't find their audience until years (or decades) later. I still remember the wildly mixed reviews that Blade Runner and The King of Comedy got a few years earlier when they first came out, in '82. Of course, now they're considered classics.

Plus I'd bet that 20 years from now, Sucker Punch will be hailed as a misunderstood masterpiece.

comment #15

Kakihara says ...

The film is big in Japan, for some reason.

comment #16

qdpsteve says ...

From about the same era as SoF:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c98qdFQF7sw

comment #17

Kakihara says ...

Though I have a feeling Hill would rather erase his producer credit off AVP.

comment #18

Raising_Kaned says ...

Awesome movie. Respect.

comment #19

Raising_Kaned says ...

Quentin still owns the New Beverly, I take it?

Being a Midwestern guy, I'm never really able to keep up with this stuff...

comment #20

Jesse Crall says ...

@Kaned: He does, and the line-ups there are pretty cool.

comment #21

RoyBatty Returns says ...

Netflix or Time Warner On Demand had this a few months ago and I hadn't seen it since it opened. It really comes apart at the end and the concert scenes are actually not shot/edited with enough energy, but it is nevertheless eminently watchable.

You know that it would never get made today and that gives it a certain cachet.

comment #22

Cadavra says ...

I was fortunate enough to see an early screening when it was still an R. The decision to rip it down to a PG (and reshoot the closing scene) caused a great deal of harm, but it's still a wonderful film, my favorite WH picture. I've suggested to the asset management guys at Universal that they dig through the vaults and see if they can find the trims; if so, they should let Walter put it back together and release it as an Unrated Director's Cut. Maybe then it'll get its just due.

comment #23

adivagraphix says ...

i just like the skatch.

comment #24

alico says ...

The big reason it bombed was two-fold. It is not a film that you can describe to someone in a short sentence and it was released in the summer the same weekend as a Star Trek (The Search for Spock) at the height of the franchise's popularity and targeted the same audience. franklin marshall I've suggested to the asset management guys at Universal that they dig through the vaults and see if they can find the trims; if so, they should let Walter put it back together and release it as an Unrated Director's Cut. Maybe then it'll get its just due.

comment #25

Markj74 says ...

@qdpsteve: Why on earth would Sucker Punch be hailed as a misunderstood masterpiece?!

comment #26

pmn says ...

Where is a long, lecherous rant on the unbelievable hotness of a young Diane Lane when you need one?

comment #27

corey3rd says ...

Far as the concert scenes go, Andy Lazlo set it up so that the various cameras had different F-Stops to capture just the right time in the performances as the lighting was changed on the stage show. Trouble is that the editors decided to just ignore his plan and grabbed stuff from all over the place. He spoke of his frustration at the final product at a Kodak workshop.

This tale might be why Robert Richardson turned off the camera or stuck his hand in front of the lens on The Horse Whisper when he didn't like what an approaching cloud was doing to his shot.

comment #28

MB says ...

i saw the movie, but in Holland it was never been a hit.

comment #29

Robert Cashill says ...

Due on Blu-ray this year.

comment #30

MooType says ...

Also notable for The Fixx's "Deeper and Deeper," which is a great new-wave anthem amongst the stylish mix. Ain't It Cool did an interview with Michael Pare about a year ago, and he talked about how badly he wanted to punch out Rick Moranis during the making of the film.

comment #31

York "Budd" Durden says ...

Among numerous story and characters problems, this rock & roll 'fable' wasn't fable enough in its depiction of an alternate reality. As a huge WH fan thanks to Southern Comfort and the Warriors this was one of my must-sees of that summer, but upon walking out of it that Friday afternoon it felt then, and remains in my memory, as a movie that wasn't nearly as exciting and interesting as its poster and trailers portended.

comment #32

Raising_Kaned says ...

D.Z. says...

Looks like Escape From New York meets Demons.

comment #33

blulubyl says ...

Dafoe was edgy and relatively unknown. And the leather outfits were over the top. But the soundtrack is great and played often by me and my kids, who were kids back then.

comment #34

MickTravisMcGee says ...

The movie was all pretty corny, but the sledgehammer fight ruled. A masterpiece of editing.

comment #35

Kakihara says ...

Raising: More like the live-action Megazone 23. =p

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comment #37

Jack Razor says ...

I can't believe all the movies that came out around that time that tried to exploit the rise of the MTV youth culture and awkardly failed. I also remember around that time "The Legend of Billy Jean".

What's important is that it gives us one of the best pop song ever in "I Can Dream About You".Wich as kids we danced on all year on.

comment #38

RupertLally says ...

Rewatched this on DVD last summer, after buying it in a fit of nostalgia - the basic premise: rock and roll musical meets gang thriller was always going to be a tough sell - though there's lots of good stuff in it (I'd forgotten the cool way the credits wipe on and off the screen) - it's not hard to see why this did not exactly set the box office alight.

comment #39

RupertLally says ...

Rewatched this on DVD last summer, after buying it in a fit of nostalgia - the basic premise: rock and roll musical meets gang thriller was always going to be a tough sell - though there's lots of good stuff in it (I'd forgotten the cool way the credits wipe on and off the screen) - it's not hard to see why this did not exactly set the box office alight.

comment #40

MilkMan says ...

Diane Lane, from around 1982 (Ladies and Gentleman, the Fabulous Stains & The Outisders) until 1987 (The Big Town), is the most beautiful actress in the history of cinema. More beautiful than Elizabeth Taylor circa A Duel In the Sun; more beautiful than Sophia Loren; more beautiful than Ava Gardner; more beautiful than anyone. You couldn't convince me otherwise. I've seen the pictures and watched the movies and Diane Lane is it. In some of the stills from The Outsiders, Rumble Fish, The Cotton Club, and The Big Town, she is nothing less than a perfect composite of every legendary screen beauty ever. She was breathtaking. And then, when you add her natural bad-ass attitude to her astonishing beauty, it adds up to something I can't even describe in words. How she did not end up becoming a face that adorns mugs and t-shirts being sold at some tchochke shop on Hollywood Blvd is something I'll never understand. Maybe marrying Highlander was the worst business decision she ever made. I saw Streets of Fire opening night with my dad (who was a huge Pare fan for some reason) and every time Ellen Aim was on the screen I had an angry, transcendent boner that made the inside of my OP shorts a very crowded, yet lonely, place.

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