What does Cinemaphile think of Streets of Fire?
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>kino production design, sets, photography, music
>no story just plot
>bonkers highly stylized world
Would've been better with Michael Biehn in the lead.
Eddie Wilson was a great replacement
Yeah, I'd bet this was the rationale. He nailed the "legend/idol" role in that movie.
>a rock 'n' role fable
>there's still morons that say the 80s were the worst decade for film when set design, art direction, lighting, and makeup like this was standard
No one ever said that, quite the opposite. The 80s is the peak of cinema, although its would be more acurate to say 75-95
why cant we get photography like this anymore
I call it 'neon cool'
Some call it 'neon noir'
It's a bunch of movies all from the 1980s: Thief, Blade Runner, One From The Heart, Scarface, Streets Of Fire, The Terminator, To Live And Die In LA, Manhunter, Tequila Sunrise, the tv series Miami Vice counts too
Synthwave is the official term for it
Explains their thing for femboys.
Synthwave is the music often associated with it
I'd say it's effective as an aesthetic description too the way vaporwave is
There is a bunch of others too:
Miracle Mile
Dark Angel (I come in peace)
Black Rain
The end of Another 48 Hours goes apeshit with this style.
I'd add the nightclub scene in Buckaroo Banzai, it was photographed by Jordan Cronenworth before he was fired from the production
Kino aesthetic
Coomo actress
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absolute kino
I liked it a lot and refuse to elaborate further
>and refuse to elaborate further
You sound like a Walter Hill character
great music
but i still don't understand why the gang of bikers kidnapped that lead singer of the band
He wanted sex.
Not rape, mind you. He did that scene in the ridiculous leather pants... "Fall in love with me for a while, I'll let you go" and when the lady refused he just left the room. He wanted her to "consent" for a week or whatever since she was hot.
It's part of the movies' gentle nature. Also notice that despite the violence nobody dies in the whole movie. The whole flick has a certain innocence to it.
I thought the gang leader himself was some sort of a musician, because when he confronted the hero for the first time, he said something about guitar riffs...
I had this theory that maybe he wanted to form his own band and he needed the girl to sing for him
>Tonight is What It Means to Be Young
>Nowhere Fast
That's a good point. There's gunfire and explosions, but most of the violence feels like a bunch of young punks causing a ruckus rather than trying to kill each other.
>He wanted sex.
His hideout has a femboy stripper and he and his biker pals wear highly stylized S&M biker outfits
We should all be taught what it means to be young by middle aged weirdos
>Akira but American
>another time, another place
Act III...por favor...
Act 3 will come out in 5 years and all the songs will exclusively feature the fat b***h on vocals
I ain't got no heroes left in man
Maybe ten years ago I would've wanted it.
It’s kino.
FunFact: Rick Moranis, the nicest guy in Hollywood, incessantly bullied Pare throughout filming in a bit of method acting thing. Pare said:
>”Rick Moranis drove me out of my mind. There's this whole wave of insult comedy. In the real world, if someone insults you a couple of times, you can smack them. Or punch them. You can't do that on a movie set. And these comedians walk around, and they can say whatever they want. I'm just not that handy with that. Comedians are a special breed. They can antagonize you and say whatever they...want, and you can't do anything to stop them...He's this weird looking little guy who couldn't get laid in a prostitute house with a fistful of fifties. He would imitate me. The first thing he says to me is "Do you just act cool, or are you really cool?" That was the first sentence out of his mouth to me in Joel Silver's office. And I was like, "Oh...this is not going to go well." But he was one of Joel's dear friends, and he ended up making a bunch of movies for Disney. I just wasn't that sharp. I wasn't ready for that kind of crap.”
Looks like I'm watching this one
The dynamic between the two is really evident in the film. Pare really isn’t a good actor, so whatever Moranis was doing off-screen worked.
>in a bit of method acting thing
lmao you mean by being a israelite
love the world, which is basically the 50s mixed with 80s and everyone, even nerdy fricks like Rick Moranis' character is a fast-talking butthole.
>love the world, which is basically the 50s mixed with 80s and everyone,
it's another time, another place
Kino as absolute frick, 10/10.
the femboy stripper was a bit odd
This movie truly was ahead of it's time.
That's really cool. Reminds me a lot of how horny Tom Cruise was on the set of Eyes Wide Shut and how he gave the movie the right energy as a result.
Akira but with a Greaser instead of Bosozku aesthetic is what I get from this, am I right?
the Greasers have an S&M subtext too
She's was in flashdance too
Ass for days.
One of my top 5 and the base for Final fight/street fighter
the visuals are great, unfortunately the story is half-baked. seems like something a 12 year-old came up with.
there is no story, its just plot
feels man was not meant to feel
source on this, especially Akira
Are you having a stroke?
Why?
>source on this, especially Akira
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088194/trivia/?item=tr6104914&ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Apparently it was a huge influence on 80s anime in general, which is unsurprising.
>uncited wikipedia entry
I'll agree with Bubblegum Crisis, and I think there is a shot in Megazone 23 where the poster is recreated on a theatre in the background
AD Police is a spinoff of Bubblegum Crisis so that hardly counts
But where is the Akira influence?
> and I think there is a shot in Megazone 23 where the poster is recreated on a theatre in the background
I read that the flick did real good in Japan because they recognized the archetypes. Like American audiences somehow didn't connect with the movie so much. But japs said "ohoho, it's the idol girl, the stoic action guy, the tomboy sidekick, ohohoho" and dug the anime way more than Americans. I see why Japanese liked it, sure, but I never understood why Streets failed in the American box office. It's kino.
Lane was popular over there
>but I never understood why Streets failed in the American box office. It's kino.
it is too stylized
It was also a big influence on Mike Pondsmith and the creation of Cyberpunk 2020
The introductory story in the rulebook is essentially the same plot with Alt changed from a singer to hacker, if you played 2077 you play it in one of the Johnny flashbacks
Zillion Burning City would be another
I won't indulge a mass replier, sorry.
>you should spam 5 seperate posts
I prefer the Warriors but Streets of Fire has better fights.
It is a 5 star film. Great fun all around.
>that dancer stripper at the club
Wtf.
>music by Jim Steinman
>Directly inspired Streets of Rage
>Willem Dafoe
You tell me OP
It also influenced Robocop, Se7en, and Akira
Don't see the Se7en influence, but sure
A lot of the lighting and cinematography on Se7en was influenced by it
Fincher's big secret is trash bag light filters?
Love it!
Unfortunately, while it's a neat movie, it ultimately is a musical with zero memorable songs.
Pure sovl (that's Dan Hartman doing the singing btw):
>h-hey what do you think about streets of f-
VLTIMATE CHICAGO KINO
312 SISTERS WE EATIN GOOD
It's ridiculous and magical. Every piece comes together for an amazing aesthetic.
She was so hot and the guy was astonishingly handsome, made me feel jealous, but its true he was a bit wooden and the accent wasn't good, I feel the director could've make him do more takes and it would've improved the movie greatly.
Anyone got any idea what the rifle Cody uses is? IMFDB says it's a Marlin 336, but there's a scene where he's assembling it like it's a takedown, which doesn't come standard with that model.
Any of you ever seen Megazone 23?
it's a fun one. i appreciated rick moranis playing a jerk for what feels like the only time.
the writers really should have given his character the bus scene rather than undermine him every step of the way, i get that he isn't the hero, but still, it would have been nice.
Yeah I agree. It would have justified his presence to no-sell exactly one encounter. "I'm going to pay you 10,000 to frick off". I was even disappointed when it didn't work. Letting him get one win would also justify the ending, where he gets the girl, by showing some flicker of competence instead of only being a wet blanket.
One of Walter Hill's best.
As far as family blockbuster action goes, hard to beat.
You guys convinced me. I'll download it after my goon sesh.
Thanks, bros.
Corny and total cheese but worth a watch.
It's pretty much reddit meets netflix meets globohomosexual feminism. Basically it's feminism the movie made to hypnotise the viewer into thinking "white men bad" and "POC women good". There isn't really much more to this dreary film than that.
You've lost your mind.
i don't even think there's any Black folk in the entire movie
There is a black police sgt and a doo-wop group
I would pay good money to know what David Lynch thinks of this film and if he watched it back when it came out. Something tells me he would have approved.
I think Diane Lane was an absolute snack well into the '90s
One of the best movies from the 80s by miles, and it's largely forgotten.
It's visually and musically a stunning film with a poor plot and both Michael Pare and Willem DaFoe ham it in which is fun in a cartoonish way but poor when judging the actual acting. It's still very good and a very recommendable Walter Hill movie.
DaFoe hams it
Pare seems out of his depth due to inexperience, weak script, and Hills poor directing of actors