What do you get when you smush together a western, film noir, action flick, rock and roll musical, and set it in the Blade Runner city of the 50s? If you answered "the best movie ever", you'd be home by now.
Streets of Fire stars some guy named Michael Paré as the hero, and Willem Dafoe in a vinyl vest and Misfits-like hairdo as the villain.
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| "I can fit my whole head in my mouth" |
Paré has to save the singer Ellen Aim, played by Diane Lane, from Willem Dafoe’s evil biker gang, the Bombers, who abduct her while she's onstage, singing original songs by Jim Steinman (
Bat Out Of Hell). Along the way he recruits a band in their touring bus and Rick Moranis (
Jagged Little Pill). Other rock and/or roll cameos include the Blasters and Lee Ving from Fear. After
The Breakfast Club, this may be the most 80s movie ever to come out of the 80s.
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| "This song is called 'Holy shit these shoulderpads make me look like a Space Marine'" |
Even though it's a weird, unrepeatable bomb,
Streets of Fire is one of my favourite movies because it has such a unique style. The director, Walter Hill, said he wanted to make a movie featuring everything he thought was cool as a little kid, so the personality really comes through. That’s probably why the film ends with a sledgehammer duel: the perfect way to solve disputes.
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| Objectively the best thing ever filmed. |
Have you seen Streets of Fire??? Have you seen streets on fire??? Have you seen beets on fire??? Leave a comment (in another time, another place).
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