cynthiacher-1
Joined Jul 2006
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I don't understand the appeal of this movie. It's a study of ghastly people living in stunningly bleak circumstances who treat each other like crap. No one in the movie is even remotely attractive, likable or sympathetic. The characters ceaselessly scream at each other and argue endlessly. The foul language is interminable. I consider watching a movie that consists of bunch of worthless losers threatening and berating and abusing and having sex with each other a pure waste of time.
What is there to like about this film? Well, some say it's "funny" and "realistic." I don't find the pathological combativeness and immorality of the scummy characters "funny" at all. And so what if it's "realistic?" That doesn't make this depiction of low-class slum dwellers and their dreary, worthless lives enjoyable entertainment.
This movie is simply gross and disgusting. But judging from other comments that seems to be part of its charm!
What is there to like about this film? Well, some say it's "funny" and "realistic." I don't find the pathological combativeness and immorality of the scummy characters "funny" at all. And so what if it's "realistic?" That doesn't make this depiction of low-class slum dwellers and their dreary, worthless lives enjoyable entertainment.
This movie is simply gross and disgusting. But judging from other comments that seems to be part of its charm!
All the favorable, ecstatic comments about this movie must be coming from people who are for some bizarre reason are very, very nostalgic about the eighties. Because "Streets of Fire" is CRAP! This movie was supposed to be part of a trilogy of action films called "The Adventures of Tom Cody." But that didn't happen because the original flopped.
The movie was promoted as a "rock and roll fable", whatever the hell that is. A "rock and roll fable"...boy, that sounds stupid.
Michael Pare as "Tom Cody" is a very bland action hero. Nothing about him suggests anything interesting or compelling to watch.
Diane Lane is "Ellen Aim." As bland as Pare, she is also utterly unconvincing as a rock singer. But she does look good in her tight costumes, which is the reason she got the role I suppose.
One critic noted that even though it's always raining nobody ever has an umbrella.
The movie is rather like a long music video, kind of like "Flashdance", another rotten movie from the eighties. That one, equally as ludicrous as "Streets of Fire" was a big hit, go figure.
I don't understand the fondness for bad movies from the eighties. I thought the eighties produced an incredible amount of garbage in TV, films and music. "Streets of Fire" is a good example of the mindless garbage that passed for entertainment back then. I'm not saying it's any better now, but the eighties is in a class by itself when it comes to worthless dreck.
The movie was promoted as a "rock and roll fable", whatever the hell that is. A "rock and roll fable"...boy, that sounds stupid.
Michael Pare as "Tom Cody" is a very bland action hero. Nothing about him suggests anything interesting or compelling to watch.
Diane Lane is "Ellen Aim." As bland as Pare, she is also utterly unconvincing as a rock singer. But she does look good in her tight costumes, which is the reason she got the role I suppose.
One critic noted that even though it's always raining nobody ever has an umbrella.
The movie is rather like a long music video, kind of like "Flashdance", another rotten movie from the eighties. That one, equally as ludicrous as "Streets of Fire" was a big hit, go figure.
I don't understand the fondness for bad movies from the eighties. I thought the eighties produced an incredible amount of garbage in TV, films and music. "Streets of Fire" is a good example of the mindless garbage that passed for entertainment back then. I'm not saying it's any better now, but the eighties is in a class by itself when it comes to worthless dreck.