Streets of Fire Has the WORST Fight Sequence You've Ever Seen! 

This is one of the greatest movies of all time. Was the inspiration for Streets of Rage, and has some of the coolest music from Fire Inc. I loved every second of this movie!

@@Billy-bc8pk opening and end credit songs are bangers!

Yeah, it's a fable that falls over and writhes on the ground! Nice OST tho'...

And a cameo from Sgt. Apone from Aliens.

Still better than everything Steven Seagal made after Under Siege.

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Diane Lane didnt sing any of the songs. She lip sings the songs. Very well.

RIGHT! I love the music performances in this movie. You also mention The Warriors, which is one fo the greatest movies EVER!

You have excellent tastes, my friend.

Both Streets of Fire and The Warriors were directed by Walter Hill.

“Warriors…”

@@robsutton3092 "come out to play"

“Why did you say that name?!”

Final fight

A bit, but more Final Fight, and The Warriors was more inspirational to the beat em up genre we know.

It was a big hit in Japan.

To be fair, Paré never been A-list material. Studios gave him a push in the early 80's, but nothing profitable. He was pretty much the Sam Worthington of his time, but without the good luck of being attached to the "Avatar" franchise.

EG Daily was also in Better Off Dead.

I also saw this in the theater. By the way, I just turned 60.

Wasn't old enough to see it in the theater (only 8), but did get lucky enough to snag a cassette version of the soundtrack.

Plus Michael Pare was just the right amount of cool, bad@$$ and charming all rolled into one. We literally do not get heroes like him anymore in movies.

Willlem is in the Nosferatu remake, so we're half way there...lol

Yup

Yep. Look up David Pumpkins. It was a Saturday Night Live skit.

Saw this in the theatre when i was a kid... it's still a confusing mess.

Yes 😂

Retro-future.

Put some proper spelling on respect.

@@Eldritch-1 it's spelled incorrectly on purpose. That's part of the joke/meme. Look it up.

@Err0rkatze I'm glad you can start the week with some good chuckles :) thanks for watching!

You're not wrong. Ironically, Walter Hill would work with Stallone years later for the film Bullet to the Head. So here's a fun fact: In looking for Tom Cody's main actor, the studio tried for Tom Cruise, Eric Roberts, Patrick Swayze, as well as others who are unnamed. According to an interview, the crew hoped to get Daryl Hannah and Tom Cruise on board, but they waited too late, and the actors signed on to other projects. Though I wouldn't be surprised if they tried for Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kurt Russell, Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Chuck Norris, Joe Lewis, Rutger Hauer, David Carradine, Nick Nolte, Jeff Bridges, Michael Beck (Who played Swan in The Warriors), Christopher Reeve, Peter Weller, David Keith, Jeff Goldblum, or the actors from Eddie and the Cruisers (The film Michael Pare was in, who became Tom Cody). Heck, we could have seen Henry "Fonzie" Winkler in the Sledgehammer fight (Who was in The Lords of Flatbush with Stallone). Sadly, I doubt Mr. Winkler would want to deal with Typecasting again. 😂 Judging how everything turned out, it can only be summed up to this: If the actors listed above were approached before Mr. Pare, they more than likely turned the role down. Either because of scheduling conflicts, poorly written script, or the studio wasn't willing to pay them for what they were worth. Edit: The Jennifer Grey look alike is played by E.G. Daily, a known voice actress who would become the voice of Tommy Pickles in Rugrats (Apologies for the previous edit). However, on the note with dancing... They may not have gotten anyone from Dirty Dancing, but they did get folks from Flashdance. Greer, raven's second in command, is played by Lee Ving, who was in Flashdance. The Torchie Dancer, as the film credits this character, is played by Marine Jahan, Jennifer Beal's dance double from Flashdance. This character might as well have been a red herring. I was expecting the characters to interact with her to find Ellen because she got more camera time in the Torchie bar than Diane Lane. Nope! She was just there to do a weird strip tease while Ry Cooder played his cameo in the same scene as her. They could have cut her out of the film, and the script wouldn't have been affected, but I guess that's not what Walter Hill wanted. 😅 In regards to Jim Carrey, I wouldn't be shocked if he auditioned for this part. Jim was born in 1962 and didn't start acting in films until 1981 if you count Television Movies. Had he got the part, he and Diane would have been the same age during filming... but imagine Jim in leather overalls. That would have been a sight that would sit rent-free in people's minds for years. 😳

Weird science is perfect.

Who says they aren't?

Ummm....what? Streets of Rage came out almost a decade after this.