I love "Streets of Fire" (I was 19 when it came out) and had it on VHS, and now blu-ray. Michael Pare was, well, not /bad/, but not good either. True of every movie I saw him in. Willem Dafoe as the Mad Biker was great. Lots of actors in first or early roles there. Pity it opened on the same weekend as Star Trek 3 and got crushed at…
I love "Streets of Fire" (I was 19 when it came out) and had it on VHS, and now blu-ray. Michael Pare was, well, not /bad/, but not good either. True of every movie I saw him in. Willem Dafoe as the Mad Biker was great. Lots of actors in first or early roles there. Pity it opened on the same weekend as Star Trek 3 and got crushed at the box office.
The soundtrack is pretty good, too, and spun off a top ten hit.
Pare was definitely not GOOD. But yeah, it's got Dafoe and Bill Paxton and Diane Lane and Rick Moranis (the same year as Ghostbusters, I think?). This was also a key Rick Rossovitch text!
I think I've seen Streets of Fire! Was that the same guy that starred in that movie about a 60s rock star ala Elvis or Jim Morrison that disappeared? That was in the 80s too...goodness, can't remember the name..."Eddie and the Rockers" or something like that. It was a movie one of my sisters loved, so I was forced to watch :) I was young then, so my memories of that time are off a little it seems.
I also didn't realize Warriors was something anyone else in the world had seen, but me! dink-dink-dink "Warriors...come out to pla-ay."
I love "Streets of Fire" (I was 19 when it came out) and had it on VHS, and now blu-ray. Michael Pare was, well, not /bad/, but not good either. True of every movie I saw him in. Willem Dafoe as the Mad Biker was great. Lots of actors in first or early roles there. Pity it opened on the same weekend as Star Trek 3 and got crushed at the box office.
The soundtrack is pretty good, too, and spun off a top ten hit.
Pare was definitely not GOOD. But yeah, it's got Dafoe and Bill Paxton and Diane Lane and Rick Moranis (the same year as Ghostbusters, I think?). This was also a key Rick Rossovitch text!
Oh man Warriors, pretty sure that was my first R rated movie. Loved Streets of Fire, agree Pare was not great, but he was peak 80s Pare in this.
I think I've seen Streets of Fire! Was that the same guy that starred in that movie about a 60s rock star ala Elvis or Jim Morrison that disappeared? That was in the 80s too...goodness, can't remember the name..."Eddie and the Rockers" or something like that. It was a movie one of my sisters loved, so I was forced to watch :) I was young then, so my memories of that time are off a little it seems.
I also didn't realize Warriors was something anyone else in the world had seen, but me! dink-dink-dink "Warriors...come out to pla-ay."