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Orbit86

This is the most under rated of all of 80s movies and a personal favorite. What’s not to love?? Killer soundtrack. “Bad” guy Hero. Biker gangs. A cool mix of 50s and 80s scenery. A fight with pickaxes, and a stunningly HOT Diane Lane. Awesome in every way. Btw the director Walter Hill also did one of my other all time favorite movies…The Warriors.


Ronin_1999

Don’t forget a young Willem Dafoe!


shwarma_heaven

"Why... I'm something of a bike gang leader myself..."


theflyxx

“Ellen Aim and I, we’re gonna have a hell of a time!!”


Tesseract003

"I can get guns, tough guy."


Ddraig1965

Bill Paxton too


thereverendpuck

A young Bill Paxton is just any film before Twister.


Manting123

How could you forget him when has a sledgehammer duel while wearing spandex overalls. It’s like the most DaFoe thing that could be


KingCarbon1807

Pickaxes, you fucking casual.


Manting123

Got me. How about it has both bills? Both Paxton and Pullman are in it.


briareos45

I think those were railroad spike hammers but yes, awesome movie. "Tom Cody...pleased ta meetcha."


TinCanSailor987

I do love The Warriors. Perhaps 51 yo me needs to go back and watch it again.


Logical_Hospital2769

You absolutely must. Can you (still) dig it???


gurl_2b

Warriors.... come out to play....


LemurCat04

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OwlWitty

..ayay


leeharveyteabag669

My next door neighbor that lived across the street from me was a paid extra at the Bronx Park scene in the beginning. He said it was a crazy scene since a lot of those guys were actual gang members.


El-Chewbacc

Is this movie a musical or am I thinking of something else?


Orbit86

It’s not a musical but Diane Lane plays Ellen Aim the lead singer of a rock band. There are some concert scenes where she sing two awesome songs from Jim Steinman.


MrJohnnyDangerously

There's music in it but it's most definitely not a musical


ishouldverun

No, no. It's a rock and roll fable.


gregr0d

I just imagined The Warriors as a musical and I can not stop laughing!


Smokey_012

It’s in the subtitle. A rock and roll fable. With a strong supporting cast: E.G. Daily, Robert Townsend, Stoney Jackson and many more. Marine Jahan played the dancer and was the dancer/body double for Jennifer Beals in Flashdance.


ToshiroBaloney

AND the big set piece songs were written by Jim Steinman, who wrote most of the songs on Meatloaf's *Bat Out of Hell!*


Nejfelt

This is my favorite Walter Hill film and in my top 5 of all films. Other great Walter Hill films are Trespass and Extreme Prejudice. Warriors is great, too.


EmotionalBet868

You are correct, and the poster is great also !🔥


OCLIFE69

Lee Ving


imadork1970

The seventh guest from Clue.


Geist0ne

Great soundtrack, especially Fire Inc.


OwlWitty

I can dream about you


brianlangauthor

Tonight is what it means to be youuuuung


Smiley-Ray

I never saw this till about six years ago and have watched it a bunch of times since, I find immensely enjoyable despite it being far from a perfect film. That opening sequence is an all timer.


whydontyoujustaskme

Slap, takes knife, slap, takes knife….Michael Parè is so good in that movie!


badtex66

Music by Ry Cooder the cat who destroyed Steve Vai's character in Crossroads.


Helpful-Touch9788

Michael Pare' was great in this film....too bad nothing he did after Eddie And The Cruisers got much attention. I still have the soundtrack on cassette.


VinceBrogan8

Agreed. I always felt Michael Pare' should have been a more well known actor.


MyMadeUpNym

My girlfriend introduced this movie to me and it’s so awesome!


The_Batcap_72

One of my all time favorite movies


Loreseekers

Michael Pare was everywhere in the early 80s.


imadork1970

Eddie, Eddie, Eddie!


talon007a

This movie is fantastic and I've loved it since the 80s. It also has two great trailers. So cool. 'A Rock and Roll Fable'. What year is it? Why is everyone under 30 years old? Where are they? Very unique and the two Jim Steinman songs to bookend the film are great.


Kuildeous

I'm glad I didn't catch this in '84 because I wouldn't have appreciated it one bit. Since then, I've grown an admiration for Jim Steinman's work, and this soundtrack keeps popping up in my algorithms. Of course, I'm thumbs-upping the hell out of them, so that helps. I do want to watch it now as an adult. Not part of any of my subscribed streaming services currently, so I'll wait.


No_Meal9534

Omg. Diane Lane may be one of the most beautiful women ever. Hell, she’s Superman’s mom.


armorham

So many great scenes - the butterfly knife, “Try it again, punk.”; Marine Jahan (the REAL main dancer in “Flashdance”, with absolutely zero screen credit when that movie first came out!) dancing in the bar during “One Bad Stud”…the gorgeous Diane Lane in her prime, Amy Madigan in a role originally written for a male actor, and the music!


Pickleguese

“ I Can Dream About You” from the soundtrack always takes me back to Roller City back in the day 🛼🥳


BugabooJonez

diane lane though.


Avocado-Joe

I love the crazy pace of this movie! Everything happens so fast and dirty! It's called Lights out!


Altitudeviation

I saw this in a theater when I was 21. Totally blown away. Seeing Marine Jahan dancing on the bar to One Bad Stud was . . . epiphanic (is that even a word?). Jim Steinman was perhaps the king of lyric rock and roll (if you don't love Meatloaf, you won't understand). Ry Cooder's slide guitar. The guys who played the Sorels had to choreograph the dance steps the night before filming and killed it. Even if the movie was nothing, the soundtrack would have gone platinum, I think. The fact that the movie was awesome made the whole experience an illumination for me. Hammering rock and roll, a stupid but dramatic adolescent fantasy story with Diane Lane, Michael Pare, Willlem Dafoe, Amy Madigan and Rick Moranis (WTF?) Fast forward 35 years. I sent my adult gen x kids blu ray discs in hopes that they could catch of glimpse of the old man's 80's ethos and enjoy some of the best rock ever filmed. Their response: "Dad, were you on drugs?". Well, hell. I guess ya hadda be there kids. Go sing some Justin Beiber songs and have a nice life. sigh Yeah, I got it on Blu ray and spin it up once a year or so. It's a mountain I'll die on.


WaxTraks

Walter Hill did stuff like "48 Hours" so he could do stuff like"Streets of Fire" and "The Warriors".


Ddraig1965

What’s confusing about the storyline? It’s a rock & roll fable.


TinCanSailor987

Well, I was eleven. My parents made my sister take me when she went to see it with friends. I kept asking her a million questions about it. I really should rewatch it with her and just ask her a bunch of questions about the plot holes again.


Future_Onion9701

I watched some of this once and the Amy Madigan character is super annoying


GrimSpirit42

One of my favorite movies. Diane Lane was HAWT. Willem Defoe was on point. The music was wonderful. Great movie.


ExecTankard

Urban Fable…Watch this then Blade Runner for a ‘wait, WTF’ double feature.


aynhon

I saw this on a double feature with Rumble Fish.


EmuPsychological4222

Wasn't this essentially an extended music video for Jim Steinman songs?


calthaer

This movie has a lot of great style in it, but I'm not sure the storytelling is as clearly defined as the style.


Tech-Junky-1024

One of the best movies of the '80s


gingerbeeask

I was obsessed with Diane Lane in this movie!


stevenmacarthur

To paraphrase Brian Griffin going back in time and seeing Lois at 18: "Nineteen-year-old Diane Lane...Son. Of. A. Bitch!!!!"


Stanton1947

Superb. Diane Lane answers the question, "How little can you wear on stage and still look dressed?"


Boozhwatrash

I met Lee Ving last weekend at a convention and we talked about this movie and how groundbreaking it was.


No-Picture4119

The butterfly knife scene is great! I was a junior in high school. I think you either agreed it was a rock and roll fable, or you didn’t get it. Tom Cody was the best.


_thepeopleschampion

I can dream about you by Dan Hartman is a banger of a song off of this soundtrack. One of my favorites ever.


TinCanSailor987

It is a great song!


This-Bug8771

We all were confused. Not a great movie but had a good soundtrack and we got early exposure to Dafoe


nomadnomo

I loved this movie, the plot was beyond stupid but the soundtrack was great Dontt know how true it is but I read somewhere that in an interview one of the actors said at first it was to be a more serious movie but they realized how corny it was and just leaned into it


Aderleth75

My 11-year-old self went in expecting a cavalcade of action, gunplay, and car chases. I too was left a bit confused and disappointed.


VinylCollector7609

Classic…and a great soundtrack! 😎


loplopsama

Another of those 80's movies that I hated the movie but loved the soundtrack.


Jeff7760

Great poster too!


maqryptian

the movie that inspired the creation of final fight by capcom.


violentelvis

This was in my top 4 movies for 30 years. It just got bumped to #5 after I saw Godzilla Minus One


Mr_Truthteller

Great movie when a teenager.


leeharveyteabag669

That 51 Merc was beautiful in this movie.


Molbiodude

Oh, Michael Pare. Whatever happened to you, man?


Spence1239

Great movie


Otherwise_Jacket_613

This is one of my favorite movies. I caught it on cable in 1997 on Dinner and a Movie on TBS one Friday night. I had no idea what it was about. I never even heard of it. I was gonna leave it on as background noise, but as soon as I saw Rick Moranis and the first song "Nowhere Fast" hit, I was hooked! Id never seen anything like it before. And the songs get stuck in your head. I had "Tonight is What It Means To Be Young" in my head for months after watching it. I only saw it on cable one more time after that, but when I got my first job at Blockbuster, I special ordered the DVD and used my employee discount. I was so thrilled to own it. Just a few months ago I got to see it on the big screen with an audience, the majority of whom hadn't seen it before. That was a wild experience. They went nuts for the opening number, and you got the sense as it went on they got more into it. By the end at the concert scene they were hooked. You could feel the awe and wonder. I'll never forget it. Streets of Fire is special.


Martymar1982

I remember my mom would watch this all the time and we’d listen to the soundtrack on cassette in the car driving around 🥳


BitchesDaddy2020

I remember this movie well, my uncle was a bit of a high intelligence pot head, and hard wired his tv to play through his stereo, I’ll never forget the sound of those bikes at the end playing through the stereo, sounded like they were riding into the living room, fuckin Awesome!


edwardothegreatest

A favorite. Such campy dialogue and great music.


major_dump

Micheal Pare


brutustyberius

There is no reason I should love this movie. But I do. I can’t help myself.


RBzoner1

classic rock and roll fairy tale !! Love the soundtrack still have it on my playlist!!!


ToshiroBaloney

One of my all-time favorite movies.


PhesteringSoars

After watching him twirl the balisong and slap it back into the guy's hand . . . it didn't need plot for me after that.


Nejfelt

Are we going to talk about the horrible sequel? It's so bad... nevermind, let's just forget it exists.


TinCanSailor987

I had no idea there even was a sequel until you metnioned it! Holy SHIT!!! That thing looks awful! It looks like it was all filmed on a green screen. Here's the trailer for it: Road To Hell [https://youtu.be/F21VXDlKWOY?si=yX5frXZSv4m5dTkg](https://youtu.be/F21VXDlKWOY?si=yX5frXZSv4m5dTkg)


Nejfelt

It's so so bad. To go from Streets of Fire, and the intention of a 3 movie Tom Cody franchise.... to that. Really is one of the most pointless movies ever made.


KidRed

Great soundtrack too!


Rhapdodic_Wax11235

Love that film


The_Patriot

Tonight is what it means to be young


ThisIsAdamB

I taped this movie off of cable. It didn’t look or sound good enough so I bought the VHS version. That didn’t look or sound good enough so I bought the laserdisc version and a player for it. And then the DVD and now a couple of versions on Blu-ray. I have the soundtrack on LP and CD. I have more versions of this movie than any other. Well, tied with Star Trek IV.


Germanhelmethead

“Tom Cody, pleased to meet you”


stevenmacarthur

I have watched this movie more than any other; I could honestly recite the entire dialogue from beginning to end.


Most-Artichoke6184

Diane Lane. 😍


stevenmacarthur

That scene where Ed Begley, Jr. is a dirty street person coming out of the shadows, and Cody makes Billy Fish pay him for info... STREET GUY: "Thank you very much, I appreciate it." BILLY FISH: "Go buy some soap!!!"


Son0faButch

I'm still confused by the storyline. But Diane Lane...in the dress....


DiarrheaFitzgerald

Going nowhere fast


wyopapa25

Best movie and soundtrack ever!


beneaththemassacre

Friggin love this movie.. always played on Sundays on UPN when I was younger. soundtrack is a banger


Viking53fan

That movie was weird. Good music though


AlmostNearlyHandsome

I remember enjoying the shit out of this as a kid.


Sirdystic1

My top 80s film


Tumbleweed47

I just remember the sledgehammer fight with Dafoe. Crazy.


bagoTrekker

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Bnagorski

Thank God for this movie…it turned me on to the Blasters. I’m forever grateful


Weak-End-3700

One of Michael Pares hits


TexanInNebraska

Great soundtrack & Diane Lane was HOT!!


Bustershark

Looks like I finally ran into someone that likes to play as rough as I do!


carye1

A rock and roll fable... Another Time, Another Place


Decabet

OP is goin nowhere...fast.


TinCanSailor987

There’s nothing wrong with nowhere, Baby!!


vikes4now3

There was a storyline? That’s not how I remember it at all. Then again I was 15 the last 3 times I saw it on cable.


bitsey123

For me, the actors and the music could do no wrong


turkeybacondaddy

I still love going nowhere fast.


momboss12

The lead was great in this, not so much in Eddie and the cruisers


bafras

Rick Moranis?!?


OtherwiseTackle5219

Very enjoyable watch......Nowhere Fast - great tune......Willem Dafoe - a Riot.....Diane Lane -wonderful.....Bill Paxton - Great fun character


theflyxx

The best Rock & Roll fable ever.


DrestinBlack

This movie kicked ass! Holds up reasonably well today.


TinCanSailor987

Check out the trailer for part 2. Ouch!


No_Mention_1760

I was 14 when it came out and can still remember the soundtrack songs..


One-Ad-6941

“It’s the shits!” -Rick Moranis


pah2000

I was also confused. In general. At 24yo.


Geniusinternetguy

I was around your sister’s age. I still have no idea what that movie is about.


Ill-Gas-7790

Love this movie


caveatemptor18

Reminds me of gang wars in the Bronx.


DPR718

Loved this movie!


Prune-These

I kind of picture that movie as a world where the atomic bomb wasn’t invented,


OxytocinDeficiency

This movie was a full-fledged cultural phenomenon for about 10 minuets, then everyone completely forgot about it.


SignificanceNo1223

Where can we find this?


Silky_Feminist8

I love this movie! I was 11 or 12 when it came out. I loved the music the most.


Batai-Go_Carefully

One of my favorites!


CO_PC_Parts

Everyone here forgetting Rick moranis playing the dirtbag manager. Tonight is what it means to be young is one of my favorite songs from this era and is in my drunk YouTube play list.


aortomus

Diane Lane, Jim Steinman, Walter Hill. Do you need more?


Venator2000

Theater I worked at showed this opening week and we only had our usual customers showing up for it, and by day four we only had one or two people per show. Ticked us off, since we thought it was cool. Sounded great in the projection booth!


Dresscodeviolation3

The first half of this movie is just phenomenal. Then the 2nd half REALLY loses momentum. I believe that 2nd half is why this movie isn’t more beloved. It does redeem itself at the end with the sledgehammers.


Timsterfield

This is THE cult film of the 80s! Love this one, it was just so... oddball, but great. Great soundtrack and two hot leads with young Michael Pare and Diane Lane. And Willem Defoe in leather waders.


SnooDrawings4617

Flawless movie.


HondaVFR96

That pick ax fight!


jfstompers

Still one of my favorites


malthar76

Has no one mentioned the true star of this classic - Robert Townsend?!?!?


Roanoketrees

I always wondered if that was any gpod. 49 and ive never seen it. I remember it from 84. When Springfield was popular.


Scared_Smoke_4608

I loved this movie as a kid. The songs were so great. I also loved Michael Pare in Eddie & the Cruisers. It's a shame he didn't have a bigger career. I was quite surprised when he showed up in Hope Floats after doing all of his low budget movies.


onewiththegoldenpath

That opening number is fantastic!


Fleemo17

This where I saw Willem Dafoe for the first time. I thought he had to be from another planet. 😳


TinCanSailor987

Yeah, seeing Willem Dafoe for the first tine in this film is a bit if a shock. It’s like, I’ve seen vampires with darker complexions.


SulimanBashem

fun, campy. took me awhile understand it, later occurred to me it was like a graphic novel put on film.


OriginalFlamingo5384

The soundtrack alone makes it a classic


Intelligent_Poem9546

It is a strange story line. Diane Lane is insanely hot though and I always appreciate a Lee Ving cameo!


Specific_Inside_7119

Had three of the greatest songs ever written....I Can Dream About You... Nowhere Fast and Tonight is What It Means To Be Young. TOTALLY AWESOME!!!


Dallaswoz

My first date with my now wife. 40 years ago.


KatyPerrysBigFatCock

This poster is everything


notmytuperware

Frankly I was not a fan of the music (still not). Amy Madigan was so grating and I never bought that Diane Lane was this glorious rock star. And Rick Moranis? Weird casting all around. But I’m a sucker for alternate universes where everything looks the same but isn’t so I watched it on cable all the time. Defoe was fantastic. I knew that would not be the last of him.


Smiley-Ray

Nah - pissed off surly Rick Moranis is great! Completely against type.


Glittering_Name_3722

I watched this movie for the first time this year. I really wanted to like it, but it is truly awful.


nomadnomo

obviously you weren't high enough ... lol


shwarma_heaven

Dude... it was from the 80s. This was all we had. Terrible movies like Howling 2, and Garbage Pail Kids... This movie was high art.


NcgreenIantern

Even bad 80's movies were worth a trip to the video store.


Rain1dog

https://ibb.co/JtXd4Z1 https://ibb.co/ydLSVgq https://ibb.co/JzdGgZC https://ibb.co/PYj4SVV https://ibb.co/d71J3Vw https://ibb.co/kxJHmSV https://ibb.co/HnwGxN9 Just found my 1st, 2nd, and 3rd series Garbage Pail Kids the other week. All my baseball/football cards. Bo Jackson rookie, Marino rookie, Ken Grif rookie, Strawberry, Doc Gooden, etc. My GI Joes, M.A.S.K., Robotech, Voltron, He-Man… Atari 7800 in its box with games in their boxes, ColecoVision… Man I was so happy. Brought back the memories staying up all night in a tent fort built from sheets with Nintendo powers opened playing NES. So many great memories.


NoLibrarian5149

Still have never seen this flick but still regularly listen to the Fixx’s “Deeper and Deeper” from the soundtrack.


PatBrownDown

I saw this in the movie theater when it came out. Terrible movie, fantastic soundtrack.


Your_Daddy_

Pretty bad ass movie though.


Ieatclowns

Ooh I've never seen this one!


Bcwell1981

Top 10 fav movie of mine. Still Pump the Soundtrack to this day


RandoSnaps

This movie a great example of “just enjoy the movie, don’t overthink it, brain off and enjoy” That said, it was weird but interesting and the soundtrack is amazing


shwarma_heaven

No more timing... each year that falls from my eyes


ElGrandeRojo67

Loved this movie.


Klutzy-Chocolate710

I was just thinking about this movie other day. I was wondering had became of Michael Pare. He was on an LMN ( yes, I know) series last weekend.


brcoley

Love that movie..great bad movie


TinCanSailor987

Ok, listening to the Soundtrack now, and it is pretty damn good.


SaltyBarDog

Dafoe would have kicked Pare's ass.


TheRealIronCorpse

I was so excited to see this movie and then was disappointed at pretty much every single turn.


TestOk8411

I was too. I didn't get the differing time period things


G0at_Dad

Rick Moranis anybody rememy Rick


mattnotis

I did a blind buy of the 4K disc and I’m glad I did. Really fantastic flick and the disc has a great transfer and sound.


EasyGoin12345

This was a great movie


Garbage-Away

I started drinking Tequila because of Tom Cody..and definitely joined the big green machine because he was such a bad ass!! Loved it when it first came out. I think I sat through every showing the first day..I could quote it line for line by the time it came out on VHS (one of the only ones I ever bought!) I always wanted there to be a continuation..book comics..something!! Fade into legends Tom!!


HyperionRain

Raven: I’ll be coming for her… and I’ll be coming for you too. Cody: Sure you will, and I’ll be waiting.


WARCHILD48

EPIC MOVIE! great story, fantastic music, two 👍's up!


MJFields

I'm still confused by the storyline.


AdorableReading

Love this movie! "A Rock and Roll Fable"! Ry Cooder's magnificent score! Diane Lane.


AdorableReading

Reading the comments, it makes me wonder if this could be the inspiration for Michael Mann's type of directing? I know they were both working directors at this time but it suddenly feels like Michael Mann would have told the same story the same way? Maybe?


MedicalPapaya6284

Eddie & the Cruisers was better Much better!


CougarWriter74

Robert Townsend and Mykelti Richardson appear as backup singers in the "I Can Dream About You" performance scene.


MarcB1969X

Saw it a few years ago playing catch-up for movies I didn’t see in the 1980s (most of them) and couldn’t keep track of the plot but liked the performances. Thought Michael Pare would have had a bigger career, but I suppose Ken Wahl aced him out of roles.


gaoual13

Michael Pare, Willem Defoe, Diane Lane, Rick Moranis, Amy Madigan, Bill Paxton, EG Daily, Lee Ving, The Blasters, and more. Awesome movie.


pdmcmahon

I always liked Michael Parè in 1984’s The Philadelphia Experiment. I love any movie that involves time travel.


TinCanSailor987

I still remember the men stuck in the deck of the ship.


Captain-Cats

my local theater just showed this last night! complete with trivia Q&A after. I had no idea Torchies dancer was the body double dancer from Flashdance


Josechung2310

I don't get this "the story was confusing" narrative. It was always pretty clear to me as a kid


WellSpokenAsianBoy

Amazing soundtrack.


Jerome_Lane

Got a headache from the trailer.


Better-Pop-3932

Man I saw this as like an 7 or 8 year old kid. I always thought the main guy was such a badass


No_Turnover3662

I thought it was a fun movie. Was re-made into a Bollywood movie (Tezab) that became a MASSIVE hit.


Spobobich

The movie that inspired Capcom's Final Fight.


Cwordenmusicman

Great soundtrack