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Streets of Fire

post #1 of 31
3/10/09 at 5:56pm
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Question for those in the know: Was there ever any talk about a longer cut of this? The one that exists now is edited really weird in some places and it feels like it's missing stuff. Google's kind of useless when it comes to this, though. I know Hill planned a Tom Cody trilogy, and there's that Albert Pyum fake sequel with Pare coming out that I'm going to watch regardless of how bad it is, but I was wondering about the film itself.

The movie's probably one of my all-time favorites, not even a guilty pleasure. I love even the bad and awkward parts.
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post #2 of 31
3/10/09 at 6:24pm
Haven't heard of a longer cut of this, but I agree. This might be my favorite Walter Hill movie, very closely ahead of The Warriors and 48 Hrs.
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post #3 of 31
3/10/09 at 6:24pm
A fantastic, underrated movie. My favorite Walter Hill joint. Blends action and music as perfectly as 48 hr. did action and comedy. Begs for a Special Edition.

I've never heard anything about a longer cut. Some of the editing choices, especially in the beginning strike me as Peckinpah homage.
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post #4 of 31
3/11/09 at 2:37am
The totally unexpected Diane Lane punch-out moment is always great.

Also: a street fight with sledgehammers!
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post #5 of 31
3/11/09 at 3:26am
Streets of Fire is definitely an underrated masterpiece but I haven't heard of a longer cut. Walter Hill is a director I'd love to see get behind a camera again. Broken Trail was pretty good if anybody saw it but nothing like the incredible flicks he was making in the eighties. Another director I'd love to see working again is Cimino.
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post #6 of 31
3/11/09 at 5:37pm
No I think the version we have is exactly what Hill wanted. Keep in mind he was coming off the smash hit 48 Hours and was pretty much given the keys to the kingdom when it came to the making of Streets. The fact he was even able to get a rock n roll action/fantasy made is something of a triumph right there.
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post #7 of 31
3/11/09 at 5:48pm
Sadly, after its failure, he was forced to retreat to Brewster's Millions. Ouch! Hollywood can indeed be a cruel mistress.
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post #8 of 31
3/11/09 at 5:58pm
Hell of a soundtrack. Jim Steinman in full bombast mode, the Blasters rockin' out, and a pretty damn cool Fixx song.
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post #9 of 31
3/12/09 at 11:03pm
What is the name of the AWESOME music at the very beginning over the first few credits leading up to Ellen Aim's first performance?
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post #10 of 31
3/12/09 at 11:15pm
It's one of the two Steinman songs, I think technically performed by Fire Inc, either Nowhere Fast or Tonight Is What It Means To Be Young, I forget which is the intro and which is the end.
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post #11 of 31
3/12/09 at 11:33pm
Nowhere Fast is the intro song, Tonight Is What It Means to Be Young is the finale.
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post #12 of 31
3/14/09 at 12:23am
No, I know Nowhere Fast, it's right at the start of the movie when the Universal logo and title come on-screen. I THINK it's Ry Cooder.
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post #13 of 31
3/14/09 at 12:31am
The only Ry Cooder on the soundtrack CD is "Hold That Snake", but I'm pretty sure that's not the song playing over the credits.
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post #14 of 31
3/14/09 at 12:41am
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There's a bunch of Ry Cooder music/instrumentals that doesn't make the score. I know what you're talking about though, it's the stuff over 'Another Time, Another Place.' Nowhere Fast kicks in after that.
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post #15 of 31
3/14/09 at 12:45am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv4f5aVZv3I

It sounds a bit like an extended intro to "Nowhere Fast", but it's not quite the same.
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post #16 of 31
2/23/10 at 12:31pm
I watched this for the first time last night as part of a Walter Hill kick (Hard Times tomorrow!) and I dug the hell out of it. Rock and roll, exploding motorcycles, freeze frames of people getting thrown through windows, Rick Moranis getting punched in the face by Lee Ving, Diane Liane getting punched in the face by Michael Pare, rainy makeout sessions, this flick had it all.

I couldn't believe that I hadn't really heard that much about it before. It would make a fantastic double feature with Phantom of the Paradise.
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post #17 of 31
2/23/10 at 2:59pm
Was kind of underwhelmed by the film when it came out, save for Lane and The Blasters, but I should probably revisit it.

But, Christ, I hate Jim Steinman.
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post #18 of 31
2/23/10 at 3:02pm
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Originally Posted by RathBandu View Post
There's a bunch of Ry Cooder music/instrumentals that doesn't make the score. I know what you're talking about though, it's the stuff over 'Another Time, Another Place.' Nowhere Fast kicks in after that.
At least some of it turns up on the fantastic CD set of Cooder's film music, Music by Ry Cooder (which Amazon for some reason lists as four disks; it's actually two).
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post #19 of 31
2/23/10 at 9:16pm
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Jeb, I could kiss you on the mouth right now for that. Not so much for the Jim Steinman hate, but thanks for the heads up.

This movie is one I find myself rewatching every few months or so. It's probably one of my desert island movies for sure.
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post #20 of 31
2/24/10 at 1:13am
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This movie is one I find myself rewatching every few months or so. It's probably one of my desert island movies for sure.
Same with me, it's become one of my favorite Hill movies, it's a shame that he doesn't do that much directing anymore. It still annoys me that Lionsgate apparently turned him down to do Punisher: War Zone back when it was going to be the sequel to the 2004 film.
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post #21 of 31
2/24/10 at 5:47pm
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Same with me it's become one of my favorite Hill movies, it's a shame that he doesn't do that much directing anymore. It still annoys me that Lionsgate apparently turned him down to do Punisher: War Zone back when it was going to be the sequel to the 2004 film.
Wow...that would have been an interesting Punisher movie. Of course the current Punisher: War Zone is one of my favorite comic book movies so I can't complain too much.

Streets of Fire is a Kick Ass movie! Love the soundtrack and Michael Pare is really cool in that one, too bad that was pretty much the highlight of his career. I have the HD-DVD but wouldn't mind getting it again on Blu-Ray if they ever release it.
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post #22 of 31
11/9/10 at 12:28am
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"The Road Masters are hungry. ANd when the Road Masters are hungry, they eat."

I like how the cops call Tom Cody a juvenile delinquent when he's clearly an old dude.
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post #23 of 31
11/11/10 at 9:30pm
Hmm. May have to see if the library has this one; I've never seen it all the way through, and the last time I caught any of it was at least 20 years ago.

Do love that Fixx song, though. Probably my favorite by them.
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post #24 of 31
11/11/10 at 9:32pm
Is the DVD for this Anamorphic?
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post #25 of 31
11/11/10 at 9:53pm
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Is the DVD for this Anamorphic?
Unfortunately, no. But if you've got an HD DVD player, the HD DVD is.
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post #26 of 31
4/4/11 at 12:56am

I love this movie soo fucking much and it's the best thing Walter Hill has ever done. A rock and roll fantasy fable set in an anonymous city during what one has to assume is the 1950's. A thrilling and bombastic soundtrack, Diane Lane melting my eyeballs out of my fucking skull with her hotness, Michael Pare being of of cinema's coolest badasses, Rick Moranis playing a slimey creep, Amy Madigan providing hardass support, EG Daily as a groupie, Williem Dafoe making a memorable villain and a fucking sledgehammer fight!!!  This is such a lean, tough movie that's free of bullshit. I can't believe this wasn't a smash hit back in the 80's. 

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post #27 of 31
6/2/11 at 8:40pm

I come not to mourn another outdated but fucking excellent record (meaning: LP) store that trafficked in the new and used, but to praise one item in my shameless scavenging of its valiant fight against the dying of the light. Picked up the Streets of Fire soundtrack on LP for a buck (among other one-dollar novelties).

 

As black plastic with a hole in the middle clutches to a sliver of life as a relevant medium (hm, a little drunk, should probably try to ease off the maudlin), let me at least for posterity transcribe Walter Hill's own liner notes:

 

 

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STREETS OF FIRE is, by design, comic book in orientation, mock-epic in structure, movie-heroic in acting style, operatic in visual style and cowboy-cliche in dialogue. In short: a rock 'n' roll fable where the Leader of the Pack steals the Queen of the Hop and Soldier Boy comes home to do something about it.

 

Since I much prefer films that make people remember things they've forgotten to those that try to discover something new, in STREETS OF FIRE I tried to make what I would have thought was a perfect movie when I was in my teens -- I put in all the things I thought were great then and which I still have great affection for, custom cars, kissing in the rain, neon, trains in the night, high-speed pursuit, rumbles, rock stars, motorcycles, jokes in tough situations, leather jackets and questions of honor.

 

On STREETS OF FIRE, most of the good times I had were in working with the songs that make up this album. My grateful thanks to Jimmy iovine for producing the record and to The Blasters, Ry Cooder, Jim Dickinson, Duane Eddy, Dan Hartman, The Fixx, Leiber and Stoller, Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty, Bob Seger, Jim Steinman, Kenny Vance and Link Wray for the words and music in the movie. I'd also like to thank Larry Gross for his insights into the writing of album liner notes --  he also served as co-conspirator in perpetrating a script that attempted to realize the Borges equation for adventure novels and films, "A quite different sort of order rules them, one based not on reason but on association and suggestion -- the ancient light of magic."

 

Walter Hill

May, 1984

 

 

My emphases added.

 

I want him directing features again.

 

The soundtrack's still damn fun. Moving sidewalks...

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post #28 of 31
8/30/11 at 11:37pm

Just watched this for the first time.  So much fun.  So much life.  Rick Moranis. 

A really cool movie.

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post #29 of 31
9/8/11 at 1:02am

I really dig this film, but it isn't my favorite film of Hill's.  I'm glad the man actually has a feature coming out next year!

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post #30 of 31
9/8/11 at 4:39am

Three weeks ago the only Walter Hill I had seen was Last Man Standing (which I love), I watched Streets of Fire and now I'm currently scrabbling to find everything I can by the man. Loved Streets of Fire to pieces, just adored it and desparetly want the soundtrack. It's just so much fun and has so much energy. I kind of wish modern comic-book movies had the same level of energy and enthusiasm as this (I think only Spider-Man 2 and Scott Pilgrim have felt this 'fun' from the current crop of superhero films).

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post #31 of 31
9/8/11 at 8:15am

Holy shit I don't even remember posting that. I'm both a little embarrassed by the opening nonsense and a little proud of the lack of typos.

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