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Well, pardon me while I editorialize a bit...\n\nStreets of Fire was a 1984 film directed and co-written by Walter Hill, best known for The Warriors and 48 Hrs. A critical and commercial disaster in the West (though Ebert liked it), it was very Big In Japan...notably serving as a key inspiration for the legendary Capcom brawler Final Fight...and has a sizable cult following. If you haven't figured it out already, it's a cult into which I have been indoctrinated.\n\nWhy? It's definitely a triumph of style over substance, but damn, does it ever have style. The cinematography is downright unreal by 1984 standards, the soundtrack is outstanding, Willem Dafoe gets in one of his earliest scenery-gnaring villain roles, and the whole thing gives off a strange yet arresting vibe of western/samurai flick meets rock opera gone urban hellhole by way of a temporal mutant child of the 1950s and 80s.\n\nSo why'd it bomb? Well, aside from the aforementioned style-over-substance issue, Streets of Fire is not exactly what you'd call accessible. Beyond the peculiar genre-dancing mentioned above, the characters are broadly symbolic, presented more as archetypes suited to a \"Rock & Roll Fable\" (as the movie bills itself) than fully realized persons in their own right. While the use of cliche is intentional, I would imagine many find it rather off-putting. It doesn't help that antihero Tom Cody is kind of an unlikable jerkwad; this fits quite well with the eventual conclusion, but it can be difficult to get past the idea of a main character so sorely in need of a cockpunching.\n\nAnyway, Streets of Fire was intended as the beginning of a trilogy, but its financial failure put a kibosh on the sequels. There's an unauthorized no-budget tribute film called Road to Hell, again starring Michael Pare as \"Cody\" (Tom with the serial numbers filed off), but it takes a strange turn into horror-movie territory, and early reports indicate that it sucks ferociously...like, \"Streets of Fire: Full-Life Consequences\" bad. A shame, really.\n\nAnyway, take my fanboy frothings with container ship of salt, but I'd say it's worth checking out, if only as an example of impressive audiovisual style.\n\nNow then...hmm, Malchus as Raven Shaddock?\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t", "description_bbcode_parsed": "ORIGINAL ARTWORK BY \n\t\t\t\t\tspunky, COLOR BY \n\t\t\t\t\tmitsu

Styx more again, this time portraying Ellen Aim, as seen in the opening to Streets of Fire.

Not familiar with Streets of Fire? Well, pardon me while I editorialize a bit...

Streets of Fire was a 1984 film directed and co-written by Walter Hill, best known for The Warriors and 48 Hrs. A critical and commercial disaster in the West (though Ebert liked it), it was very Big In Japan...notably serving as a key inspiration for the legendary Capcom brawler Final Fight...and has a sizable cult following. If you haven't figured it out already, it's a cult into which I have been indoctrinated.

Why? It's definitely a triumph of style over substance, but damn, does it ever have style. The cinematography is downright unreal by 1984 standards, the soundtrack is outstanding, Willem Dafoe gets in one of his earliest scenery-gnaring villain roles, and the whole thing gives off a strange yet arresting vibe of western/samurai flick meets rock opera gone urban hellhole by way of a temporal mutant child of the 1950s and 80s.

So why'd it bomb? Well, aside from the aforementioned style-over-substance issue, Streets of Fire is not exactly what you'd call accessible. Beyond the peculiar genre-dancing mentioned above, the characters are broadly symbolic, presented more as archetypes suited to a "Rock & Roll Fable" (as the movie bills itself) than fully realized persons in their own right. While the use of cliche is intentional, I would imagine many find it rather off-putting. It doesn't help that antihero Tom Cody is kind of an unlikable jerkwad; this fits quite well with the eventual conclusion, but it can be difficult to get past the idea of a main character so sorely in need of a cockpunching.

Anyway, Streets of Fire was intended as the beginning of a trilogy, but its financial failure put a kibosh on the sequels. There's an unauthorized no-budget tribute film called Road to Hell, again starring Michael Pare as "Cody" (Tom with the serial numbers filed off), but it takes a strange turn into horror-movie territory, and early reports indicate that it sucks ferociously...like, "Streets of Fire: Full-Life Consequences" bad. A shame, really.

Anyway, take my fanboy frothings with container ship of salt, but I'd say it's worth checking out, if only as an example of impressive audiovisual style.

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