Interesting.
MAGA! FAFO! Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. Dumbocraps: evil people who celebrate murder.

Here's my review of this film for Letterboxd.
https://letterboxd.com/a90z/film/streets-of-fire/
You've seen Guy Standeven in something because the man was in everything.

Yes I know. Jes messin' with ya.
MAGA! FAFO! Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. Dumbocraps: evil people who celebrate murder.

You know I don't care about that general consensus ****. For example, I don't even bother with that Rotten Tomatoes website. I watch a film because I wanna see it and that's that.
You've seen Guy Standeven in something because the man was in everything.

A mediocre 6.7 on IMDb.
MAGA! FAFO! Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. Dumbocraps: evil people who celebrate murder.

I liked that the violence was really restrained in this film. The style and vision are both so strong that we really don't need any overly brutal violence to punch things up.
You've seen Guy Standeven in something because the man was in everything.

Walter Hill always insisted there would be no blood, death and graphic violence in
Streets of Fire
. He wanted it to be a dark fairy tale in comic-book format, to create this "Another time, another place" feel.
Similar to Coppola's
Rumble Fish
, which also doesn't focus on any specific place, specific time setting and graphic violence. Both films have a mixture of elements from the 1930s, the 1950s and the 1980s, which lends this weird sense of timelessness.

Walter Hill films are frequently more violent, but the film is shot with a deliberately 50's retro - feel to proceedings. I think he tried to create an 80's action film with reference to the 50's where little blood was generally shown in movies.

This is one of the bases for my hypothesis (
http://www.imdb.com/board/10088194/board/nest/125594574
) that this is set in the afterlife.
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