Amazing movie but
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Streets of Fire
sharebear42019 — 10 years ago(May 20, 2015 09:00 AM)
Should of been a little more violent. At least see some deaths, or shootings/beatings. The tone of the movie felt a lot more light hearted than it should of
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kincaid-5 — 10 years ago(June 02, 2015 09:46 PM)
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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spookyrat1 — 9 years ago(May 20, 2016 08:29 AM)
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.
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Zerose — 9 years ago(June 27, 2016 03:13 AM)
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. -
Woodyanders — 3 weeks ago(March 09, 2026 12:43 AM)
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.
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Woodyanders — 3 weeks ago(March 09, 2026 11:44 AM)
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. -
Woodyanders — 3 weeks ago(March 10, 2026 11:59 AM)
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.
Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. 