SO stupid it's great!

I watched this for the first time, and all I could think was...this is so gay. this is what gay guys think street fighting is.

I-d-i-o-t-s.

Hardly "stupid"; it´s just this kinda film. Sure, the things coming out of character´s mouths are uniformly tacky, mostly delivered with a blunt macho swagger - even by Rick Moranis and that blonde sidekick woman - with some corny moralizing thrown in for good measure, but it´s apparently the kinda tone Hill was after (and, frankly, with brimming acting prowess of Michael Pare´s dimensions around, any more nuanced dialogue/characterization would have been off limits, anyway). For all its banal cornball elements and a thin story, the film always feels vibrant and alive with Hill´s customary great cinematography, production design and a well fitted soundtrack - in the end, it´s exactly the kinda rock n´ roll fantasy the opening disclaimer promised. Hardly some cornerstone of cinematic history, but still an inspired little piece of entertainment, kinda dopey as it may be. 7/10. Better than The Warriors where the inane machismo went annoyingly to eleven; Streets actually benefitting from also displaying a softer side lacking in that earlier picture.



"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan

I thought only *beep* used the word fag

Cool.