Streets of Fire (1984)
STREETS OF FIRE. A Rock & Roll Fable from another time, another place. Hmmmm- What happened here? So many delicious ABZ ingredients and yet…it sucks. Michael Paré ain’t helping anything even though Stanger loves him in EDDIE AND THE CRUISERS, has he ever mentioned it to you? What’s your phone number? he’ll text you a pic
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Ry Cooder did this soundtrack. I have it on vinyl, and it's amazing (the Ellen Aim songs hit way harder in their entirety.) I saw this on 70mm at Alamo, and it blows your brain NOT on a laptop.
Do you guys like big Jackson Pollock paintings in your faces?
Hell yeah
Legit loling at the gym at Bang's famous -painters roasts on Stanger. Too fucking funny
I think we're only a few Shadow Wolves episodes away from them reviewing The Houston 500
From your fingers to god's ears.
The video for “I Can Dream About You” is like stepping into an 80s Dad dream world. I love it. https://youtu.be/621Nk3Ubz4A
The name of the book about David Chase is 'Difficult Men '
I’ve been waiting my whole life for this
This is solid “what even is this movie” territory
So now we know who paid that guy to sucker punch Rick Moranis in NYC last year
Quit The Walking Dead during season 2. At the time, if I wanted to see people argue on a farm I would’ve visited my in laws.
also bloated disgusting bodies
Meatloaf has the rare distinction of out-crazying Gary Busey in their season of Celebrity Apprentice.
Goofs - Continuity : In an egregious editing omission, the scene where Tom Cody explains to Riva that he was discharged from the army for getting kicked in the head by a horse too many times was not included in the final print of the film. The consequences of Michael Pare being a method actor are evident in the film, but ambiguous without including this scene.
How many times is acceptable?
Love our boyz, but I kept screaming into my podcast player 'Jim Steinman'!!
Same.
Re: Jackson Pollock, to Stanger's point, I remember a funny segment of Howard Stern's radio show from years ago where Howard said Pollock "spray painted a canvas with garbage" and called Pollock a sham. His co-host Robin told Howard that he just didn't understand it. So Howard did his own splatter painting, put it side by side with Pollock paintings and made her pick it out of a lineup. Robin couldn't tell the difference.
I think Stanger was on to something! I feel like in the last 10 or so years it’s become fashionable in art circles to shit on 20th century modern art in general and abstract expressionism in particular. So saying “I actually do like Jackson Pollock” is a bit of a take. Hilarious any way you slice it 🤷♂️
Ryno And The Stangers? Lips, Tits And The Assholes?
The songs reminded the boyz of Meat Loaf, because the songs were written by the same guy who wrote Meat Loaf's songs, Jim Steinman (RIP). Dude's got a recognizable style, and if you ask me, it whips
Any other current/former NC Wolves got this hanging in their house? https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmuwf6E0rN1qg8i80o1_500.jpg The Boyz also could not be more wrong about the music in the movie.
The music rules.
I do love the Nowhere Fast song
Michael Pare plays a villain that is slain by a ninja George Takei in the first film I worked on “Ninja Cheerleaders”, he does not elevate the quality of that one either
“Woo, woo, woo!” I love some off the charts Stanger energy
Can y'all do a "George Lucas Talk Show" Twitch show, but instead of George & Watto it's Sly & Gwildore? Thaaanks.
solid New Order ref by funny jon
Jason Mantzoukas mentioned he’s a fan of ABZ on the latest episode of Blank Check. I was thinking it would be pretty great if the boyz got him as a guest. Do the boyz have any plans of having guest hosts in the future?
Seems unlikely. On the Newcomers:F&F finale, Gabrus mentioned how untenable it was having guest for a 3hr+ podcast. Which is unfortunate because I too would love to hear the zooks on there.
This ep is more mean-spirited than usual.
Man, I’m a couple years younger than you guys and totally missed meatloaf being in pop culture. Still genuinely don’t know wtf that’s about.
His name was Robert Paulson. His name was Robert Paulson. His name was Robert Paulson.
Also…what even is this movie?
The Iliad
A lot of movies have people in the background clearly not playing their instruments to what the song is doing. But like 2 mins into the film theres a full frame close up of the drummer vigorously doing a fill and it doesn’t match the song at all. Don’t know how the editor let that one slip by
I like Meat Loaf
I'm not a fan but the "can't sing" take doesn't really add up
Headed to work and can't wait to listen to this one!
This is the 4th Rick Rossovich movie that the pod has covered. Streets of Fire. The Terminator. Top Gun. Navy Seals.
Rossovich is like a 6th Man of the Year candidate for ABZ.
I’ve heard St Vincent is big on chilling out eating candy and does finger guns with a clicking noise.
picasso's pretty good :/
Michael Pare has the charisma of Chuck Norris and the cadence of Stallone.
Watched this for the first time last month and he struck me as Joel Kinnaman's muse
