The movie is STREETS OF FIRE - a great little sleeper set in a continually rainy, romanticised,1950s Rock & Roll music world. Great cast including Rick Moranis' first dramatic role (where he was Diane Lane's completely unsympathetic asshole of a manager), Wilem Dafoe's first starring role (he's the villain) and a pre ALIENS Bill Paxton. Check it out.
Micheal Pare was an up-and-coming male-lead type in the 80s who never seemed to cut it big. He was in EDDIE AND THE CRUISERS, this movie, and then seemed todo a lot of made-for-cable. I was in a movie with Pare in the 90s where I played a Morlock-ish post-nuke punk character called "The Violator". I have on-set stories for you sometime.
I still feel kind of bad about that one time my Aunt went all "WTF?" on me when I told her how my friend and I rented The Big Chill for the first time. I had to remind her it came out the year before I was born, and then I felt worse because I realized I'd made her feel really old.
The movie sounds fun. I haven't been watching movies lately. (ALTHOUGH I GUESS I HAVE LOTS OF FREE TIME NOW.) But I'll see if I can see it.
I'd love to hear your on-set stories.
Actually, you know what I'm still waiting to hear from you, because you hinted at this once and I'm super curious ... why do you think the later Star Trek series were such a step back diversity wise?
Oh man - the STAR TREK thing requires an answer i just don't have time to get into right now. It has to do with what I consider to be lazy writing on a formula combined with a certain kind of racial profiling that wouldn't have been seen as anything but negatively racist had the characters involved been human, and pretty stereotypically cartoonishly visually "human racist" in the way it was constructed.
I have a feeling this is something I'll want to get off my chest by the time the new-old TREK movie comes out this summer, but the time just isn't around.
Something like all the Klingons and the whoseywhats acting a certain way, then? And maybe some aliens have big noses. Stuff like that?
But yeah, you can talk about this when you have the time. I just wanted to let you know that was something I was interested in. (Mostly to be in the know. I've only seen a few episodes of Star Trek. I'm not much for space, I think. Although I'm kind of enjoying my John Carter of Mars book -- despite it being the standard "What These People Need is a Honky" story in space.)
Let's hear it for '80s rock movies! Hehehe. There isn't much to Streets of Fire. It's something to have on while you do chores or something; it doesn't take much attention to follow. I'd forgotten how many 'names' were in that movie.
Eddie and the Cruisers, on the other hand, is a good film-- not great, but entertaining and the music rocks. I put it in the same league as The Commitments.
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Micheal Pare was an up-and-coming male-lead type in the 80s who never seemed to cut it big. He was in EDDIE AND THE CRUISERS, this movie, and then seemed todo a lot of made-for-cable. I was in a movie with Pare in the 90s where I played a Morlock-ish post-nuke punk character called "The Violator". I have on-set stories for you sometime.
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The movie sounds fun. I haven't been watching movies lately. (ALTHOUGH I GUESS I HAVE LOTS OF FREE TIME NOW.) But I'll see if I can see it.
I'd love to hear your on-set stories.
Actually, you know what I'm still waiting to hear from you, because you hinted at this once and I'm super curious ... why do you think the later Star Trek series were such a step back diversity wise?
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Oh man - the STAR TREK thing requires an answer i just don't have time to get into right now. It has to do with what I consider to be lazy writing on a formula combined with a certain kind of racial profiling that wouldn't have been seen as anything but negatively racist had the characters involved been human, and pretty stereotypically cartoonishly visually "human racist" in the way it was constructed.
I have a feeling this is something I'll want to get off my chest by the time the new-old TREK movie comes out this summer, but the time just isn't around.
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But yeah, you can talk about this when you have the time. I just wanted to let you know that was something I was interested in. (Mostly to be in the know. I've only seen a few episodes of Star Trek. I'm not much for space, I think. Although I'm kind of enjoying my John Carter of Mars book -- despite it being the standard "What These People Need is a Honky" story in space.)
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Eddie and the Cruisers, on the other hand, is a good film-- not great, but entertaining and the music rocks. I put it in the same league as The Commitments.