Diane's marvelous 1984
Streets of Fire finally comes out today on HD-DVD. See my earlier post to watch a delicious clip of a young Diane singing in the picture. This picture is really incredible. I'd describe it but I found a really great write-up about it over there on Laist.com. Here goes nothing:
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For those who are not fortunate enough to have ever seen this film, it's about a stereotypical 80's badass, Tom Cody (Michael Paré), going after a biker gang, led by Willem Dafoe, to rescue his crazy hot ex-girlfriend (Diane Lane). To add flavor to the plot there is his butch, psychobitch sidekick McCoy (Amy Madigan) and Diane Lane's unlikely present boyfriend, Rick Moranis (I'm not shitting you). And best of all, it's directed by Walter Hill (The Warriors, 48 Hours).
If you want to experience for the first time (or relive) an 80's flick with top notch music (Jim Steinman, Meatloaf), top notch ass-kicking (Paré), top-notch bad guy (Dafoe), and top-notch hotness (Lane), then you NEED to go buy this movie right now, then call your girlfriend/boyfriend up and tell her/him that movie night is on like fuckin Donkey Kong."
Yeah. That about covers it. Get this flick. Even if you don't have a HD-DVD player. I hear those things are so advanced they project right into the air anyways. Here is a picture of young Diane to get you going:
