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From: jmd@rduxb.UUCP (Joseph M. Dakes)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: New Totally Bad Movie ("Streets of Fire")
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Date: Thu, 10-Oct-85 19:50:04 EDT
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> In article <1568@bbncca.ARPA> lcliffor@bbncca.ARPA (Laura Frank Clifford) writes:
> >How about last year's "Streets of Fire".  I saw this on a cable a couple of
> >months ago and was appalled at how lousy it was.  I couldn't' believe this
> >movie generated as much attention as it did.
  
> I confess to being entranced by "Streets of Fire"'s vision of the future as
> a seamless quilt of urban neighborhoods, sort of like city/states, each with
> its own private police force.  It's kind of the ultimate deevolution of
> the gang society, and works at least as a literary device.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought "Streets of Fire" was set in the 50's
not the future.

And just to add my two cents, I agree it wasn't the greatest movie in the
world but it was alot better than most of the crap on the local pay tv
channel.
						Joseph M. Dakes
						AT&T Bell Laboratories
						Reading, PA
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