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From: roger@celtics.UUCP (Roger Klorese)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: New Totally Bad Movie ("Streets of Fire")
Message-ID: <919@celtics.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 18:39:48 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 16 18:39:48 1985
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References: <1568@bbncca.ARPA> <887@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP> <773@rduxb.UUCP>
Reply-To: roger@celtics.UUCP (Roger Klorese)
Organization: Celerity Computing (Eastern Region), Framingham, MA
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Summary: 

In article <773@rduxb.UUCP> jmd@rduxb.UUCP (Joseph M. Dakes) writes:
>> 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
>						rduxb!jmd

Actually, it's a fable... in a place out of time.  If I had to choose,
I'd say "future", tho.

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