Streets of Fire/YMMV

"But I can dream about you if I can't hold you tonight..."
 * Breakaway Pop Hit: "I Can Dream About You", "Nowhere Fast", "Tonight Is What It Means To Be Young."
 * Ear Worm: "Let the revels begin, let the fire be started, we're dancing for the restless and the brokenhearted; let the revels begin, let the fire be started, we're dancing for the desperate and the brokenhearted..."
 * Evil Is Cool: Raven and the Bombers. Leather and bikes make for a very good combination.
 * Face of the Band: Ellen Aim is the lead vocals for the Attackers. Stoney Jackson is the lead vocals for the Sorels.
 * Fashion Victim Villain: Raven and his gang.
 * Germans Love David Hasselhoff: This film was very popular in Japan and even influenced many anime and the video game Final Fight.
 * Hey It's That Guy:
 * Willem Dafoe, Rick Moranis, Bill Paxton, Robert Townsend, Diane Lane, Ed Begley Jr.
 * Voice actress Elizabeth Daily as Babydoll, the groupie.
 * One of the cops is Rick Rossovich, the ditzy firefighter in Roxanne and Slider in Top Gun
 * Rocker Lee Ving. He was also Mr. Boddy in Clue
 * Deborah Van Valkenburgh, the sister, was also Mercy in The Warriors, another Walter Hill film.
 * Mykelti Williamson. Bubba from Forrest Gump.
 * If "Nowhere Fast" and "Tonight Is What It Means To Be Young" have a familiar sound to them, it's because they were both written by Jim Steinman, lyricist and producer to Meat Loaf.
 * Nightmare Fuel:
 * About halfway into the sledgehammer fight, the music turns really creepy.
 * Ellen's kidnapping at the beginning of the film.
 * Retroactive Recognition: Robert Townsend. The film came before he struck it big with Hollywood Shuffle.
 * So Cool Its Awesome
 * Tear Jerker: The ending. The music helps a lot.
 * Both ending songs qualify.


 * Ellen calling out Tom in the rain.
 * Viewer Gender Confusion: The dancer at the Bad Guy Bar.
 * Visual Effects of Awesome: The explosions!