Streets of Fire/YMMV

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • 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.

But I can dream about you if I can't hold you tonight...

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