The Worst Rock Movies Ever Made ... (So Far)
Sometimes, when music meets celluloid, we get This Is Spinal Tap or DiG!. Most of the time, we don’t.
Larry Dobrow
Blender April 25 2008
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Streets of Fire (1984)It has as much in common with the fierce Springsteen song of the same name as the E Street Band does with Eddie and the Cruisers (ooh, a delicious half-topical analogy!). The real problem is that
Streets of Fire, which might be described as a musical action-comedy drama with hard-bitten dialogue straight out of 1940s pulp fiction, urinates all over genre lines. Factor in nigh-operatic Jim Steinman songs of the sort usually oversung by Meat Loaf, and
Streets is the cinematic equivalent of an overinflated balloon. But Diane Lane sure is purty.