Streets of Fire (1984)

"I don't ask for much, so do this one thing for me: make this the first movie in your queues. I need everyone I know and care about to watch it, so i can disown anyone who dislikes it."
-- Wm. Miles Donovan

Hmm, troublesome. Our Consigliere Miles Donovan advised that we watch this movie, as he loved it and it is a top favorite of a local movie theater owner that we love to hate. I was promised awesomeness -- sledge hammer duels, motorcycles, explosions, etc. Usually I am the Debbie Downer that dislikes these kinds of movies, while my other, more open-minded friends give them a break. Fortunately, our group at the Maxi Pad concurred that Streets of Fire, despite its 15 minutes of awesomeness, was categorically not awesome. The sledge-hammer fight scene featuring Willem Dafoe is cool, but it barely lasts 5 minutes. Most of the movie was pretty slow and dare I say it -- boring. I'm not alone in this school of thought, either.

Things I loved about this movie: cameo from The Chief of television's Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?; Rick Moranis, an excellent soundtrack featuring the song "I Can Dream About You"; maybe this movie was inspired by a Bruce Springsteen song; an extremely lesbian-ish co-protagonist.

Here is a song that is also good by Hall and Oates:

2/5 pizzas

Ghostbusters (1984)

I can finally check this off my list of life goals, folks. Now, I wasn't expecting Ghostbusters to be the best movie ever, or even better than mediocre, because it just isn't. What it is is capital F-U-N. It's got slime, Rick Moranis, the stylings of Ray Parker Jr., and the New York Pubic Library. Sometimes I'm a stickler for excellence in a movie, and sometimes I'm a tough critic, but on good days I'm satisfied with just seeing Bill Murray do his thing. This was one of those days.

Just a couple of things -- I was disappointed that none of the heroes were ladies [and only ONE was black]. On a grammatical note, I am a bit confused. 50% of the internet spells Ghost Busters as two words, the other 50% spells it as one. How will I ever figure out the truth?

3/5 pizzas