Mini Movie Review: Streets of Fire

NetFlix streaming through the Xbox360 has opened up a new world of old movies with debateable value. Here is recap of my first foray into this world:

"Streets of Fire" is a strange little movie you've never heard of full of actors and actresses that you have. The funky "rock-n-roll fable" tag line coupled with the cheesy fades and wipes at the beginning and the quasi-musical feel had me searching the credits to see if Richard K. Obrien of Rocky Horror fame was involved. (I didn't see him in the credits.) It's a bad 80s movie that is so bad it's actually kinda good. The scene with the Blasters playing a dive bar with a pole dancer was strangely disturbing. Oh, and I was wondering why the unfamiliar male lead seemed so familiar, when about half-way through the movie I realized it was a guy who talks almost exactly like a Pennsylvania native dude that I used to work with.

EDIT: I am upgrading my rating of this movie to "I don't have enough hands to give this movie the number of thumbs-up it deserves." I've watched this flick a couple of times now and I like it more and more each time. I might actually buy the DVD!