Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:

I can't say much new about Dark City (one of my all-time favorite movies), Blade Runner, or Brazil, but I have to quote these two because they are great fun, and not enough people have seen them.

Streets of Fire is almost like a hyper-distorted version of the 1950s as seen through a neon, coked-out '80s lens. It's an action movie, but also a musical (with two KICK-rear end Jim Steinman-written numbers bookending the film). I've often wondered if the lead, played by the forgettable Michael Pare, inspired Captain Mal's look on Firefly, but the movie also features young Willem Dafoe, Rick freakin' Moranis, and a gorgeous Diane Lane.

And Six-String Samurai has a sword-wielding Buddy Holly wandering a desert wasteland in search of the kingdom of "Lost Vegas," going up against evil bowlers, Russian rockabilly thugs (the Red Elvises, who performed the awesome soundtrack), and Death himself, who looks an awful lot like Slash. Unfortunately, it also has the most obnoxious kid actor I've ever seen.