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How long does it take a film to keep the viewer’s attention on its person, forcing them to put off other things? I’ve never really thought about it, but in a speed contest, Streets on Fire would be out of contention. All they had to do was put two titles on the screen, “A Rock and Roll Tale” and “Another Time, Another Place.” And when “Nowhere Fast” played a minute later, the question of whether or not to watch this movie was self-defeating.

Like its Warriors, which came out five years earlier and combined various elements, Streets on Fire also combines many styles and genres: the fifties/sixties with music and B-movies from the eighties, action flicks with westerns, comics and musicals. But despite the many little pieces, the film doesn’t get tangled up in itself, forcing them to interact skillfully with each other.

Putting a story that fits on a napkin at the head of the table, Walter Hill went about his favorite business of the day, giving screen time to looting charismatic characters, each one begging to be on the cover of a comic book. Hill has always distinguished himself by his dislike of gray colors: his films have only white and black – extremely positive and extremely negative characters. They have only one thing in common – a boundless love of problem-solving with numerous means of effectively and brutally destroying the enemy’s manpower.

In Streets on Fire, every element screams its hypertrophied and comic-book origins. Whether it’s dialogue that takes up no more than the same napkin, which is eerily clichéd even before the 1980s, but spoken with colossal seriousness, or characters that look like they came off the pages of an action-movie textbook. Here, even the final fight between the protagonist and antagonist takes place not with fists or knives, but with pickaxes. There are a lot of clichés here. There’s a lot of convention. There’s a lot of unrealistic and illogical. But, gosh, how great it all looks together!

You can, of course, grumble and rant that the picture was outdated the year it came out, that even before its time it looked too poppy, the second half is noticeably losing to the first half, the ending is incredibly drawn out, but does it really matter when you watch the power-killing dialogue between Defoe and Pare:
– Why don’t you tell me your name?
– Tom Coady. Nice to meet you.
– I’m coming for her. And I’m also coming after you.
– I’m sure you will. I’ll be waiting.
It makes me want to jump up and down on the couch, screaming in Bender’s voice, “oh, yeah!

Hill’s picture may be hopelessly outdated, but if the film, despite its considerable age, thrills from start to finish, and is watched with interest by those who grew up in the eighties, as well as those who were not born then, this is perhaps the most important recognition of a film that has passed the most difficult test – the test of time.

The verdict: another time, another place is a rock ‘n’ roll tale.

Info Blu-ray
Video
Codec: HEVC / H.265 (81.7 Mb/s)
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1

Audio
English: Dolby TrueHD with Dolby Atmos 7.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 4.1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 (48kHz, 24-bit)
English: Dolby Digital 5.1

Subtitles
English, English SDH.

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Immediately after watching, I had a painful, complex, gnawing question: why didn’t I see this before?

Holy planes, yes, my parents review Top Gun (and I refuse to call it differently) several times a year. Well, what always prevented me from sitting next to them with a TV and not losing my childhood? Namely, a movie of such a plan I watched all my early years. It was a universal soldier, and AWOL, and Die Hard, and many pictures about submarines.

In order not to delay or create a journalistic atmosphere for a long time, I will say right away: I am in absolute, irrevocable, reckless delight. Partly because this whole spirit is terribly close to me, and I mostly prefer the music of those times. Part of the fact that, in my opinion, this film became the founder of what we now call stereotypes.

I will explain: Maverick (and this is our delightfully young and extravagant Tom Cruise) is so bastard, a genius in the sky, a daredevil, naughty and explosive. He flies like a devil, yielding to no one and sometimes making mistakes because of this. Excellent, fresh, very original personality – for the eighty-sixth year. Of course, I won’t give a tooth that it was he who served as the prototype for the stamped movie heroes, but I’m sure that then he shot, just like a rocket, from … well, from what it is attached to there. I’m not going to google to show off the knowledge of the F-14 device.

Further – of course, he will fall in love with the most inappropriate girl, which, by the way, I did not like. Charlie (this is Kelly McGillis) for some reason seemed to me a bad person. Ah, probably because the young Tom Cruise got into it. Lord, she is his instructor! How will they be together? And so, everything is perfectly shown there. Honestly, the scene for the Berlin song came out very beautiful.

And then it turns out that Pete is behaving like a Tasmanian devil because his dad died in the sky, his elements let him down, almost betrayed him, and the boy is tormented by the question of whether he was to blame. After all, the personality of his character is incompatible with life, the thought that someone under the name Mitchell could make a mistake in the sky. It’s all the same that the eagle suddenly forget how to grab rodents.

Well, you must admit, we all saw this at least once. But the fact is that time goes forward, goes and goes, not sparing our imagination, and ideas, for some reason, do not step in step with it. They become reusable like plastic plates. What to do? How to distinguish an original from a fake now? It is possible that a few years later some minor will say: “Oh, this Top Gan is licked from the Divine Pilots (let’s say).

Answer: you need to watch movies in order of their entry into the world. Of course, this is physically impossible, for example, now, predicting which events go further in the story, I had to constantly remind myself that I was watching the original, and not “the next one.

What conquered me in this film?

From the very first shots – airplanes. The scope of their wings, their frantic flight, a beautiful panorama of the sky and soaring iron birds. I didn’t think I like to watch flying planes so much, but the preparation of the runways, the snap locks and the uninterrupted screams of the pilots brought me into a euphoric stupor.

A beautiful picture, rich colors that look a hundred times better than modern films, create this unique spirit of drive and the presence of meaning, which was so rich in the eighties, who gave birth to both Freddy and Aliens, and the Armor of God. Do you feel All these are masterpieces.

More about the plot – which is good from an aesthetic point of view – there are no sharp corners in the film. What villains are there! This movie is about friendship. Val Kilmer, in my opinion, is a wonderful actor with a repulsive appearance, here too young and even pleasant, he also turned out to be a very wow guy. Moreover, not at the very last minute, when Maverick saved his trololo, but somewhere in the middle of the film. And the death of Hus was shown without fractures in Pete’s character, typical of labeling, without fights with a closet and other furniture.

But then again – the line with the girl is somehow blurry. Charlie kind of tasted Pete’s impudence, but returned. Because he is the best of the best. So think about how it looks.

And for the soundtrack, they got an Oscar! This is just a class. Music in Top Gan can compete with the Nightmare on Elm Street and even with my beloved Supernatural.

I would clearly draw two semantic lines: airplanes and growing up. Of course, in a picture of such a plan one cannot do without a struggle with one’s own character and some stagnation. I would say to Maverick “Only cowards retreat, and that would suit him best. Didn’t he understand this himself? That is how he lived and, in the end, this is what he did. I mean, I didn’t give up. Well, thank you very much, people, for not rushing around the flight school and clinging to each skirt with the question, “What did I do wrong? Ah, it’s all my fault, the punishment for me, fell on me, the sky. ”

It’s time to take stock.

Everything is going to Tom. And the form, and without form, and fear, and Skoda. He is a true legend, where is there to cling. And his puny seventy meter here looks like the most colossal dignity.

And all the work is just amazing. Top Gun seems even a little naive with his pathos not yet eaten up. They say that it was a polished order to raise the American spirit. Well, I was born much later, the validity period of the propaganda has already passed, so for me it is just Top Gun, a charmingly hot film, with its own core and a wick peculiar to America.

But you know what is the most important thing in the film? My main motivation to put it on top of my own charts was the thought that he drove into me. I want to achieve something in life. I want to be the best at something, so that the horizons are open. Just like these guys.

I feel the need, the need for SPEED

Info Blu-ray
Video
Codec: HEVC / H.265
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1

Audio
English: Dolby Atmos
English: Dolby TrueHD 7.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
English: Dolby Digital 5.1
English: Dolby Digital 2.0
German: Dolby Digital 5.1
Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1
Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1
French: Dolby Digital 5.1
Italian: Dolby Digital 5.1
Japanese: Dolby Digital 2.0
Japanese: Dolby Digital Mono
Portuguese: Dolby Digital 5.1
Russian: Dolby Digital 5.1

Note: Spanish Espana y Latinoamerica, Japanese 2.0=TV Tokyo Version, Japanese Mono=Fuji TV Version, Portuguese=Brasil

Subtitles
English, English SDH, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Cantonese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Korean, Mandarin (Simplified), Mandarin (Traditional), Chinese, Norwegian, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Thai

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