Review of Beat Street (1984) by Vince K — 24 Jul 2009
2 breakdancin' movies in one week! How lucky am I? Totally great '80s flashback. Why the hell did breakdancing go out of style anyway? It was totally fucking awesome. (I remember it totally died in 1986).
There should be breakdancing movies today. Why the hell doesn't Zac Effron and Robert Pattinson do a breakdancing movie? (Because THEY'RE FAGS, that's why). Breakdancing is a very, very manly sport.
You never see a woman breakdancing. Anyways, this was a good movie, which brought back a lot of nostalgia for me, until about the middle part when it got too involved. One of the breakers is an artistic graffiti tagger.
Graffiti pisses me off, it's disgusting. Whenever I drive through El Mirage to get to Phoenix everything is tagged and it makes me sick. Just because Ramon's graffiti is artistic doesn't make it acceptable for me.
He paints all these great murals only to see them over-tagged by some lowlife named Spitz, who tags his name all over them. When Ramon finally confronts Spitz near the end, chasing him down a subway tunnel, he tackles him and they both end on the electric part of the tracks, killing them both.
I'm not ashamed to say I laughed my fucking ass off at the death scene. I don't know why, it was just so funny. But I think that brings me to my point that this movie got too involved, and they should have made it more about the breakdancing and the fun, and made it more lighthearted.
This review of Beat Street (1984) was written by Vince K on 24 Jul 2009.
Beat Street has generally received positive reviews.
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