This is such a totally awesome song from Wang Chung! One of my favs from them besides Dance Hall Days and such a great song for the soundtrack to this movie which btw was such an awesome 80's movie! I remember sneaking into the theatre with my friends back in the day to catch this movie because back then you had to have a written permission from your parents to see a rated " R" movie so it was just so taboo to do that! lol But hey, we were young and having fun! God how I miss those days! :-(
I missed this song and the video! I missed the Wang Chung band too coz im a huge fan. I wonder what happened to this group? I think they're a great band! I've had only a couple of albums of them:"Mosaic" [my favorite] and "Points On The Curve".
I remember seeing the movie in the 80s and thinking it was soooooooo gritty, the car chase so intense, and the plot twist at the end blew me away!...now this stands right by Michael Mann's HEAT as one of my favorite films set in LA and the music is fun too especially seeing this hilarious video here.
Bill Peterson and Bill Defoe just starting out. Please the smokin hot blonde. One of the top 5 car chases. (Bullitt will always be number one). Now, we watch movies like Titanic and War Horse. And people wonder why we don't go to the movies.
i was making love to my girlfriend in 1987...had the radio on this song came on...i had seen the movie...great...jumped up and ran to hear it up close.....got back and she said thats why i love!
So many 80's tunes stand up so well to the test of time. It's not until I see the video footage I'm reminded this song and movie are over 25 years old.
Excellent soundtrack to a great movie , it's making it's rounds on the cable movie channels . Still a decent flick after 25+ years . Song still holds it's own too.
@chokemurder254 you do know artists of today, do not write their own music, it's written for them, the 80's was a time where everyone wrote their own music and made their own way, nothing was handed to them, unlike the shitty music of today, Lady Gaga is the only musician of today that i can admire as she writes her own music nad lyrics
great movie! and that blonde girl was so fucking sexy! dont even want to see what she looks like now. would rather just picture her from this movie =)
This movie kicks ass. William Petersen (CSI) is young and a total bad ass. Willem Dafoe was never better (Streets of Fire, Platoon, Spider-man). Wang Chung was never this good again.
i notice matioscaio's comment got hidden thru too many neg votes. i don't agree with him of course. but since it's a song, i feel he is entitled to his opinion altho i prefer wang chung myself.
@GreenshirtMr1023 Not quite, Greenshirt, the actress in the movie "To Live and Die in L.A." was Darlanne Fluegel. She does look a lot like Miss Plummer, I'll grant you.
Nice to see Friedkin in this! Not only is he one of the great movie directors of all time, but he has great taste in music as well. EXCELLENT VIDEO!!!
@popdan100 I see you don't know your timetable very well. To Live And Die in LA was made in 1984...Tupac was about 12 years old....so u can suck up MF!
@ForgetaboutFreeman Good Lord! Here we go again (rolls eyes). Look, the only idiots around here are the ones like yourself who took my joke about Lennon being in the video seriously. Yes, i'm very aware that Lennon died 5 yrs before this. Enough already!
@Dilberto88 ahhh yes its in the first 5 mins of the movie actually...its pretty realistic looking..this is a good movie though i didnt like the ending so much...petersens partner was not cool enough to be the boss of such a hot woman lol.
Just saw TLADILA last night. Haven't seen it since high school. As good today as it was then. Forgot the ending - shocker. DVD has alternate ending too!!! ;-) All wang chung songs throughout movie... and the 80's cars! Way cool! They all had their own distinct shapes! Miss them!!!
@gatorbait51 This song is awesome and the soundtrack in general To Live And Die In LA is awesome, but the movie stinks. I am a huge Wilem Dafoe, Steve James, and Dean Stockwell fan and I can not sit through it. The plot is all illogical nonsense starting with SECRET service agents who run around telling EVERYBODY every 2 seconds that they are SECRET service. The movie goes for Miami Vice type stylishness, but does not have the Miami Vice type powerful writing to make the stylishness work.
@MRobert21 this Movie came out in 85 which means there were shooting in 84 the same year vice came out its unfair to compare this movie to a tv show and vice versa they both great
@nitroelite Miami Vice made its debut in September of 1984. To Live And Die In LA made its debut over a year later in November of 1985. Look it up on IMDB and learn something before you state false facts. To Live And Die In LA was trying to copy what Miami Vice had done on television. To Live And Die In LA failed because it got the music and slick look of Miami Vice copied right, but the characters and plot in this film are insipid, unlike Miami Vice. Now I am done with you on this video here.
What the hell has happened to youtube?What is destined to happen to anything that is supposed to be by the people and for the people including government.Spread this..Copy and paste everywhere.
down with makaveli and 2pac(musliums) and derivatives. The book is peaking mathew 21:21 and in look. Mountain is moving and the fig tree is being planted in the pacific"hence the 100 scientist that have predicted a storm 5 times stronger than the san andreas earthquake. Look and see if you can undo the evil."the holy roman empire" no reply please
@ForgetaboutFreeman if a guy who looked like Tupac was standing there he would've said the same thing it's just a joke. Take it easy man. RIP John Lennon.
They dont make movies like this anymore,nor does anyone make music like this anymore either,creativity seems to have just about run dry nowadays in the music business.
@happymike44 Sorry, buddy. Manuhunter was directed by Michael Mann. If you watch the movie it has a very much a "Miami Vice" type of feel. Friedkin directed Live and Die in LA. I thought the movie was okay, the same actor who played Hannibal Lector in Manhunter also played Colonel Stryker in X2.
William Peterson had an even better role in Manhunter the next year (1986). Manhunter was actually the first of the Hannibal Lecter movies. Red Dragon was the remake.
@pinz2022 Manhunter is an amazing movie, far superior than the remake. As a fan of Thomas Harris' books, I have always felt that Brian Cox' Hannibal Lecter in Manhunter was much better than Anthony Hopkins' version. Especially if you have read Red Dragon.
I'm with ya'. Brian Cox portrayed Hannibal as less over-the-top theatrical. Hopkins chewed the scenery. I believe Harris wrote the character as a Southern gentleman but both Cox and Hopkins used their native Scottish and Welsh accents respectively.
@pinz2022 I don't know if you read the book, but Will Peterson's character only figures out that Lecter is the killer by looking at the books on his shelves and realizing, with his 'gift', that the killer would read the same type of books. Lecter had been interviewed repeatedly and passed every time because he seemed normal. Cox played it that way; Hopkins played him as a psycho. How could you not think he was a serial killer?
I'm pretty sure you can get it on Netflix. It's a classic. The young William Dafoe did some great villains back in the day (don't forget his biker-gang leader Raven Shaddock in the 1984 fantasy: Streets of Fire--with a teenage Diane Lane as the sultry good-girl rocker he kidnaps).
I have to admit, I really didn't like To Live and Die in LA all that much when it came out--even the hero was a lowlife and the plot was just too much.
Apropos of "Streets of Fire". Punch it up here on YouTube. I still have the soundtrack on LP. It has some great songs on it (although Diane Lane didn't actually sing them).
@pinz2022 Another fave we have in common. I loved "Streets of Fire" (but then I would crawl on broken glass to see Diane Lane in tight skirts and stockings...). Michael Pare is not much of an actor, but that part was made for him. And Defoe does a great sociopath in that one. Walter Hill, the director, always said it was one of his favorite films to make and you can tell by watching it.
just saw WC in the Norwalk...I seriously went back in time...loved it!! Please come back!!! ure da bomb! also bought their CD, autographed! Thanks gentlemen! IT
@happymike44 Haha. Yeah I actaully knew that John had died long before this video was made. I was just being a smartass. But thank's anyway. Btw, this movie & song came out in 1985. You were probably thinking of their album "Mosaic" which came out in 1986.
2:12 Jesus is in the studio!!!
Silence00000Silence 23 hours ago
love this song
cris68216 1 week ago
One of my favorite movies, Willem Dafoe is beast.
MrJake92662 1 week ago
11 People don't deserve to live OR die in L.A.!
ChuntiChuntaro 2 weeks ago 2
did tupac have to pay for this hook when he remade it?
wedabest408 3 weeks ago
Representing with that Steinberger!
gunzlingerxj 3 weeks ago
This is my all time fave from them.
amberfwn 3 weeks ago
Pussy band! KICK ASS SONG AND MOVIE!!!!
jprebel3 1 month ago
@jprebel3 Are you schizophrenic?
m4ffe 4 weeks ago
This is such a totally awesome song from Wang Chung! One of my favs from them besides Dance Hall Days and such a great song for the soundtrack to this movie which btw was such an awesome 80's movie! I remember sneaking into the theatre with my friends back in the day to catch this movie because back then you had to have a written permission from your parents to see a rated " R" movie so it was just so taboo to do that! lol But hey, we were young and having fun! God how I miss those days! :-(
thecarebearhideaway 1 month ago 6
Tupac sounds different now i've matured :S
UNDERGARMENT 1 month ago 5
I missed this song and the video! I missed the Wang Chung band too coz im a huge fan. I wonder what happened to this group? I think they're a great band! I've had only a couple of albums of them:"Mosaic" [my favorite] and "Points On The Curve".
madzskie 1 month ago
Very Good.
WDHellSOnLineKILLER 1 month ago
@kojakbangbang7 i like your style, kojackbangbang7
Shahablo 1 month ago
I remember seeing the movie in the 80s and thinking it was soooooooo gritty, the car chase so intense, and the plot twist at the end blew me away!...now this stands right by Michael Mann's HEAT as one of my favorite films set in LA and the music is fun too especially seeing this hilarious video here.
masseyHHVP 2 months ago
To Live and Die...in armpit city Marysville CA...LOL
DoUWanna007 2 months ago
ohhh...reel to reel tape..tell that to the kids 2day...they will be like, what is reel to reel tape..LOL
DoUWanna007 2 months ago
To live and die in Miami :D
MegaCrownvictoria2 2 months ago
Classic
spcam777 2 months ago
Bill Peterson and Bill Defoe just starting out. Please the smokin hot blonde. One of the top 5 car chases. (Bullitt will always be number one). Now, we watch movies like Titanic and War Horse. And people wonder why we don't go to the movies.
Cardwiz428 2 months ago
@Cardwiz428 rick masters making fake money was an awesome scene too
vaadaenmacchi 1 month ago
i was making love to my girlfriend in 1987...had the radio on this song came on...i had seen the movie...great...jumped up and ran to hear it up close.....got back and she said thats why i love!
gabbyroswell 2 months ago
0:00 to 3:58 is the best part
theundertaker919 2 months ago
So many 80's tunes stand up so well to the test of time. It's not until I see the video footage I'm reminded this song and movie are over 25 years old.
Crommy5 2 months ago
man 1985 good times !!!
MegaBratela 2 months ago
Was going to record over a cassette, until I heard this song on it.
SunLickTree 2 months ago
good movie too
willardpatrick2000 2 months ago
Awesome haunting song
coloradotunesful 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
Excellent soundtrack to a great movie , it's making it's rounds on the cable movie channels . Still a decent flick after 25+ years . Song still holds it's own too.
ultramagbrion 3 months ago
love this song. it is so 80s and wang chung has a cool voice
vaadaenmacchi 3 months ago
Best movie chase scene ever !!!!!!
grimman55 4 months ago
If we had wrecked the car we never would have gotten it back to the motor pool on time.
midnightelectric1 4 months ago
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This song "was" great. period. 80's sucked a niggers dick compared to today. Don't live in the past just keep going with the flow.
chokemurder254 4 months ago
@chokemurder254 you do know artists of today, do not write their own music, it's written for them, the 80's was a time where everyone wrote their own music and made their own way, nothing was handed to them, unlike the shitty music of today, Lady Gaga is the only musician of today that i can admire as she writes her own music nad lyrics
ModernWarhead94 4 months ago
They kept playing this theme song too much in the background of the film.
kentuckyfriedplus 4 months ago
great movie! and that blonde girl was so fucking sexy! dont even want to see what she looks like now. would rather just picture her from this movie =)
PoppaJohn82 4 months ago
The 80's just ROCKED... PERIOD...
odiemodie1 4 months ago 28
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You got that right!
ylwf 2 months ago
these 80s dudes were the real deal, not like todays talentless f-cks
dubian99 4 months ago
definitely one of my top ten movies of all time. A MUST see for any movie aficionados out there. plus a great soundtrack
azedrf2323 5 months ago
Cool song, great film
zerokomma 5 months ago
great, Great movie!! some classic scenes, and great music! overall very intense! a MUST watch!
jjlwis 5 months ago
This movie kicks ass. William Petersen (CSI) is young and a total bad ass. Willem Dafoe was never better (Streets of Fire, Platoon, Spider-man). Wang Chung was never this good again.
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All I remember about this film is Will Dafoe shooting sombody in the nuts!!
ptrma1 6 months ago
wang chung ,en sus buenos tiempos,recuerdo del ayer,un tema con mucha profundidad e intenso.... desde chile para el mundo
sixtonuky 6 months ago
i notice matioscaio's comment got hidden thru too many neg votes. i don't agree with him of course. but since it's a song, i feel he is entitled to his opinion altho i prefer wang chung myself.
chiefdancingostriche 6 months ago
You are the Best of the 80 '
fabiopuglisi 6 months ago
omg William Peterson is the hottest guy ive ever seen
lmyarrito 7 months ago
@lmyarrito hell yea without a doubt
lmyarrito 5 months ago
Great Song, Excellent movie!
phil2856 7 months ago 2
it's a great song, for this movie William Petersen was great in it.
vegan275 7 months ago 17
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Yeah I saw his cock in this movie
pcpaulius 4 months ago
superb movie !!! great soundtrack !!!
a unique sound from Wang chung
poerik 7 months ago
I love Wang Chung and this song is so... '80's... Wonderful!
Thanks for this video!
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@1dcube your a cunt go listen to your fake music that has no skill or no feel
MotorbikeCrave 7 months ago
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to live and die in la from 2pac is better
matioscaio 7 months ago
The woman putting her shirt on after a good lay - Amanda Plummer from PULP FICTION, right?
GreenshirtMr1023 7 months ago
@GreenshirtMr1023 Not quite, Greenshirt, the actress in the movie "To Live and Die in L.A." was Darlanne Fluegel. She does look a lot like Miss Plummer, I'll grant you.
badjaycl 7 months ago 2
@badjaycl " HE'S DEAD, YOU WORK FOR ME NOW"
rupie61 4 months ago 6
@rupie61 chance kept that blonde on a leash.." I'll revoke your parole" hahaha
tkeyes01 3 months ago
this movie ALONE ENTIRELY.. spawned bunjee jumping all together. definatley a cult classic, was always underated.
kindbud808 7 months ago 2
6 people, clearly dont want to live and die in LA.
brownieboy111 7 months ago
Beautiful Clip from 1985.
Hot80s 7 months ago
@2:40 pro skills, recognize
koky5150 8 months ago
great movie
hockeyc999 8 months ago
William Peterson pre-CSI... good flick
dbcoll1957 8 months ago
Great music from an extremely underrated movie.
WithoutRemorse12 8 months ago
@WithoutRemorse12 under rated? movies a cult hit
MaTchBoOkPoEt 8 months ago
@MaTchBoOkPoEt
I rarely see such great cinematic camera angles in chase scenes nor the perfect rawness that seem to be realistic.
Great movie!
kinmanyuen 8 months ago
to all you cunts who think wangchung copyed tupac
CHECK YOUR DATES
tupac is a cunt. rap is fucking shit
MotorbikeCrave 8 months ago
@MotorbikeCrave
Who the fuck are you to call 2pac a cunt? You don't know shit about rap, so don't comment about it.
1dcube 8 months ago
@1dcube 2Pac is not shit, but fact, HE copied Wang Chung - he came afterwards. So many idiots should really check the release dates.
Great song, great inspired music like they're unable to produce theses days with all the shit 'techno'logy - everything is computerized.
writerblaster 8 months ago 3
Respectable 80s song from an excellent 80s band to a very good 80s police drama.
TRIFECTA! Game over.
amazingdany 9 months ago
at least put the extended version ;-)
kinmanyuen 9 months ago
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I found this movie TLADILA unintentionally hilarious.
mbucd 9 months ago
Watched this on Showtime last night. Classic 1980's - not to mention, one of the best movie car chases ever.
gnes1256 9 months ago
@ForgetaboutFreeman Just Google the music video. There's several other sites besides YouTube that show the music video in good quality.
rmwright11221979 9 months ago
Nice to see Friedkin in this! Not only is he one of the great movie directors of all time, but he has great taste in music as well. EXCELLENT VIDEO!!!
jddrock 9 months ago
@ForgetaboutFreeman vevo doesnt have the only good video.
OralAgreement69 9 months ago
3 Best Car Chase Scenes Ever:
1. Bullit (1968) Steve McQueen
2. The French Connection (1971) Gene Hackman
3. To Live And Die In LA (1985) William Petersen
rowdymax1 10 months ago
Ronin has two of the best car chases ever in one movie
belal650 10 months ago 3
Where's Billy Friedkin?...is he in this video/..he's a great director.
rowdymax1 10 months ago
Rick Masters (Willem Defoe) to the bastard that ripped him off: "Your taste is in your ass."
Best Movie Ever about counterfeiting.
rowdymax1 10 months ago
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wang chung sucks !!! To Live and Die in L.A. is originaly from 2 pac... So you can suck-up motherfucker !!!
popdan100 10 months ago
@popdan100 I see you don't know your timetable very well. To Live And Die in LA was made in 1984...Tupac was about 12 years old....so u can suck up MF!
rowdymax1 10 months ago 4
@rowdymax1 isn't ignorance bliss? @popdan100
B1kMagik 9 months ago
An incredible movie, seriously underrated. If you have the chance SEE IT!
RImusclebear 10 months ago
@ForgetaboutFreeman Good Lord! Here we go again (rolls eyes). Look, the only idiots around here are the ones like yourself who took my joke about Lennon being in the video seriously. Yes, i'm very aware that Lennon died 5 yrs before this. Enough already!
vodude 10 months ago
Whoever edited this video wrecked it.
candystripeR4Tru 10 months ago
imagine Grissom chasin' bad guys nowadays?
incdogrobber 10 months ago
Nice video.
KinnyBlitz 10 months ago
i have this movie and i cant recall the guy with the bomb that blows him self up...what gives?
sprintbass 10 months ago
@sprintbass That's John Turturro.
Dilberto88 10 months ago
@Dilberto88 ahhh yes its in the first 5 mins of the movie actually...its pretty realistic looking..this is a good movie though i didnt like the ending so much...petersens partner was not cool enough to be the boss of such a hot woman lol.
sprintbass 10 months ago
@Dilberto88 No it's not. The terrorist at the beginning of the movie is played by Michael Zand. John Turturro plays a different character.
APS221 10 months ago
good song great movie ty
bolmsp 11 months ago
Even after 25 years, this song never gets old, especially if you crank it up on a nice car stereo and/or killer earphones!! Great song!
DrMadnav 11 months ago 2
Just saw TLADILA last night. Haven't seen it since high school. As good today as it was then. Forgot the ending - shocker. DVD has alternate ending too!!! ;-) All wang chung songs throughout movie... and the 80's cars! Way cool! They all had their own distinct shapes! Miss them!!!
juliadennehy 11 months ago
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DglMaster2012 11 months ago
love to live and die in la. its a gem.
kqpm392 11 months ago
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love this film.
kqpm392 11 months ago
william friedkin is in the video. the director of the film.
kqpm392 11 months ago
@ForgetaboutFreeman I feel you, bro, but still: FUCK VEVO!!!
SwampThizzle 11 months ago
Fabulous movie ,plot twists galore..yeah...It stands the test of time well.
gatorbait51 11 months ago
@gatorbait51 This song is awesome and the soundtrack in general To Live And Die In LA is awesome, but the movie stinks. I am a huge Wilem Dafoe, Steve James, and Dean Stockwell fan and I can not sit through it. The plot is all illogical nonsense starting with SECRET service agents who run around telling EVERYBODY every 2 seconds that they are SECRET service. The movie goes for Miami Vice type stylishness, but does not have the Miami Vice type powerful writing to make the stylishness work.
MRobert21 11 months ago
@MRobert21 this Movie came out in 85 which means there were shooting in 84 the same year vice came out its unfair to compare this movie to a tv show and vice versa they both great
nitroelite 11 months ago
@nitroelite Miami Vice made its debut in September of 1984. To Live And Die In LA made its debut over a year later in November of 1985. Look it up on IMDB and learn something before you state false facts. To Live And Die In LA was trying to copy what Miami Vice had done on television. To Live And Die In LA failed because it got the music and slick look of Miami Vice copied right, but the characters and plot in this film are insipid, unlike Miami Vice. Now I am done with you on this video here.
MRobert21 11 months ago
@nitroelite exactly
tkeyes01 3 months ago
vevo suck a dick
thefriendsociety 1 year ago
Excellent song, incredible movie!
pthiefofhearts 1 year ago
I heard Cover Girl causes cancer in humans and whales. My birth mother's second cousin said so.
Denverbarndude 1 year ago
I love this song! BUT! OMG! this video is one of the worst I've ever seen!
12monkeys55555 1 year ago
Vevo suxxxx!!!!!!!!
plaztelino23 1 year ago
What the hell has happened to youtube?What is destined to happen to anything that is supposed to be by the people and for the people including government.Spread this..Copy and paste everywhere.
plaztelino23 1 year ago
Old cash has so much more character. The new bills look like Monopoly money.
juliadennehy 1 year ago
Fuckin good movie anyway
delmoniaco 1 year ago
A great song from one of my favorite 80's movies.
Cralle77 1 year ago
Big fan of this movie and this band...
thalliadruid 1 year ago
Cool video and great song from the 1980s.
CorreggiosMagdalena 1 year ago
2pac is way better
khalsa4life100 1 year ago
@khalsa4life100 thats why he died from gun shots and wang chung is still alive
CardShark989 1 year ago
I hate vevo like I hate soggy ceral....
Classic1911 1 year ago
at 2:32 it's aaron rodgers rofl
DacioDelToro 1 year ago
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down with makaveli and 2pac(musliums) and derivatives. The book is peaking mathew 21:21 and in look. Mountain is moving and the fig tree is being planted in the pacific"hence the 100 scientist that have predicted a storm 5 times stronger than the san andreas earthquake. Look and see if you can undo the evil."the holy roman empire" no reply please
the holy roman emperor
hear me 7.2 pakistan
Zenitorful 1 year ago
This is one the best 80's songs and video songs of the 80"s .Amazing !!!
shanis81 1 year ago
Wonder what ever happened to theses dudes?? From Dance hall days to Everybody Wang Chung tonight. I thought that they were on theyr'e way!!
1957thack 1 year ago
that isn,t John Lennon. This guy works for Atlantic records.
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CorreggiosMagdalena 1 year ago
Dafoe ftw.
TheMate01 1 year ago
@ForgetaboutFreeman if a guy who looked like Tupac was standing there he would've said the same thing it's just a joke. Take it easy man. RIP John Lennon.
VexBlack 1 year ago
They dont make movies like this anymore,nor does anyone make music like this anymore either,creativity seems to have just about run dry nowadays in the music business.
bru5520 1 year ago
wang chung is ok,he was better in men without hats
dopeke20 1 year ago
At 2:11 John Lennon makes a cameo appearence in the video :~)
Drinkman7 1 year ago
ALOT OF FAMOUS STARZ ON HERE that weren't then(1985)> I was only 10 when this song&moview came out it was pretty popular~
hyly34 1 year ago
happymike44 Manhunter was actually directed by Michael Mann of Miami Vice fame. To Live and Die in L.A. was directed by William Friedkin.
NewAgeYankee 1 year ago
Simply one of the best movies ever it was way ahead of it's time.
Same guy created this also filmed a movie call Manhunter.
Manhuter was the very first movie to introduce us to Hannibal The Cannibal Lector about five years before Silence of the Lambs.
These movies are simply some of the best movies filmed for the 80's and the 90's.
happymike44 1 year ago
@happymike44 Sorry, buddy. Manuhunter was directed by Michael Mann. If you watch the movie it has a very much a "Miami Vice" type of feel. Friedkin directed Live and Die in LA. I thought the movie was okay, the same actor who played Hannibal Lector in Manhunter also played Colonel Stryker in X2.
Angel3243 1 year ago
These guys are so sexy.
albets 1 year ago
nice leap off the Vincent-Thomas bridge in LA. running from San Pedro in the south LA harbor into Long Beach.
kindbud808 1 year ago
...i think the next time I get a dog I'll name him 'Edit' .. LOL
DoUWanna007 1 year ago
Great song from an underappreciated film.
FiendsInRedSatin1 1 year ago 2
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Agreed! Today that film holds up just fine.
It must have opened against some PoS date flick.
I don't think the distributors knew what to do with it.
Dafoe,Turturro,Stockwell,The Smokin' Hot Debra Feuer,Jane Leeves fahkrissake; Great cast in a great story,well told.
AND, The Baddest Car Chase Scene EVER----including the one in Bullitt.
Gmissile 1 year ago
@Gmissile Amen on all counts. I think that the biggest problem "To Live and Die in LA" had was that it was just too much ahead of its time.
FiendsInRedSatin1 1 year ago
@3:12 its David Lee Roth of today! Musta got in to Doc Browns Delorian.Wanted to be in a 80's video one last time!
stucat06 1 year ago
my first exposure to wang chung and william petersen...and my most favorite video from them!
cocoabakerchica 1 year ago
Great Movie. notice a young Grissom from CSI?
stucat06 1 year ago
@stucat06
William Peterson had an even better role in Manhunter the next year (1986). Manhunter was actually the first of the Hannibal Lecter movies. Red Dragon was the remake.
pinz2022 1 year ago
@pinz2022 Manhunter is an amazing movie, far superior than the remake. As a fan of Thomas Harris' books, I have always felt that Brian Cox' Hannibal Lecter in Manhunter was much better than Anthony Hopkins' version. Especially if you have read Red Dragon.
tgear77 1 year ago
@tgear77
I'm with ya'. Brian Cox portrayed Hannibal as less over-the-top theatrical. Hopkins chewed the scenery. I believe Harris wrote the character as a Southern gentleman but both Cox and Hopkins used their native Scottish and Welsh accents respectively.
pinz2022 1 year ago
@pinz2022 I don't know if you read the book, but Will Peterson's character only figures out that Lecter is the killer by looking at the books on his shelves and realizing, with his 'gift', that the killer would read the same type of books. Lecter had been interviewed repeatedly and passed every time because he seemed normal. Cox played it that way; Hopkins played him as a psycho. How could you not think he was a serial killer?
tgear77 1 year ago
@pinz2022 Thanks Ill look for that.I wonder if its on DVD? Love the 80's action flicks.
stucat06 1 year ago
@stucat06
I'm pretty sure you can get it on Netflix. It's a classic. The young William Dafoe did some great villains back in the day (don't forget his biker-gang leader Raven Shaddock in the 1984 fantasy: Streets of Fire--with a teenage Diane Lane as the sultry good-girl rocker he kidnaps).
I have to admit, I really didn't like To Live and Die in LA all that much when it came out--even the hero was a lowlife and the plot was just too much.
I'd kill for the iconic movie poster though.
pinz2022 1 year ago
@pinz2022 I have the dvd of Streets of Fire and the album soundtrack.
stucat06 1 year ago
@stucat06
Apropos of "Streets of Fire". Punch it up here on YouTube. I still have the soundtrack on LP. It has some great songs on it (although Diane Lane didn't actually sing them).
pinz2022 1 year ago
@pinz2022 Another fave we have in common. I loved "Streets of Fire" (but then I would crawl on broken glass to see Diane Lane in tight skirts and stockings...). Michael Pare is not much of an actor, but that part was made for him. And Defoe does a great sociopath in that one. Walter Hill, the director, always said it was one of his favorite films to make and you can tell by watching it.
tgear77 1 year ago
just saw WC in the Norwalk...I seriously went back in time...loved it!! Please come back!!! ure da bomb! also bought their CD, autographed! Thanks gentlemen! IT
OperaRisque 1 year ago
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OperaRisque 1 year ago
0:55 I am a Marytr. Death to all infidels of Islam...Allahu Akbar!!! BOOM!!!
Hot80s 1 year ago
@Hot80s you degraded traumatised subhuman wifebeating non-white savage scum. You fucking plague of the earth.
MrCreativeperson 1 year ago
@MrCreativeperson lol, relax douchebag. that's what the bomb-straped guy says in the actual movie in 1985.
Hot80s 1 year ago
@Hot80s looool (yeah ive seen the movie many times), still though dont be a dickhead posting shit like that :-)
MrCreativeperson 1 year ago
William Petersen....SO HOT!!!!!!
PhantomDrums917 1 year ago
the only good video in this segment is that of the movie itself. the rest blows. so in other words, just watch the movie.
Bradaighbunch 1 year ago
vodude
Unfortunately Lennon was killed in 1980, this song was from 1985.
I am sure he would have been a fan, though.
Pretty scary likeness, though
aztwam 1 year ago
an 80's favorite...great song and film...messed up ending...real plot twist....rent it or buy it
vrc1008 1 year ago
I love to listen to this song when i'm doing manual labour, this song has real balls you can really get into the beat.
Justdisco 1 year ago
A good movie with a decent soundtrack. and a passable car chase scene as well.This song in particular is a great one.
Petersen and Dafoe are amazing.
7773thanos 1 year ago
Anyone else surprised to see John Lennon make a guest appearance in this video? (0:01-0:06). Must've been a big fan of Wang Chung. LOL
vodude 1 year ago 21
@vodude
uuuummm..J/K right?
That's Rick Rubin the producer.....
crazedchef5169 1 year ago
@vodude
Dude John Lennon died in 1980 that was not john Lennon the song and the video were written in approx 1986 or 1987.
But he was deceased for quite a few years bfore this song and video were completed.
Wang Chung wrote it for a move called To Live and Die in L.A. one of my favorite movies ever.
happymike44 1 year ago
@happymike44 Haha. Yeah I actaully knew that John had died long before this video was made. I was just being a smartass. But thank's anyway. Btw, this movie & song came out in 1985. You were probably thinking of their album "Mosaic" which came out in 1986.
vodude 1 year ago