At the Movies 1984-Streets of Fire, Once Upon a Time in America (2of2)

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• Gene Siskel
• Roger Ebert
• At the Movies

[MrDamian12345]

I really like Streets of Fire, it has a 19-year-old Diane Lane (yum), and Jim Steinman music; how could one not. And, of course, the long version of Once Upon a Time in America is a masterpiece.

[Neonman78]

Ugh, the short version of Once Upon a Time in America sounds so crap. Can't believe they made the narrative linear; the timeline transitions and contrasts of the long version was what made the movie so great.

And yet ... I'm still rather curious to see this short version, just to see how bad it is.

[marcha2510]

@AtorTheFlyingEagle He is only reviewing the short version (they both are), ignoring the longer one, only mentioning that it's much better. He even emphasized it. He also had a little rant later that year about OUATIA not being nominated for a single Oscar. If interested, go to siskelandebert org and search for "if we picked the oscars 1984" starts at around 9min 30sec (can't put on a proper link for some reason, so thats the best guidance I can give hehe)

[AtorTheFlyingEagle]

Weird. Siskel doesn't seem to care for either version of Once Upon a Time in America, yet he goes on to name it best film of 1984 later that year. I wonder what made him radically reassess it.

[treadman28]

@Neonman78 In the summer of 2002, AMC actually ran the 135 minute short version, the 225 minute long version and the 189 minute NBC-TV version of the film. I actually sat through all three because of my curiosity. The long version remains the ONLY one worth seeing. The short version is laughably hysterical in its' incomprehensible awfulness.

[tdv123456]

Streets Of Fire looks like a real 80's movie. Bad acting, lots of fighting & a heavy metal band.

[catherinefan32]

Once upon a time in america was amzing.