Everyone has a bad movie they love, a guilty pleasure that most other folks might scoff at. One of my favorites is a rock and roll fable. Another time... another place. Guessed yet?
"Tonight is what it means to be young". Still clueless? Not alot of people watched it either. In fact it was set up as a trilogy of pictures featuring our hero Tom Cody but poor box office nixed the idea.
Hopefully the name helped out. Michael Pare' stars as Tom Cody, a poor man's James Remar (Ajax in The Warriors) only prettier. Future Oscar nominee Diane Lane also appears, as well as Bill Paxton, and Willem Dafoe in Walter Hill's Streets of Fire. Walter has made some good pics as director or writer, like The Long Riders, 48 hours, The Warriors, Aliens (story), Southern Comfort, The Getaway, and Hard Times (Bronson-Colburn).
Anywho, it is chock full of stuff a man likes, damsels in distress, our failed samurai hero, (Kurt Russell would have been better) hot chicks, cheesy soundtrack, punching and breaking things, Rick Moranis, and what not.
In the film's climax, Raven, played by Willem Dafoe, wearing a rubber set of overalls, challenges Tom to a sledge hammer fight, stainless steel no less. Rubber Overalls! Sledgehammers! This film has everything.
You will only waste about an hour and a half of your life, that you will never get back again. But you will secretly love every minute of it.
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