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Summary: The Best of Old Skool
Review: This movie is my youth. My life revolved around breaking and battling. I was a crew manager and when this movie was released we took a field trip to the show to see this outstanding movie. This movie is real and true to the game. With the real New York City Breakers. Their moves were inspiring to my crew. I owned the movie once but lent it to someone and it was never returned. I only wish the price wasn't so high. Yea, sure it's a classic but wow. Anyway I recommend this flick to everyone who ever has or wanted to break. Two thumbs up. The music is this movie is outstanding and brings back sooo many memories. Ah! to be young again.
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Summary: Origins of Rap
Review: If you want to know more about some of the founders
of rap and early rap culture you should see Beat Street.
This video features artists such as Doug E. Fresh, Grand
Master Flash, Melle Mel and Afrika Bumbatta, all of which
were important in the development of rap music and culture.
Beat Street also features the New York City Breakers and
their rivals The Rock Steady Crew, both of which were important
in the development and promotion of "break dancing".
If you are looking for a great plot or super acting you will
probably only find it an average video, but this is a must see
for anyone interested how rap music and culture originated.
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Summary: fan - bloody -tasic !
Review: Dam what can i say that hasn't been said already ??
This film took me back way back, & yet it has stayed so true !
what a classic, I was so excited when i found that it had been re-realsed on DVD i bought it stright away, God only knows how many times i have watched it. ... & as for the Breakin' what breakin'? Beat Street was & is the only hip hop film with any true Breakers like NY city breakers & the fantasic Rock Steady Crew ! ( Crazy Legs !). I think, ( & many would agree !)the best parts was at the Roxy, & the battle between the NY city Breakers & the RSC! also the battle in the underground, I just wish they would have let it run just that little bit longer before the cops came flooding in!
Man this film took me back, & for anyone that hasn't seen it, you haven't lived !!!! see it !
Peace
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Summary: Beat Street is a great b'boy hip-hop movie.
Review: I watched the film Beat Street for the first time last night, a friend recommended it to me. He was into breakdance or breakin' as it was known in the States when he was younger.
I was very impressed by the music and thought I'd like to see the film as it contains some stunning dance sequences by the best breakers and some top tunes.WOW! This film is a classic from an era that has long been lost. I thought it was fascinating to watch and an entertaining film. The music, the dance, the graffiti, the clothes, the majortiy of things about this movie are now lost.
From the dance routines to the beautiful graffiti art work this movie is truly representative of the Hip-Hop culture. This film does actually contain a decent enough plot (about a couple of talented inner-city kids trying to break out of the cycle of poverty through performance), with the many dance sequences and tunes played over it to perfection and features many old school crews like the NYC Breakers and The Rock Steady Crew. This movie shows how life was in New York during the rise of the hip-hop era. It shows all the elements of hip-hop, the Breakdancing (b'boying), Graffiti (bombing), Rapping (MC'ing) and Dj'ing (scratching).
There are few movies that were made portraying breakdancing and hip-hop, and the talent and the art behind it has pretty much been lost today, but hopefully not forgotten. Thanks to films like Beat Street we can re-visit that time simply by popping in the video or DVD.
It's like zipping back in a time capsule to the 80's.
If you were into breakin' and hip-hop add another star! :o)
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Summary: THE BEST MOVIE OF THAT TIME
Review: I WOULD HAVE TO SAY I AM A GIRL WHO GREW UP IN THE SURBURBS OF LONG ISLAND AND ON THE WEEKENDS MY BOYFRIEND AND HIS CREW, WOULD GO TO THE ROXY ON THE WEEKEND IF WE COULD GET A CONNECTION TO GET IN OR VISIT FRIENDS IN THE BRONX , BROOKLYN AND LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING THIS MOVIE TELLS IT LIKE IT WAS .. WOULDNT LIFE BE SO SIMPLE NOW A DAYS IF WE COULD GO BACK TO THE TIMES WHEN ALL THE KIDS DID WAS BATTLE BY DANCING .. BREAKDANCING THAT IS .. ALL I CAN SAY IS MAN DO I MISS THOSE TIMES . WEARING THE ADIDAS SNEAKERS WITH FAT LACES, COLORED LEE JEANS KANGO HATS BELTS WITH OUR CREW NAME ON IT.. NAME PLATES AROUND THE NECK THAT WERE SO BIG. MAN WE WERE INNOCENT THEN .. ITS SUCH A SHAME WHAT SOCIETY HAS MADE THE WORLD TURN INTO.. ONE OF THE MOST MEMORABLE PARTS OF THIS MOVIE IS WHEN LEE'S MOM TELLS THE OFFICER THAT THERE WERE WORSE THINGS THE KIDS COULD BE DOING THEN JUST DANCING.. I HAVE TO SAY ITS THE TRUTH TAKE A LOOK AT TODAYS WORLD ..KIDS ARE DOING ALOT WORSE NOW AND YOU KNOW WHY .. CAUSE THE WORLD TOLD US BACK THEN THAT WHAT WE WERE DOING WAS NO GOOD AND WRONG.. MAN I BET MOST PEOPLE TODAY WISH IT COULD BE THAT KIDS WERE JUST OUT DANCING ..WELL I HOPE THEY PUT THIS MOVIE OUT ON DVD I LOVED IT AND WOULD LOVE TO ADD IT TO MY COLLECTION.
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Summary: Beat Street
Review: Now there are breakin films and then there are the mother of all breakin films and this is it.
Beat street was as close as it got for breakers in the 80's unlike its bad compertition "Breakdance The Movie".
With real breakers like the "New york city breakers" and the famous "Rocksteady Crew" heading the list of breakin crews, the dancing was out of this world.
When I first saw beat street I was already a true B-Boy and thought I'd seen and practised all the moves until I clapped my eyes on a no handed windmill. I totally freaked add practised until I got it off to a tee.
To me and many others beat street is the best breakdancin film ever made to this day.
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Summary: beat street
Review: a classic.goose bumps is what you get when you watch this movie for me its flashbacks of when i was growing up & breakin you wont understand unless you grew up in the breakdance era.
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Summary: Not for gangsta rappers!
Review: No gangsta c-rap, no parental advisory, no violence, no g-rap elements, no swearing... back in the 80's, things were better than nowadays things. it's pure old-school and 80's. No matter what year it came out. it's still ,fresh, groovy and electrifying. I feel sad bout Ice-T who acted on this film, unfortunately in the 90's he's been a notorious gangsta-rapper. I also recommend Wild Style ,Style Wars, Rappin, Breakin1-2...
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Summary: STREET DREAMS
Review: After Charlie Ahearn's 1983 cult classic, Wild Style or 1984's Hip Hop masterpiece, Style Wars, (to date the most accurate portrayal of Hip Hop culture) there wasn't much ground left to cover in Hip Hop. But that would definitely change if Hollywood's "culture vultures" had anything to say about it. Smelling the sweet aroma of urban dollars, eager to cash-in Hollywood exec's with the help of Harry Belafonte, (go figure) embarked on their foray into Hip Hop film. Enter, Beat Street. An honest, but diluted view into an urban culture as rich in spirit and talent as the ghetto children who conceived it some 30-years ago. Unlike Wild Style or Style Wars which used authentic Hip Hop pioneers to convey it's message, Beat Street uses B-list actors and a mediocre storyline to try and win. Beat Street takes place in NY's smoked-out South Bronx around 1983. For those who didn't know, the President actually declared the South Bronx a national disaster area during the early 80's. The story deals with a group of talented young men who try and transcend their ghetto surroundings via music, art and dance. Rae Dawn Chong, daughter of pot pioneer Tommy Chong plays Tracy, a young Manhattan dance teacher who falls for a street DJ named Kenny played by Guy Davis. The rest of the crew consists of Lee - Kenny's younger brother and b-boy fanatic; Ramo - the local graffiti artist trying to embrace manhood and Charlie - Kenny's sidekick/resident hustler. A sub-plot is developed around a seedy graffiti vandal named Spit, who for no reason, prowls the subways destroying Ramo's ghetto Picassos. Subsequently, an "electrifying" face-off ensues when Spit is caught red-handed (no pun intended) doin' his dirty work. For the most part, Belafonte's Hip Hop coming-of-age story is acceptable. If not for the help of genuine Hip Hop pioneers like The Rocksteady Crew, The NYC Breakers, The Treacherous 3, Dougie Fresh and Kool Herc; Beat Street would've been a dead end street. The dope B-boy scenes and some of the MC scenes help to keep the movie afloat. Viewers even get an early glimpse of Latina Freestyle and Salsa star Brenda Star in the Roxy audition scene. The film's climatic jam for a fallen friend is pretty fly, although I can't figure out why Kenny is lip syncing rapper Melle Mel's lyrics. The DVD version seems to have been rushed as it has "wack" cover art and contains no internal artwork as well. The disk itself bears no image and you can forget about any extras! As classic as this movie might be to some, the DVD version is proof positive that Hip Hop is "still" Hollywood's bastard child. --James "Koe" Rodriguez.
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Summary: Hip Hop Roots
Review: Watch this movie to get an understanding of hip hop, graffiti, and rap culture, esp. as it was defined in New York City. Look fast, and you'll see future rap superstar Ice-T acting as an MC during one sceen.
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