3. Friends Forever In Woo-Sang Park's Miami Connection
Gloriously cheesy 80s B-movie Miami Connection has a lot going for it: ninjas, biker gangs, big 80s hair, a synth-rock band named Dragon Sound, and the extra material from the cut off sleeves in the movie were enough to clothe the entire city of Miami for a year. Miami Connection opens with ninjas attacking people who appear to be trafficking cocaine. Why are they doing this? Will this be brought up later in the movie? Of course not. The protagonists of the movie are the members of Dragon Sound, and a few of their songs get played at a club that is apparently a lucrative enough set to kill for. Their song Friends plays after the opening credits, and boy is it a classic. The chorus of the song of an intentionally forgotten generation goes as follows: "Friends for eternity loyalty and honesty we stay together through thick or thin, friends forever we'll be together, we're on top because we play to win." It should be pointed out that this early in the movie there is no way to tell that the movie is going to be about Dragon Sound. Other than their jammin' tunes, we don't know anything about the band, other than that one of the bad guys is the brother of the girl on stage. But, and I know that I may be pushing it here, this scene is perfectly emblematic of the rest of the movie. Everything in Miami Connection is either a bloody fight between TaeKwonDo masters (Dragon Sound are also going to be a touring martial arts team, if you didn't know) or an overblown and occasionally embarrassing celebration. Miami Connection is a movie that must be seen to be believed, and then seen again to be believed even harder. But, as the title cards say before the credits, the only way to achieve world peace is by the end of violence. And Dragon Sound. Mostly Dragon Sound.