Were you a rich teen in LA in the 80s?
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WileyDairyGnome — 13 years ago(July 19, 2012 11:19 PM)
Is it sad that life is kind of like that now in LA? Within in some circles, obviously not all teenagers are living that kind of life butyeah I'd say that this film is pretty damn accurate.
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SCY385-1 — 12 years ago(June 25, 2013 01:27 PM)
I didn't live in L.A. But I can tell you that the big 80's is pretty accurately portrayed in the film. It was a very decadent period of time. The rich were rich and they lived like it. The parenting was not that great because mom was out there earning money just like dad was. To compensate they would buy expensive gifts for the kids which is why so many of us had it so good so to speak. It was a crazy decade. But by 1988 the party was over and we all knew it. AIDS, drugs, stock market crashes, Reagan leaving the White House, crack cocaine, and just plain reality had set in. The bill for all of it came in and we're still paying for it to this day.
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ChrisCuda — 12 years ago(July 05, 2013 01:48 AM)
I graduated in '85 & lived in a rich neighborhood on the west coast (not LA). Yes, the movie is accuratetons of parties, booze-pot-coke. You have to realize that cocaine was very expensive, so it was more a once-in-a-while, recreational drug. In my opinion, the hard drugs were in the '70's, & were being consumed by everyday kids. Back then, kids were smoking angel dust, popping pills like crazy and dropping acideven shooting heroin. None of that was going on in my circles, the 80's vibe was all about fun. It was mostly drinking & hitting all the hip clubs to hang with friends.
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olliemankz — 12 years ago(March 22, 2014 08:25 PM)
I went out to LA to visit a friend in about '83-'84 and I have to say I was shocked. Most things were pretty normal except a little bit on the snooty side but young people seemed to be wrestling with the bisexuality thing.
The friend with whom I stayed was gay and he had a young male friend who was being gay and at times straight, too; he was a doll but intense and didn't connect with me. (He was about 10 years younger than us, I believe.) I felt he didn't really want to be gay but didn't know what he was doing.
I think he told us that he had female friends who were hooking up. It seemed to be the cool thing to do for everyone to have sex with any of their friends. Of course, these were not necessarily wealthy kids. I liked what one guy said about a "homo-aristo" eroticism going on. That has probably always been there.
However, I felt there was more confusion in what was happening than being avante garde. It seemed to me the kids didn't have anyone to say, "No, you don't do that." I mean, it's not like you can keep a kid from doing what he or she wants to do. But I felt they lacked guidance. It was kind of a breath of fresh air to return to a state in which that kind of thing, if it were happening, was not really out in the open. And probably really wasn't happening. -
cathy-creswell — 11 years ago(June 24, 2014 05:11 PM)
No, I was an average lower middle class girl, post college, my own place, my own car, living in Long Beach, CA. Close enuf to LA to matter for clubbing, cpncerts and music, but far enough away to be safe.
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campbelljon2011-823-278321 — 9 years ago(August 11, 2016 09:43 PM)
Generally, rich kids are very similar no matter where they live. Yes, the movie accurately portrayed the rich kid cliques and the behaviors they engage in. I am thankful I grew up in the 80s. The music, the clothes, the hair, the dreams, the cultureAmerica was still great. it was a great time to be alive.
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dl4060 — 9 years ago(September 17, 2016 11:08 AM)
I went to an elite boarding school in the northeast. It was a school where lots of kids had extreme levels of money, every bit as much as Beverly Hills. The behaviors this movie shows are completely inconsistent with the ones I saw.
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Druffmaul — 9 years ago(August 12, 2016 09:34 AM)
I was a middle class teen living in Orange County CA, Fullerton to be exact. I turned 18 and graduated high school the year LTZ released. I was a punk, same as most of my friends. Life entailed:
Booze, pot, cigarettes everywhere. LSD was pretty common. Meth was less common. Coke was rare, but we got some once in a while.
Tons of parties. Big parties virtually every weekend, Fri and Sat. We just didn't have huge banks of TV screens showing weird videos.
Actually not a ton of promiscuity that I was aware of. There were a few guys who got lots of chicks, and there were a few chicks who slept around a lot. But most of us just paired off with someone and "went steady" with them for long stretches of time. We were all getting laid, just not promiscuously with different partners.
VWs, Hondas, Toyotas, Nissans for the kids. Usually used.
Parents were usually around somewhere but they tended to let us be unless we really effed up somehow.
Most of us weren't jaded at all.
