ITA! I don't think they'd have to change a thing! It's quite topical to today's youth who have so much going on in comparison to normal children playing sports, hanging out in the mall, and playing video games! Follow it up with the sequel since it's set today;
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Interesting analysis, but I cannot quite agree with it. I mean, clearly some young people today also have drug problems and broken families and debts and all the stuff we see in this movie. And just for the record, most young people of the eighties did not live like the ones in this movie, most did not do cocaine, etc. So there is no reason to believe that if the movie was remade today, it would somehow ring less true to young generation (assuming the events are brought into present time).

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i could see it going that way hollywood loves remakeing 1980s movies right now any way.
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It could be a period piece, 'Take me home tonight' was and that just came out

maybe if they remake it they can make it resemble the book just a little.

Y'know what? I'm 42, so do a little math, and I think you have a lot of great points. Let me clarify a coupla things though.

1. Being my age also has allowed me to see my friends and other people's kids (I never had my own. ) go through lots of stages through their lives.
2. Seems like ALL teenagers no matter what the decade have a distinct group that has this kind of problem.
3. The ones in the 80s looked spectacular while doing it, while the ones in the 90s just looked like bums. Funnily enough, that doesn' mean the ones in the 80s were
   better
   
   You're right, the drugs are different as we had cocaine & pot, and you have crystal meth and pot (I was never a user. Just sayin', and of course a humorous simplification.)
   I am a huge fan of the movie, and I JUST finished the book an hour ago. Took me just a few days to read it. And I agree with you in that the story will always take place in the MID eighties and in Los Angeles. This would be totally different say, in the early nineties here in Seattle!
   Keep in mind though, that we Gen X-ers were all very different from one-another and really don't fit into a stereotype. I was
   that
   age, during that age, and the diversity was astounding. I thought young people back then seemed a LOT more diverse than the ones in the '70s, but hey, that's jut my opinion!
   Anyway, interesting post.
   "Have a good time. ALL the time. That's my philosophy Marty"