30th Anniversary Of Fast Times At Ridgemont High

Pretty important movie for my generation and I find myself still quoting lines from the film.

Our Casablanca or Gone With The Wind.

But it does make me feel old that it has been 30 years.

I can't believe you would even compare it to Casablanca or Gone With The Wind.

1982? Bladerunner came out that year. So did Ghandi, Sophies Choice, E.T. and Tootsie.

All those movies are inferior to Fast Times.
Ghandi? How racist to cast an Englishman in face paint to play the man who liberated a nation.
Sophie's Choice? Please, more maudlin?
E.T., most overrated movie ever.
Tootsie, overrated too. We can only learn about sexism when it happens to a man playing a woman?

Show me one list from that year that puts Fast Times as the top movie...it was fluff.

Raees wrote: Show me one list from that year that puts Fast Times as the top movie...it was fluff.

Fluff?!?!? You're way off base here.

Fast Times was a vehicle for a considerable number of very successful actors and actresses. It embodied the times, it captured the culture, and it provides an important snapshot of a generation.

Fluff? I don't think so.

It was the epic representation of the times- I must have watched it a dozen times as a kid.

It resonated with my generation and for me. Even though we had moved to Colorado- the movie reminded me so much of southern California.

It was far more important than many give the movie credit for- but of course if you were not the same age at the same time- you wouldn't understand.
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What's your secret sauce?

At least 2 Oscar winners got their start in that film, including Nicolas Cage & Forrest Whitacker. And others went on to become critically acclaimed like Jennifer Jason Leigh.

That's true. That fact doesn't make the movie Casablanca or Gone With The Wind.

For our generation it was a classic.