There were rumours these two were going to be in a remake of Guys and Dolls. I'm glad they're doing an original work instead.

Oh, bravo.

Upvoted mostly for Cheestendo.

"It's certainty that America responds to, not fact." - Stephen Colbert, explaining truthiness.

Mean Girls was 2004, but yes. I like it a lot, but immediately pegged it as "watered-down 'Heathers'" when I saw it.

Well, that's a fair point, for sure.

Seasons. It's my favourite song on that soundtrack now too. (I don't like the Westerberg songs anymore, though I did when the movie came out.)

I was born in '74 and definitely identify with most of the stereotypes about Gen-Xers, even though, as pointed out below, when the book was published in '91 it was talking about people older than me.

True, but it's a movie about Boomers, still. "The bums lost!" is yuppie v. hippie. Walter sees everything through the prism of the Boomer war; Desert Storm doesn't have a big effect on the characters and wouldn't wind up leaving the same mark on Gen-Xers that Vietnam had on their parents. It's #3 on my desert island…

Also interesting how scary Manhattan still seems in those early seasons. You don't exactly expect DeNiro to pop out of a bodega acting insane or anything, but it definitely feels more menacing than the post-"Broken Windows," Disneyfied era.

Once again, Heathers gets no respect.

Pre-millennial tension. The world was going to end in 2000, whether through the apocalypse, alien invasion, or some other force. Now of course, you can find a million Fox Mulders on Facebook.

Not even a little, IMO, although it's been ages since I saw either of them.

Sure, but I think part of the 90s obsession with it was that same anti-Boomer reaction that's discussed elsewhere on this page. The Peace 'n' Love generation sold out and became gross consumers, so Gen-X wasn't going to do that, maaaaan.

Yeah, there's a reason the term McJob was coined for the Gen-Xers.

Nah, I liked it at the time. I don't think I need to revisit it though.

Ditto. I always thought that the only people who needed to have them were travelling salesmen and drug dealers. (Which may be a redundancy, now that I think of it.) I also eventually got one for work, and while I'm not glued to it the way some people are, I sure get frustrated when I'm supposed to meet my parents,…

Despite its 1988 release and the shoulder pads and sprayed bangs, I think Heathers doesn't get enough credit for being a major shift from the Porky's-style 80s teen comedy to the darker 90s stuff embodied in Pump Up The Volume, for example. Even as compared to John Hughes's films, which certainly took their…

The 50s were boring, the 60s rocked, the 70s - my god, they obviously suck. Maybe the 80s will be, like, radical.

They do share the 70s nostalgia that was just overtaking the 60s nostalgia at the time at least. (See also: Boys, Beastie; Dazed and Confused.) But otherwise, agreed.