[StatesEnemy]

Ohh pulllease... it was a great movie, irrespective of the politics. Jeez... you'd think you could put your political idealism on the back burner for 2 hours.

[Huck]

Ohh pulllease... it was a great movie, irrespective of the politics. Jeez... you'd think you could put your political idealism on the back burner for 2 hours.

It's a terrible movie. Boring, maudlin, and morally creepy.

[SamAdams76]

As one who saw the movie in 1983 in the theater (when I was barely 21 years old), let me say that the movie was truly awful. And it had nothing to do with the "politics" as I was basically politically neutral at the time. That 1960s "idealism" that the Baby Boomer's were so proud of always rang hollow for me. It was basically all about sleeping with each other, smoking a lot of pot and listening to a lot of rock albums. As the Baby Boomer's aged, it all basically all about acquiring material satisfaction.

Nothing but the best would do for these Boomers. Couldn't have regular eggs from the supermarket. No! Has to be "cage free" organic eggs from someplace like Vermont. Forget the $1.99 block of cheddar, they had to have the $6 a pound goat's milk cheese from Trader Joe's (that went bad three days after you got it home but that's okay because it sat in the refrigerator for seven weeks so that all the guests would know that you had "taste").

Furniture had to be from Crate & Barrel or some other obnoxiously expensive "Yankee" or "European" styled place. Couldn't just go to the barber for a $7 haircut, had to spend at least $30 at a "unisex salon." Automobile had to have a trendy European name like Volvo or Audi or BMW. If you were stuck with a "pedestrian" American automobile, why you had to at least get that European-style license plate for the front and sport a bumper sticker that said something with "Oui" in it or "Citroen" or something equally as pretentious.

The whole Baby Boomer "yuppie" lifestyle of the 1980s really creeped me out. And this movie helped to set it all in motion.

The music from the movie was generally lame too. I still can't hear "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" or "Whiter Shade Of Pale" without thinking of that awful movie. In fact, most of the 1960s music was over-rated. Give me 1970s or 1980s rock anyday.