The real deal

stevenposey

Dr. Jolly from Kansas State University completely missed the point. This movie did NOT try to recreate the 80's teen movie.

Get your facts straight, Jolly. This is almost exactly what pirate radio was like in the late 80s/early 90s. I KNOW. I was a DJ during that time. And you have no idea what schools tried to get away with back then. Ask anyone who was in high school in the 1984-1990 time frame. This movie was dead-on with the kind of crap that was going on.

Don't try to impress us with the "I'm an actual disc jockey" crap. If you don't know your own history, then don't try to comment on something you obviously know nothing about. Not only was it "remotely possible," pirate radio was very real (although not always on the short-wave bands, as another review mentioned). If you never heard it, then you have no basis for an opinion on it. If you could jump into the Wayback Machine and travel back to the 1984-1990 time frame, you'd be able to listen to the AM and FM pirate stations of the time. Maybe then you'd understand what it was like growing up then.

To all you punks who weren't alive when this movie came out -- you have no freaking clue what angst means. Slater personifies it. End of story. Until you "get it," you'll never understand this movie.

score 10/10

stevenposey 3 September 2005

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw1164445/