let talk about polarization here a minute . this be one of those you either love it or hate it . i do not believe that there be too many in the middle . it a tough spot to be in and when you be not a teen and to successfully understand the current teen craze and fad and let alone the mindset . so it trouble enough try to capture this successfully when you be a big hollywood mucky muck like altman . there be nothing wrong with write a teenage comedy or drama a an old writer and only thing that you will probably experience be the oldisms in that writer speech . old phrase and idea about life and other stuff . some will say and yeah and but teen be pretty universal . but and the generation change due to many thing . there be however cameron crow that set the high school genre on it ear with with the create of fast time at ridgemont high which for me grow up back then be straight between the eye . he hit it dead on and no doubt . teenaged angst and the thought line and logic that they use and etc . in o. c. and stiggs this carry a cast of great personality from the past . a few of them and be go now and but that be one of the reason that i love this now but not when i saw it then . how strange and but funny . it just do it job over time and grow on me . these two be some what organize in their life and pursue t and but bore with some thing and upset at others . the problem and idea for solution that they have be fun and and the arizona scenery to me and be nostalgic to see then all that have change from what be a simpler time to be alive . the eighty . enjoy this 1984 make and 1987 release cult classic . ( ) .