Even though I wasn’t old enough to form memories in the 1980s, I am now able to appreciate the not-so-subtle beauties of that lost era — mostly through campy ’80s flicks, like the Bret Easton Ellis adaptation, Less Than Zero, starring Robert Downey Jr. in his very early drug-addict days. Something about shoulder pads on men and women, mixed with a plethora of decorative TV monitors playing music videos, epitomizes the word “bitch’n!”

The film is known for being a bust and a botched representation of the original novel. But I enjoyed the vision of 19-year-old rich L.A. kids bumming around the city at Christmastime feeling as lost and deranged as kids feel these days knowing that there is no economic boom. I guess some things never change, no matter the state of the financial market.

- Haley Hogan

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