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1* AngstWhatAngst: After Otto loses his girlfriend to his best friend, he's angstless when he runs into them at a punk club.
2* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Essentially ''L.A. Punk: The Soundtrack/Greatest Hits'' album you need to own. Now.
3%%Zero Context Example* CultClassic
4* HilariousInHindsight: A punk at a party wears a Music/SidVicious t-shirt. Alex Cox's next film was ''Film/SidAndNancy''.
5* SpecialEffectFailure: At the start of the scene where Otto vomits over the side of the bridge, Creator/EmilioEstevez ''clearly'' has something in his mouth.
6* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
7** Nuclear paranoia was much more relevant during the Cold War than it is now.
8** The 1980s punk scene is a large presence in the film.
9** The generic product labels date it to the early 80s, when they were ubiquitous in supermarkets, before stores dumped them in favor of putting off-brand products into "store brand" packaging that looked more like their name brand counterparts.
10** Downtown L.A. become ''much less'' of a shithole in the years that followed, so the trash-strewn esthetic looks more like clever set design than it actually was.
11* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: On the other hand, [[spoiler:the car's sickly green glow]] is perfectly realized.

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