There are a few decades in film history that have been as scrutinized as the 1980s, but to really understand the decade and its movies, it's going to take a couple of someone's who were there for it the first time around.

Drew McLean and Scott Weinberg are ready to review every major film of the decade, one month at a time. The look at what worked then, what endoers now, and how it felt to be there when it all went down. Turn back to calendar with us. It's the 80s all over. I'm gonna have to go back to the hotel.

I'm gonna have to go back to the hotel.

I'm gonna have to go back to the hotel. It's the 80s all over. Video killed the radio star when MTV went live at 12 o 1 a.m. on August 1st and it's impossible to overstate the crater-sized impact that had on pop culture. 13,000 air traffic controllers walked out and Ronald Reagan threatened to fire them if they didn't get back to work immediately. Three days later, that's exactly what he did. The Walton said goodbye to John Boy for the last time in court. John Hinkley begged for mercy and played innocent to shooting Ronald Reagan, while Mark David Chapman was sentenced to 20 years to life for killing John Lennon. That's all stuff that happened in August of 1981 and we still found time to see movies. Scott, how are you today? Hi Drew, welcome to August of 1981. Month of lots of crazy stuff. Some really great stuff, some really forgotten, obscure, weird stuff. This next run of months here, it's really weird. I, you know, a lot of times now when you look at summer and I consider August like part of the summer lineup now, it feels like they think about it and they try to like schedule August. You look back at the 80s and that is not the case. It looks like they just randomly whatever was ready they just shoved out. A month like August really taps into the whole idea of what the podcast is about I think in that you know when we get to the big movies this month everyone will go I love that one I've seen that one but then there's also a handful of oh I've heard of that or what the hell is that you know I think I think I think there's quite a few of those. I mean, if you love 80s all over, then please support us via our Patreon page. That's www.patrion.com backslash80s all over. Thank you to everybody who has supported the Patreon, Patreon, who has tweeted about the show, who has retweeted us every time we ask you to watch a movie, drew, how often do we get tweets about used cars and dead and buried? Oh, it's great. And I hope that there will be plenty of more of those. I think there's one this month that I'm really excited about that. I think people are going to discover and devour. It's like a giant movie. So it really is like the biggest compliment. the thanks of course goes to the filmmakers. But as messengers, we are very grateful that we're able to like, you know, steer people in the direction of some stuff that they really like. That means a lot to us. So we appreciate all your comments, iTunes reviews and tweets and Facebook posts. So it keeps spreading the word for 80s all over as we dive into one weird month.

Now I wanna try an experiment with the beginning of this

because there is a group of movies

that we're gonna talk about at the beginning here

that are just bonkers.

And I-

Bonkers copyright how to just get made in 2000.

Okay, yeah, I think Jason owns bonkers in my Nana's.

So like-

But they between June and Jason Jason they make bonkers funny I'd never reading bonkers not that funny hearing bonkers funny So for this one I want to be a studio executive in Scott I want you to pitch me the first movie for the week and don't don't give me the title just pitch it like you would try and sell it in the room Uh, hey mr. McQueenie. Thanks for, uh, thanks for meeting with me. Sure.

I'm a screenwriter from Brooklyn apparently and, uh,

Pfft.

I would like to, uh, pitch you on this idea I have.

It sounds great. Let's go.

Carol Burnett.

I love her.

And Alan Arkin.

Love him.

They're homeless people.

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