August 1981

'80s All Over

Scott Weinberg and Drew McWeeny

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.6 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2017

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Not one, but two comedies about the homeless or the mentally ill this week, because in Reagan's America, who didn't find an unbalanced street person delightful? Scott and Drew try to figure out how films like CHU CHU AND THE PHILLY FLASH and HONKY TONK FREEWAY got made, they talk about the lack of charisma that is Chuck Norris, they discuss the weird and often upsetting sexual mores of early '80s comedies, and they debate the relative merits of STUDENT BODIES. We've got early films from Australian icons John Duigan and Peter Weir, we've got Kathleen Turner's movie debut, we've got conservatives and liberals debating on the Supreme Court, and we've got one of the biggest animation experiments of the decade. Stick to the roads and stay off the moors, lads... it's August of 1981.

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0:00.0	There are 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
0:22.0	to take a couple some ones who were there for it the first time around. Drew McQueenie
0:26.2	and Scott Weinberg are ready to review every major film of the decade one month at a time.
0:31.9	The look at what worked then, what endures now, and how it felt to be there when it all went
0:36.9	down.
0:39.4	Turn back the calendar with us.
1:18.6	It's the 80s all over. Thank you. I'm going to Video killed the radio star.
1:31.1	Video killed the radio star when MTV went live at 12.01 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,
1:37.2	and Ronald Reagan threatened to fire them if they didn't get back to work immediately. Three days later,
1:41.5	that's exactly what he did. The Walton said goodbye to john boy for the last time
1:45.4	and in court john hinkley begged for mercy and pled innocent to shooting ronald regan while mark
1:50.0	david chapman was sentenced to 20 years to life for killing john lennon that's all stuff that happened
1:55.1	in august of 1981 and we still found time to see movies scott how are you you today? Hi, Drew. Welcome to August of 1981,
2:04.2	month of lots of crazy stuff, some really great stuff, some really forgotten, obscure, weird stuff.
2:11.1	This next run of months here gets really weird. I, you know, a lot of times now when you look at
2:16.0	summer, and I consider August,
2:17.7	like part of the summer lineup now, it feels like they think about it and they try to like
2:21.8	schedule August that. You look back at the 80s and that is not the case. It looks like they just
2:26.7	randomly, whatever was ready, they just shoved out. A month like August really taps into the whole
2:31.6	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. Oh, 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? Yeah. I think, I think there's there's quite a few of those. If you love 80s all over, then please support us via our Patreon page. That's
2:51.8	www. patreon.com backslash 80s all over. Thank you to everybody who has supported the
2:58.4	Patreon, Patreon, who has tweeted about the show, who has retweeted us every time we ask
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