August 1983

'80s All Over

Scott Weinberg and Drew McWeeny

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.6 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2018

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

The dog days of summer were particularly cruel this year. I mean, sure, there's a pretty good dog film in the form of Cujo, but that's only one small part of a very rocky landscape. Can the Pink Panther series get even worse? Yep. Can the Smokey and the Bandit series get even worse than that? We're almost done with 3D, thank god, but it's got a few more scars to leave. Sword and sorcery junk, post-apocalyptic dreck, and a teen sex comedy that's a real... well, you know. There are highlights. George Lucas throws a buddy a bone and we get an animated gem as a result. Peter Hyams does some moralizing. Frank Frazetta and Ralph Bakshi get it on. Rodney Dangerfield has to stop getting it on if he wants to get rich. And Bob and Doug MacKenzie head to Elsinore Brewery for some Strange Brew. All this plus the Citizen Kane of teen comedies and Berlin Alexanderplatz? It must be August of 1983.

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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 to take a couple some ones
0:23.2	who were there for it the first time around.
0:25.7	Drew McQueenie and Scott Weinberg are ready to review every major film of the decade
0:30.5	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.
1:27.8	It's the 80s all over. The Joey Ramon the brat, beat on the brats with a baseball bat.
1:28.5	Oh, yeah.
1:30.0	Oh, yeah.
1:35.4	Joey Ramon, guitar gone and rock legend, had to undergo emergency brain surgery after being beat in a fight.
1:36.8	And in Texas, Hurricane Alicia killed 17 along the Houston-Gavelston coastline.
1:41.3	There were major upheavals around the world, as well as promising signs.
1:44.5	Monacom Began resigned as the Prime Minister of Israel. Haiti adopted a Constitution, and the U.S. and the USSR finally signed a $10 billion grain pact important in order to help keep that Cold War cold.
1:55.4	And finally, on the night of the 30th, the Space Shuttle Challenger was launched and aboard it, Gion Bluford, the first African-American
2:01.4	astronaut. And I'm pretty sure no matter how good the films are, that was the high point of August of
2:05.6	1983. Hi, everybody. My name is Drew McQueenie and welcome to 80s all over. I'm joined, as always,
2:10.3	my co-host, Scott Weinberg. What's up, Scott? Hi, Drew. Welcome to the middle of the worst year ever. If the experiment that we had, an
2:19.2	unofficial experiment that we had a few months ago was, are we going to be able to prove or
2:23.7	disprove that 1983 is in fact the worst year of the decade, movie-wise? I have not seen a
2:29.9	whole lot of evidence to sway me. And I know people have said, you know, there's a lot of high.
2:34.8	There are, there's some highs this month, too. There's some good movies this month and we'll
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