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 the calendar with us. It's the 80s all over. I'm gonna have to go back to the hotel.

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There were major upheavals around the world as well as promising signs.

Monachem Began resigned as the Prime Minister of Israel, Haiti adopted a constitution,

and the U.S US and the USSR finally signed a $10 billion grain pact important in order to help keep that Cold War cold. And finally on the night of the 30th the Space Shuttle Challenger was launched and a boarded set Gion Blubert, the first African American astronaut. And I'm pretty sure no matter how good the films are, that was the high point of August of 1983.

Hi everybody, my name is Drew McQueenie, and welcome to 80s all over. I'm joined as always by 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 unofficial experiment that we had a few months ago ago as are we going to be able to prove or disprove that 1983 is in fact the worst year

of the decade movie wise.

I have not seen a whole- that we had a few months ago is, are we going to be able to prove or disprove that 1983 is in fact the worst year of the decade,

movie-wise, I have not seen a whole lot of evidence to sway me. And I know people who've said, you know, there's a lot of high, there are, there's some highs this month too, there's some good movies this month and we'll definitely get into them and touch on them, but there's so many low points. The problem is, there's so much low.

When you're waiting through one of these months,

this month, and I'm already neck deep in September,

and September is Something else there's it's just that there is so much product and a lot of it is terrible There's no question right you know, it's not terrible. What's that the people who support our show financially Thank you to everybody who support us on patreon We've gotten a lot of really nice comments lately. We were featured in podcasts on AV Club again. Thank you Mike Vanderbilt. Just thank you to everybody who supports the show, whether it's financially or otherwise. It's also an incredibly fun challenge and we do make mistakes from time to time, which leads me of course. Say oops, look, side to head, say oops, me of course. I pulled the boner. What was it? What is shame? Get him the shame corner! Oh my god and I did it so confidently. That's what blows my mind. I think what happens is you've got so much information in your head that sometimes you have a fact wrong and when you say it confidently, you've said it confidently for enough years that people just agree with you. Thankfully not all of you are hard that way and you corrected me and I owe an apology to the great Larry Cedar who is a character actor who was indeed the man on the wing in Twilight Zone the movie. Robert Piccardo did do suit work but it was later with Joe Dante it was not for George Miller and I do not know how the hell I had that crossed in my head but Larry Cedar your work was awesome Larry Cedar of course is better known from Deadwood which is where I fell in love with Miss Nacker. Great character actor and I also will share some of that blame because I assumed you were correct I know in Love Robert Piccardo and I could have said are you sure but I just assumed that Drew McWenny was correct.

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