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

who were there for it the first time around.

Drew McQueenie 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 endures 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. Thank you. I'm I'm I'm The Mary Lou Retton was just one of the U.S. Olympic athletes

vaulted to sudden stardom by the summer games

as the soundtrack to the excellent Princeville Purple Rain took the number one spot.

President Reagan during routine radio vocal warmup

joked that he had just signed legislation to outlaw Russia forever.

We begin bombing in five minutes.

Russia was not amused, but Reagan was indeed re-nominated by the GOP at the Republican Convention

in Houston. The very last Volkswagen Rabbit rolled off the assembly line and is still being driven

today by that guy who sells the really good asset of the fish shows. And finally, in a story

that begins beautifully, but which has a very sad punchline in a few years, Ronald Reagan announced NASA's Teacher and Space Program.

Let's hold on to the optimism of that announcement, though, as we buckle down to tackle the very weird lineup of movies released in August of 1984.

Hi, everybody, I'm Drew McQueenie, and welcome once again to 80s All Over.

I am joined as always by my co-host, Scott Weinberg. Scott, what's up, sir?

Hello, I missed the Volkswagen Rabbit. Drew, what's the weirdest car your parents had when we were kids?

My dad loved old cars, so for a little while he went through a series of convertibles, but there was a period where we actually owned a Volkswagen thing.

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