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 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 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 not a bad guy.

I'm not a bad guy.

I'm not a bad guy. It's the 80s all over. And she's buying a stalwart. I'm sorry. Let Zeppelin broke up. Magnum PI made its debut on CBS just as the wonderful world of Disney came to a close on NBC and United States copyright law was amended to finally include computer programs.

Then just as the year came to a close in one of the most shocking moments of the entire decade, John Lennon and Yoko and a return to their apartment in New York just before 11 and the deeply troubled Mark David Chapman stepped out of the shadows and he shot Lennon four times. This evening John Lennon arrived at the emergency room at the Roosevelt Hospital. He was dead on at the time of his arrival.

Numerous, resuscitative efforts were made after his arrival in the hospital, including transfusions, surgical procedures, other procedures. But in spite of the effort of many physicians, and after many procedures, we were unable to restore the life of Mr. Lenin. Even as we wrestled with the heartbreak of losing one of the great artists of the modern age, we were there for the genuinely remarkable films of December of 1980. As always, I'm Drew McQueenie, welcome to 80s all over. I'm joined by my co-host, Scott Weinberg. Scott, how are you? Me, that's me, Scott Weinberg. Pod casting from Philadelphia. I don't think me is the correct answer to how are you? But I am, I mean, I'm as good as can pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro pro lineup. I've seen 10 of these in the theater that month. To me, that's nuts. Like, I think about now what it would take for my kids to get me to take them to 10 different films in the theater in one month. And I don't think that would happen. You also got to remember that they would come out in December and last until February or March. And this was also the same time period where I finally noticed hype. Like, I would get excited when the soundtrack would come out or when a book would come out. And I would buy everything. If I was interested, I didn't even have to see it first. I would start buying stuff the moment it was available.

And a great... Like I would get excited when the soundtrack would come out or when a book would come out and I would buy everything. If I was interested, I didn't even have to see it first. I would start buying stuff the moment it was available.

And a great case in point was our first movie this month.

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Join us for the fantastic adventures of Flash Gordon.

Having been taken prisoner by an ally of Minn of this, Flash escapes only to face the conflict of the swamp. Leave him! He's mine! I'm going to the long pass! He's on his own! Is this the end? Will Flash survive? Find out now what a theater near you. Music by Queen. Ready to be. Yeah. It's a remarkable movie. First and foremost, you cannot talk about the film without talking about Queen soundtrack. It is one of the great instances of hiring somebody to score and the score becomes this living breathing thing that has its own life aside from the film, But you can't think of them separately. In the moment you hear BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM. You knew what was coming. It was such a great exciting, I still think, one of the most exciting moments on any album. Is it the very beginning of that when you hear, and it all goes from

there. I love that opening. I love the way it pulls you in.

Drew, why don't you tell our listeners the importance of that phrase? Well, that was actually

the proposed title for this podcast when we first started talking about it. Drew throughout

a dozen titles to me and I throughout a dozen titles to him. And we both really liked

Colitis I'm bored as the name of our podcast. and then Bobby came to me and said, you know, it's cool to be vague and nerdy and all, but you really want it to be more descriptive. So I went fine and we went with 80s all over which I've now grown to love. It's weird that this film exists in this sort of pocket where there's no sequel, there's no anything else. It's just that one movie. I'm really surprised Universal didn't try to milk it for more over the course of the decade, but it's one of those films that I think everybody is fond of now. I don't actually remember how it did. I don't know if it was a hit or if it was a failure or if it was a middling. It did decent, but I didn't do as well as they had hoped, which is, of course, if it doesn't make Star Wars money, then they're disappointed. It does have kind of a reputation for for being a campy, corny, cheesy. A lot of people mistake that for people saying that it's a bad film.

And I would, on a stack of bibles, I could explain to the most astute and learned film scholars in the universe. Wife-Lash Gordon is a very entertaining, well-made movie. I really don't even think it's much of an argument. I think that Micodges is a skilled filmmaker.

I think if you look at the work he did on either side of this,

Micodges wasn't a guy who showed up and was just goofing around here. This is a guy who had done stuff like pulp in 1972 and get Carter as a huge film for him. And very important. And I think you look at his work. He understands genre very well. I think he was very good at working within a genre.

And I think the script that they had for this film,

when you look at Lorenzo's simple junior,

you look at the kind of stuff he did,

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