December 1980

'80s All Over

Scott Weinberg and Drew McWeeny

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.6 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2017

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Our 12th episode finally brings us to December of 1980, and not only is this is the best month of movies we've had to discuss yet, it's also the best episode we've done yet! Seems fitting, right? After all, we get to talk about films like FLASH GORDON, RAGING BULL, NINE TO FIVE, ALTERED STATES, INSIDE MOVES, and, yes, Robert Altman's POPEYE. WHICH IS AWESOME. BECAUSE IT IS. AND WE WILL ACCEPT NO ARGUMENT ON THIS TOPIC. But seriously, POPEYE rules.

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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.
1:17.4	It's the 80s all over. The Ledzsche And she's buying a stairway.
1:29.7	Led Zeppelin broke up.
1:35.5	Magnum P.I. made its debut on CBS, just as the wonderful world of Disney came to a close on NBC,
1:40.6	and United States copyright law was amended to finally include computer programs.
1:45.4	Then, just as the year came to a close in one of the most shocking moments of the entire decade,
1:49.8	John Lennon and Yoko owner returned to their apartment in New York just before 11,
1:53.4	and the deeply troubled Mark David Chapman stepped out of the shadows, and he shot Lennon four times.
1:57.8	This evening, John Lennon arrived at the emergency room at the Roosevelt Hospital.
2:02.6	He was dead on, at the time of his arrival.
2:05.6	Numerous resuscitative efforts were made after his arrival in the hospital, including
2:10.6	transfusions, surgical procedures, other procedures, but in spite of the effort of many physicians and after many procedures,
2:19.4	we were unable to restore the life of Mr. Lennon.
2:23.2	Even as we wrestled with the heartbreak of losing one of the great artists of the modern age,
2:26.9	we were there for the genuinely remarkable films of December of 1980.
2:31.0	As always, I'm Drew McQueenie.
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