December 1981

'80s All Over

Scott Weinberg and Drew McWeeny

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.6 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2017

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

What?! We finished another year?! That's amazing! And what a line-up to feature in our final month of 1981. Jane Fonda and Kris Kristofferson flirt and try to keep the entire world economy from going belly-up, Richard Dreyfuss argues for his right to die, and Chevy Chase gets supernatural powers from magic cocaine. Wait, that can't be right, can it? You want to see why Andy Kaufman didn't have much of a film career? You want to see another Jane Fonda film? Wait: what is it with you and Jane Fonda? Should we be worried? We've got Fred Astaire in his weirdest role ever, and we've got Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon in probably the most depressing duet of their long collaboration. But, hey, we've also got Warren Beatty's REDS, so it's all good. Let's do this thing, kids! Bye, 1981! See you soon, 1982!

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0:00.0	There are few decades in film history that have been as scrutinized as the 1980s.
0:18.8	But to really understand the decade and its movies, it's going
0:22.0	to take a couple some ones who were there for it the first time around. Drew McQueenie
0:26.2	and Scott Weinberg are ready to review every major film of the decade 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.
1:27.1	It's the 80s all over. The Ronald Reagan signed executive order on Intelligence number 12333, allowing the CIA to engage in domestic counterintelligence for the first time.
1:32.9	Muhammad Ali, the single greatest athlete of all time, lost his 61st and final fight, Trevor Burbank.
1:45.8	Dreamgirls opened at the Imperial Theater in New York for the first of 1,522 performances. And on December 31st,
1:51.6	as the year came to a close, CNN headline news made its debut. While all of this was going on,
1:56.9	we wrapped up our movie going year with the films of December 1981. Hi, everybody. I'm Drew McQueenie, and as always, I'm joined by my esteemed co-host, Scott Weinberg.
2:01.1	Drew is my co-host.
2:02.6	All right.
2:03.8	It's true.
2:04.7	It's true.
2:05.1	I've been trying to pull this one over on people.
2:06.9	It's so uncool when you say, I'm your co-host.
2:09.9	When it should be the other way around, man.
2:11.8	Stop it.
2:12.6	I know.
2:13.4	All right. Well, hey, as co-host, I am pleased to say that we have welcomed a number of new Patreon supporters this month.
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