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.

I'm gonna have to go back to the hotel.

I'm gonna have to go back to the hotel. It's the 80s all over. The The The The The The The The The The The The The The The The you Bob Gildoff organized and produced the recording of Do They Know It's Christmas, kicking off a charitable effort to help relieve famine in Africa while South African archbishop Desmond Tutu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. It was the end of an era as Howard Gossal retired from Monday Night Football. And Margaret Thatcher signed the Sino-British joint declaration

paving the way for Hong Kong to be returned

to China's control in 1997. BORN TAK LIEBEN LARFU LORFEN Rick Allen, better known as the drummer for Deaf Leopard lost his arm in a car crash while in New York, a guy named Bernie Gets, decided that Charles Bronson movies were real life and shot four muggers on a New York subway car.

Shit was getting crazy as the year went down

in December of 1984.

Hey everybody, I'm Drew McQueenie

and welcome to 80s all over. I'm joined as always by my co-host, Scott Weinberg. What's up, Scott? Hello Drew. Welcome to the end of 1984, one of the very best years of the decade. Now, have you done your top 10 yet? No, I have not yet. now it's a torture after uh... we're done recording this i'll go through and break down my list of like thirty

and that decade now have you have you done your top 10 yet now I have not yet it's a torture after we're done recording this I'll go through and break down my list of like 30 and then I will torture myself by pairing it down to 10 it's tough I will spoil one thing for our listeners I think the terminator might be on my list so listen I made a mistake Oops, upside-hated, say oops, upside-hated. Same.

Paris, Texas. Listen, I made a mistake. Uh-oh. I did. See whoops.

Side-hated. See whoops. Side-hated. See whoops. Paras Texas is not heading back to theaters. So I feel really bad that you guys showed up, money in hand, screaming, Scott and Drew just told me Paras Texas is awesome. Where's the theater? Drew told them that, and I believe the wings of desire is actually getting the 4K restoration. Another Venn vendors classic don't you ever get tired of being wrong?

I'm just a giant dumb dumb and you know, it's the enthusiasm that counts. I'm just I'm excited to be dumb. I will however use this moment to announce that a movie that we talked about here that was wildly unavailable called say Amen Somebody is premiering at the Berlin Film Festival with a new 4K restoration and then I assume there will be plans to put that out. That is a movie that has largely been unseen for 30 years and I just talked to distributor about it. A big part of the reason why it was a priority for them was that Roger Ebert screening that I talked about on the show. This is a great movie. I'm excited you guys are gonna get a chance to see it finally and we have a super secret re-release

Uh-oh, Drew I hope it's a film you're prepared to talk about because it's a surprise ready

P-Pennock...Pennock Chio. Oh, Pennock Chio, you gotta say it right.

I don't follow Italian cinema, so I don't know Peno...Penochio.

Penochio

What is Penochio? A movie that comes around every seven years

about a match... So I don't know. Penoch. What is he? Penoch. A movie that comes around every seven years, a magic that lasts a lifetime. Red and G. Open Friday at a tender near you. Check local listings. I used to do a rant when I was probably this age where I would talk about how the monstro chase in Pinocchio was just as good as the truck chasing. Redder's the lost arc and I still believe that, but I'm not going to do the whole stick at this point. It may be my favorite of the classic era Walt Disney fairy tale movies. It's up there for me as well. I still think Sleeping Beauty gets me because it is literally the most beautiful American produced, an animated film ever made. I love the world of Pinocchio though.

I love the shitty animals who are constantly trying to hustle Pinocchio. It sounds like I'm gonna start wrapping here, but I'm not. It's the scale of the whale. It's the artistry of Pinocchio that gets me over and over. And there's a book called Illusion of Life, the all-encompassing Bible of Disney Animation. and there's a sequence they break down in there where

paenokyo is marching through the town behind the two shady animal friends of his. It's like a long shot from above and you see the whole city street and they walk down one street and they go around a corner and they come down another and the camera moves. It's an impossible move. So they had to draw each beat of it. Just imagine that you are doing like a whip pan with a camera, but now you're animating a whip pan. I mean, it just blows my mind to look at. And it's one of those moments you realize these guys were inventing it. They had to figure out what is this? How do you even, I am blown away. I look at Pinocchio now and I still think it is magic that it all looks as good as it does. You know what else is magic? Uh, what?

...