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 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. Bill Murray was the very first guest on the debut episode of Late Night with David Letterman, and the number one song in America was centerfold by the Jay Guile fan. Lawrence Wilkes' final episode was aired, forcing a generation of grandparents to find a new show to fall asleep in front of. And on the last day of the month, the PR nationalist group set off a bomb on Wall Street. It was a chaotic time, and it was a weird month of movies in February of 1982. Hi everybody, I'm Drew McQueenie, and as always, I'm joined from Philadelphia by my co-host MC80s all over Scott Weinberg. Yo, my name is Scott, and I'm here to talk movies if you don't want to listen. You know, that's so groovy. But how's everything else been, man? Same old stuff, man. I'm psyched. We're ready to roll on 1982. It's exciting to start another year. 82 is about when it clicked that movies are my thing. February of 82. I was still 11 and I've gone movie nuts by this point. I didn't know that the summer we were about to have was going to have the impact it had on me just the sheer

volume of classics that were becoming and I've gone movie nuts by this point. I didn't know that the summer we were about to have was gonna have the impact it had on me,

just the sheer volume of classics that were becoming out.

But this was the summer where I started to feel really engaged.

I remember I went to my first science fiction convention

in the spring and I walked away with a haul of stuff

that then to me became tied to all those movies

that came out that summer.

Like I had a pad's a paper that had the movie poster printed so that you were using that

as your stationery. And I had a pad for Blade Runner and I had a pad for Conan and none of them had come out yet. And I just remember how exciting it was to be a movie fan heading into the summer of 82. And February of 82 was a weird, weird month. does feel more like what we think of as the traditional dump months when you look at the 80s in

January, February, even March. It does feel more like what we think of as the traditional dump months

when you look at the 80s in January, February, even March. There's always buried treasure in these months. And if not buried treasure, then stink piles that deserve to be ridiculed. There. Well, listen, if you're a fan of what we've been doing so far, I just want to ask you to check us out on Patreon. It's a chance for you to help financially support the creation of this show. We are a completely independent program and we don't have any advertising.

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dot com and visit the 80s all over story can support us by picking up something that we talked about here on the show via Amazon. So we're going to dig in and this month sometimes it feels like it's horror heavy sometimes it feels action heavy. There's no running thread through any of this. So let's just jump in with a movie that I had never even heard of. Made by, at literally produced by one of my favorite bands of all time, so I'm doubly

astounded, I had never even heard of, made by, literally, produced by one of my favorite bands of all time. So I'm doubly astounded. I had no idea what Mick Vickor even was. ["Mick Vickor"] ["Mick Vickor"] Through what you take on Roger Daltry as an actor, definitely has a charisma and a screen

presence and he's like, he's like interesting to watch, but when it comes to emoting dialogue and and and conveying emotion, he's not a great actor. I think the best thing he has is attitude because he has this great punk attitude that it served him well in the early days of the who certainly a lot of people

are age grew up and they had already become sort of a stadium act and they were on their

way out and you know Keith Moon was gone so they weren't the who that had once existed. So we kind of grew up with the tamer version of the who but the who were they were nuts when they started and so I do think there was this anti-authoritarian streak that makes sense when you see Mick Vickor for them to be producers and for Daltry to star in it.

And what really struck me was I had no idea all this music that he had written. I've never heard that album. That's the best thing about the film is the score I think because in many ways it's a fairly standard convict movie where have to have to film is him being a tough con in a brutal prison and then he becomes a journalist but that's not really touched upon all that effectively So it's like you kind of feel like well, what's the third act? Where are we heading? Oh is he does he have either redemption or her they're damaging himself and then it just kind of wraps everything up real quick and This just felt like an ego kind of a star vehicle and little wonder because McVicar actually wrote the script the actual person is based on so I gotta think there's a lot of this that is personal myth making and not necessarily fact including the prison escape well the prison escape is nonsense at the end of the film they make very clear that it's not entirely based on fact to be fair he does not painting himself as a as a choir boy the movie this reminds me, and this is like the bad version of that movie.

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