There are a few decades in film history that have been as screwed nuts 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. The War Crime trial of Gestapo Commandment, Clouse Barbie, began in France. Weirdel Yankovic recorded his first single Ricky, as well as his debut LP Buckingham Blues. The EPA announced that we buy this small town of times beach Missouri because the community had been poisoned by dioxin, leading to its eventual full evacuation. At the end of the month, Michael Jackson's album Thriller went to number one on the charts where it stayed for the next 37 weeks. That's not even the most exciting thing to happen to pop culture in February of 1983. Hi everyone, I am the video word made flesh and I am your co-host for 80s all over. Long live the new flesh. Wow. That is Drew McQueenie making a video a drone reference and I am Scott Weinberg accepting said video, Jerome reference for more.

You'll have to wait till the tail end of this episode, but rest assured, we will discuss

that. Hey, Drew, yes, sir.

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Our favorite Atari 2600 games. We should do that when ready player ones getting ready to come out because oh my god. It's about to go bonkers. Speaking of madness, Drew, why don't you introduce a very briefly to this bizarre obscure visually disturbing Charles Buchowski adaptation called Tales

of Ordinary Madness. a bus ticket home. 42 hours and 1600 miles of concrete later I hit the streets of Los Angeles. Some call it Los Angels. Me, I was just another one of the lost back where I belonged. This is a tough sit by any standards. It feels like a very fitting adaptation of Bikowski in the sense that the movie looks like you're going to catch something from it. Research indicates that Mr. Bukowski was not a fan of the final product, correct? There's a whole industry of reactions to Bukowski, where it's not even that they're doing officially either an adaptation or a straight adaptation. I feel like, like Hunter Thompson, there is this desire, once somebody falls in love with Bukowski's work, it's not even so much that they want adapt him or they want somebody to read a particular piece. They want to be him and they just want to soak it up somehow. And I think that happens with Thompson too. Most of our listeners will know that Mickey work would play this similar character years later in barfly. Here we have Ben Gazera as the stand in for the poet and Drew, why don't you give our listeners a brief recap of the exploits that Ben Gazera gets up to. It's as simple as he meets a hooker and she is just as brutal to herself emotionally and physically and chemically as he is. And it is about the two of them as they collide repeatedly while he wrestles with the idea of whether or not

he's going to quote sell out. I will say that if you're going to cast somebody as a destructive muse who's a nuclear force of sex and horror in someone's life, or Nella Mute is a hell of a choice. This episode ruined Princess Aura for me. Oh, now I get it. Yes. And in this movie, she goes through some terrible gross, graphically disturbing, sexually disturbing imagery, let's say. And I kind of want to talk about this because I feel like this film and this this director certainly flirts with a certain thing that happens here. And I think Ferrari throughout his career was curious about where the line was between pornography and mainstream film. And I think there is a push, especially from a lot of European filmmakers to try and blur that line somewhat. Obviously, this doesn't cross over into being like a hardcore pornographic film at all, but there is a there is a wallow to this that feels like

he is pushing it right up to that edge. Moving on. All right. Yeah, moving on to a movie that couldn't, couldn't be more of a polar opposite in terms of tone and style and content to the TV movie stayed boring qualities of without a trace. My child has disappeared.

I wanna take a look around this neighborhood for myself.

Let me come with you.

No! stayed boring qualities of without a trace. We head along small. Did you open this up to the press? Are you gonna get the crazy? I don't care if I have to talk to every lunatic in the city. Somebody has seen my boy.

Without a trace ready PG now playing at a selected theater near you

Without a trace. I can't find that little boy and he plays

He's not here. He's not there. Kate now again pulling out her hair. Thank you.

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