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 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.

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Robert Tenmore, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author

of All the Kings Men,

which every person in America should read again right now,

was named the first official US poet, Loria.

And finally, Thriller continued to live up to its name

and shatter expectations when Michael Jackson won eight Grammys

and was awarded a five-foot high platinum album

to celebrate his newfound cultural omnipresence. It is time to be starting something for February of 1984. Hey everybody, I'm Drew McQueenie and welcome to 80's all over. I'm joined as always by my host my. No, I'm your host. I am your host. That's right. I joined as always by my host Scott Weinberg. What's up? I'm joined by my guest. No, my co I'm sorry, no my host, Scott Weinberg. What's up, sir? I joined by my guest.

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My co, I'm sorry, no, my co-gast.

Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for Drew McQueenie.

Drew, it's time to dive right into February of 1984.

This first movie, I, most people who are listening

to the show have never heard of it.

I had a poster of this film on my wall. Did you really, for sleigh ground? I'm the shadow man, Mr. Stone. He hits when it's dark. Then he always hits his mark. I'm all around you, Mr. Stone. The Shadow Man cast a long shadow. And he's after Stone. But how do you escape your own shadow? Welcome to your film, Mr. Stone. Slade round. Ready to art. Never seen the film until about a week ago, the first half of the film, not bad. I'm really happy we're starting with this one. It's not a terrible movie, but it's based on a great book. And like I read voraciously, I read all the time. I read a couple of books a week and I read a lot of crime fiction. So I've read most of Wesley's stuff. I have a funness for like tough guy books where it's about their job is they handle things. They get into a situation, everything goes to shit, and then they have to handle their way out of it. And well written, they're a lot of fun. And the Parker books are some of the best of those because Parker is such a great character who is so able to think on his feet and so able to adapt and knows everything. Knows every angle, knows every scam. So Slaground was an early Parker novel and it is West Lake basically reworking the most dangerous game. Two guys in an isolated setting against one another and in this case the use of an amusement park pretty brilliant. We should start 80s all over productions Scott and just start remaking the gems we find that didn't quite work. Let's start with this one because dammit there's almost a really good movie here. The first half of the movie in which Peter Coyote has a hitman with some semblance of a moral compass is killing people who are responsible for the death of a child. And it's fairly cool, hard-nosed, hard-boiled crime story. About halfway through the movie, he hops on a plane, it goes overseas and it does the movie just... Yeah, and's all second half, this whole thing that happens between him and the other dude. That's really supposed to be the heart of the thing. That's the book and the book is such a boiled down mean little thing. Like you said, this movie feels like there's a demarcation point where suddenly this other film begins and Mel Smith's character becomes more important again and it really is a frustrating adaptation of source material and Coyote. I don't know if I think Coyote is the right guy charisma wise for that character because I think Coyote is okay. I think Coyote is more of a weirdo When you cast him right Coyote can be terrific. I don't know if I buy him as a tough guy kind of solving everything.

Skin of his teeth pulling his ass out of the fire guy.

It could just be because we're so used to him as a support player. Back in this day, you could see a couple of films where they're like trying out Peter Coyote as a lead as if you would try out like shoes and issues. I like him in some of these and we'll talk about some of the films where I think he really works as a lead

But it's interesting because I don't know, I don't think he's interesting enough to

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