February 1984

'80s All Over

Scott Weinberg and Drew McWeeny

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.6 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

When is a film about Stanley Kubrick not a film about Stanley Kubrick? When is a documentary about Phil Ochs not really a documentary about Phil Ochs? And when did the '80s really start? Seems like 1984 is a good answer and the year's still just revving up at this point. We've got a terrible Louis Malle film, an Eric Stoltz film that even Eric Stoltz may have never heard of, and Tom Selleck as a gentleman thief. All that, and Footloosetoo? How are you not already listening to February of 1984?

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0:00.0	There are 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 some ones
0:23.2	who were there for it the first time around.
0:25.7	Drew McQueenie and Scott Weinberg are ready to review every major film of the decade
0:30.5	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.
1:35.2	It's the 80s all over. Let me I'm As the 14th Winter Olympics got underway in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, Bruce McCandless, an American astronaut, took the first ever untethered spacewalk.
1:44.9	Constantine Chernanco took over as leader of the Soviet Union, replacing Uri and drop-off, and halfway around the world Pierre Trudeau stepped down after 15 years as Prime Minister of Canada.
1:54.4	Robert Penn Warren, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the King's Men, which every person in America should read again right now, was named the first official U.S. Poet Laureate.
2:01.1	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
2:07.1	starting something for February of 1984. Hey everybody, I'm Drew McQueenie and welcome to 80s all over.
2:12.7	I'm joined as always by my host. Mike. No, I'm your host. I am your host.
2:17.9	That's right.
2:20.3	I joined as always by my host, Scott Weinberg.
2:23.5	What's up, Sarah?
2:24.0	And I am joined by my guest.
2:25.7	No.
2:26.8	My co-I'm sorry.
2:27.9	No, my co-guest.
2:29.5	Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for Drew McGuney.
2:32.8	Drew, it's time to dive right in to February of 1984.
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