July 1980

'80s All Over

Scott Weinberg and Drew McWeeny

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.6 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2016

⏱️ 76 minutes

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First things first: you'll notice that Scott Weinberg was trapped in a well for this week's episode. He's fine! We've got him out of the well, and he's been reunited with his family, and the dog who led everyone to where he was trapped is going to get a parade and you're all invited! In the meantime, we cover July 1980, which includes CADDYSHACK, AIRPLANE!, USED CARS, and much more, so check that out.

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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.
1:22.6	It's the 80s all over. I'm I'm going to With a deep awareness of the responsibility conferred by your trust, I accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States.
1:35.4	Ronald Reagan was nominated for president by the Republicans at their convention in Detroit.
1:38.5	Bjorn Bjorg beat John McEnroe at Wimbledon.
1:43.1	Billy Joel's glass houses sat on top of the charts and the U.S. sat out the Moscow Olympics officially.
1:45.2	On top of all of that,
1:51.2	it was a huge month for movies in July of 1980. Good intro, Drew. What's up, Scott? I am so happy that we have this month to talk about because it is filled with genuinely great movies.
1:57.4	And it's a real pleasure. July of 1980 was kind of awesome. You know, it's not awesome,
2:03.1	Drew, that we pulled so many boners. How did we, and by we I mean you, no, I'm kidding,
2:09.7	I'm joking. How did we pull so many mistakes so far? Well, a lot of, a lot of these movies that,
2:15.0	and we're going to do a little catch-up here of some of these films, a lot of these are smaller movies, we're going to do a little catch up here of some of these films a lot of
2:17.8	these are smaller movies and they're hard films to pin down release dates on but i wanted to go back
2:23.9	and make sure that we get these movies covered because i i don't want to miss something so we're
2:29.0	going to do these really quickly we're just going to go through and talk about them there's a couple
2:32.0	that i want to kind of blow out because I think they're really great films.
2:35.4	The first one is Night of the Juggler, which is this filthy little thriller that you can find on YouTube if you're curious about it, in which James Burlin is a cop whose daughter gets kidnapped by mistake.
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