June 1980

'80s All Over

Scott Weinberg and Drew McWeeny

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.6 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2016

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

This show just keeps getting better. Where else are you going to hear a conversation about THE BLUES BROTHERS, Clint Eastwood, Herbie Goes Bananas, the wacko Bermuda-Triangle-lost-pirates movie The Island, and Richard Rush's strange and beautiful The Stunt Man? Nowhere, that's where! Nowhere except '80s ALL OVER!

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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.
1:20.9	It's the 80s all over. That's it. I'm David Walker.
1:29.4	And I'm Lois Hart. Now here's the news. President Carter has arrived in four minutes. CNN went on the air for the very first time, marking the beginning of the age of the 24-hour news cycle.
1:30.9	The U.S. brought back the draft.
1:35.1	David Letterman's first TV show for NBC prepared in its daily morning time slot,
1:37.2	and the Mets drafted a young Daryl Strawberry.
1:42.1	Finally, in L.A., Richard Pryor set himself on fire at an explosion while freebase and cocaine. And you know something I noticed?
1:49.0	When you run down the street on fire, people will move out of your way.
1:54.0	Right, they don't fuck around.
1:57.0	They get their fuck out your way.
2:00.0	Except for one old drunk, right?
2:01.8	He was on it.
2:02.1	Hey, buddy.
2:02.9	Can we go?
2:03.3	Like?
2:05.8	Come on, pal.
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