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. What I'm describing now is a plan and a hope for the long term. The march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism, Leninism on the ash heap of history as it has left other tyrannies, which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people. President Reagan met with Pope John Paul II and Queen Elizabeth in Vatican City Rome just one day before delivering his ash heap of history speech to British Parliament. The Lakers beat the Sixers for Games 2 and the 36th NBA Championships. The Equal Rights Amendment was defeated, but the Voter Rights Act of 1965 was extended by a vote of 85 to eight. And finally, John Hinkley was found not guilty as attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan by reason of insanity. And that's not all that was crazy about June of 1982. Hi, everybody, I'm Drew McQueenie and welcome to the latest episode of 80s all over. I'm joined as always by my co-host, Scott Weinberg. Hi everybody, I'm Scott Weinberg. And as always, I'm joined by my co host, Drew McQueen, who just spoke. So that whole intro was kind of pointless. Before we get started, this is a huge episode. This is one that I think over and over people have said to us that when they started listening to the show or when they got excited about the show, this is one of the episodes that they were waiting for. And we've certainly been the same way. But June 82 was an exactly what I thought it was. And that's kind of exciting. A lot of people could point to May of 1981 as are maybe the first of the summer blockbuster months in a way, because it had Raiders the Lost Ark and several other big hits. But I think in many ways, June 1982 is the watershed month.

And I think this is where you're going to see a lot of the decades start to snap into

focus. And then a lot of what happens for the rest of the decade is a reaction to this

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you can see Mel Gibson and Sam Neal on screen together.

And I think it's a pretty cool setup for a movie.

This special forces team that I didn't know about

that worked directly under Winston Churchill

and that answered to the allies during World War II.

I think it's a solid, interesting war film

about a group of guys that you would never ever hear about. Oh, and this movie's terrible. This movie's bad. It's basically a guns of Navarro knockoff. And if it deliberately was surprisingly insightful, then Attack Force Zed is a very generic and basic war movie. Man, it's so conventional and stock. I didn't, I never much fun with this one. When I think of war movies before war movies started getting serious about the Effects war in the larger context of it. This is what war movies were there were just mission movies and I do like that about this I do like to fact that it's a group of guys that I had never heard of before and I liked that the missions are a little lower Tech I kind of dig anytime you're in war war two and you're watching guys use canoes to fight the enemy. There's something kind of cool about that. It's not great, but it's also not offensive. And if you're interested in seeing these guys at that point, because this was 1978, 79 when they shot it, they're both really young and it is clearly right before anybody figured out what Mel Gibson really was. Right. And I think that if it was not for the presence of Mel Gibson and Sam Neal,

this film would be so obscure and forgotten as to not even be mentioned on this show.

And now we move from a obscure Australian war film to a relatively obscure and pretty rotten Italian

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