June 1984

'80s All Over

Scott Weinberg and Drew McWeeny

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.6 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2018

⏱️ 129 minutes

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Summary

This is it. This is the month many of you have been waiting for since the podcast began. We get it. It's a monolith. Gremlins. Ghostbusters. The Karate Kid. That's a huge month. But it's so much more. It's so much deeper. This is a perfect example of why we do the show. Because, yes, you'll get Star Trek and Conan and Beat Street and Streets of Fire, but you'll also get weird thrillers with Roger Moore and Rutger Hauer and English boarding school dramas and imports from Sweden and Australia and Germany. One of the weirdest big-budget bombs of the decade was this month, as was a sweeping but troubled epic from one of our greatest filmmakers. You want a brilliant comedy that seems to be largely forgotten? How about the performance that should have won Best Actor at the Oscars that year? Or two other performances that would have been equally worthy from two of young Hollywood's most controversial leading men? There is so much to talk about that we're not sure we can do it justice. But, man, we are gonna try. Strap in. It's June 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.
1:21.8	It's the 80s all over. The An average movie ticket was $2.50.
1:27.2	A gallon of gas was $110, and the number one song in the country was Cindy Lopper's lovely time after time. The second hand on wide is your lost.
1:31.1	You can look and you will find me time after time.
1:36.8	It's a turbulent month for global politics.
1:38.7	Dera Gandhi ordered an attack on the Golden Temple, setting off a deadly Sikh uprising,
1:42.9	while Pierre Trudeau stepped down as Prime Minister in Canada after serving for 15 years.
1:49.1	On the TV game show, Press Your Luck, a contestant named Michael Larson managed to win a record
1:53.3	busting $110,000 by memorizing the supposedly impossible to memorize pattern of the whammy.
2:01.0	I still wish Bill Murray had made the movie he wrote about this thing.
2:04.5	For the very first time, DNA was cloned from an extinct animal, and I assume John Hammond was involved.
2:09.1	Tetris was released in the Soviet Union, another of their fiendish schemes to waste American hours,
2:13.2	and Donald Duck turned 50 years old, complete with an elaborate birthday party at Disneyland.
2:17.6	Happy birthday, he's an elaborate birthday party at Disneyland. Happy birthday, happy, happy birthday to you.
2:24.2	All of this unfolded while moviegoers were busy getting rocked by one of the biggest months of the decade.
2:29.9	We have finally reached June of 1984.
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