March 1981

'80s All Over

Scott Weinberg and Drew McWeeny

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.6 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2017

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

What do we have this month? Man, what DON'T we have this month? You want a weird uncomfortable sexual triangle between Gene Hackman, Barbra Streisand, and Dennis Quaid? Nope, us neither, but you're getting it anyway! Either Sam Neill or Bill Cosby is the devil this month... or maybe both of them are! We've got Tobe Hooper, Gary Coleman, Elliott Gould, Sally Field, Jack Nicholson, Jessica Lange, early Jim Jarmusch, and a comedy that Stanley Kubrick once described as "the perfect movie." Yep. It's March 1981.

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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.
1:23.8	It's the 80s all over. Thank you. I'm going to Blondy's Rapture took the number one spot from Dolly Parton's 9 to 5.
1:26.6	Anchorman Walter Cronkite said goodbye to America.
1:29.2	RCA launched their much-type RCA Selectivision Video Disc System, and Ronald Reagan started to settle into his role as president. Then on March 30th,
1:35.4	the day before the Oscars, Ronald Reagan was shot in the chest by John Hinkley outside the
1:39.4	Washington Hilton Hotel, and that is nothing compared to the weird and wild assortment
1:44.0	of movies that
1:44.5	were also in theaters in March of 1981.
1:47.4	Hi, everybody.
1:48.0	I'm Drew McQueenie, and welcome to 80s all over.
1:50.2	This is the March 1981 episode, and I'm joined, as always, by Scott Weinberg, my co-host.
1:55.2	Hi, it's me, Scott.
1:56.5	We're going to get started quickly today.
1:58.0	We've got a fairly dense list.
2:00.0	Some of these movies are barely worth discussion, though.
2:03.2	This is what we're going to encounter with some of these months is they're going to be loaded.
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