May 1982

'80s All Over

Scott Weinberg and Drew McWeeny

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.6 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2017

⏱️ 78 minutes

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CONAN! WHAT IS BEST IN LIFE? Well, May of 1982 was pretty great. Sure, you had nonsense like the bizarre Sean Connery "satire" called Wrong Is Right, but you also had the amazing John Milius version of Conan The Barbarian, so... We're ramping up now into one of the best summers of the decade, and we've got live performance films like Urgh! A Music War and The Secret Policeman's Other Ball to spotlight what pop culture was like at that time. You've got little-seen gems like The Escape Artist. And, yeah, summer arrived, and that means big movies. You want a great Steve Martin comedy? We've got one. You want a mediocre adaptation of a giant hit musical? Yep. Check. And, oh, sure, we've got one of the best action films ever made. Pull up a razor-edged boomerang and take a seat. This one's all kinds of good.

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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.
0:55.0	It's the 80s all over. So, you know, I'm the The World's Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee, opened the first in America since 1974,
1:25.2	attracting over 11 million visitors by the time it wrapped up in October.
1:28.8	President Ronald Reagan began a series of weekly five-minute radio broadcasts.
1:32.9	IBM released a landmark PS-DOS version 1.1 software.
1:37.5	Film and story Leonard Malt made his first appearance on entertainment tonight, and somewhere in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1:41.9	A kid named Drew McQueenie at his 12th birthday party
1:44.1	with a group of friends at a theater
1:45.3	showing one of the films featured in this May of 1982.
1:51.6	Hi, everybody. I'm Drew McQueenie, as always. I'm joined by my co-host Scott Weinberg here on 80s All Over.
2:06.9	Hi, it's me, Scott Weinberg from 80s all over. This is weird for me because this is the month where really I start having full sensory memories of this summer.
2:15.8	Because I know who I was and I know where I
2:17.7	was and I remember the screens I saw the films on and I remember who I saw the R-rated films
2:22.5	with and which ones I didn't get to go. So it's really weird. This is where things start to kind
2:26.5	of fold time and space for me. Yeah, I mean, we've covered some really good months and some great
2:30.7	films and even some blockbuster months. But I think with this month and then leading into June, our next episode, June of 1982,
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