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 McQueenie 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. I'm gonna have to go back to the hotel.

I'm gonna have to go back to the hotel.

I'm gonna have to go back to the hotel. It's the 80s all over. Let's get physical, physical, holy and physical. Let's get physical and leave by the dawn. Olivia Newton, John single physical, went to number one, where it stayed for 10 straight leaks. First class, US mail went up from 18 to 20 cents. Bear Bryant won his 315th game to become college football's winningest coach. And on November 30th, John 30th John Holmes was arrested Miami Florida on fugitive charges related to the wonderland murders later portrayed so vividly in Paul Thomas Anderson's boogie nights. There's a wild time but even so there were a few movies that snuck out November of 1981. I'm Drew McQueen and welcome to 80's all over as always. I'm joined by my co-host Scott Weinberg. Hi everybody, I'm Scott. It's weird going from October of 1981 to November of 1981 because it felt like the buildup to October was like six weeks of heavy insane movie watching. And this month was relatively slim pickings. Yeah, October was overloaded with lots of stuff. And I don't know if November back in the day used to be considered like the dry period before December Oscar bait. It seemed like for the most part November was not dissimilar to February in a way. It feels like a lot of that must have been like rollout stuff because a lot of the little like driving and exploitation stuff we covered in October, I've got to imagine trickled out like market to market. So even in November, I'm guessing you could see a lot of that stuff new and a lot of it was just hitting secondary markets or smaller markets. We did make a brief mistake. So. See whoops, look side to here. See whoops, up side to here. See whoops. It is time to admit we pulled a boner. We missed the night, the lights went out in Georgia in June of 1981. And I don know how we did that But what's weird is it seems like a relatively prominent title and I've still never seen it even to this day Don't know how we missed that film it was a major release, but we will include it in next month's episode That movie that was shot in Chattanooga when I was living there and the lady who did the extras casting for it is the one who later Got me under the starman set. So even this script and stuff was sitting around and was one of the first scripts that I saw and I still never ended up seeing it. We did want to say real quick thank you to everybody who is a Patreon subscriber. I'll use some really good content coming up for you. If you are not a Patreon subscriber, you really should be. There are bonus episodes. There are bonus looks at the book we'll be doing.

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Well, I gotta say though, like with Night the Lights that went out in Georgia, part of this is for me playing catch-up on things that I knew of or was aware of or saw go buy-in pop culture that now finally I'm filling in the gaps on. So I feel like in some ways, this is completing a project that started around as a little kid. And one of those movies is the first one we're going to discuss this week. I knew the poster. I know the backstory clearly, but I had never seen the pursuit of DB Cooper. This man got on a plane flight broke and got off $200,000. Are you trying to tell me the only reason you did this thing is for me? Only you. And the money. Robert Dubas. I was strictly... I'm famous to know! The pursuit of B.D. Coop, a true story. Robby. No food, straighted B.D. Darts Friday at a theater near you. Uh, this movie had a tough production. This was originally to be directed by John Frankenheimer of all people who probably would turn out a lot better. Then it went to a guy named Buzz Culeck who got fired or left and then it went to Roger Spotiswood who would go on to direct some pretty good movies and unfortunately the pursuit of DB Cooper is a doesn't have much energy for a high chase movie.

You know, it feels like they were trying to do.

It feels like they looked at Melvin and Howard. And they said, hey, let's do sort of this foxy, but instead it's more of a chase movie. And then when they do try to spend a little bit of time with like Catherine Harold and treat Williams who play the couple that go on the run, By the way, as fantasies go, being on the run with a bag of money and Catherine Harald

in the early 80s is about as great as it gets.

But the movie doesn't slow down for these little character moments. And it's a shame because it does feel like it's cast well with Robert DeVol. And the way that whole relationship works in the backstory between him and treat Williams and why he's chasing him. And I like Paul Gleason as a comic foil. There's some good stuff in it, but I, you know, you're about halfway through it. And I'm thinking this is just not it doesn't have the energy and color that a pursuit movie like this really needs. And then to bring in the ostensible or alleged it based on actual events angle, they don't even try to get like the actual like heist right. They don't even do the heist. They get through that such a weird choice when you're telling a true story

is to pick up after the true story

happened and you're telling everything

else, which is completely and utterly

made up by you.

Right. Right.

Like if I if if I were to say, Oh,

there's a guy named Drew who lives in

California, that's based on a true story.

But then if I say, Oh, uh, any joined an alien cult and moved to Mars. Is it still based on a true story because it's about a real person?

What do you know?

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