There are a 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 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. 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. Epcot Center opened in Orlando, Florida, and I was there. I stood in line for six hours for spaceship earth, and it was not worth it. On Broadway, Katz opened its legendary 18-year run at the Winter Garden Theatre. President Ronald Reagan declared a war on drugs, which we all know was 100% successful, eliminating all drug use completely. Good job, President Reagan! China announced they'd reach a population of 1 billion people just as Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson released The Girl Is My. Coinc go to girl, this is my name. Coincidence? I think not. With the world as wild as that, we needed an equally wild lineup of films for October, 1982. Hi, everybody. I'm Drew McQueenie. Welcome back to 80s all over. I'm joined as always by my co-host, Scott Weinberg. Hi, it's me. Hello from Philadelphia. So, Scott, tomorrow is a big day. What's tomorrow? 1229. It is my birthday. We don't like to use contemporary references on the show because people hopefully will listening to the episode in like 10 or 12 years and they don't want to hear anything about what happened in December 2017. But we can stop and say happy birthday to Mr. Weinberg tomorrow. I will be 31 very excited. I may not be able to continue recording. If you would like to support the birthday boy who is 30 21 tomorrow, you can hit us up on our Patreon page where you can subscribe to our bonus episodes including last week's

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Bill Hader didn't think that through. I liked it. It's almost its own show like 80s all over bonus show is so different than the actual

80s all over show and I really like that. I like that every week. It's a little different. I think that's cool speaking of

I want to take a quick moment to acknowledge that we are not perfect. See whoops, up side to head. Say whoops, up side to head. See whoops. I know that the illusion is very strong, but we occasionally make mistakes. And when that happens, we own up to the mistakes we make and we say proudly we pulled a boner.

And guys, we did it again.

On our last episode, we were talking about movies they got pulled from theaters and I mentioned varsity blues. It was of course the program which got pulled and they got pulled because of the scene with the kid laying in the road and telling jokes or whatever. We also, we did it again. We brought it up at the beginning of the episode. mention that we had forgotten to review Hell Night, we told you we would do Hell

Night and we forgot again so at the end of tonight's episode I promise I'm

sorry. So we did it again. We brought it up at the beginning of the episode. We mentioned that we had forgotten to review Hell Night. We told you we would do Hell Night and we forgot

again. So at the end of tonight's episode, I promise I'm sorry. Finally, I don't want to do it at the very end. I want to do it now. No, no. At the end. Make them wait for it. They've waited this long. Make it the dessert at the end of the episode. Let me ask you before Before we get started, was this month hard for you?

There was something about this month that felt like all the gas went out.

I can't even blame the movies entirely.

I mean, some of these movies... Let me ask you before we get started. Was this month hard for you? There was something about this month that felt like all the gas went out.

I can't even blame the movies entirely. I mean some of these movies are truly terrible, but I can't blame just the movies. I hit a wall with one movie this month. I think it took me 11 viewings to get as far as I did and I still didn't finish. I just tapped out finally and I don't know that that's happened yet. Drew, let's just get rolling. We're gonna cover all of the teen sex comedies, okay?

Some of them are just so basic, generic, forgettable and hollow, just mentioning them is enough. Drew, do you have anything to add about going all the way? Nope. We talked last month about the last American version. You know, that is a movie where I feel like it's a hybrid of what I find repugnant about porquies, but also what I like about fast times. And it falls somewhere in the middle there. The only thing I'll say about going all the way is there is a sense in this movie that the women have some agency that they are in charge of their sexuality and that that is a big debate in the film is whether or not you Compressure girl in a sex or whether or not you should or whether that's even appropriate in relationship. I'll give the movie a little bit of credit for that. For the most part, the film feels like the hygiene video that Mystery's Tite's Theater made fun of. It is ridiculously cheap in the way it tries to pack as much nudity as possible, and it's all that weird functional nudity where it's, I'm in a shower so I'm naked. That seems like the cheapest excuse to stage a scene, but that's what this movie is. It's how many ways can we figure out to show women naked without it actually being sexual 99% of the time? Go in all the way proves that, you know, when something is a big fat hit, this is how quickly the knockoffs to come out. From there, we go all the way to a fairly interesting film I had never seen before, starring Michael O'Keefe. It's called Split Image. My name is Rebecca. I think I am in love with him. She is the bait. Sony, it's me, Day weekend. This is the trap. This is not a not a present any. His mind is the target. I was dead before I came to this place. And for his family. To nothing, Mr. Setsis. This man is the only answer. You hear me, Danny? I don't want you! Split image, Riddardar. Now, this is the first of two of our tech hotchuff movies this month.

I don't know if that was just a weird quirk of how like one movie took a while to get released or the cuz clearly the other one is the big movie that came out for him this month. But this is a pretty good movie. It feels a little after school especially and how when they and it seems like when an issue like abortion or cults or or school violence or bullying when these stories aren't become so prevalent in the news, you find that the earliest films about them are very

tentative. They're not all that confident. Let's dip our toe into a drama about, you know, cults and families losing a child to a cult. It's a real testament to what was on people's minds. Like,'re going to hit a run of movies coming up

where there's a lot of satanic images and messages hidden in rock music. And there's a ton of that in the 80s because that was on people's minds and it was this weird hysteria. Cults were a huge thing coming out of the late 70s and in the early 80s. I think there was such a panic from parents that your kid is going to be the kid to get into the Colton, what do you do?

And to some degree, this is meant to be the nightmare

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