Hi, I got a tape I want to play. 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 gonna 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. To look at what worked then, what endurers now, and how it felt to be there when it all went down? Turn back to Calendar with us.

It's the 80 of certain bills.

But that seems crazy, right?

Thank God things like that can't happen now.

The challenger left the earth once more and Dr. Catherine D. Sullivan became the first US woman to walk in space. Reverend Desmond Tutu, whom the Nobel Peace Prize in Indian Prime Minister and Deer Agandi, was killed in her home by her own bodyguards. Even as the IRA bombed a lended hotel where merit thatcher was staying, pretty much

summing up the turbulent times.

You need something more tranquil?

Okay, the Monoray Bay Aquarium open for the- own bodyguards, even as the IRA bombed a london hotel where merit that's your best thing. Pretty much summing up the turbulent times.

You need something more tranquil?

Okay.

The Monterey Bay Aquarium opened for the first time. I've been there. It's lovely. And now I feel relaxed and ready to face the wild ride that is October of 1984. Hi everybody. I'm Drew McQuinnie and welcome to 80s all over. I'm joined as always by my co-host Scott Weinberg. How are you Scott? Hello Drew. How are you tonight?

First of all, we are going to back up just a month or two, just a couple of months here. We missed a movie. He can't really blame us. It was a very tiny release, a film called The Jigsaw Man. In return for betraying his country, they removed his past, destroyed his reputation, and finally, they even took away his life. So begins a sinister mission, and one man's fight to stay alive in the deadliest game of all. Michael Cain is the Jigsaw man. If this had been a mic Hod film with Michael Caine, this probably would be a film we all knew. Terrence Young made some good Bond films, but a lot of times he was kind of on autopilot. And British autopilot in this era was still a lot better than like J. Lee Thompson, American autopilot. You know, he stepped into it late because this was a micologist collaboration with C with Kane and I think it just feels shabby and unfinished. Sort of a very mild mannered riff on face-off where it's a British agent who defects to Russia where they do plastic surgery on him to give him a new face and then they send him back to England because they need something that he didn't get before he left.

It was the very first person to ever come up with this premise was of like,

I have a new faith.

We've seen it so many times, but it is such a cool crime story, a hook.

Especially for fans of early bond, it's a bummer that you can't say,

oh, and here's this good little spy film by Terrence Young that you've never heard.

I wish it was that. It's not. So let's jump in. The first film that we're going to do this month feels like we are neck deep in the 80s now. This is as 80s as a movie gets Scott. What did you think of Thief of Hearts? Thief of Hearts to Thiefs that be as one. That's what I have to say. Don't think this is a

theme. These of part of it, you I need you. Steve in power of Scarface and Barbara Williams of literally nothing else. In a film directed by by the writer of the Blue Lagoon and an officer in a gentleman.

Yeah, it's about a thief who steals a woman's diary. You thought I was going to say heart. And then reads about her licentious dreams and witches. And then he whews her and beds her. It's really skeezy. It's like a red shoe diary, but only one shoe. This is very, very early Simpson Brockheimer, and it is super slick the way their films are.

Yeah, but if they're throwing darts. So this is when they're still trying to figure out what their style is. And this is basically the dawn of the erotic thriller. That was not a genre really. You sounded like you were going to sing. Sing!

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