I'm going to get a car. I'm going to get a car. I'm going to get a car. I'm going to get a car. I'm going to get a car. I'm going to get a car. I'm going to get a car. I'm going to get a car. I'm going to get a car. I'm going to get a car. I'm going to get a car. I am the co-host of 80s All Over. I am joined by my illustrious co-host, Mr. Drew McQueenie, who is back from a back injury. How are you feeling Drew? Terrific. Good. We had Bobby sit in for you last week as part of the score slash soundtrack episode. And I hope you were happy with how it turned out. And we know that we're going to revisit that topic in the future so that you can get your five cents in on that topic. I look forward to it. It was a great episode though. Thank you, thank you, Bobby, very much. And for this episode, we thought it might be fun to solicit some responses from our listeners. And my first question to the listeners was, who cooler? Drew Scott and it was like 96% Scott and I thought you know what? Not cool. Not cool. So I thought let's go out with a different question and that question was what movies have Drew and I turned turned you guys on to that you may have never seen other except for the fact that we shoved you into it. And Drew, would you consider that our, maybe our true metric of success? Absolutely. If we change the way people think about what the canon of the 80s is, like what the films that are worth discussing are, even if we just add 10 or 15 titles to that general conversation, I think it's a success because that is what drove us here in the first place. The idea that it's such a limited conversation and there are so many unbelievable films that kind of get pushed to the side of forgotten. Yeah, I want to thank everybody and I know on behalf of Drew and Bobby, I want to thank everybody who's listening to this. Because if you're listening to this, that means you are a subscriber of some level. I don't even care what level we thank you. You support us financially, morally, inspirationally, that sometimes when I'm really in a crappy mood, I'll get up from a nap or something. I'll see two tweets from Total Strangers thanking us for the show and it just makes my night feel a little bit better and I am truly grateful for everybody who listens and sends us messages. So having said that, Drew, you want to add anything to that? No, I think that covers it. Yep, Drew loves you all and we always figured, you know, if you're listening to a, you know, I listen to a lot of movie podcasts where the goal is to make you laugh, okay? And they all do that. And that's their level of success. And I've also listened to some scary podcasts and some, you know, informational, political podcasts. And you can always judge their value by, you know, what they give you. Information or laughs or something to think about. And if we can, if each episode can send our listeners off with one or two or even five movies to maybe look into, then that's our measure of success. And I am very proud. Let's go right to it. We asked our listeners to name a film they love. Thanks to the show. Drew, I'm going to start out with this one very near and dear to my heart. It's M. Cohen 76. Macabre Cohen, thank you. Blowout. I'm 41 and from the Philly area and never saw the movie. Great Lithgow and Travolta performances. Holds up. I'm delighted. I blowouted some movie that I love the first time I saw it and and was baffled it wasn't considered a bigger film and you know even though it was a it was a hit it wasn't a monster hit It was a hit and it had Travolta who was undeniably a movie star at that time But it still seemed like it it was kind of always relegated to second-class status and and I think part of that is Depalma in general was always had a hard time with respect. The tremendous documentary from two years ago, it was a nice step forward for him, because I think it helped to set him in a context that a lot of times gets neglected. And he's as important a part of the 70s and 80s moving to filmmakers as any of the other guys, but he chose to work in what is considered a lesser genre, which is thrillers or even horror. and i think that's one of the reasons he's always been discounted to some degree yeah yeah uh... but yeah i i i as a filly guy i'm very happy to hear that uh some of locals who have maybe never seen the film uh... i can only imagine that uh... anybody who knows filly even halfway what well would watch this movie, you know, have a ball picking through all the locations and the accents and the Philly vibe. Love blowout. All right, so our next one is from Jeff Movie Man and these are all our Twitter pals, by the way. So if you wanna find some cool movie geeks on the Twitter, throw these names in there and give them a follow. Jeff Movie Man says, used cars, hearing your love for it convinced me to give it a look and boy were you guys right in every way, super hilarious and smart. Also, Popeye, love it more and more every time I see it and blow out. Thank you for finally getting me to watch that masterpiece. Though, thank you Jeff Movie Man Drew, we are already covered blowout and we will get to let's hold you's cars because it's not the he's not the only one. What are your what are your thoughts on people re-evaluating Popeye in some small regard thanks to me and you and Bob. Couldn't be more delighted. That is absolutely one of the movies that maybe want to do this podcast. And the idea that it would be embraced by people who I think for years have had it in their head that it was a terrible movie or if we did anything to rehab that. And it's great watching people buy the score and talk about how it's very different now that they've seen it as an adult. And it's again, it's a movie that has always bothered me that it was not treated better. Yeah, I mean, I think hopefully people are grasping that it's a maybe it's strange movie. It's an offbeat movie. It is a weird movie and that doesn't know, just because we are championing it and other some of our listeners love it, that doesn't mean that you didn't get it and you're wrong, but we're just hopefully trying to turn people on to the idea that that reputation that certain films have might not be all that well-earned. If you don't like Popeye, fine, but we're hoping that at least you'll look at it and go, you know what, that is true. It's not the debacle disaster, horrible train wreck that it's gotten the reputation for. And even if you don't love it, like Drew said, we're hoping that we can at least give people a little different perspective on a, on a, on a, what's the word you call vilified or undistrespected film. And that's the thing. I don't need everybody to love Popeye.

I get why people don't like it, but I think it's one of those movies. If you can just listen to somebody express why they love it, I think you'll have a better sense of why that reaction exists. And that's the thing. It's all of this. I get it. There's going to be people that don't like use cars. There's gonna be people who don't like Popeye, but the idea that it's dismissed without having seen it is what has always bothered me

And I think Popeye is a huge, huge image problem. I think people do just automatically assume, oh, wasn't that a disaster? Isn't that terrible? Yeah, and you know, like we've said in many episodes, we're kind of trying to demystify the 80s and that you know what the 80s

Where hello a lot more than just back to the future goes busters, you know

It was the lost dark it would start and by the way back

And you know there was a lot more than just the iconic 80s movies and on the other hand maybe

Where we would you know change a couple of minds about you know?

What do we get to ishtar dude? All how about that let's leave it at that I mean Ishtar is a bad movie but I could name we are going to fist fight so hard when we get there man Drew I could name 10 movies that came out in 87 that were worse than Ishtar in so can you well yes but it's not a bad movie I'm not going to take that Ishtar is not a bad movie. All right, we're going to save that for the future. Thank you, Jeff movie man. We now move on to

Andrew Cardin, a.k.a Awards Connect. And he says, now this Andrews are guy who's very

air you'd like and very learned it in classic Hollywood. I mean, if you were to talk to him about

Billy Wilder, Audrey Hepburn, Alfred Hitchcock, Andrew Cardin will come up and he knows his classic Hollywood. And you know what, what his thank you is, Drew? He says no film headlined by George Kennedy and Richard Krenna could be anything less than fantastic. Well, death ship, Death ship, baby.

That's a case of he may not have even known it existed. I don't believe we were like stringently recommending that one, but... I do, I do, I do. I just crap, but I love it. Death ship, I'm glad, yeah, no, it's a bad movie, but it's also a very entertaining bad movie and it's a Colorfully bad movie given the premise the cast the setting the rust everywhere To spare there's no that yeah, I just And I just love the idea that something this oddly or darkly entertaining is not just oh, I've heard of that and maybe I'll give it a shot But most most most of the time with stuff like Death Ship, it's, I've literally never heard of that.

So you've, you've, you guys have literally introduced a film into my life that an hour

ago, I didn't know existed.

And I don't care if it's Death Ship or ET.

That makes me happy to like show, you know, show somebody a film they didn't know existed.

We're having a lot of that. There's a lot of these movies that even having lived through this and having been a rabid movie fan at the time, there's stuff that's brand new to me. And I think that's also part of this process is the idea that we're going back and filling in gaps for ourselves or reminding ourselves of films or rewatching something and realizing we're having a different reaction. But there's a lot of discovery here. This is certainly not, we're done, we've seen it all,

and now we're just going to recite our opinions. It's a very active process, and it's weird. It's created this strange echo for me because I have two movie lives going on right now. I have the movie life with current movies that I'm reviewing and writing about and watching and things like that. And then this other half of my head, It is always 1980 something right now.

And that is a really weird echo,

but it also highlights just how strange and diverse 80s cinema was because there was less of the sort of homogenization or the clear boundaries of genre or a lot of what we see now. And I think it's because there was a sense in the 70s, 80s and even into the 90s that pop culture was for everyone at the same time. And now more and more, we're pushing towards niche culture, which it's fine. If you want to have your niche and you want to be, you know, you have just the phones that you watch or just the thing that entertains you, you can now. There is enough media out there. But there used to be a sense that we shared all of this stuff. Niche culture is my favorite to Peshmo down there. Our next contributor, Derek, D-Man 11. Oh yeah. Hey D-Man. Love Derek, death trap. In the movies I wanted to see as a kid, parents didn't want to take me to. So good, but probably wouldn't have got to it. A 10. Oh, at 10,

he wouldn't have got to do it at 10. Thank you, Derek. Yeah, death trap. I really hope that people are enjoying that one. I, you know, I'm certainly not, I don't ever want us to take credit for like, you know, we're just shedding a spotlight, shining a spotlight on good films from 30 years ago.

So I don't wanna make it tell,

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