The 80s.

A nostalgic wonderland caught between the New Hollywood Renaissance of the 70s

and the blockbuster explosion of the 90s.

It's one thing to romanticize it.

It's another to live through it.

Drew McQueenie and Scott Weinberg were there for all of it.

And now they're going back, month by month, film by film, to see what holds up, what doesn't, and why.

It's the 80s all over. Thank you. August of 1979, there were numerous things happening in pop culture and around the world.

Michael Jackson released his breakthrough album off the wall in August 10th.

ESPN had just launched on television, and the U.S. and Soviet Union had just sat down to negotiate the Salt 2 Treaty.

Three Mile Island was on fire, and the Ayatollah Khomeini was back in Iran after 15 years in exile.

Needless to say, Americans were fleeing to theaters to escape what was happening in the outside world,

and that's what we're going to look at this month.

What was going on in movies in August of 1979 this week on a test episode of 80s all over?

Scott Weinberg, my co-host and esteemed counterpart here, how old were you in August of 1979?

I was seven. All right. I would have been nine, but freshly nine. So some of these are movies that were aspirational for me at the time.

Some of these are movies I actually saw. Keep in mind, I had a crazy uncle who used to like to

torment me by taking me to see things I shouldn't have. And some of these are movies that I didn't catch up with until a lot later, but that have

become favorite since.

This is about the time that I started to want to go to the movie.

You know, when you're very young, your parents take you to the movies.

And then you're in a certain age where you're like, I want to go see this.

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