There are 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 some ones

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 endures 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. The Judge Wapner called the People's Court this session for the very first time. Entertainment Tonight also made its television premiere.

Simon and Garfunkel reunited for a concert in Central Park

and the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee approved Sandra Day O'Connor by unanimous vote.

And on the 25th of the month, she was sworn in as the first woman justice of the Supreme Court of the United States,

which by default, is cooler than any of the movies that came out in September of 1981.

Hi, everybody. I'm Drew McQueenie, and I am joined, as always, by my co-host, Scott Weinberg. What's up, man?

That's me. I'm Scott Weinberg. So, before we get started real quickly,

say oops, upside to head, say oops, upside to head.. Say oops. Upside your head.

We always want to up front, acknowledge when we miss something.

And I was actually just reading a thing about reissues and realized we missed one of the

biggest of the 80s.

We missed Francis Ford Coppola's restoration and reissue of Abel Gantz's Napoleon, which

was treated as an event that was basically a year long rolling out from city to city in this giant 70 millimeter road show exhibition version that opened in January at Radio City Musical.

I don't think they've made it readily available since then, and it's a real shame because it was one of those things where it kind of needs to be

in theatrical reissue on a regular basis it only works theatrically it's he designed it like

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