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 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 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. Judge Watner called the People's Court Discession for the very first time. The New York Times Entertainment tonight also made its television career. Simon and Garfunkel reunited for a concert in Central Park, and the US 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 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, we always want to upfront acknowledge when we miss something. 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 Gances 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 primitive, cinema with three panels and multiple screens and stuff cutting.. I saw the 70 millimeter version then. I got taken to see it. I didn't understand much of it, but it was a unbelievable spectacle. And it was, I think one of the biggest moments of somebody trying to do like a major restoration and putting it back out of the theaters for that early part of the 80s. You know what else is a major spectacle?

What's a major spectacle? Your face. Damn! I'm trying to make this show a little funnier. You know, these are the jokes. These are the comedy jokes. Listen folks, it's one thing to listen to the show. It is another thing to throw your support behind it. We are grateful to each and every one of you who have already pledged the five, the ten, or even the $15 level at www.patrion.com backslash 80s all over. What has arrived recently for the subscriber base? Last week we did a brand new full length audio commentary for Flash Gordon. Savior of the universe? That's the one flash. We've also released a sneak peek at chapter one of the first of the 80s all over books.

If you can't do a monthly pledge, I get it. But we hear all the time about how people make lists while they're watching the show to try to track films down. So why not track them down through the 80s all over store, which is at 80sallover.com. We just reorganized it. You can find everything now just like we do it here on the show month by month in order. And I think with the exception of about two or three films, we got everything that we

covered in 1980 up on the store.

So if you listen to our show and you all of a sudden are suddenly inspired to purchase say used cars or dead and buried or prints of the city or flash Gordon drew should I keep going. You can stop by eighties all over and just purchase it through one of those links and that helps us out a lot and you get the movie. And then what generally happens is you'll tweet to one of us and we'll respond politely because we appreciate your patronage. Thank you very much guys for sitting through the plugs and now let's jump right into it because it's a it's kind of a strange month. September 1981 is all over the place. Like now the summer movie season really really grinds to a halt in September. You'll get a handful of like blockbuster type popcorn movies and maybe some what we call like damaged goods tent pole movies. But for the most part, September is kind of a schizophrenic month and it was back then too. Sometimes you notice when you're watching stuff all together and you're watching things month by month,

and you see these accidental sort of flurries of, there's a bunch of stuff like this in common, there's a bunch of stuff like this in common, fair warning here, there was lots of casual use of the word, fag this month, and it was really shocking. You forget how in the early 80s, people drop that non-subcontinental divide, John Belushi is a moment where he's just talking to somebody and casually says, are you a

faggot?

And we were watching it.

And I think everybody in the room gas. people drop that non-continental divide. John Belushi is a moment where he's just talking to somebody and casually says,

are you a faggot?

And we were watching it and I think everybody in the room gased because we just weren't expecting it. Even in amiable comedies where you just get either a fag reference or a, you know, gay panic joke and you're like, okay, I mean, this was grown worthy in 1988. It's even worse now, but it's important to watch those films in the context of their era.

16 candles if it was made today would look a lot... I mean, this was grown worthy in 1988. You know, it's even worse now, but it's important to watch those films

in the context of their era. 16 candles, if it was made today, would look a lot different. Oh, God, a revenge in the nerds. Or yeah, I mean, let's start actually with two films then back to back that I think in each and their own way are enormously pinned to the moment they came out. The first one is the debut directorial feature by Andrew Bergman.

It's called So Fine. How did Ryan O'Neal become so successful? By accident. This is successful. This is what if you're dead, silly Jesus? Fabulous. We've got a real phenomenon going over here, then. So fine. A revealing comedy about reaching the top by way of the bottom. So fine, rated R. It starts Friday, September 25th. Check newspapers for local listing. This is a terrible movie. Andrew Bergman, who, yeah, he, he, uh, co-wrote, blazing saddles, and then he wrote by himself the in-laws. So with your name on two smash hits and legitimately great comedies, uh, any producer would say, what else do you want to make? Oh, you want to direct? Okay. And obviously, Andrew Bergman, who went on to direct the freshman and other films, is, went on to become a much better director. i think so fine is like it wants to be a sex bar said wants to be a cacat higher of consumerism it

wants to be a sex farce. It wants to be a satire of consumerism. It wants to be a parody in some ways. It has some kind of like spy angle to it. It's just all over the place. I couldn't stand it. I really was, it was grating on my nerves. This is the incredible shrinking woman, but in reverse. Because while I think so fine does not work overall. I think there's a lot of Andrew Bergman in it and I think there are sequences that work all the way through it He has a lot of fun with Richard Keel and the fact that Richard Keel is 11 feet tall and has never been treated like this in a movie though For a reason he is one of the worst actors I've ever seen he he makes Michael Jordan look like a good actor. Have you seen space jam?

I- oh my god.

I look, I think he gets a lot of genuine laughs out of Richard Keel in the film and- Oh! Beyond that, Jack Warden's story, there's this weird thing that the movie does, where- I- my- my disdain for this movie, I have to point out, take Jack Warden out of the equation because his moments are almost like a good

film stuck in a terrible film. That's what's interesting to me is the fact that

there's more than one movie going on here there's the out, take Jack Warden out of the equation because his moments are almost like a good film stuck

...