September 1983

'80s All Over

Scott Weinberg and Drew McWeeny

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.6 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2018

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Man, this is where you start to feel like you're lost in a dark forest, and the right path appears not anywhere... Ninjas and frightmares and terrorists, oh, my! Rip Torn, Deathstalkers, and Koyaanisqatsi? That's not enough for you? You want more? How about two movies called the exact same goddamn thing? I'll even throw in Eddie, some Cruisers, and a Brainstorm. And that's still not even half of what we're covering in September of 1983.

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0:00.0	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
0:22.0	to take a couple some ones who were there for it the first time around. Drew McQueenie
0:26.2	and Scott Weinberg are ready to review every major film of the decade one month at a time.
0:31.9	The look at what worked then, what endures now, and how it felt to be there when it all went
0:36.9	down.
0:39.4	Turn back the calendar with us.
1:11.6	It's the 80s all over. I'm not sure. I'm not. I'm going to Oh, Oh, Oh,
1:12.6	Oh,
1:13.6	Oh, The Soviet Union shot down Korean Air Flight 007 when it wandered into Siberian airspace,
1:40.3	and then the Soviet Union actually admitted they shot it down about five days later.
1:44.3	A week after that, the UN voted a resolution denouncing the action, as did the United States Congress,
1:49.0	and the USSR's response to all of it was to basically shrug and go,
1:52.4	and Malaccombegan resigned as Israel's premier,
1:55.9	Arnold Schwarzenegger became a U.S. citizen.
1:58.2	Coincidence, you be the judge.
2:00.3	Kiss made their first unmasked appearance
2:02.0	ever on MTV and the disappointment heard round the world. And at the Emmys, Hill Street Blues
2:06.2	and Cheers cleaned up his best drama and best comedy because TV was freaking awesome in September
2:10.9	of 1983.
2:16.3	Hi everybody. I'm Drew. Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name.
2:20.4	Hi, everybody.
2:21.4	I'm Drew McQueenie.
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