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. A daily syndicated game show broadcasted its first episode this month and has been on TV

ever since.

What is Geppery? Meanwhile on NBC, Miami Vice made its premiere pushing network TV style forward, whether it wanted it or not. And the Cosby Show also premiered, turning stand-up star Bill Cosby into the single biggest sitcom star of the decade, and changing the way black families were portrayed on television forever. By the cars was the big winner at the first annual MTV Music Video Awards, and President Reagan refused to impose sanctions against South Africa, vetoing strong measures that had already been approved by Congress, despite growing support for the idea that something had to be done about

apartheid. Things were definitely heating up around the world in September of 1984. I'm Drew McQueenie and I'm joined as always by my co-host Scott Weinberg after a brief break so we can talk about the month where I almost quit the show. Welcome Scott. Thank you for being patient with us while we took a week off. Yeah, I don't know about you, but I needed a little breather as we geared up for this episode.

This is a tough month.

It's a tough year. We've had some stress. You're doing 24 in a month. It gets a little dense. And I think it's hard when the line-up is not great. And when you have a mediocre month, sometimes our like mission statement gets lost. Because it sounds like, oh, we're just trashing six obscure movies from 1984. But no, the goal is to go month by month. And there have been sometimes where we look at months and go, this month sucks. And what are you going to do? You can't change history. And we're going to start this one with a really bizarre obscure fascinating movie in many ways. Drew Drew let us discuss nothing less forever. I had had this thing on my radar because Leonard Martin included it in his movie guide, even though it never came out. I'm not sure what Leonard Drashinal was, but it was supposed to come out in September of 84 originally theatrically. Two weeks before it was supposed to come out, everything fell apart and it just didn't. And as a result, this thing has become this weird sort of artifact. And when I was working in New York in the early 90s, my agent was the same agent who represented Tom Scheller, the writer director of the film. And so I finally got a copy on videotape, and I got to see it. Since then, MGM has actually started showing it on Turner Movie Classics occasionally, and I think that is terrific. I'm glad that it is finally leaked out, and it has some sort of commercial life. Tom Schiller is a very talented writer-director. He did a lot of early shorts for Saturday Night Live. Cobbled this together, it stars that Galligan. Lauren Tom has small work by Dan Acroid, Bill Murray,

Imagine Cokka. director, he did a lot of early shorts for Saturday Night Live. Cobbled this together, it stars that Galligan,

Lauren Tom has small work by Dan Acroid, Bill Murray,

Imagine Cokka.

It's got a score by Howard Shore. And it like very much evokes like a 1940s, kind of screwball comedy, but then it gets kind of bittersweet. Well, and even build it out of old footage in a lot of places, but it's not Deadman don't wear plaid where it's a joke,

it's just that's the world he's building.

So having said all that, I don't think it's a very good movie.

Shiller was a really smart... but it's not Deadman Don't Wear Plad where it's a joke, it's just that's the world he's building. So...

Having said all that, I don't think it's a very good movie.

Shiller was a really smart writer, but his short films worked his short films. They were quick ideas and they were one punch and then they would get out. This feels like a short that just doesn't end and just doesn't go away. and the world that it's building is so arch

and it's so fake that after a while,

you have trouble connecting to anything.

It deals with a hapless, how would you describe the Zach Alligan? Well he wants to be an artist and he doesn't have any artistic skills which hinders him when they give him a test before he's allowed in New York City to determine whether or not he can actually be an artist and he fails miserably. Then it gets super weird where he hops on a bus to the mood. And you know, things definitely pick up at that point, but even then it just kind of spins its wheels a lot. I am glad that I got to see it finally and I did enjoy parts of it, but it's not bad enough for MGM to just add, oh my god, this is garbage. You can't get off the schedule. I don't think that's ever been the problem. I think it's a legal issue. I think that they have rights problems. And they've tried over the years.

I know Bill Murray has done a peer. For MGM to just add, oh my god, this is garbage. Yeah, you know, the schedule. I don't think that's ever been the problem. I think it's a legal issue.

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