The first movie with it.

All of it. There are a few decades in film history that have been as scrutinized as the 1980s. But to really understand the decade and its films, it's gonna take a couple of someone who were there for the first time around. During McQueenie and Scott Weinberg are ready to review every major film of the decade one month at a time.

They'll look at what worked then, what endures now, and how it felt to be there with it all with down.

Turn back to calendar with us.

It's the 80s.

All over. Hi everybody, I'm Drew McQueenie and as always I am joined by my cohosts.

Ray and I'm in it.

Why is the little history lesson?

Today my balls, you know like...

I don't think we did well.

Drew I want you to fabricate some sort of history wrap up right now. The ʻ‿ʻ ʻ‿ʻ ʻ‿ʻ ʻ‿ʻ ʻ‿ʻ ʻ‿ʻ ʻ‿ʻ ʻ‿ʻ ʻ‿ʻ ʻ‿ʻ ʻ‿ʻ ʻ‿ʻ ʻ‿ʻ ʻ‿ʻ ʻ‿ʻ ʻ‿ʻ ʻ‿ʻ ʻ‿ʻ Reagan really ballsed it up. Here we go. There we go. There's our whole flashback opening. Hi, I'm Drew McWinney. Welcome to 80s all over. I'm joined as always by my host, Scott Weinberg. You could be my host in return. All right. Fine. Let's jump right in. If you don't know by now, I'm born and raised in Philadelphia. I've lived in Austin a few times throughout my life, but Philadelphia is my first and only home. I grew up obsessed with movies that were shot in and around Philadelphia, Rocky, Manekin, Trading Places, all the classics and everything. But I think the most impressive use of Philadelphia on the whole is Brian DiPolma's fantastic-out. It began with a sound that no one was ever supposed to hear. He's one of the dogs. He says he pulled a girl out of the coffin. I would like you to forget about her. Yeah, that's what I heard just before the tire blew out. You're right, it was a shot.

He recorded a murder.

They say it never happened.

There's still loose ends.

Witnesses, the girl I've decided to terminate her.

Brian de Palmas, blow out. Now you hear it. Now you don't. I think blow out is Brian De Palmas best movie. And I think it's also John Travolta's finest performance. He breaks my heart in this movie. The movie is masterfully shot, brilliantly edited, very clever screenplay. God goddamn good is their bad guy? How good is their bad guy? John Lithgow. I mean, he's got like five or six scenes and every time you see him, he's ominous and creepy. Blowout is essentially about a low budget filmmaker. He's a sound recordist. He's out in the park filming and he hears a car coming and then he hears a bang. The car goes into the river. He jumps into the river, drivelta and pulls out this woman and another man dies, turns out he's a very important politician. She may have been there for ulterior motives beyond just man-woman reliance. This is the perfect post-chapaquity post JFK movie. This is the perfect thriller for an age where paranoia had kind of set in and nobody trusted what they were hearing anymore It's crazy when you look at it now because it feels very contemporary the idea that we don't believe what we see on the news We shouldn't believe it. It's very easy to manipulate. It's very easy to create a narrative that gets sold and to watch how Heartless the wiping away of people is in order to protect a secret is what I think makes this movie stand out. The human toll in blowout is painted on a very personal level. It's got, I think, one of the greatest setups and punchlines in any thriller ever where the last 10 seconds of this movie, if it doesn't land on you like a dump truck dropped off of a building, then you're just not watching the same movie. I am. The first time I saw it, it destroyed me. It's so great.

It's got a dark ending and then a twisted little, they knew mold. You like my French? I love it. I love

all the decisions that Dupalma makes in this movie. I'm a huge Dupalma fan. I don't love all his

films. I think some of his films are half brilliant and half messy, But I think blowout is, if not his best,

easily in his top three without question.

It's one of the ones where he got everything right.

He just knew what he was doing. He hit the ground running. And I love that Travolta was so intimately involved with the Palma. And I think it's one of the reasons that this character really feels like a great fit for him. He's playing it so laid back. He's just a normal, there's no histrionics,

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