The Best of 1983

'80s All Over

Scott Weinberg and Drew McWeeny

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.6 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

We started the year grumbling and mumbling so it seems like progress to go out cheering for the undeniable highs that the year ended up offering in the end. James L. Brooks. Philip Kaufman, Martin Scorsese... these are names you might expect to see on a list like this. But there are plenty of surprises in store as well. What movie surprises both of the guys with an almost side-by-side placement on their lists, considering they'd never seen it before this year? What filmmaker ends up on one of the lists twice? And how many times does Scott sing? We are thrilled to finish up season four, and in the end, maybe we can admit that we're a little more fond of 1983 than we used to be. And that's huge, considering where we began.

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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.
0:55.0	It's the 80s all over. I'm not you know, I'm I'm I'm
1:11.6	I'm
1:13.6	I'm Sweet dreams are made of this. Let's Dance in Total Eclipse of the Heart were among the songs dominating the charts this year.
1:44.6	The average cost of a new home was $82,600. A new Ford Mustang cost $6,75, and a gallon of milk is a buck 35.
1:56.8	The United States invaded Granada, rescuing nearly a thousand U.S. civilians trapped in the country after a coup d'etaback by Cuba.
2:03.1	Ronald Reagan proposed the Star Wars defense platform in a live televised address, and China's population had a billion total people for the first time.
2:11.6	Kids were buying cabbage patch dolls, C&S, and the Atari 5200, and grown-ups were rocking rugby pullovers and leg warmers.
2:18.6	The first mobile phones were introduced, as were Microsoft Word Fragal Rock of the first Mario
2:22.7	Brothers game, which made its debut as an arcade cabinet in Japan.
2:26.1	All that and the birth of the Internet, too.
2:27.8	Man, give it up one last time for the chaos that was 1983.
2:31.8	Down at Fragle Rock.
2:34.0	Down at Fragle Rock. Down at Fragle Rock.
2:36.1	Down at Fragle Rock.
2:37.6	Hi, everybody.
2:38.5	I'm Drew McQueenie and welcome to our very last episode of season four of the show.
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