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 McLean 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. 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 Sweet dreams are made of this, let's dance and total eclipse of the heartwarming songs dominating the charts this year. The average cost of a new home was $82,600, a new Ford Mustang cost $6,752, and a gallon of milk is a buck 35. The United States invaded Grenada rescuing nearly a thousand U.S. civilians trapped in the country after a coup d'etat back by Cuba, Ronald Reagan proposed the Star Wars defense platform and a live televised address, and China's population had a billion total people for the first time. Kids were buying cabbage patch dolls, sea and seas, and the Atari 5200 and the grownups were rocking rugby, pullovers, and leg warmers. The first mobile phones were introduced, as were Microsoft Word, Fraggle Rock and the first Mario Brothers game, the Twenties debut as an arcade cabinet Japan.

All that and the birth of the internet too. Man, give it up one last time for the chaos. It was 1983. Down in Fraggle Rock. Down in Fraggle Rock. Down in Fraggle Rock. Hi everybody, I'm Drew McQueenie, and welcome to our very last episode of season four of the show. As always, I'm joined by my co host, Scott Weinberg. What's up, sir?

Nice recap of 1983, a year that doesn't hold a very special place in my heart for movies, but we are here to highlight the best and brightest of the year. I think that people will discover that while it is kind of a running gag that I dislike this year overall, we are going to have a lot of high points and good films to talk about. So let's wrap this year up and let's do it in style. And by that, I want Bobby to put some cool music in there. We start by talking about something that I am not always a big fan of the conversation

out, but I do love it in historical context. Just don't look at what people went to see. Like I'm curious about what actually sold to me. It's fascinating to me. I think the older a film is, the more interesting the context of its box office is. It sets a context rather than it feeling like a contest that you have to be invested in at the moment. Drew, I'm gonna let you open up the top 10 because I know it's a film near and dear to your heart.

You know, for 1983, $63 million was a pretty big respectable number, especially for a movie starring a kid nobody really knew yet. Tom Cruise, I love risky business. Just take those old records on the shelf. I simply listen to to them by myself We just had the release of Mission Impossible fallout So I've seen a handful of recent articles about Tom Cruise And it's always interesting how risky business is addressed as one of the key films in his career But I don't know if people really get how this was his arrival. And it was giant for the time. Like 63 million then is a phenomenon. That's like everybody knew what it was. Everybody was aware of it. And yeah, how many times that year did you see him slide out in the underwear in the shirt? That image became part of 1983's sort of vocabulary. Drew and I have had a lot of fun kind of charting Tom Cruise's appearances. Oh, the area is an endless love and area, a bigger part in taps. Oh, he gets to star in all the right moves. And from risky business on, there are no secrets. You know every film he's made. What was number nine, Scott? Mr. Mom. Wow. Wow. Lovable, scruffy, future-length sitcom with a great cast brought in 64.7. That's amazing to me because it looks like Malcolm in the middle, like it is not a terribly impressive movie. Aside from the cast, the movie is three episodes of a sitcom wedged together. And that's fine because it's an amiable version of that. But yeah, I'm a little surprised that it was that big of a hit. And I think it's because Michael Keaton was now making his mark as somebody that people would go see a movie because he's in it. It also, there is something about the trope of the dad who is so functionally moronic that he tries to put the baby in the toaster and he tries to diaper the dog and he accidentally puts mashed potatoes in the washing machine and it works every time. It's crazy the way people will go see that shit. And it's got that coolness where it's like a family friendly movie, but it's not like a family movie.

It's not a disney-fied type movie.

It still has a little bit of an edge to it. So anyway, Mr. Wright, Michael Keaton's the guy from the Hooker movie. Now we move on to number eight, Drew. This one's all yours. I've had so many conversations about this movie lately, just randomly and out of nowhere that it's a little weird. I feel like I'm being followed by staying alive.

I feel like I said its name too many times and now its like candy man.

It's just gonna appear behind me and haunt me forever. It is unreal that this movie was that big a hit but then then you have to remember, Saturday and I Fever was a monster. So there was a built-in desire for this to be something. Plus, if ever the top film so far have shown that movie star power in the early 80s was reigning supreme, John Travolta, who at this point could have made almost anything, not to a kind.

Well, in the ad campaign for that was entirely his body.

That was it.

It was John Travolta essentially oiled and naked here.

This is what you're going to get.

From my mistake and he did have a headband, a little blue headband wrapped around his head.

It's delightful, too.

If you're just looking for unintentional humor, this movie is where you'll find it.

This is a wellspring of straight-faced ineptitude. I'm really happy that Tony Minero's story stopped cold where it did. How come there was no part three? This one made a lot of money. I don't know, but I will tell you, I would do happily right now today. If you gave me permission, I would do a sequel to our next movie.

Number seven, all of these are really really close. It's 63, 64, 64, then 67. And this is, of course, sudden impact. Go ahead, make my day. I would do a movie with dirty hair now because I heard a phrase one time and the phrase is so good that it's gotta to be a movie, the cops who retire to these private cop communities in like Idaho where the only people who live there are cops. They call them blue heaven. Those communities have got to be bizarre. I would do a movie about dirty hairy retiring to a all police white enclave community and some shits going down and Dirty Harry can't leave it alone because he's Dirty Harry and it's other old cops versus Dirty Harry. You could cast the shit out of that. If I could pitch Dirty Harry part six it would be three or four people have banded together because their parents and or other loved ones were killed by dirty Harry in the past

without due process just murdered in the street and they band together to take him down. I'm down with that. Did we discuss this before? What is the best dirty Harry movie overall? I think the best dirty Harry movie is dirty Harry. I think it's the one that has the the real voice and point. Part 2 is damn good. I think. Part 2's wild. Part 2 is a wild John Millius movie and it's way more

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