Times Square (1980)
This Ends at Prom
Brennan Klein
4.8 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
"I ain't got much time. I don't expect to live past 21. That's why I got to jam it all in now, you know?"
The Wives Colangelo are kicking off a brand new year by going back to 1980 to hang out with two best friends who are definitely in love and ready to take over TIMES SQUARE. The Wives discuss the brilliance of Robin Johnson, old-school teenage rebellion, edy teen films that are actually edgy, and the ways punk rock behavior hasn't exactly aged well. If Allan Moyle is in the director's chair, you know it's going to be a good one!
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings and salutations. And welcome to This Ends at Prom. A coming of age podcast highlighting |
| 0:06.9 | cinema about or marketed towards teen girls. I'm one of your hosts, B.J. Calangelo, and I'm joined |
| 0:13.4 | by my wife. Harmony Calangelo, a trans woman who grew up watching none of these movies. Is |
| 0:19.0 | today's movie a Queen Bee? |
| 0:22.8 | Or are we killing the teen dream? |
| 0:24.0 | Get in loser. |
| 0:25.5 | We're analyzing the movies. |
| 0:27.5 | People make fun of us for loving. |
| 0:31.4 | I don't want to be your merch, girl. |
| 0:34.7 | I want to be your goddamn idol. And I don't want to have to work twice as hard for the same motherfucking title |
| 0:41.3 | but I realize that I probably won't be so lucky. |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:00.0 | Welcome to 2025, |
| 1:04.0 | prom party. |
| 1:08.0 | Times Square used to look real different. |
| 1:10.0 | You sure did. Back in the day, like, Year's like people wear diapers or whatever and then they just pee so they don't have to try to find a bathroom during New Year's Eve. People just used to pee on Times Square. That's true. You know? They really did. So the more things change, the more they stay the same. You just slap a new coat of paint on it. |
| 1:29.6 | And by paint, I mean a lot of advertisers. |
| 1:32.0 | A lot of advertisers and urine. |
| 1:35.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:36.7 | We are talking about Times Square from 1980. |
| 1:42.4 | This movie is celebrating its 45th anniversary this year. Killer, right? It's killer. Yeah, this is a movie that's been on my radar for a long time, but it's been, it was fun because neither of us had seen it. Right. So I had... We're coming in on the faith of Alan Moyle alone. Yeah, I had only seen, like, clips of this movie before because it's got, also got Tim Curry in it. So I'm obviously going to see that. I've seen stills of it. Yeah, I know the soundtrack kicks ass. Soundtrack was a big one. There's a VHS tape copy behind the bar at Vidyats that is constantly just staring at me when I order from there. Yep. So this is, this has been following us for a bit, but fortunately there was a new Kino Lorber release |
| 2:23.3 | in about 2022, I believe. |
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