80s Movies - Which Year Was the Best?

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Hey everybody, Hello, and welcome
to a podcast super show. We got

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five folks represented here between book author
and podcasters and just a bunch of crazy

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movie people who love movies, love
to talk about movies, and maybe a

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little little friendly debate on movies.
Today we are here to discuss and debate

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which year from the eighties is the
best for movies. I am going to

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be moderating this one. I am
John Reid. I am the host of

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the thirty something Movie Podcast. We
do movies that are hitting their thirtieth anniversary,

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so this year being twenty twenty three, we are in nineteen ninety three.

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We've been doing some fun stuff with
Jurassic Park, Groundhog Day, Fugitive,

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one of my personal favorites, Demolition
Man, tons of fun stuff.

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So we are over there at at
the thirty something Movie Podcast. I am

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going to kick it first over to
Dayton. Dayton, tell us a little

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bit about your podcast, and you
are representing the year nineteen eighty one,

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So tell us about yourself and tell
us what was fun about eighty one?

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Yes, Hi, thank you,
John. I am Daton Johnson. I

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am the host of the docu based
seventies finn podcast What we do is we

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talk obviously movies, music, We
cover some comic books, some books,

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and we recently did two episodes on
Ready Player Won the movie and the book.

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I'm lucky. I'm blessed to have
a lot of friends to like to

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nerd out about such things. And
everybody on this current episode had either been

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on or will soon beyond John on
the podcast, So thank you to everybody

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there. Eighty one is important because
that was right when I started going to

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the movies alone without the parents or
whatever, and I just have very fond

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memories of that. And also it
was the year my wife was born,

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so that is another reason why it's
my favorite year for movies. So there

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you go, and we've got Dave. He is representing nineteen eighty four.

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Dave, you've got a couple of
different projects that you have worked on and

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in the work, So why don't
you tell us a little bit about you

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in nineteen eighty four. Okay,
Well, I'm the only one here that

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doesn't actually have a podcast on his
own, but I do have a YouTube

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chan where I talk about American soccer. I do short form content design for

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the new fan or the curious fan. If you're not anti soccer. You

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don't hate it, but you just
don't have a way in I could I

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simplify that for everybody. So for
a new and curious fans, short form

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content is on YouTube. It is
called American Soccer Quick Kicks. I'm having

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a lot of fun with that and
is gaining subtraction. I am also the

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author of the epic sword and sorcery
fantasy series of novels called Galahads Doom.

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Very excited about that because I actually
the third volume of that just came out

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earlier this year, and I'm very
pleased with how it turned out. So

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Galahads Doom dot com and check out
my books excellent. Jeff, you got

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the fix for nineteen eighty six.
Why don't you tell us a little bit

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about your podcast and what you love
about nineteen eighty six? Thank you,

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John. I am Jeff Johnson,
co host of a film by podcast.

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That's where we like to wax intellectual
about our favorite directors, they're underrated hits

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and what we love most about them. In between that, we have founds

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the time to do a couple fun
limited series, the first of which was

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one called nineteen eighty six, which
was all about the celebrating the movies in

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ineteen eighty six to determine whether or
not eighty six was in fact the best

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year for cinema in the eighties,
and after several people had a strong opinion,

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we find ourselves here today. I
didn't say the thing about nineteen eighty

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four. Let me say this,
Yeah, I'm willing to entertain debate on

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if it was the best year for
movies, although it's definitely a contender,

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And honestly, I think we have
the four best years of the decade represented

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here. But when you take everything, all aspects of pop culture all together

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and consider what was the best pop
culture year, so movies, music,

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TV shows, folks, comics,
everything, I think nineteen eighty four is

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the clear runaway winner when you take
it all into consideration, even though the

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McRib came out in eighty one.
See like I said, I'm already detecting

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bias, but I'm gonna go And
then Jason, Jason is bring us up

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here at the end of the decade. Nineteen eighty nine was definitely fine.

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Jason, tell us a little bit
about your podcast. And at nineteen eighty

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nine, So my name's Jason Colvin. My best buddy, mister James D.

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Graves and I do a podcast called
Surely You Can't Be Serious Podcast.

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We match up movies against each other
or music against each other. So we

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have done Raiders of the Lost Ark. We actually matched that up with Back

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to the Future from eighty five.
We've done The Terminator from eighty four.

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We matched it up with Alien.
Just recently we did Cinderella's a Long Cold

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Winner. We're doing that against Van
Halen's OU eight one two. So we

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take two different projects, we match
them up, we compare them, and

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then we kind of decide a winner. So talking with you guys, my

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good friends, I started to make
a case for nineteen eighty nine, and

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I heard objection your honor nineteen eighty
four and eighty six and eighty one,

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and so we're here today to talk
about those. I love nineteen eighty nine

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to me because it closes out the
decade. To me, it's the most

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eighties of the eighties years, and
so eighty nine is personal favorite years.

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So I'll be interested to see where
we go and what kind of fun we

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can have with this excellent well,
so our first segment that we've got here,

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Jason, I think you've got some
numbers for us. You're going to

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start off with a little a little
math. It was my understanding there will

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be no math on this podcast.
I love it. Box office. Yeah,

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that's right, just right out of
the gate. We want to go

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ahead and get these box office numbers
out there because facts are facts, right,

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So this is really not something we
can argue. But let's just throw

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this out there and we can talk
about what these numbers mean and the impact

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of these But here is a list
of the top fifteen at the worldwide box

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office by movie. Okay, so
number fifteen overall is Honey I Shrunk the

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Kids from nineteen eighty nine. Number
fourteen overall is Lethal Weapon two from nineteen

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eighty nine. Number thirteen is Ghostbusters
from nineteen eighty four. Number twelve is

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Beverly Hills Cop nineteen eighty four.
Number eleven is Dead Poets Society eight from

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nineteen eighty nine. Ten overall is
Crocodile Dundee two from nineteen eighty eight.

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Number nine is Returning the Jedi from
eighty three. Number eight is Coming to

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America at nineteen eighty eight. Number
seven is Look Who's Talking from eighty nine.

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Number six is Roger Rabbit in nineteen
eighty eight. Five overall is Back

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to the Future two from eighty nine, Rainman from eighty eight. Number three

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overall is Batman from eighty nine.
Number two overall is Indiana Jones and The

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Last Crusade from nineteen eighty nine.
And then number one, of course is

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Et from nineteen eighty two. So
curious list right there. If it please

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the moderator, I suggest that this
this last bit information would be stricken from

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the record. I kept hearing eighty
nine way too often objective. Well,

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let's move on to our next part. Our next part, we're going to

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spend a little bit more time in
here, and each person's going to get

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their opportunity to talk about kind of
the pop culture impact, pop culture impact

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if you got dating, in terms
of how this impacted the culture. I

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selected a few movies from my year
to point out that without these, the

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other years miss out on some of
their more iconic films. So first we're

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starting off with the film An American
Werewolf from London. We're one of the

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first early horror films I truly enjoyed
because it also had that nice tinge of

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comedy and it is definitely frightening,
for sure, but it also made you

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laugh at the same time, so
that's very cool. So I do have

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two major pop culture impacts with this
one feature film. First, it was

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the film that inspired a very young
Eggar Wright to become a filmmaker, giving

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us classics like Shaun of the Dead
and Scott Polgrim Versus the World and Baby

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Driver as well. So that's the
first one that was a movie he saw.

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I said, you know what,
this is cool. Movies can be

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two things, not just a horror
film, but i'd also be a comedy

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at the same time. Without that, maybe we don't get the egg right

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that we have today. Second,
without the success of this movie, we

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do not get the video from Michael
Jackson's thriller, same director, same visual

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effects, so no American Werewolf from
London. We did not get that music

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video or short film as it truly
should be called. I'll jump in there

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too and say it has the greatest
cut to credits of almost any movie I've

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ever seen. I absolutely love how
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of that movie. My next film
isn't exactly a great movie. In fact,

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it's kind of a throwaway, but
it is something that I believe Jeff

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has talked about and its protect to
the spawning, So Jason knows about this

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too, so I know later he
kind of denied it. But James Cameron

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was hired and was working on this
film and basically starving because he wasn't getting

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paid anything, and has a fever
dream about a cyborg that is chasing him

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and he cannot kill it, he
cannot get away from it, which of

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course inspired the screenplay for The Terminator. So without that fever dream that he

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has while making this terrible movie,
we don't get The Terminator, which means

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we don't get his version of Aliens, which means we don't get T two

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or the Abyss and things like that. Like I said, it's kind of

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a throwaway movie, but it has
a major impact on feature films that come

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afterwards, for sure. Another one
from eighty one is both the directorial debut

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of Lawrence Kasden and also the feature
film debut of Kathleen Turner, and that's

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Body Heat. Now, the movie
is quite good. Kathleen Turner is just

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super sexy, like she was all
through the eighties, and it pretty much

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launched her career. And without the
success of this movie. We don't get

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her in Romancing the Stone. Now, I did see the other people that

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were in mind for that, it's
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without Kathleen Turner being in a renting
Stone, it's not successful. And then

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Zemeckis does not get to make back
to the Future. And also he enjoyed

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working with her enough that he didn't
cast her in a voice for of course,

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who frame Roger Rabbitt as Jessica Rabbit. Now with successive Body Heat we

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also solidify Kasden as a writer director, leading to later films like The Big

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Chill, Silverado, The Accidental Tourist, and Grand Canyon. And I don't

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know if you know Dayton, but
adjusted for inflation, Body Heat had I

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want to say something like four tons
of sweat in that movie. Yes that

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tracks I'm not good but very sweaty. Yes it is okay. This one's

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for Jeff. Escape from New York
the first feature film collaboration between John Carpenter

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and Kurt Russell. The success of
the movie, however, wasn't a huge

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box office success, but didn't have
quite a cult following. It helped Russell

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get away from his Disney movie roots
and led to of course many Carpenter Russell

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films like The Thing and of course
Big Trouble in Little China from nineteen eighty

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six, So no Escape from New
York. We probably don't get The Thing

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or The Big Trouble Little China,
at least not at this points. And

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Russell, for his age, he's
still having a very good career. He

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actually is a great Santa Claus.
I will say that, yeah, yes,

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and then one war I'm gonna throw
out here real quick, stripes.

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Without the success of Stripes, we
don't get Ghostbusters, sorry, Deef,

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Dave, if that doesn't happen.
Without the success of that movie, it

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was they were pretty much trying to
use the same cast again, same right

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or whatever, But no Stripes,
no Ghostbusters. And I also do the

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rest of mine from my wild cards, So there you go. Probably no

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Groundhog Day either, right, Probably
not right. I can just see the

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look in Dave's eyes because he's up
next to talk about nineteen eighty four,

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and it's it's the kind of look
that's like a Sam Jackson saying, oh,

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you were finished, We'll allow me
to retort, So Dave, you're

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out, Okay, I'll take it. In nineteen eighty four, it was

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a massive year for pop cultured impact. So, first of all, at

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the top of my list I have
this was the year that was the star

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making turn for Eddie Murphy. This
shot Eddie Murphy into the stratusphere, made

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him a superstar, made him the
highest paid actors in the decade, top

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box office draw. The Eddie Murphy
the superstar that we know is the legacy

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of nineteen eighty four. You're welcome. The other thing is that there's something

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that happened with the movie industry in
nineteen eighty four that changed the movie industry

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forever. It left a permanent change
on how movies are rated. This was

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the year the invention of the PG
thirteen rating. It was Gremlin's and Temple

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of Doom that both came out in
eighty four, and before the year was

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over we had three EPG thirteen movies. The first one to come out was

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Read Dawn, followed by Dreamscape.
I found out today thanks to the All

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Eighties Movie podcast on Twitter, that
Flamingo Kid was actually the first PG thirteen

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movie made, but it wasn't released
until after those of the two, So

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PG thirteen comes from nineteen eighty four, and there's no denying that that was

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a permanent impact. That's still it's
still with us today. Nineteen four also

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gave the world the phrase electric boogaloo. This is the perfect all purpose sequel

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subtitle. You can add it onto
the thing and it works. Electric boogaloo.

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What would our lives be like without
that magical phrase? And also nineteen

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eighty four gave the world Freddy Krueger, one of the biggest icons in cinema

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history. You're welcome. This was
also the year. And you can say

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this about music too. There's a
lot of career defining albums in nineteen eighty

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four, but this was a year
of career defining movies for a lot of

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people, just right off the top, Like I said, first of all,

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Beverly Hills Cop a career defining movie
for Eddie Murphy. Romancing the Stone

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was a career defining movie for Michael
Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Robert Zemeckis.

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Bob Gail and Robert Zemeckis on Romancing
the Stone. If that doesn't work,

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we don't get back to the future
or back to the Future Part two

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from nineteen eighty nine, So this
is also the career defining year for Prince

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with Purple Rain, and he had
the triple crown with the album, the

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singles and the movie. This was
a year the Prince owned, and of

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course the Terminator. Also we had
Arnold Schwarzenegger with the career defining role in

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nineteen eighty four with The Terminator.
So those are huge mass of permanent impacts

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that nobody can deny. Then we
have also the thing I like about nineteen

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eighty four is the variety of fair
like there was just a lot of variety

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what I look at. I haven't
compared this to the top tens of the

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other years here represented, but I'll
look at the top ten that I just

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listed real quick, top of the
show from nineteen eighty four, and out

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of the ten, eight of them
are not sequels. Like there's only two

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sequels in the top ten, and
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for the year, there's a lot
of original ideas being introduced, and to

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that end, we had a lot
of franchises introduced a lot of what proved

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to be first movies in a series
or some enduring franchises things that I would

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consider a little bit lesser, like
Children of the Corn, Revenge of the

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Nerds. They all started in eighty
four. Police Academy had a movie every

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year for about six or seven years. Ghostbusters has developed into this huge fandom,

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this huge fan culture surrounding it,
and it's a franchise that continues today.

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Karate Kid still going strong with Koba
Kai and everything, and of course

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Nightmaron El Street. All of these
things came out of the original ideas from

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nineteen eighty four. And speaking again
to the variety of the fair, it

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was a big year for comedies when
you consider that ghosts Busters set the box

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office record all time for a comedy
and it was only broken by Beverly Hills

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Cop which also came out before nineteen
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the highest grossing comedy and it held
that title for years. It was a

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huge year for horror, which I'm
gonna touch on a little bit later in

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the show. It was also a
massive year for sci fi and sci fi

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and fantasy. For genre geeks like
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for this year quantity of sci fi, fantasy, and horror movies that came

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out, and I'll be talking about
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pop culture impact of nineteen eighty four. Good luck everybody else. I do

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want to after you mention it,
I do want to just hold up and

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give proof that I do own Breaking
two, Electric Boogaloo, both of those

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breaking movies both released in nineteen eighty
four. Excuse me, there were three

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break dance movies and I will be
talking about that. Excuse me, your

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honor, Jeff, you've got eighty
six. Tell us a little bit about

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the impact of eighty six. Well, def Dave, respectfully, I don't

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need luck when I've got talent.
Let me tell you about nineteen eighty six.

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And John, I know you're keeping
score, so I'm not going to

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wow you with a bunch of cinema
facts about this year. The impact on

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popular culture. I'm going to talk
about that happened in nineteen eighty six,

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and I'm gonna do it one with
just one movie. A lot of great

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films in eighty six. I'm just
gonna use top gun to talk about how

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popular culture was impacted massively across the
board in nineteen eighty six. Real easy,

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Everyone had a best friend, in
eighty six and you regurgitated talk to

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me, goose, and you can
beat my wing man any time. But

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let's talk about fashion for a second. RayBan aviators get at forty percent boost

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in sales because of Top Gun.
Eighty six is considered the peak of leather

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jacket fashion, with an average of
three out of every five people wearing them.

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And I'm not talking just about the
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too, because Kelly McGillis has a
very fashionable leather jacket throughout most of the

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film. The white T shirt is
back in style, having not been cool

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since the days of Steve McQueen.
And now let's talk about music, because

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thank you to the Top Gun soundtrack. It is on every single radio station

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with hits like danger Zone and Take
My Breath Away, and they're still popular

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today. But let's talk about the
renewed popularity for bands like The Righteous Brothers,

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Jerry Lee Lewis and Otis Redding becoming
popular again amongst the young people of

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nineteen eighty six. Navy recruitment sees
a five hundred percent boost in applicants.

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Go America. Top Gun another win
there, and although pro beach Volleyball is

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organized in the nineteen seventies, it
doesn't get officially recognized by the International Volleyball

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Federation until a very popular scene in
Top Gun featuring sand volleyball. There you

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have it. Without Top Gun,
nineteen eighty six does not get the cultural

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tsunami amongst fashion, music, our
armed services, pro sports. It doesn't

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happen without Top Gun, and that
is that's why eighty six was such a

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big impact here for pop culture and
adjusted for inflation, that volleyball scene,

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I think three and a half tons
of sweat, well, don't forget the

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baby oil that Scott lathered him up
with. Yes, I know that my

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co host Pat who from our podcast
that loves Top Gun is gonna kill me

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if I don't just stop for a
moment and say and motorcycle. Oh yeah,

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that's all Kawasaki was, adn't I
didn't look into that because I thought,

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you know what, I don't want
to be talking too long. But

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yeah, I did have a little
bit bit that Kawasaki gets a a significant

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boost in sales as well. Jason, you've got nineteen eighty nine and finish

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out the decade for US, I
got three points. I want to bring

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up number one. Nineteen eighty nine
is the year of the bat bat Mania

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swept America like nothing else. And
I know all four of you guys were

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swept up as well, right.
That was the incredible thing that happened that

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summer. Yes, Superman nineteen seventy
eight did it first, but Batman nineteen

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eighty nine did it bigger and better
than ever. You had music, you

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had t shirts, you had toys. You still can buy the T shirt

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with a bat symbol on the front. That summer it was all about Batman

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and Joker. It was incredible.
Prince had a number one album. Because

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of this, Tim Burton became a
superstar director, and it set the pace

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for every single DC or Marvel movie
that you see today. We can't get

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away from these comic book movies.
And it's because of the success of Batman

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nineteen eighty nine. It is a
pop culture nuclear bomb. Now then,

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also that summer, you had eighteen
sequels. Okay, now, good,

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bad, ugly, it doesn't matter. This is when the movie studios said,

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let's take what works, give the
people what they want. The continuation

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of characters that we love. Still
see it today. If they have success

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with a movie, you're gonna get
a sequel. So let me just run

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through this list of eighteen sequels.
Like I said, some are good,

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some are not good. But here
you go, all eighteen of these released

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in nineteen eighty nine. You're ready
for this, Here we go. I'm

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gonna start what I think is the
worst and I'm gonna climb to the best

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here, okay. Toxic Avenger Part
two, American Ninja Part three, Eddie

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and the Cruiser's Part two, Police
Academy Part six, Friday the Thirteenth Part

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eight, Halloween Part five, Karate
Kid Part three, Friday Night two,

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The Fly two Night Marenam Street five, Fletch Lives, Star Trek five,

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Ghostbusters two, License to Kill,
Back to the Future Part two, Christmas

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Vacation, Indiana, Jones and the
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It was the year of the sequel, and I loved it. Number

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three nineteen eighty nine gave us a
movie that I'm gonna bet is not any

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of you guys top five for that
year. However, it's pop culture impact

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is huge, and that is the
release of the movie The Little Mermaid that

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re established Disney as a powerhouse entertainment
company. And gave us like that second

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Golden Age of Disney animated movies.
My daughter loves it. That movie came

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out thirty five years ago and still
today people absolutely love it, and gave

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us Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin
and the resurgence of Disney Like it or

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not. The Little Mermaid was another
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I rest my case, I just
was. I was ready to have

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you say electric boogaloo after every one
of those Part two. All right,

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our next segment is the wild Card
wild Card Dayton, What have you got

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for eighty one? Nine eighty one? You get not one, not two,

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but three Three quality sword and Sorcery
movies are released that year, and

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actually mostly all pretty close together.
You have Clashed the Titans, featuring the

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final work of stop motion artist Ray
Harryhausen. Ex Caliber gave us the big

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screen debuts of Gabriel Burn and Syrian
Hines, and the movie is just breaking

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cool. Dragon Slayer gave us the
greatest cinematic Dragon of all time. Not

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only do I think so, but
Guierra Modotarro thinks so, and George rr.

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Martin thinks so. And also the
filmmakers that did Rain of Fire thought

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so because they made their dragons off
of that dragon as well. You guys

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might not be a fan, but
I am. The thrash model band Slayer

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took their name from the movie Dragon
Slayer. Initially they did call themselves Dragon

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Slayer. Once they're the music change, they dropped the dragon and just kept

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Slayer. Now, these movies kick
off what became a pretty muture, a

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staple of the eighties, a sword
and sorcery genre. We do get many

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more, but I don't think we
actually get three quality ones in the same

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year, although def Dave might try
to argue that point otherwise, But for

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me, those three are all solid
sword and sorcery films, and we got

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a lot of really bad ones after
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debut that impacts movies for years to
come. October fifteenth, nineteen eighty one,

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at the Redford Theater in Detroit,
The Evil Dead is screened for the

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first time. This is big because
we get both Sam Raymie and Bruce Campbell

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on the screen for the first time. This leads to, of course,

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two sequels, Evil Did two and
The Army of Darkness, my favorite of

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the trilogy. By the way without
this movie, we probably don't get Dark

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Man, A Simple Plan for the
Love of the Game, and any of

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the Spider Man movies starring Toby McGuire. A couple other notable big screen debuts

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that affect the eighties. Tom Cruise
appears in Endless Love. He also appears

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and has a bigger part in Taps, where he shares screen time with Sean

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Penn, making his big screen debut. And let's not overlook Denzel Washington in

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a not so great movie but carbon
Copy. He of course would appear in

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a soldial story in nineteen eighty four
and his Oscar winning performance in Glory for

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nineteen eighty nine. Those are my
few wild cards. So there you go.

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Awesome, Dave, you got eighty
four? What have you got?

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So? First of all, we
started touching on this a little bit,

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but for nineteen eighty four wild card. And maybe this isn't a big deal

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to the rest of the people here
on this show, but I know I

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have an audience out there. This
was the Apex year for breakdancing movies.

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Okay, we had Breaking and then
we had Beat Street, which was actually

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fantastic, and then before the year
was over, Breaking two Electric Bugaloos so

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Breaking in its sequel. Both came
out within the same year. But it's

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also not just for breakdance movies,
but it's an apex year for movies regarding

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music in general. Okay, we
had two of the biggest soundtrack driven monster

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hits of the eighties that maybe I
should have put under pop culture impact with

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both Footloose and Purple Rain monster movies
monster albums. In addition to that,

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the other music related movies that came
out in this year foot Loose, Purple

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Rain, you had Body Rock,
you had given my regards to Broadway.

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You had Cotton Club, this is
Lionel Tap and a little movie you may

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have heard of called Amadeus, which
swept all the Oscars the next year.

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So is a fantastic year for movies
about music. And I have something here

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that I think even Jason Colvin is
going to have to concede to me,

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and that is nineteen eighty four is
the year for the best sports movie of

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the decade, Robert Redford in The
Natural. Don't even try to change your

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tune now, Jason. You know
The Natural is the best sports movie of

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the decade. So I mentioned earlier, it's a big year for horror,

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big year for sci fi and fantasy. This is the main reason that clinches

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it for me in my mind.
This is what closes the deal for nineteen

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eighty four. This is why I
stand on this hill, and it's the

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sheer quantity of movies that come out
in these genres. So you have the

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big hitters that we've already named,
right The Terminator, Star Trek three,

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the Search for Spot Indiana, Jones
in the Temple of Doom, the Very

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First Nightmare on Elms. Those are
all huge. Then you also have movies

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like This Is Final Tap, The
Last Starfighter, The Adventures of Buckaro Bonsaye,

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The Never Ending Story Starman Gray Stoked, The Legend of Tarzan, Runaway

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with Jeans Simmons and Tom Selling.
We have Dream Escaped, we have Twenty

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Ten, we have Dune, we
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And I'm I got two guilty pleasures
here. I think you'll forgive me

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Sheena and Conan the Destroyer. And
when it comes to horror, I'm not

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a big horror guy, but I'm
looking at this list and I'm thinking this

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is pretty strong. I don't know
if there's a year in the eighties stronger

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in horror than this year when you
consider that we have not only Friday the

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thirteenth, the final Chapter, we
have the very first Children of the Corn,

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We have Chud, we have a
Nightmare on Elm Street, and we

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have Silent Night, Deadly Night.
I don't know. I don't know how

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you beat that either. So when
as a long list, I had to

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get Mollie and I can't believe I
haven't gotten any bonus points yet. But

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the sheer quantity of this, not
even counting things like that I like like

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Ice Pirates and Brother from Another Planet. I mean, there's the list.

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Go it's too long for nineteen eighty
four. It just doesn't stop. You

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didn't even list the greatest Ski movie
of all time, hot Dog, the

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movie tweet and her absolute tweetiness.
It's a close second two of The Natural

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I am kidding. I'm giving that. I think they should both lose.

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For those comments about Jeff eighty six, Deeff Dave, I would ask you

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to take a look at the abundance
of awesome horror films that came out in

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nineteen eighty six. We went at
the sidebar on that. However, John

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my Wild card is short, sweet, and a little sinister. Because here's

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where I go with a little bit
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Here, here's what it comes down
to, talks and oscar walks.

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Let's talk box office and the best
picture winners. We're all physical media guys,

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you know, we know the importance
of owning a movie so you can

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watch it time and time again.
Right, I think you're gonna see that

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some of the movies that I'm about
to share with you not only are not

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on your shelves, they're probably not
things that you want to see ever or

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ever again. Nineteen eighty one,
Chariots of Fire Win's best picture does fifty

406
00:28:25.960 --> 00:28:30.240
nine million dollars at the box office. Yeah, a bit of a yawn

407
00:28:30.319 --> 00:28:33.960
there on that movie. Nineteen eighty
four, As as Dave did mention earlier,

408
00:28:34.039 --> 00:28:38.519
Amadeus does rock the oscars does not
rock the box office though, because

409
00:28:38.519 --> 00:28:45.200
he does a poultry fifty one million
dollars. The man died poor and his

410
00:28:45.279 --> 00:28:48.119
box office was also poor. Now
I'm gonna skip eighty six and jumped to

411
00:28:48.119 --> 00:28:52.720
eighty nine here for a second,
because at one hundred and six million,

412
00:28:52.079 --> 00:28:56.440
we have made a significant jump people
are going to the movies and seeing this

413
00:28:56.480 --> 00:29:00.200
one, But how many people want
to see Driving Miss Day over and over

414
00:29:00.279 --> 00:29:07.200
again? And put your hand down
dating I love that movie. There's always

415
00:29:07.200 --> 00:29:08.480
one. There's always one. Yeah, you know who else loves it?

416
00:29:08.559 --> 00:29:15.240
Ma'm all because you can find the
vhs in the cabinet, nath. I

417
00:29:15.240 --> 00:29:17.920
know it's not Cobra, but come
on, now, you had your time,

418
00:29:17.960 --> 00:29:21.519
sir, You had your time,
yes, and I and I was

419
00:29:21.599 --> 00:29:23.440
not and I talked about my year. I didn't trash other people's years.

420
00:29:25.680 --> 00:29:33.480
Why card Baby's card baby? Right? Last? Lastly, nineteen eighty six

421
00:29:33.920 --> 00:29:40.799
Best Picture winner Platoon does one hundred
thirty eight million dollars, clear cut winner.

422
00:29:41.039 --> 00:29:44.680
I don't care if you love war
movies, if you love Charlie Sheen

423
00:29:44.799 --> 00:29:48.079
movies, if you just love good
movies, you love Platoon, and more

424
00:29:48.119 --> 00:29:51.519
than likely it's gonna be on your
shelf a lot more often than Chariot's a

425
00:29:51.559 --> 00:29:55.680
Fire, Amadis or Driving Miss Daisy. That is my wild card that I'm

426
00:29:55.680 --> 00:29:57.960
playing, John, You probably won't
want to hear which of those four movies

427
00:29:59.079 --> 00:30:02.359
is on my shelf. Amadeus is
the only one that's on my shelf.

428
00:30:03.240 --> 00:30:04.720
There's actually I'll be one of those
that's not and that's Chariots of Fire.

429
00:30:04.720 --> 00:30:08.920
The other ones are all on my
shelf there you go see. Yeah.

430
00:30:08.720 --> 00:30:12.119
And for the record, for the
record, I'm adeis is a brilliant film.

431
00:30:12.359 --> 00:30:15.279
Absolutely love it and you can see
it back there on my shelf right

432
00:30:15.279 --> 00:30:19.119
there as well. The best parts
of Chariots of Fire is how how much

433
00:30:19.119 --> 00:30:23.079
of a high stakes movie it was, because they go and they compete and

434
00:30:23.359 --> 00:30:26.000
if they lose, then they got
to go back to their high paying jobs.

435
00:30:26.039 --> 00:30:30.160
So that's what really did it for
me with Chariots of Fire, I

436
00:30:30.200 --> 00:30:33.480
will say, And to be fair, I think the best the best moment

437
00:30:33.519 --> 00:30:38.279
of Chariots of Fire is the soundtrack
that you hear in National Lampoon's Vacation,

438
00:30:41.519 --> 00:30:45.000
and that's the hill I'll die on. That was the I remember my mom

439
00:30:45.079 --> 00:30:48.960
the only time I ever my mom
just being absolutely I rate when she had

440
00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:51.519
to wait on the phone for something. Was she was calling some kind of

441
00:30:51.519 --> 00:30:55.079
customer service line. And this was
back in the eighties and Chariots of Fire

442
00:30:55.319 --> 00:30:57.720
was the hold music on the phone, and I just I remember the only

443
00:30:57.720 --> 00:31:00.440
comments she was I could just see
her fuming while she's on the phone,

444
00:31:00.680 --> 00:31:03.400
and she just looks over at me
as if I'm gonna know chariots a fire

445
00:31:03.400 --> 00:31:07.559
at that point in my life,
and she goes, I hate chariot's fire.

446
00:31:07.640 --> 00:31:12.839
Now, okay, Mom, I
don't. I don't know what that

447
00:31:12.960 --> 00:31:17.400
is. But okay, Jason,
you've got eighty nine. Okay for my

448
00:31:17.559 --> 00:31:19.240
wild card. I've got two things
I want to play. I've got two

449
00:31:19.559 --> 00:31:23.880
jokers, if you will. First
thing I'm gonna play is that the summer

450
00:31:23.920 --> 00:31:30.839
of nineteen eighty nine was the greatest
summer for movies in the eighties. Davis

451
00:31:30.839 --> 00:31:34.240
crossing his arms already, Dave,
I've already looked at nineteen eighty four August

452
00:31:34.559 --> 00:31:38.000
of eighty four. Week okay,
so here you go. Think back to

453
00:31:38.039 --> 00:31:41.440
me like, I've seen three movies
in the movie theater this year, this

454
00:31:41.519 --> 00:31:45.880
summer. Three Okay. Now,
when we go back and we look at

455
00:31:45.880 --> 00:31:49.000
the list, let's just just in
your head say, okay, that's a

456
00:31:49.039 --> 00:31:52.519
watchable movie. That's a watchable movie. Summer better than others. But starting

457
00:31:52.599 --> 00:31:57.119
May nineteenth of nineteen eighty nine,
we go all the way to August twenty

458
00:31:57.119 --> 00:32:01.960
fifth before there is not a new
movie that's watchable. Okay. So listen

459
00:32:02.000 --> 00:32:06.880
to this. May nineteenth, Roadhouse
comes out. The next week Indiana Jones

460
00:32:06.920 --> 00:32:12.079
and The Last Crusade the next week, Dead Poet Society the next week Star

461
00:32:12.160 --> 00:32:16.000
Trek five, the next week Ghostbusters
two, the next week Honey, I

462
00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:21.519
Shrunk, The Kids and Batman the
next week Do the Right Thing, Karate

463
00:32:21.640 --> 00:32:25.440
Kid, Great Balls of Fire the
next week Weekend at Bernie's and Lethal Weapon

464
00:32:25.519 --> 00:32:30.680
two. The next week, Licensed
to Kill and When Harry Met Sally the

465
00:32:30.720 --> 00:32:36.279
next week UHF the next week Friday
the Thirteenth, Part eight, and Turner

466
00:32:36.319 --> 00:32:42.039
and Hooch the next week, Parenthood
the next week The Abyss and The Nightmare

467
00:32:42.079 --> 00:32:46.440
in m Street Part five, the
next week Uncle Buck. Finally, after

468
00:32:46.880 --> 00:32:51.640
Uncle Buck, we get August twenty
five, where there's just crap, But

469
00:32:51.759 --> 00:32:58.839
that entire summer, week after week
after week, you have watchable, enjoyable

470
00:32:59.079 --> 00:33:01.920
movies at the box office. I
will concede that that is a murderers row

471
00:33:02.279 --> 00:33:08.119
of summer box office. I'm going
to post to the jury that nineteen eighty

472
00:33:08.200 --> 00:33:15.480
nine is the sexiest movie year.
Okay, now stay with me on this.

473
00:33:15.640 --> 00:33:20.720
Are you going to talk about driving
this daisy? Here's my question to

474
00:33:20.759 --> 00:33:22.640
you, guys, can the judge
of jacked. If you start with that,

475
00:33:22.079 --> 00:33:23.799
No, I'm not starting with that. Okay, good, good,

476
00:33:24.200 --> 00:33:28.000
This is this is what I'm saying
here. Okay, stay with me.

477
00:33:28.400 --> 00:33:32.160
We all enjoy when our lady whereas
lingerie, when she dresses up nice,

478
00:33:32.200 --> 00:33:36.599
she looks pretty, she's got a
sexy underwear on. It's all a part

479
00:33:36.720 --> 00:33:40.400
of the experience, and the anticipation, I would say, is at least

480
00:33:40.400 --> 00:33:45.440
as much fun as the actual experience. So think back to a time with

481
00:33:45.519 --> 00:33:50.559
me in early nineteen eighty nine.
This is what we knew was going to

482
00:33:50.640 --> 00:33:55.839
happen that year. We knew we
had eighteen sequels coming. We knew we

483
00:33:55.920 --> 00:34:00.000
had a Stephen King movie. We
knew we had a Star Trek movie.

484
00:34:00.359 --> 00:34:04.440
We knew we had Indiana Jones coming
back. We had Ghostbusters, we had

485
00:34:04.480 --> 00:34:08.400
Batman. We had the return of
Marty McFly and Freddy Krueger and James Bond

486
00:34:08.559 --> 00:34:14.079
and Jason Vorhees. We knew we
had a great Christmas movie coming with Clark

487
00:34:14.119 --> 00:34:17.159
and the Griswolds. We knew all
these movies were coming. We had two

488
00:34:17.199 --> 00:34:22.559
of the greatest baseball movies coming at
us, and just the anticipation of what

489
00:34:22.679 --> 00:34:28.480
was coming down the pipe that year
in nineteen eighty nine was so much fun.

490
00:34:29.039 --> 00:34:34.559
Back then, the anticipation of Batman, Indy and Bond all in the

491
00:34:34.599 --> 00:34:37.880
same summer just made it that much
sweeter. And that's where I'm going to

492
00:34:37.920 --> 00:34:42.480
stop. So I do have to
ask, was No Holds Barred the week

493
00:34:42.519 --> 00:34:46.400
she had a headache? You don't
like No Holds Barred? No, I

494
00:34:46.719 --> 00:34:51.880
was going to mention that in a
few minutes. So I had that one

495
00:34:52.960 --> 00:34:57.880
that was in my pocket. That
was mine too. Who doesn't love seeing

496
00:34:57.960 --> 00:35:05.119
Hulk Hogan say, dookie, We're
gonna get to our cinematic sins here in

497
00:35:05.199 --> 00:35:07.639
Justice, and we're all going to
be on the table here. So that's

498
00:35:07.679 --> 00:35:10.719
the wild card. Now, as
Jason said, we are going to get

499
00:35:10.719 --> 00:35:22.960
to the cinematic sins. Cinematic sins
basically, what these are is these are

500
00:35:22.960 --> 00:35:27.119
the movies that are so bad that
they are going to be weighing your year

501
00:35:27.239 --> 00:35:30.360
down. So each of the guys
is going to present bad movies from the

502
00:35:30.440 --> 00:35:36.039
year and these are the ones that
are basically this is the cement shoes that

503
00:35:36.079 --> 00:35:37.599
have been given to you to sink
you to the bottom of the lake.

504
00:35:37.960 --> 00:35:42.360
These are your cinematic sins. From
each year, So nineteen eighty one,

505
00:35:42.519 --> 00:35:45.039
so it's easy to go straight to
the list of Razzie winners, right,

506
00:35:45.119 --> 00:35:50.320
because, well, every year is
gonna have a worst movie. But here's

507
00:35:50.320 --> 00:35:52.559
the thing about the Razzies of nineteen
eighty nineteen one was the year that was

508
00:35:52.599 --> 00:35:57.480
so bad they had to invent the
Razzies. Okay, this is where it

509
00:35:57.800 --> 00:36:05.480
starts. Okay, Mommy Dearest sweeps
all the categories, takes home five Razzies,

510
00:36:05.719 --> 00:36:08.920
and at the end of the decade, when they're giving out decade full

511
00:36:08.960 --> 00:36:14.639
awards, like the worst movie of
the entire decade, the raspberry goes to

512
00:36:14.719 --> 00:36:20.639
Mommy Dearest, So nineteen eighty one
just owns that title. Yeah you know

513
00:36:20.760 --> 00:36:27.639
that quote? Why her hangers?
And I just contend that the Razzies are

514
00:36:27.679 --> 00:36:30.199
stupid because there's a lot of years
there're actually good movies on your list,

515
00:36:30.280 --> 00:36:32.199
So the Razzies are stupid. Those
are people that have nothing better to do.

516
00:36:32.280 --> 00:36:36.679
So I don't care rejects the Razzies. I reject the Razzies. I'm

517
00:36:36.679 --> 00:36:39.000
sorry, Jeff, what have you
got for eighty one, one of the

518
00:36:39.039 --> 00:36:46.280
greatest heroes in American literature gets his
chance to hit the big screen. In

519
00:36:46.320 --> 00:36:51.800
a way we are not ready for
you have a beautiful woman playing the leading

520
00:36:51.840 --> 00:37:00.079
lady. So how do you explain
Tarzan the Apeman to me? Because it

521
00:37:00.159 --> 00:37:04.400
is so bad. Edgar Rice Burrough
was rolling in his grave when this one

522
00:37:04.440 --> 00:37:07.280
came out. Daton, you may
hate the Razzies, but they sure loved

523
00:37:07.280 --> 00:37:10.440
this film because it got nominated for
six of them and Bo Derek herself did

524
00:37:10.480 --> 00:37:14.599
take home the gold or the Golden
Raspberry, whatever they call it. Just

525
00:37:14.639 --> 00:37:17.920
trying to sit through this movie it
is. It's terrible film. Tarzan and

526
00:37:19.000 --> 00:37:22.199
the Eighth Man, Jason, I
can see my remaining time to you,

527
00:37:22.920 --> 00:37:25.760
thank you. I have that one
as well, that was on my list.

528
00:37:25.880 --> 00:37:32.760
A nudity has not been that boring
since Showgirls. So my cinematics sin

529
00:37:32.840 --> 00:37:37.320
for nineteen eighty one. I am
going to go with Galaxy of Terror.

530
00:37:37.719 --> 00:37:42.679
We have. That's a Roger Corman
movie. It's where James Cameron was actually

531
00:37:43.079 --> 00:37:47.039
discovered was given the Piranha Tuo job
because he was able to get worms to

532
00:37:47.039 --> 00:37:53.360
wiggle by electrocuting them. But this
movie stars Robert England of nightmari elm Street,

533
00:37:53.760 --> 00:37:59.280
and Aaron Moran who played Cupcake on
Happy Days. But The worst sin

534
00:37:59.719 --> 00:38:05.760
in Alexey of Terror is you have
a full on rape scene where a woman

535
00:38:06.039 --> 00:38:10.559
gets raped by a worm, a
giant worm creature. It's unwatchable. I

536
00:38:10.639 --> 00:38:14.679
try to watch it one time just
so I can see where James Cameron gott

537
00:38:14.760 --> 00:38:17.280
his beginning, because I'm a huge
James Cameron fan. It was the worst

538
00:38:17.280 --> 00:38:22.360
piece of crap I've ever seen in
my life. So Galaxy of Terror nineteen

539
00:38:22.400 --> 00:38:28.119
eighty one, nobody's ever seen that. I could tell. I've seen it,

540
00:38:28.199 --> 00:38:31.480
and it is everything that you just
mentioned. Act I'm going off what

541
00:38:31.480 --> 00:38:35.760
the mentioned video podcast said about it, because yeah, everything they said.

542
00:38:35.760 --> 00:38:39.440
I'm just like, I'm never watching
this. I'm just never. So let's

543
00:38:39.480 --> 00:38:43.360
see. Now we got nineteen eighty
four, So Dayton, why don't you

544
00:38:43.360 --> 00:38:45.920
give us the cinema sin from nineteen
eighty four? All right, Well,

545
00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:47.079
I had quite a few, but
I'm just gonna go with the one that's

546
00:38:47.079 --> 00:38:51.920
probably the most offensive of all the
ones I chose. Blame it on Rio

547
00:38:52.599 --> 00:38:57.480
Michael Caine's having an affair with an
underlage girl. I'm just saying that's it.

548
00:38:57.719 --> 00:39:00.800
That's inappropriate, disgusting, and it's
wrong. It's not even funny.

549
00:39:01.039 --> 00:39:05.559
So blay Mon Rio is a terrible
It has a meta score of twenty two.

550
00:39:06.239 --> 00:39:09.519
Okay, twenty two. There you
go. That's mine. Can I

551
00:39:09.599 --> 00:39:13.599
can I add to that dating because
that was my head. That was my

552
00:39:13.800 --> 00:39:16.559
surprise pick that I was ready to
drop because the whole movie is sad because

553
00:39:16.559 --> 00:39:21.199
you have this Michael Caine who's middle
age and he's having this affair with his

554
00:39:21.440 --> 00:39:24.840
best friend's daughter. The whole thing
is inappropriate. Here's the thing. Michelle

555
00:39:24.880 --> 00:39:30.079
Johnson was seventeen years old when she
filmed this movie. She had to get

556
00:39:30.159 --> 00:39:34.280
special permission from her parents and a
judge to be in this movie. If

557
00:39:34.280 --> 00:39:37.800
she was twenty two, it would
be creepy. She's seventeen. Yep,

558
00:39:37.280 --> 00:39:42.920
sorry, thank you for helping,
Thank you, thank you. I have

559
00:39:43.079 --> 00:39:45.400
no defense. That's let's say.
If you try to defend that, I'm

560
00:39:45.440 --> 00:39:50.440
just like, dude, you're done, Jeff, what have you got?

561
00:39:50.599 --> 00:39:57.239
Less controversial, But let's talk about
the superstar that Bill Murray was in nineteen

562
00:39:57.239 --> 00:40:01.679
eighty four. This is the guy. He's a ghost. Bluster stripes Caddyshack.

563
00:40:01.880 --> 00:40:07.719
Right along comes a movie in nineteen
eighty four that is so terrible.

564
00:40:07.159 --> 00:40:12.119
It is such it is such a
dumpster Fire that he questions whether or not

565
00:40:12.119 --> 00:40:16.559
he should even be acting after it, and doesn't act again until like nineteen

566
00:40:16.599 --> 00:40:22.280
eighty eight when he does Scrooged.
I'm talking about a film called The Razor's

567
00:40:22.480 --> 00:40:27.119
Edge. Try to get through it, is what I would ask, didn't

568
00:40:27.159 --> 00:40:30.639
he write that He wrote part of
it and it was like a passion project

569
00:40:30.639 --> 00:40:35.400
for him, and at Dan Ackroyd's
suggestion, he held out of Ghostbusters.

570
00:40:35.480 --> 00:40:38.199
He used the idea of getting razors
Edge made as leverage, like, if

571
00:40:38.199 --> 00:40:40.719
you want me in Ghostbusters, you
gotta let me do razors Edge first.

572
00:40:42.519 --> 00:40:45.760
Do you like that one? Dave? I like it because the scene that

573
00:40:45.840 --> 00:40:50.800
he's like eulogizing a friend of his
in the movie who had died. Bill

574
00:40:50.880 --> 00:40:53.320
Murray wrote that scene and in his
mind he was speaking to John Belushi.

575
00:40:53.480 --> 00:40:57.039
I think it's kind of neat.
Also, it was a non comedic role,

576
00:40:57.079 --> 00:41:00.159
and we know Bill Murray proved eventually
to be a fantastic dramatic actor,

577
00:41:00.360 --> 00:41:05.000
and this is kind of like the
first step in that direction. So you

578
00:41:05.239 --> 00:41:10.360
think that's all I got. Okay, it's my turn, it's your turn.

579
00:41:10.880 --> 00:41:15.760
Okay, I'm backing up against the
ropes. Here I come to pounce

580
00:41:15.960 --> 00:41:28.920
on Dave with Supergirl. Supergirl.
Supergirl is the worst piece of crap DC

581
00:41:29.199 --> 00:41:32.280
movie. It's worse than Superman four
Quest for Peace. It's not even a

582
00:41:32.360 --> 00:41:37.760
question. You have a witch.
You have Clark Kent's cousin who can magically

583
00:41:37.880 --> 00:41:43.840
change her hair color. She just
changes clothes through voodoo or something. There's

584
00:41:44.000 --> 00:41:49.320
terrible acting. It did so poorly
it caused the Superman franchise to fall into

585
00:41:49.400 --> 00:41:52.920
the Cannon Group's hands. It's not
even close. This movie is a giant

586
00:41:53.360 --> 00:42:01.159
wart on the nose of nineteen eighty
four Supergirl. Dave is owning his defeat

587
00:42:01.199 --> 00:42:06.719
on that one. There's there's no
defending this movie. I do know that

588
00:42:06.920 --> 00:42:15.679
it's partly nineteen eighty one's fault because
whoa once again, because I object because

589
00:42:15.679 --> 00:42:19.400
of Fay done Away. I know
the raspberry for her. You know,

590
00:42:19.639 --> 00:42:22.760
it has helped her get the worst
actress of the decade, I believe.

591
00:42:22.159 --> 00:42:25.920
So I think this movie is largely
the legacy of nineteen eighty one. How's

592
00:42:25.920 --> 00:42:35.159
that objection deflecting? Right? Jeff
and I both left Rystone off off the

593
00:42:35.159 --> 00:42:39.000
board too, So actually that was
on my list too. I was I

594
00:42:39.039 --> 00:42:42.719
was kind of surprised Jeff Dingo with
Ballero, since he was kind of kind

595
00:42:42.719 --> 00:42:46.880
of he might go like a do
it bo Derek. You know, I

596
00:42:46.920 --> 00:42:50.800
just I don't understand why you guys
can't get on board with the Omega hedron.

597
00:42:50.920 --> 00:42:53.639
I mean, it's just one of
the most amazing cases of movie prop

598
00:42:53.719 --> 00:42:58.679
history. And I'm so sad they
never did make that sequel where she could

599
00:42:58.760 --> 00:43:00.559
change her hair color, and then
the sequel she could change the color of

600
00:43:00.559 --> 00:43:07.079
the Great Wall of China just by
looking at it. We are to eighty

601
00:43:07.119 --> 00:43:08.559
six, Dayton, what have you
got for eighty six? I'm gonna stay

602
00:43:08.559 --> 00:43:15.079
on the offensive idea and I'm going
with soul Man. Okay, see Thomas

603
00:43:15.119 --> 00:43:19.239
Holland blackface. That's all I need
to say. Okay, thirty three meta

604
00:43:19.280 --> 00:43:22.480
score, racist as hell. There
you go, soul Man. We had

605
00:43:22.480 --> 00:43:27.599
somebody come working on our air conditioning
at our house and the guy came downstairs

606
00:43:27.599 --> 00:43:30.679
and he could see all my podcasting
stuff I have down here. And he's

607
00:43:30.719 --> 00:43:32.760
the same guy that's been coming and
working on our house for years, and

608
00:43:34.000 --> 00:43:36.960
this is the first time I was
ever home when he was here working on

609
00:43:37.000 --> 00:43:39.039
stuff, and so he was asking
me about the podcast everything else, and

610
00:43:39.239 --> 00:43:42.440
he's like, you know what,
you know, what's one of the worst

611
00:43:42.440 --> 00:43:49.320
movies I've ever seen? Soul Man. Yeah, yeah, understood, now

612
00:43:49.480 --> 00:43:52.159
get mail. You know, not
to defend that at all. But isn't

613
00:43:52.159 --> 00:43:57.679
this where c Thomas Howell met ray
Dawn Champ It is? Yeah they got

614
00:43:57.760 --> 00:44:00.880
married, right, Yeah, yeah, they were married. I mean she

615
00:44:00.119 --> 00:44:05.199
didn't seem to have to the bike
more problem so, but does not play

616
00:44:05.239 --> 00:44:07.920
well at all these days? For
sure. This was I believe the apex

617
00:44:07.960 --> 00:44:13.840
of Ronald Reagan Junior's acting career.
I remember that he was thank you,

618
00:44:14.159 --> 00:44:20.480
Dave. That helps, it helps, It probably helps Day's charge. I

619
00:44:20.519 --> 00:44:24.960
am not going to defend that film. It was probably not a good choice

620
00:44:25.000 --> 00:44:30.360
for Tommy how back then. Obviously
did not age well, and it's one

621
00:44:30.400 --> 00:44:35.559
that I know he and we all
should just forget. So, Dave,

622
00:44:35.840 --> 00:44:38.639
what have you got? So?
Look? Eighty six is packed with some

623
00:44:38.719 --> 00:44:44.360
really bad movies, so bad that
the Razzie for Worst Picture of the Year

624
00:44:44.400 --> 00:44:49.079
had to be shared between two movies. And there's only two more chances to

625
00:44:49.159 --> 00:44:52.599
mention movies right now, between Jason
and myself, So I feel like I

626
00:44:52.599 --> 00:44:55.519
should mention one of those incredibly light
they could not decide which one was worse.

627
00:44:55.719 --> 00:45:00.880
They just gave the Razzie to both
of them. But I am gonna

628
00:45:00.920 --> 00:45:04.800
go a different way because I discovered
the existence of a movie preparing for this

629
00:45:04.840 --> 00:45:07.000
podcast, and I've never heard of
before, and it sounds so awful that

630
00:45:07.039 --> 00:45:10.199
I have to mention it here.
But it's the kind of awful that I

631
00:45:10.239 --> 00:45:14.800
think is probably going to interest all
of you in trying to track it down

632
00:45:14.800 --> 00:45:19.280
and watch it. It's called No
Retreat, No Surrender? Has anybody hurt?

633
00:45:19.360 --> 00:45:22.280
I've seen it. I see this
is a boot tell this is I

634
00:45:22.320 --> 00:45:25.760
haven't seen it, but it says
that this guy he wants to like avenge

635
00:45:25.760 --> 00:45:30.880
the death of his father, so
he learns Marcel arts karate kung fu from

636
00:45:30.880 --> 00:45:36.559
the ghost of Bruce Lee. The
premise, who else do you want to

637
00:45:36.639 --> 00:45:39.480
learn FROMA? Oh, are you
actually going to defend this? Jeff?

638
00:45:39.559 --> 00:45:45.199
How long? Janka Van dam is
the bad? Yeah? Van Damn is

639
00:45:45.199 --> 00:45:49.320
a villain and that doesn't help it
either, So don't even go there.

640
00:45:50.559 --> 00:45:54.599
So I'm gonna trust Jason to somehow
mention the other two if he's going there,

641
00:45:54.599 --> 00:45:57.719
but I'm leaving it on a platter
for him. What do you know

642
00:45:57.880 --> 00:46:06.280
he gets one. You have left
me with a plethora of bad movies where

643
00:46:06.280 --> 00:46:12.480
I can only choose one. Here
I'm looking at a list that includes Nomads,

644
00:46:12.760 --> 00:46:16.039
which Jeff and I have. Wait
a minute, this is a cheap

645
00:46:16.119 --> 00:46:23.360
tactic. You're just talking out loud
while I make decision. He objection,

646
00:46:24.840 --> 00:46:29.360
I will, I will only consider
the last one. He says, Nomads.

647
00:46:29.400 --> 00:46:32.119
We've Jeff and I have been on
record talking about how horrible that movie

648
00:46:32.239 --> 00:46:37.880
is. True. We have also
been on record talking about how bad Under

649
00:46:37.920 --> 00:46:44.280
the Cherry Moon starring Prince is.
But I have to go with the star

650
00:46:44.599 --> 00:46:50.239
of star bad movies by a man
that we all respect and adore, mister

651
00:46:50.320 --> 00:46:54.079
George Lucas. He came out with
a movie so horrible I can barely form

652
00:46:54.159 --> 00:47:00.639
the words to say. The title
of this movie, Howard the duck,

653
00:47:04.199 --> 00:47:10.280
pull that chain around your neck and
try to swim jet. Well, my

654
00:47:10.840 --> 00:47:17.039
response to that cheap shot, answer
that cheap shot statement, if you will,

655
00:47:17.920 --> 00:47:22.400
Well, here's a deal. There's
no Mad's bad. Yeah, but

656
00:47:22.480 --> 00:47:25.960
without it, I quote Jason Colvin
when I say without it, there is

657
00:47:27.039 --> 00:47:30.360
no predator, there is no die
Hard. Think about that for a second,

658
00:47:30.599 --> 00:47:36.039
and while you're thinking about that think
about this is under the cherry moon

659
00:47:36.159 --> 00:47:38.039
bad? Well, of course it
is, but it's still about a global

660
00:47:38.119 --> 00:47:42.960
superstar prince. I mean, the
guy could do no wrong even if he

661
00:47:43.000 --> 00:47:46.159
was doing it under a cherry moon. And as far as as far as

662
00:47:46.159 --> 00:47:50.199
Howard the Duck goes, it is
it bad? Yeah, but it's it's

663
00:47:50.239 --> 00:47:52.480
so bad it's fun. And I
think when you go to the store,

664
00:47:52.559 --> 00:47:59.039
you'll find a four K steel book
on the shelves for Howard the Duck to

665
00:47:59.079 --> 00:48:01.599
celebrate its anniverse street. You won't
find rhyan Stone, and you won't find

666
00:48:01.599 --> 00:48:07.360
tars in here we go, but
hey, you will find Howard the Duck.

667
00:48:07.400 --> 00:48:09.199
And you know what, I'm not
ashamed to admit it's it's on the

668
00:48:09.239 --> 00:48:13.599
shelf back there. So do you
have shang Hi surprise back there with your

669
00:48:13.599 --> 00:48:19.280
Howard Duck? How about troll that
one? Okay? So not counting like

670
00:48:19.360 --> 00:48:22.480
the old Captain America cereals. Isn't
it the first Marvel like feature film release?

671
00:48:23.440 --> 00:48:25.960
It is? It is, you
know, thank you Deef Dave.

672
00:48:27.039 --> 00:48:30.719
It is a it is a Marvel
superhero. It's a film about a Marvel

673
00:48:30.760 --> 00:48:32.760
superhero, so it's got that going
for it. It's also the same movie

674
00:48:32.800 --> 00:48:37.239
that we saw a duck get aroused
by Leah Thompson. I don't care who

675
00:48:37.280 --> 00:48:42.320
you are. I don't care who
you are, what you are, Leah

676
00:48:42.320 --> 00:48:46.480
Thompson will arouse you. My friend. Among our podcast hosts, we did

677
00:48:46.519 --> 00:48:51.079
that one. It was one of
our first years we were doing the podcast.

678
00:48:51.119 --> 00:48:52.000
We did that one, and it's
one of the only times one of

679
00:48:52.039 --> 00:48:55.519
the guys got up and actually walked
out as we were recording. And I

680
00:48:55.519 --> 00:49:00.079
don't know if you if you guys
have seen the old Three Stooges episode where

681
00:49:00.239 --> 00:49:04.320
they I think it hypnotized. I
think it is. And anytime somebody says

682
00:49:04.400 --> 00:49:07.400
Niagara falls, they kind of turn
murderous. Anytime I just say the phrase

683
00:49:07.920 --> 00:49:12.599
duck boobs to quote Forrest Scump.
That's all we have to say about that

684
00:49:13.920 --> 00:49:15.800
eighty nine. Let's let's rip into
eighty nine here, Dayton, you get

685
00:49:15.840 --> 00:49:22.519
it started. So this particular movie
has no meta score on IMDb, but

686
00:49:22.679 --> 00:49:27.920
it's score from the People is a
one point eight. I am referring to

687
00:49:28.559 --> 00:49:35.239
Going Overboard from Adam Sandler. You
this thing is unwatchable. I'd rather have

688
00:49:35.280 --> 00:49:39.360
a case of diarrhea than sit through
this movie. Again. It's terrible.

689
00:49:39.760 --> 00:49:44.840
I have never seen that movie.
Ye don't. Yeah, I will not

690
00:49:44.960 --> 00:49:49.000
defend. I would literally I'd rather
shave my head. Didn't watch that movie

691
00:49:49.039 --> 00:49:53.599
again? Okay, just say it, Okay, Dave. Okay, I

692
00:49:53.840 --> 00:49:58.480
was going to say no holds barred, but they already got mentioned. I

693
00:49:58.599 --> 00:50:05.159
was gonna say going overboard Dayton took
it. But I did find one incredibly

694
00:50:05.440 --> 00:50:09.800
horrible sounding movie that is probably in
the realm of craptastic, and they are

695
00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:14.400
I'll probably all gonna want to find
it and watch it. I've never seen

696
00:50:14.480 --> 00:50:20.320
it, but this sounds so terrible
that I almost feel bad for completely burying

697
00:50:20.440 --> 00:50:25.079
Jason with this. Okay, So
the name of this movie is over Sexed

698
00:50:25.360 --> 00:50:31.639
Rugsuckers from Mars. I saw that
listed too. Okay. This is a

699
00:50:31.679 --> 00:50:37.920
sci fi movie where it talks about
aliens return to Earth after having started the

700
00:50:38.000 --> 00:50:43.679
human race millennia ago, and the
first human they see when they come back

701
00:50:44.079 --> 00:50:47.559
is this like really gross, dirty, homeless guy, and they conclude from

702
00:50:47.559 --> 00:50:53.000
that that all of humanity is very, very dirty, and they obviously come

703
00:50:53.039 --> 00:50:57.559
to the logical conclusion that the best
thing they can do make this planet better

704
00:50:58.039 --> 00:51:01.719
is to cross breed humans with vacuum
cleaners. You know what, I never

705
00:51:01.760 --> 00:51:09.079
realized that this movie is a prequel
to Prometheus. Wow. And the way

706
00:51:09.119 --> 00:51:20.119
they start this cross breeding is this
homeless guy accidentally drinks some alien p and

707
00:51:20.320 --> 00:51:23.960
this causes him to fall in love
with the first vacuum cleaner that he sees,

708
00:51:24.400 --> 00:51:30.360
and it creates this hybrid race of
rugsuckers. It's over sex rug suckers

709
00:51:30.440 --> 00:51:37.920
from Mars from nineteen eighty nine.
What is what? What? What is

710
00:51:37.119 --> 00:51:45.320
what? See my earlier See my
earlier comment about people being coked out of

711
00:51:45.320 --> 00:51:49.360
their minds in the eighties. Alright, bring it, Jeff finishes off.

712
00:51:49.760 --> 00:51:52.159
Well, look, I am not
gonna let you off the hug Jason with

713
00:51:52.400 --> 00:51:59.400
some obscure or a little known film
like the last two. I'm gonna channel

714
00:51:59.599 --> 00:52:02.079
d Graves, your co host here. I'm going to offer up a movie

715
00:52:02.119 --> 00:52:07.880
that should have been a hit and
was so bad. Was such a turd,

716
00:52:07.880 --> 00:52:13.400
it's a crime against film. Okay, So let's let's talk about a

717
00:52:13.440 --> 00:52:15.360
couple great things that you can throw
into a movie. How about a hit

718
00:52:15.440 --> 00:52:20.960
song from Michael Damien rock On,
we were all singing it. How about

719
00:52:20.960 --> 00:52:24.639
a beautiful girl like Meredith Salinger and
at the height of their popularity, the

720
00:52:24.760 --> 00:52:30.000
Corey's Corey Hame Corey Feldman, their
their movies were fun. When they got

721
00:52:30.000 --> 00:52:32.119
together, they had a great time. So I don't know what the hell

722
00:52:32.199 --> 00:52:37.639
happened when they did Dream a Little
Dream. Wow, what a what a

723
00:52:37.719 --> 00:52:42.039
dumb movie. And again, this
is one of those the tropes where it's

724
00:52:42.079 --> 00:52:45.000
the body swap, so a little
freaky Friday action, and they can't even

725
00:52:45.000 --> 00:52:49.079
do that, right. This movie
is terrible. It's it's a crime.

726
00:52:49.280 --> 00:52:52.639
It should not be this bad.
It's it's like ninety minutes of Corey Feldman

727
00:52:53.119 --> 00:53:00.239
in his most coked up Michael Jackson
impersonator phase, and he just craps all

728
00:53:00.239 --> 00:53:05.400
over this movie the whole time doing
it. It's awful. It's absolutely awful.

729
00:53:05.559 --> 00:53:08.599
This was when I started worrying about
Corey Feldman. Like he had a

730
00:53:08.599 --> 00:53:12.440
good run in the eighties, Right, he was in the Burbs, Right,

731
00:53:12.440 --> 00:53:15.159
he was like he was in the
Burbs night and then all of a

732
00:53:15.199 --> 00:53:20.760
sudden, it's like, oh,
and he never really stopped this phase.

733
00:53:20.840 --> 00:53:23.199
I'm starting right here. Oh yeah, it's a bad movie. So from

734
00:53:23.199 --> 00:53:25.320
the lowest of the load, now
we're gonna go to the highest of the

735
00:53:25.400 --> 00:53:30.159
high. This is this is one
of your last chances to make the case

736
00:53:30.239 --> 00:53:34.400
for your year. This is the
pinnacle. This is the top five movies.

737
00:53:36.480 --> 00:53:45.199
Top five movies nineteen eighty one.
Okay, so I couldn't figure out

738
00:53:45.199 --> 00:53:47.159
how to break this down, so
I just went ahead and looked at June

739
00:53:47.199 --> 00:53:52.000
into July, and you had the
Great Muppet Caper, Dragon Slayer, For

740
00:53:52.079 --> 00:53:55.039
Your Eyes Only, Raiders are Lost
Dark, and Stripes all came out within

741
00:53:55.079 --> 00:53:59.679
a basically a few weeks of each
other. And to me, and I

742
00:53:59.719 --> 00:54:02.440
saw all of those in the theater, except for Stripes, of course,

743
00:54:02.480 --> 00:54:06.840
because I was too young. As
I note, I've seen Raiders Lost Dark

744
00:54:07.039 --> 00:54:13.000
twenty times in the theater twenty times
because it's that freaking good. And if

745
00:54:13.000 --> 00:54:15.400
it wasn't for that, you wouldn't
get one in eighty four, and you

746
00:54:15.440 --> 00:54:19.840
wouldn't get a sequel in eighty nine. So anyway, those and some people

747
00:54:19.960 --> 00:54:22.199
consider the Great Webcapor to be the
best of them movies. It's definitely a

748
00:54:22.199 --> 00:54:25.920
favorite of mine. Dragon Slayer is
probably my favorite sword and sorcery film of

749
00:54:25.960 --> 00:54:29.920
all time, and For Your Eyes
Only is my favorite Bond movie. These

750
00:54:29.960 --> 00:54:31.719
are These are all favorites, and
four of the five I saw in the

751
00:54:31.719 --> 00:54:37.039
theater of that summer. So that's
why I chose those five. Top five

752
00:54:37.239 --> 00:54:45.639
movies. Nineteen eighty four, Dave
nineteen eighty four, Okay, honorable mentions,

753
00:54:45.719 --> 00:54:50.039
Red Dawn and this his final tap. I've never quit watching Red Dawn.

754
00:54:50.079 --> 00:54:55.559
Awesome movie. Number five, Ghostbusters, number four, The Terminator number

755
00:54:55.599 --> 00:55:00.320
three, Indiana Jones in the Temple
of Doom. Two. Thing I like

756
00:55:00.360 --> 00:55:02.719
about that real quick. I love
that the best majority of it is in

757
00:55:02.800 --> 00:55:07.119
real time and we see it tie
into the same cinematic universe as Gunga Din

758
00:55:07.320 --> 00:55:10.079
So I think that's pretty cool.
Number two. This is a movie I

759
00:55:10.119 --> 00:55:13.360
hadn't seen it over thirty years.
I just saw it a couple of years

760
00:55:13.360 --> 00:55:15.559
ago. It brought back all the
memory, all of the distalgia I had

761
00:55:15.599 --> 00:55:21.320
forgotten just how great this movie is. It goes almost to the top of

762
00:55:21.320 --> 00:55:25.119
my list. The Karate Kid.
I absolutely love this movie. It's amazing,

763
00:55:25.760 --> 00:55:30.280
but at the number one spot considering
who I was at thirteen years old

764
00:55:30.360 --> 00:55:34.000
in nineteen eighty four and how it
just had me hook line is seeker on

765
00:55:34.039 --> 00:55:36.440
the edge of my seat. I
was along for the ride. I have

766
00:55:36.559 --> 00:55:39.920
to put a number one star Trek
three, the Search for Spock. Wow.

767
00:55:40.199 --> 00:55:45.159
Really I love Star Trek three.
I like it more than four,

768
00:55:45.199 --> 00:55:49.360
that's for sure. Really. No
Beverly Hills Cop, Nope, they haven't

769
00:55:49.400 --> 00:56:00.199
made my top five. Okay,
top five movies. Nineteen eighty six is

770
00:56:00.239 --> 00:56:05.280
the court. I have prepared a
written statement I'd like to read, and

771
00:56:05.400 --> 00:56:10.400
if you happen to notice twenty film
titles from nineteen six in this statement,

772
00:56:10.679 --> 00:56:15.599
I assure you it is merely coincidental. Oh yeah right. I'll begin,

773
00:56:17.679 --> 00:56:22.000
Honorable John Reid, to quote Lieutenant
Pete Mitchell call signed Maverick. I can

774
00:56:22.039 --> 00:56:25.679
see it's dangerous for you. After
all, you've been given a fine mess

775
00:56:27.119 --> 00:56:31.000
during this one crazy summer to listen
to our testimony and choose the best year

776
00:56:31.039 --> 00:56:34.760
for movies in the eighties. But
John, you're the elite, the best

777
00:56:34.760 --> 00:56:37.360
of the best. You, sir, are a top gun. Therefore,

778
00:56:37.519 --> 00:56:40.679
when you examine the years eighty one, eighty four and eighty nine, the

779
00:56:40.679 --> 00:56:44.960
only question is, if I may
quote Ellen J. Ripley, You're going

780
00:56:44.960 --> 00:56:46.639
out there to destroy them, right, not to study, not to bring

781
00:56:46.679 --> 00:56:52.199
back, but to wipe them out. John. These ruthless people I'm debating

782
00:56:52.239 --> 00:56:58.199
against can troll you day and night
for nine and a half weeks. But

783
00:56:58.280 --> 00:57:01.599
it doesn't take a witch board to
point to yes when I ask if nineteen

784
00:57:01.639 --> 00:57:07.400
eighty six is the best year forgive
my gung ho attitude about this topic,

785
00:57:07.559 --> 00:57:14.840
but these other guys should be running
scared through the labyrinth of average films their

786
00:57:14.880 --> 00:57:20.800
collective years offer, because eighty six
is in fact the most rad and only

787
00:57:20.880 --> 00:57:25.920
someone with a short circuit would think
otherwise. It's true my cinematic sins can

788
00:57:25.920 --> 00:57:30.480
cause heartburn, but I don't believe
I'm out of bounds when I say it

789
00:57:30.519 --> 00:57:37.159
takes true wisdom to appreciate that even
bad movies become cult classics over time.

790
00:57:37.440 --> 00:57:42.400
It would be something wild if you
chose one of the years suggested by the

791
00:57:42.440 --> 00:57:49.559
other three amigos. Ultimately, as
the Highlander himself, Connor McCloud of the

792
00:57:49.599 --> 00:57:53.280
Clan McCloud, not Clan of the
Cave Bear tells us, there can be

793
00:57:53.320 --> 00:57:57.599
only one, John. I know
you'll make the right choice. I believe

794
00:57:57.639 --> 00:58:02.480
that you will stand by me my
top five, our top gun Aliens Platoon

795
00:58:04.199 --> 00:58:07.599
Ferris Bueler's day off, and stand
by me. Thank you. That was

796
00:58:07.679 --> 00:58:15.639
excellent. I'm giving it top shelf
sir. Oh, my gosh, I

797
00:58:15.719 --> 00:58:17.400
just I just appreciate the fact that
most of the movies you mentioned are not

798
00:58:17.519 --> 00:58:21.559
very good, so that helped a
lot. Thank you, Thank hey.

799
00:58:22.599 --> 00:58:27.039
As Dalton says in eighty nine Roadhouse
Opinions, very guys, don't don't.

800
00:58:28.559 --> 00:58:30.559
I don't want you guys to argue
with each other. I want you guys

801
00:58:30.639 --> 00:58:39.039
to be nice until it's time to
not be nice. Top five movies nineteen

802
00:58:39.199 --> 00:58:49.079
eighty nine. My top five,
I wouldn't say are the best five movies,

803
00:58:49.320 --> 00:58:53.280
but these are the movies that best
represent the excellence of nineteen eighty nine.

804
00:58:53.440 --> 00:58:57.119
Am I splitting hairs? Maybe?
But here's my list. I'm going

805
00:58:57.159 --> 00:59:01.199
to start with the greatest romantic comedy
of the eighties at number five. I'm

806
00:59:01.239 --> 00:59:06.719
giving you When Harry Met Sally.
Number four. I'm going with the greatest

807
00:59:06.800 --> 00:59:13.199
Christmas movie of the nineteen eighties with
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Number three,

808
00:59:13.599 --> 00:59:19.039
I'm giving you one of the great
sequels of the eighties. We get Part

809
00:59:19.119 --> 00:59:22.400
two, actually an improvement in my
opinion, from Part one. We get

810
00:59:22.480 --> 00:59:27.239
Riggs and Myrta lead the weapon to
the summer of nineteen eighty nine, that's

811
00:59:27.280 --> 00:59:31.239
my number three. Number two overall, I give you Indiana Jones and The

812
00:59:31.320 --> 00:59:36.360
Last Crusade. I am not a
person who says it's better than Raiders of

813
00:59:36.360 --> 00:59:38.400
the Lost Dark. I think that
is the best movie of the nineteen eighties,

814
00:59:38.599 --> 00:59:42.880
but I know opinions, Verry,
and I know people hold this movie

815
00:59:42.920 --> 00:59:46.400
in very high regard, maybe the
best of the three Indiana Jones movies.

816
00:59:46.639 --> 00:59:52.320
And then finally, I give you
the one movie the stamp of nineteen eighty

817
00:59:52.400 --> 00:59:57.679
nine, Batman. We still quote
Jack Nicholson's Joker. You guys probably have

818
00:59:57.920 --> 01:00:00.320
shirts with the bat signal on the
in front of it. You've probably had

819
01:00:00.360 --> 01:00:05.840
toys. We had the soundtrack.
It owned the summer of nineteen eighty nine,

820
01:00:06.480 --> 01:00:09.039
So I'm stamping this whole thing off
with Batman. I had to collect

821
01:00:09.039 --> 01:00:14.480
our cards from the movie. I
had the entire SETAs I have the soundtrack

822
01:00:14.719 --> 01:00:19.519
Sitting Climbing. So those are the
top five movies from each of our years

823
01:00:19.559 --> 01:00:22.599
before I make a decision, And
good lord, you guys have made it

824
01:00:22.639 --> 01:00:25.519
really really difficult to make a decision. Here we are going to do in

825
01:00:25.559 --> 01:00:30.320
this next piece, very very quickly. I want each of you to vote

826
01:00:30.360 --> 01:00:34.199
for if your year didn't exist,
and you had to vote for one of

827
01:00:34.199 --> 01:00:37.960
the other years. Who gets your
votes? So basically, in your mind,

828
01:00:37.320 --> 01:00:42.639
which of these years comes number two? So I was trying to figure

829
01:00:42.679 --> 01:00:45.559
out how many movies I own for
each of the other years, and it's

830
01:00:45.679 --> 01:00:52.360
it's really close, So that that
didn't really help my thought process, you

831
01:00:52.400 --> 01:00:54.280
know what I think? In general, I'm thinking I'm gonna go with eighty

832
01:00:54.360 --> 01:00:59.159
nine because he's right, it's when
Harry met Sale is probably the greatest romantic

833
01:00:59.159 --> 01:01:01.239
comedy of the eighties. I saw
it in the theater, loved it from

834
01:01:01.280 --> 01:01:05.239
the first time, and yeah,
and I agree, the Cup of Two

835
01:01:05.280 --> 01:01:07.400
is better than the original, and
yeah, I'm a big fan of Indiana

836
01:01:07.480 --> 01:01:12.360
Jones and Last Crusade is fantastic.
So I think any nine wins out just

837
01:01:12.400 --> 01:01:15.639
a little bit. David, what
do you got? This was tough because

838
01:01:15.880 --> 01:01:20.119
it came down to a couple of
different years. Eighty nine, of course,

839
01:01:20.199 --> 01:01:22.880
being the most recent year from the
eighties. It's easy for me to

840
01:01:22.920 --> 01:01:27.760
remember that one. It was also
the summer that I graduated high school in

841
01:01:27.840 --> 01:01:30.800
June of eighty nine, right there
with Batman, Star Trek five, Indiana

842
01:01:30.880 --> 01:01:35.800
Jones all coming out that month.
I remember that summer very very well.

843
01:01:35.840 --> 01:01:37.599
I was out of school, I
was hanging with friends on top of the

844
01:01:37.599 --> 01:01:42.840
world. I can't believe Jason never
even mentioned UHF in this entire episode.

845
01:01:43.119 --> 01:01:46.960
There's a big sentimental gravity pool to
nineteen eighty nine for all of those reasons.

846
01:01:47.480 --> 01:01:52.719
But there's another year that had what
I considered not only to be the

847
01:01:52.760 --> 01:01:58.000
best movie of the decade, it's
my best movie of all time. And

848
01:01:58.039 --> 01:02:02.000
I don't say that lightly because it's
always neconnect with nineteen thirty eight Adventures of

849
01:02:02.079 --> 01:02:07.000
Robin Hood, which is also just
right there. It's Raiders of the Lost

850
01:02:07.159 --> 01:02:09.400
Arc. And on the strength of
that movie, and on the strength of

851
01:02:09.440 --> 01:02:13.559
the rest of June of eighty one, and on the strength of ex caliber

852
01:02:13.920 --> 01:02:17.719
John Boorman, my favorite fantasy film, my favorite King Arthur adaptation, I

853
01:02:17.800 --> 01:02:22.880
have to go with nineteen eighty one, and that is in spite of the

854
01:02:22.920 --> 01:02:27.239
fact and in Superman two he rips
off like the cellophane layer of his essymbol

855
01:02:27.320 --> 01:02:30.079
and throws it across the Forge of
the Solitude to ensnare the bad guys.

856
01:02:30.639 --> 01:02:35.119
I'm going with eighty one. Jeff, Well, for me, it was

857
01:02:35.159 --> 01:02:38.480
always about two years, specifically and
in my heart of hearts, I had

858
01:02:38.559 --> 01:02:42.239
to, I had to think about
it, and I came down to the

859
01:02:42.480 --> 01:02:46.119
year that almost was our limited mini
series, and that's nineteen eighty four for

860
01:02:46.159 --> 01:02:52.239
all the reasons I started my lifelong
crush for Phoebe Kates when I saw Gremlins.

861
01:02:52.440 --> 01:02:55.840
It is absolutely got, in my
opinion, the greatest war movie ever

862
01:02:55.880 --> 01:03:00.079
made, Red Dawn. And you
know, what can you say, you

863
01:03:00.119 --> 01:03:02.960
know, if you're looking for a
hero the karate Kid, we're talking about

864
01:03:02.960 --> 01:03:09.480
the amazing redemption story of a young
John Lawrence who has everything set up for

865
01:03:09.519 --> 01:03:15.800
a senior year. This punk LaRusso
comes to town and just causes chaos,

866
01:03:15.840 --> 01:03:19.800
causes havoc and even in the end, just like in Rocky, he maybe

867
01:03:19.880 --> 01:03:22.920
he loses his title, he doesn't
win, but he lets he lets the

868
01:03:22.920 --> 01:03:24.960
audience know that's he's gonna be okay. You know. He hands the trophy

869
01:03:25.039 --> 01:03:29.960
over to the cheater and says,
you're so. You know, eighty four

870
01:03:30.039 --> 01:03:32.119
had it had its heroes, it
had its it had its adorable girls that

871
01:03:32.159 --> 01:03:35.880
you could you could crush on,
and it had its awesome war movies.

872
01:03:36.039 --> 01:03:37.559
You know, So for me,
it's it's nineteen eighty four. Jason,

873
01:03:37.800 --> 01:03:42.800
who does number two work for?
Okay, this is really interesting. Okay,

874
01:03:42.960 --> 01:03:45.320
So Dayton, you chose eighty nine, Dave you chose eighty one,

875
01:03:45.480 --> 01:03:52.039
Jeff you chose eighty four. I'm
going with eighty six, Okay, And

876
01:03:52.119 --> 01:03:57.239
so here's the deal. So June
of nineteen eighty one, I feel like

877
01:03:57.400 --> 01:04:01.599
is the best month for movies,
and the entire eighties just absolute killer after

878
01:04:01.639 --> 01:04:05.480
absolute killer and formidable movies. To
me, nineteen eighty four, I would

879
01:04:05.519 --> 01:04:11.440
say there's more like sevens and eights
throughout the entire movie. But when I

880
01:04:11.519 --> 01:04:16.480
looked at my personal top five movies
from nineteen eighty six and the impact that

881
01:04:16.519 --> 01:04:20.440
they had on me as a person, so aliens the James Cameron movie and

882
01:04:20.679 --> 01:04:26.280
created a lifelong James Cameron van in
me t ten out of ten. Top

883
01:04:26.320 --> 01:04:30.000
Gun made me want to be a
fighter pilot with every other red blooded American

884
01:04:30.039 --> 01:04:32.360
boy in the entire country. Ten
out of ten. Ferris Bueller's Day Off

885
01:04:32.440 --> 01:04:35.599
is one of the funniest movies in
the nineteen I absolutely love it. Quoted

886
01:04:35.679 --> 01:04:41.840
all the time. Stand by Me
a Stephen King movie with dramatic impact like

887
01:04:41.960 --> 01:04:45.559
that, and then kind of off
the beaten path. But what I think

888
01:04:45.639 --> 01:04:47.920
is the greatest horror movie of the
entire decade. And you have The Fly,

889
01:04:48.400 --> 01:04:53.639
the David Cronenberg movie, The Fly, where Jeff Globlum slowly becomes this

890
01:04:53.760 --> 01:04:57.039
horrific monster. I mean, I
saw that in the theater, scared the

891
01:04:57.079 --> 01:05:00.559
crap out of me, grossed me
out, but broke my heart to so

892
01:05:00.039 --> 01:05:03.360
go in nineteen eighty six, I
can't argue with that. Top five.

893
01:05:04.039 --> 01:05:06.840
Well, it looks like it's time
to close now, so thank you all

894
01:05:06.880 --> 01:05:12.639
for coming to this episode. And
I just I want to state for the

895
01:05:12.679 --> 01:05:16.880
record that I hate every single one
of you or for all choosing a different

896
01:05:16.960 --> 01:05:19.719
year, because I'm like, well, if three of them fall back on

897
01:05:19.760 --> 01:05:23.880
the one that I think I'm leaning
towards, well then that's fine. But

898
01:05:24.000 --> 01:05:26.760
yeah, leaving me out to dry
here. So I guess it's it's my

899
01:05:26.840 --> 01:05:30.480
turn now to kind of make a
decision based on the evidence that you all

900
01:05:30.519 --> 01:05:40.000
have presented. Final judgment, I'm
gonna go through each of the years just

901
01:05:40.000 --> 01:05:42.840
really really quickly. Eighty one.
All the stuff that you guys have said,

902
01:05:42.920 --> 01:05:45.280
Raiders is an amazing movie. I
tie so many of these things to

903
01:05:45.840 --> 01:05:49.280
experience as I had watching some of
these movies with my dad. Raiders.

904
01:05:49.320 --> 01:05:53.360
I remember watching that with my dad, and then I remember taking my son

905
01:05:53.679 --> 01:05:57.079
to go see it when they brought
it back out in the theaters just down

906
01:05:57.119 --> 01:06:00.760
the street, actually from the hospice
that my dad passed away. In the

907
01:06:00.760 --> 01:06:02.199
movie theater was showing it one more
time, and there was even a guy

908
01:06:02.239 --> 01:06:06.199
that came with replicas from the movie, and we stayed there. My son

909
01:06:06.400 --> 01:06:09.880
is the most I think he'd ever
talked to another human being. He was

910
01:06:09.920 --> 01:06:13.519
asking questions about the props and everything
else. It was just it was awesome.

911
01:06:13.760 --> 01:06:15.960
Stupid fun movies like cannon Ball Run
American, Werewolf in London one of

912
01:06:16.000 --> 01:06:19.159
my favorite movies, and Clash of
the Titans was one of my favorite movies

913
01:06:19.199 --> 01:06:23.199
as a kid. I had all
the toys, even stupid little TV movies

914
01:06:23.360 --> 01:06:27.599
like This House Possessed was one that
I somehow watched over and over again as

915
01:06:27.599 --> 01:06:30.360
a kid, one that we did
on our show, and I was blown

916
01:06:30.360 --> 01:06:33.559
away above this. I absolutely loved
it, and the premise seems so simple.

917
01:06:33.599 --> 01:06:36.159
I didn't think I would love it. Was my Dinner with Andre.

918
01:06:36.679 --> 01:06:41.360
I absolutely loved that movie when we
watched that, and I think the rest

919
01:06:41.360 --> 01:06:44.320
of my co hosts on our show. It just they were amazed too.

920
01:06:44.320 --> 01:06:45.400
They're like, two guys having dinner, how good is it's going to be?

921
01:06:45.760 --> 01:06:48.280
And we watched it and we're like, this was actually an awesome movie.

922
01:06:48.320 --> 01:06:51.719
I actually loved this movie. So
eighty one is just it's got so

923
01:06:51.840 --> 01:06:57.239
much stuff to love from eighty one
eighty four twenty ten. I remember watching

924
01:06:57.239 --> 01:06:59.639
that as a kid, and it
was one of the first movies where I

925
01:06:59.719 --> 01:07:02.800
remember the moment that you started to
see spoiler alert, the monoliths. You

926
01:07:02.840 --> 01:07:05.679
start to see some of those monoliths
show up in like the Great Spot of

927
01:07:05.800 --> 01:07:10.840
Jupiter, and I remember getting just
goosebumps as a kid. I'm like,

928
01:07:10.880 --> 01:07:14.199
I loved astronomy at the time,
and this movie was messing with my astronomy

929
01:07:14.480 --> 01:07:16.360
and it was just it was bone
chilling. So I remember that, and

930
01:07:16.679 --> 01:07:19.280
I mean, this is all the
stuff that my uncle used to take me

931
01:07:19.320 --> 01:07:23.360
to when I was inappropriately too young
to go to see some of these movies,

932
01:07:23.440 --> 01:07:25.960
you know, when I saw a
Nightmare on Elm Street and Terminator,

933
01:07:26.199 --> 01:07:30.239
The Ghostbusters, Gremlin's Sixteen Candles,
Never Ending Story, Muppets Take Manhattan,

934
01:07:30.559 --> 01:07:34.440
Spinal tap Amadeus. I've already said
Amadeus is one of my favorites too.

935
01:07:34.880 --> 01:07:38.920
My dad when he did have his
stroke, you couldn't tell when he was

936
01:07:39.000 --> 01:07:42.280
joking. He couldn't show emotion on
his face anymore after he had had a

937
01:07:42.320 --> 01:07:45.920
stroke. And at one point they
were wheeling him down through the hallway in

938
01:07:45.960 --> 01:07:49.039
the wheelchair and he starts turning to
the other people that are sitting off to

939
01:07:49.079 --> 01:07:54.199
the side working puzzles and doing other
things, and he just goes mediocrates,

940
01:07:54.719 --> 01:07:59.000
mediocrits everywhere. I am your patron
saint, and I got okay, So

941
01:07:59.639 --> 01:08:04.639
you have not lost your sense of
humor. Eighty six, Little Shop of

942
01:08:04.679 --> 01:08:11.159
Horrors, Three Amigos, Hoosiers,
Crocodile, Dundee, The Fly Transformers,

943
01:08:11.159 --> 01:08:13.400
the movie maybe one of the first
times I cried in a movie as a

944
01:08:13.440 --> 01:08:16.199
kid. Stand by Me Aliens,
Labyrinth. I can't even tell you,

945
01:08:16.439 --> 01:08:20.199
between my siblings and myself, the
number of times we quote Labyrinth on a

946
01:08:20.279 --> 01:08:25.439
daily basis. Big Trouble in Little
China. I'm so shocked nobody wanted to

947
01:08:25.479 --> 01:08:28.800
go the creep factor and choose Poltergeist
too, and tell us about how God

948
01:08:28.880 --> 01:08:32.720
is in his Holy Temple, Highlander, American Tale, Platoon and then eighty

949
01:08:32.760 --> 01:08:36.199
nine, I mean Christmas Vacation.
A lot of the movies in here are

950
01:08:36.239 --> 01:08:40.640
just the ones that are on regular
rotation. Just Back to the Future two

951
01:08:40.720 --> 01:08:43.079
was probably one of the first movies
I took my son to go see in

952
01:08:43.119 --> 01:08:46.680
the theater. Little Mermaid, Parenthood, when Harry met Sally Honey, I

953
01:08:46.680 --> 01:08:50.319
shrunk the Kids was always a big
one. Dead Poet Society was the movie

954
01:08:50.359 --> 01:08:56.039
that probably most inspired me to become
a teacher. Last Crusade, Roadhouse the

955
01:08:56.159 --> 01:08:59.840
Burbs, my son playing baseball.
I mean, there's not a game,

956
01:09:00.119 --> 01:09:01.039
or at least in my own head. If I don't say it out loud,

957
01:09:01.439 --> 01:09:05.319
at some point, I'm gonna say
the phrase jazzed a bid outside And

958
01:09:05.319 --> 01:09:09.680
then I don't think anybody mentioned for
eighty nine Bill and Ted's excellent Adventure.

959
01:09:10.600 --> 01:09:15.239
Well, I've taken all of your
information and I've heard all of your arguments

960
01:09:15.279 --> 01:09:17.520
over the course of this episode,
and I am going to say that I'm

961
01:09:17.560 --> 01:09:20.079
not going to cop out, but
I am going to say, God,

962
01:09:20.119 --> 01:09:24.359
all these years are just amazing.
There's a reason why these are the four

963
01:09:24.720 --> 01:09:29.680
that we ended up having for this
episode, because you really honestly can't go

964
01:09:29.760 --> 01:09:32.720
wrong. I'm gonna have to go
with. And I think some of the

965
01:09:33.239 --> 01:09:38.960
pop culture argument for this year,
and I think just I think it's one

966
01:09:38.960 --> 01:09:42.199
of the things that the person who
had this year, it was one of

967
01:09:42.199 --> 01:09:45.720
your reasons for why this year was
so pivotal, And I think that's going

968
01:09:45.760 --> 01:09:47.600
to be the same that I'm going
to have to go with in my decision.

969
01:09:48.039 --> 01:09:51.359
And it's probably the year where I
own most of the movies that are

970
01:09:51.359 --> 01:09:55.600
on this list. It's the year
that probably inspired most of my love of

971
01:09:55.640 --> 01:10:00.319
movies, my love of literature,
the types of genres I enjoy, all

972
01:10:00.319 --> 01:10:02.800
that other stuff. I am going
to have to go with the one that

973
01:10:03.039 --> 01:10:08.399
started a whole bunch of these franchises. I'm gonna have to go with nineteen

974
01:10:08.439 --> 01:10:12.000
eighty four. I gotta go with
eighty four. Like I said before,

975
01:10:12.079 --> 01:10:15.920
that was one of the reasons we
started our show was we were sitting around

976
01:10:15.199 --> 01:10:18.960
arguing this point and we said,
God, that's just look at everything that

977
01:10:19.039 --> 01:10:23.520
got started that year. Yes,
I love and I'm a person that loves

978
01:10:23.520 --> 01:10:27.039
sequels too, even bad sequels.
I love having the sequels. I love

979
01:10:27.079 --> 01:10:30.880
having all that all that fan service
of bringing back those sequels and just getting

980
01:10:30.920 --> 01:10:33.600
more of what I enjoy, but
eighty four just and that get kicked off

981
01:10:33.960 --> 01:10:38.319
so many things that became so huge. I love all of you, I

982
01:10:38.359 --> 01:10:41.960
love all the years. I think
I gotta go with eighty four. It's

983
01:10:42.000 --> 01:10:46.840
totally reasonable, makes perfect sense.
I kind of thought you'd say that there

984
01:10:46.960 --> 01:10:53.680
be none Live with Dave now.
And thankfully this is not just my decision,

985
01:10:54.000 --> 01:10:58.319
because the listeners are going to weigh
on this too. So so we've

986
01:10:58.319 --> 01:11:00.039
heard all the evidence. I've said
what I think it is. I've I've

987
01:11:00.039 --> 01:11:03.560
said nineteen eighty four. But we
want the listeners to weigh on in this

988
01:11:03.640 --> 01:11:06.000
as well. Jason, how do
you want how do you want listeners to

989
01:11:06.399 --> 01:11:10.199
let you know what their phote is. We're gonna put it out on Facebook,

990
01:11:10.199 --> 01:11:12.880
We're gonna put it out on Twitter. We'll share it for everybody to

991
01:11:12.920 --> 01:11:17.079
weigh in on what they think is
the best year of the nineteen eighties,

992
01:11:17.279 --> 01:11:25.600
and if you say nineteen eighty seven, year out John, thank you very

993
01:11:25.640 --> 01:11:28.680
much for moderating, guys, thank
you so much for being here. I

994
01:11:28.760 --> 01:11:31.920
had a great time and that was
a great discussion. Enjoyed it fantastic,

995
01:11:32.600 --> 01:11:38.239
Thank you very much. Absolutely absolutely
love these of these big multi show collaborations

996
01:11:38.239 --> 01:11:41.279
we do sometimes and looking forward to
the next one already this was this was

997
01:11:41.319 --> 01:11:42.479
a blast. Thanks so much,