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Entries in 1982 (4)

Monday
Dec032012

Fast Times at Ridgemont High | Ep #51

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It's the final installment of the 1982 Movie Retrospectacle (or Retrospectacular, depending on what we feel like calling it at any given moment)! We round out the four-part series with Fast Times at Ridgemont High. The movie that set the mold for all high school movies to come. Or was it? "Hey, I know that dude!" 
**Warning: This episode contains some bad words. So, if you don't like that kind of thing...**
 
Show Notes: 
01:17 1982 Retrospectacle: the final episode
04:35 The quintessential high school movie?
05:46 Porky's
08:04 The cheering squad | That's not a nerd | Blame John Hughes?
14:28 Jimmy Fallon and Mike Damone. Separated at birth?
16:52 Spicoli
22:25 "There are no villains"
23:29 Linda's "boyfriend"
26:44 Jennifer Jason Leigh
31:00 Ridgemont High School kids just deal with it
33:48 Interlude: "He's gonna kill us!"
35:38 Mike Damone
40:15 Surprises on set
41:18 Interlude: "Way to go Hamilton!"
44:00 Where are they now?
44:34 The sequel (in spirit) to Fast Times: The Wild Life
45:50 Fast Times at Ridgemont High: The book
47:30 Ron Johnson, Stereo Engineer
48:02 Brad Hamilton
52:24 80s movies fixtures
55:40 A 1982 Retrospectacle Round-up

Fast Times at Ridgemont High | Ep #51

Wednesday
Sep122012

Blade Runner | Ep #40

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We've seen things you people wouldn't believe... For the third installment of our retrospectacle on the films of 1982, we chastise nerds for over-analyzing Ridley Scott's masterpiece Blade Runner, and then over-analyze Ridley Scott's masterpiece Blade Runner. Do you like our owl?   

Show Notes: 

03:01 Blade Runner: have it your way
03:40 Original ending w/Deckard's voice-over
05:45 The Final Cut
06:57 Ridley Scott: A likeable weirdo
07:50 Video Hound's Complete Guide to Cult Flicks & Trash Pics
10:01 Putting the cult in cult
12:10 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
16:00 The Deckard/Batty dance
16:23 Interlude: Vangelis: "Blade Runner End Titles"
17:50 Vangelis' score: "just gross"
24:28 So much style
25:30 The deal with Deckard
32:45 Interlude: "Tears in Rain"
35:10 Prometheus: Blade Runner in space
36:45 The Jesus Engineer 
41:55 An awkward, drowsy love scene
45:20 Interlude: White Zombie: "More Human Than Human"
46:05 The value of repeat viewings
49:35 The Ulysses effect
52:01 Another Runner?
56:35 Red Dwarf: Back to Earth

 


Blade Runner | #40

Wednesday
Jun202012

E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial | Ep #29

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Our retrospective series on the movies of 1982 continues with enough Spielbergian praise to make Drew Barrymore blush and an argument for the removal of one of the most iconic scenes in movie history. Can't listen right now? That's ok, take your time. We'll. Be. Right. Here.    

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial | Ep #29

Tuesday
Apr102012

Grease 2 | Ep #19

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Grease may be the word, but Grease 2 is the topic of this week's show, and we've got a few words for it (mostly disparaging ones). It's the start of our new quarterly series looking back on memorable movies of 1982.   

Show Notes: 
00:00 Drew really wants vindication
03:00 Alamo Drafthouse's Summer of 1982  
07:15 Grease 2 promo spot
07:40 Grease is the worst
12:40 I can't believe you said "Cool Rider"
14:25 Interlude: "Back to School Again"
15:25 I wouldn't buy the soundtrack...
29:30 Interlude: "Score Tonight"
30:39 Let's talk about the T-Birds
36:30 Xanadu
41:10 Interlude: "Reproduction"
42:00 Grease 3 (Wrath of the Black Panther) 
49:05 Grease 4 (Cooler Rider)

Grease 2 | Ep #19