Episode 484: Top Summer Movies of 1980-84

Welcome back to Part 2 of the Summer Series -- last week, we ranked the summer movies of the 70s... this week, we jumped to the first half of the ME Decade -- 1980 to 1984! 

And gotta say, the harvest is massive.  Ranking any movie released from Memorial Day Weekend to Labor Day weekend in each of 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, and 1984, the film titles are legendary... Indiana Jones and Elliott and Kermit and Carol Anne and WOLVERINE and Shall We Play a Game and on and on and on... we've all got a list with a dozen or more names on it, and because the task is so daunting, what better way to tackle it than to bring on a podcasting legend and friend of the show SHAZBAZZAR!! 

We talk about where Shaz has been spending his time since the end of TechnoRetro Dads... avoiding Vic's Damone... playing a little IMDB Game... love of Marc Singer... the greatest fan film ever made... the 80s teens propensity to create world destroying technology... and so, so much more.

Settle in for one of the best episodes we've done in a long time!  

Here are the movies discussed, and where to find them at the time of recording:

• The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai Across the 5th Dimension (1984)... Amazon Prime
• Airplane! (1980)... Starz
• Airplane: The Sequel (1982)... Starz  
• The Beastmaster (1982)... Amazon Prime
• Blade Runner (1982)... for rental
• Blade Runner Directors Cut (1992)... unavailable
• Blade Runner The Final Cut (2007)... HBO Max
• Caddyshack (1980)... HBO Max
• Cannonball Run (1981)... unavailable
  
• Condorman (1981)... for rental
• Cloak & Daggar (1984)... Peacock & Peacock Premium
• E.T.:  The Extra Terrestrial (1982)... Amazon Prime
• The Great Muppet Caper (1981)... Disney+
• The Last Starfighter (1984)... rental
• National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)... HBO Max
• Poltergeist (1982)... HBO Max
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)... Paramount+
• Raiders! The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made (2015)... TubiTV
• Red Dawn (1984)... HBO Max
• Trading Places (1983)... Starz
• Tron (1982)... Disney+ 
• WarGames (1983)... Amazon Prime
• WarGames: The Dead Code (2008)... TubiTV

Episode 483: Top Summer Movies of The 1970s

Springtime is fading and summer is here!  And after ten seasons, The Deucecast Movie Show is finally doing an actual "Summer Series" -- the best Summer Movies of the summers past.

First up, it's a hostfull episode with Mikey, Dave, and #TwitterlessDrEarl take a look at The Me Decade, and after a 70s themed round of Box Office Mojo, they rank their Top Five fave summer films released in the summers from 1970 to 1979.

Some amazing flicks from Altman, Spielberg, Monty Python, and Lucas, and some not great but still beloved movies from Altman, Heston, Bond, and not-Kevin James. And Burt Reynolds, of course.

Enjoy the first of The Summer Movie Series!

• Alien (for rental)
• American Graffiti (for rental)
• And Now For Something Completely Different (Starz)
• Chinatown (Paramount+;  Chicken Soup for the Soul's Crackle)
• I Am Legend (HBO Max; Hulu)
• Jaws (HBO Max)
• Jaws IV: The Revenge (HBO Max)
• Live & Let Die (TubiTV)
• McCabe & Mrs Miller (for rental)
• Memory: The Origins of Alien (Chicken Soup for the Soul's Crackle)
• The Muppet Movie (Disney+)
• Nashville  (for rental)
• The Omega Man (for rental) 
• The Parallax View (for rental)
• Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown (Amazon Prime; Hulu, EPIX) 
• The Rescuers (Disney+)
• Smokey & the Bandit (AMC+; for rental)
• Star Wars (Disney+)