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Welcome to Round 2 in the Raiders Region, where the shows are shorter, and the voting is even more important! NOTE: there are FOUR POLLS for you to vote on here!

Feel like ranking movies for next season? Try it HERE!

Here are the official results of Round 1 in the Red Dawn:

Welcome to Round 2 in the Red Dawn Region, where the shows are shorter, and the voting is even more important! NOTE: there are FOUR POLLS for you to vote on here!

Feel like ranking movies for next season? Try it HERE!

Here are the official results of Round 1 in the Red Dawn:

Welcome to Round 2 of the Fast Times Region, where the shows are shorter, and the voting is even more important! NOTE: there are FOUR POLLS for you to vote on here!

Feel like ranking movies for next season? Try it HERE!

Here are the official results of Round 1 in the Fast Times Region:

Welcome to Round 2, where the shows are shorter, and the voting is even more important! NOTE: there are FOUR POLLS for you to vote on here!

Feel like ranking movies for next season? Try it HERE!

Here are the official results of Round 1 in the Sixteen Candles Region:

The final first-round game of the Raiders of the Lost Ark Region brings together two VERY different films, and my goodness, we talk about them for way too long.

In one corner: 1983’s Flashdance! It’s got the torn sweatshirt, the leg warmers, the water splash, and my god, the soundtrack! Jennifer Beals was just out there, shaping the fashion sense of a decade, and inspiring a billion crushes worldwide. No big deal.

In the other corner: Return of the Jedi, the 1983 film that concludes the original trilogy, and we didn’t know if we’d ever get more. One of the biggest films of the decade and of all time, and clearly extremely quotable…but how of the decade is it??

Which one is MORE 80s? Vote below!

This week, two one-word titles dominate the penultimate matchup of the first round!

In one corner: Zapped!, Robert Rosenthal’s 1982 teen sex comedy in which a high school science nerd develops telekinetic powers, and proceeds to creepily use them to remove the clothes from every girl in his vicinity. Peak cringe, but VERY 80s.

In the other corner: Splash, Ron Howard’s 1984 romantic fantasy in which Allen Bauer (Tom Hanks) falls in love with a mermaid (Daryl Hannah) who follows him to Manhattan, and is threatened by a government scientist. Sweeter, more heartwarming, and definitely 80s.

But which one will move on to round two? YOU decide!

This week’s lineup of films has a couple of films that didn’t have much of a presence in the lives of our hosts, Keith & Joe. However, we brought in experts to help us out!

In one corner, we have 3-seed The Outsiders, a film that launched a dozen careers, but that is set in the early 60s.

In the other corner, we have a concert movie of an iconic 80s band: Stop Making Sense by Talking Heads. This is tough because concert films don’t follow the same rules of regular feature films. This film is widely considered to be the best concert film of the decade!

The other crazy part is the divide between Keith’s rankings and Joes! Keith has these films at 19 & 80 respectively, whereas Joe has them at 92 & 6 respectively. We clearly don’t agree, so help us by voting on which of these films is more 80s!

This week we have an iconic 80s comedy franchise against an iconic 80s action franchise!

In one corner: Ghostbusters, Ivan Reitman’s 1984 supernatural comedy in which three disgraced parapsychology professors start a ghost-catching (“busting”) business in New York City and end up saving the world from a Sumerian demigod.

In the other corner: First Blood, Ted Kotcheff’s 1982 action film in which Vietnam veteran John Rambo wanders into a small Pacific Northwest town and is run out by a sheriff who decides he doesn’t belong — an escalation neither man can stop once it starts.

Which one is MORE 80s? Vote below!

This week, we flash back to movies that have lots of flashbacks in them. (Or flash-forwards in one case.)

In one corner: The Terminator, James Cameron’s 1984 science fiction thriller in which a machine from 2029 is sent back in time to kill Sarah Connor before she can give birth to the man who will lead humanity’s resistance.

In the other corner: Eddie and the Cruisers, Martin Davidson’s 1983 drama in which a TV journalist investigates the mystery of Eddie Wilson, a charismatic Jersey Shore rock frontman who vanished in 1964 and was presumed dead.

Yeah, Eddie and the Cruisers generally sucks balls. But, which one is MORE 80s? Vote below!

In one corner: The Neverending Story, Wolfgang Petersen’s 1984 fantasy in which a lonely boy named Bastian steals a magical book and begins reading — only to discover he is part of the story itself.

In the other corner: Escape from New York, John Carpenter’s 1981 action-thriller in which the island of Manhattan has been converted into a maximum-security prison and Snake Plissken (ex-Special Forces, one eye, a death sentence, and no particular interest in being a hero) is sent in alone to rescue the President.

One is gritty and badass, the other is a whimsical kids movie. Which one is MORE 80s? Vote below!

Here is the skit Joe shared with us:

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