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Since we had so much to say, this week we're presenting the second part of 1985! 

But first, here is a reminder of this years list of Oscar nominees:

• Out of Africa
• The Color Purple
• Kiss of the Spider Woman
• Prizzi's Honor
• Witness

As if that wasn't enough, we added a few other categories to the Oscar list like The Best Grandma Moment, The Independent Darling, and Who Did It Best!

Was Rocky IV the sequel of the year? Is Dario Argento's Demons the kind of horror movie that sticks with you? We also discuss a couple of the brat pack movies, The Breakfast Club, and St. Elmo's Fire, and how they catapulted the careers of the brat packers. But which one was better? Don't worry, we tell you. We also discuss some of the best action movies and their muscular heroes, of not just 1985, but of the whole decade of the 80s! Who had the best one-liners; Schwarzenegger? Stallone? Norris? And which of their movie franchises came up on top? All this and more as we close on the stellar movie year of 1985.

Want to be part of the excitement, listen and find out who we think could have been added to the Best Picture list! Was the Academy right?  Do you agree with our correct assessments? Listen and find out!  Don't forget to follow us on any of the major social media at theretrospodcast.

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This week we go "back in time" to 1985! Wow, it was such an enjoyable trip to a time of our tumultuous youth to watch the movies that were so essential to our formative years, and boy did we find a lot to talk about! 

So much so, we decided to split the show into two parts! Part one is available now, Part 2 will be available next week.

But first, we are so excited to discuss this years list of Oscar nominees:

• Out of Africa
• The Color Purple
• Kiss of the Spider Woman
• Prizzi's Honor
• Witness

As if that wasn't enough, we added a few other categories to the Oscar list like The Best Grandma Moment, The Independent Darling, and Who Did It Best!

With all the great action, adventure, comedy, scifi and fantasy movies that were produced in 1985, why did the Academy choose to be so SERIOUS with their nominees and exclude all of the mentioned genres from the list? We talk about that. Not only do we talk about it, we created our own Oscar's list with blackjack and hookers! Ok, no blackjack or hookers, but we made a 10 slot "Pop Oscars" list containing all the genre movies that got snubbed by the Academy. Who did we think would win? Back to the Future? Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome? Pee Wee's Big Adventure? Well, you'll have to listen to Part One and find out! Plus Comedy Gold, the amazingly competitive Comedy Lead, and we discuss what Carlos really thought of Prizzi's Honor!

Want to be part of the excitement, listen and find out who we think could have been added to the Best Picture list! Was the Academy right?  Do you agree with our correct assessments? Listen and find out!  Don't forget to follow us on any of the major social media at theretrospodcast.

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This week we look back at our 1987 episode and see if it needs any mistakes rectified or omissions told. 

In this episode:

We made some mistakes. We hold ourselves accountable for those mistakes! Even if we have to make fun of each other for making those mistakes.

We talk about the late, great John Witherspoon, who starred in cinematic touchstones such as I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, Boomerang, House Party, and the Friday series of movies, and apologized for forgetting his name during the main show.  

This week we talk about 1987 as the beginning of the end of the slow decline of the sword and sandal fantasy movie genre, bottoming out with Slave Girls From Beyond Infinity. We both agreed that Running Man was the most 80s movie made in the 80s, but part of that was the interpretation of the future that science fiction movies portrayed. We talked about the different futures that more recent movies sought to show. 

This intermissions' outro music, Theology/Civilization from the Conan the Barbarian soundtrack by Basil Poledouris.

All this and more, in a compact thirty minutes! 

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This week we go back, way back, to 1939! It was a fascinating dive into an era of movies we didn't know that much about. But we learned! Oh, we learned... Here are the ten movies nominated for Outstanding Production (what they called "Best Picture" back then):

• Gone With the Wind
• Dark Victory
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
• Goodbye, Mr. Chips
• Love Affair
• Ninotchka
• Wizard of Oz
• Of Mice and Men
• Wuthering Heights
• Stagecoach

As if that wasn't enough, we added a few other categories to the Oscar list like Comedy Gold, The Independent Darling, and Who Did It Best!

Why didn't Crashing Thru get nominated for being an exciting movie with a banger theme song for a tight 55 minutes while Gone With the Wind needed close to four hours to accomplish!? Over 50 movies were Westerns in 1939, Stagecoach was the shining pinnacle of the golden age of westerns. Should the doctors tell you if you're dying of brain cancer? Would you tell your husband? If not, why? And Humphrey Bogart in a non-private investigator role!? What kitchens have 15 foot ceilings!? Dark Victory covers all this weirdness and so much more.

Want to be part of the excitement, listen and find out who we think could have been added to the Best Picture list! Was the Academy right?  Do you agree with our correct assessments? Listen and find out!  Don't forget to follow us on any of the major social media at theretrospodcast.

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Sorry for the delay, we were on a brief marketing sabbatical! This week we look back at our 2008 episode and see if it needs any mistakes rectified or omissions told. But probably not. But probably, we're not always that accurate...

In this episode:

We made some mistakes. We hold ourselves accountable for those mistakes! Even if we have to make fun of each other for making those mistakes.

Except this time! No mistakes, maybe a few omissions... This week we talk about 2008 being the "year of redemption" for three popular actors who rose to prominence, stumbled and rose again brighter and more popular! Brendan Frasier, Robert Downy Jr., and Mickey Rourke all had great movies in 2008 that brought them back to high Hollywood status. We talk about that.

Maura Rooney? Rooney Maura? Who were they? Are those names correct? Are they actually sisters or one actress who plays both by changing clothes quickly between red carpet runs? Are they scions of a great NFL family, or three racoons in a fedora and trenchcoat? Never have a couple of talented actresses brought up so many weird questions.

This intermission's outro music, Low by Flo-Rida; a song like a black hole that was impossible to escape from in the late 2000s! It was found in many movies throughout the years, but in 2008 was featured prominently in Tropic Thunder, The Women, and Step Up 2: The Streets.

All this and more, in a compact thirty minutes! Our technical issues have been mostly addressed and we both sound pretty good if we do say so ourselves even if we were a little sniffly and under the weather this week.

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This week we look at the Best Picture nominations of 2012 and noticed something different! This year the Academy went with a ten movie list. Not to be daunted, we dove right in:

• Argo
• Amour
• Beasts of the Southern Wastes
• Django Unchained
• Les Miserables
• Life of Pi
• Lincoln
• Silver Linings Playbook
• Zero Dark Thirty

As if that wasn't enough, we added a few other categories to the Oscar list like Comedy Gold, The Independent Darling, and Who Did It Best!

Did Argo deserve the win? Did Les Miserables and Life of Pi deserve the nominations, or did they take up space that The Hobbit and Iron Sky could have had? Why did John Carter of Mars fail so spectacularly even with all the money and effort put into it? We have some ideas. This was a banner year for franchises! Sequels abound, and movies like American Pie and Underworld were on their fourth installments! 

Want to be part of the excitement, listen and find out who we think could have been added to the Best Picture list! Was the Academy right?  Do you agree with our correct assessments? Listen and find out!  Don't forget to follow us on any of the major social media at theretrospodcast.

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Where we look back at our 1974 episode and see if it needs any mistakes rectified or omissions told. But probably not. But probably, we're not always that accurate...

In this episode:

We made some mistakes. We hold ourselves accountable for those mistakes! Even if we have to make fun of each other for making those mistakes.

The toys of the 70s were the best. Not an opinion; it's a fact. We also talk a bit more about what kind of Lord of the Rings movie would have been made in the 70s and by whom after John Borman had to drop out of his production of one. Could it have been Spielberg? Kubrick? Lean? Well, we had the animated Bakshi version, and it was ok. We also compare and contrast disaster movies from the 70s with those from 2005-2025. Our verdict, the 70s had better ones! And 2009's The Knowing was awful.

This intermission's outro music, One Tin Soldier, the theme from Billy Jack by The Original Caste!

All this and more, in a compact thirty minutes! Our technical issues have been mostly addressed and we both sound pretty good if we do say so ourselves.

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This week we go back in time and look at the Best Picture nominations of 1967 and we are really excited to talk about them:

• Bonnie and Clyde
• The Graduate
• In the Heat of the Night
• Doctor Doolittle
• Guess Who's Coming for Dinner

Plus a few other categories we felt needed to be added to the Oscar list like Comedy Gold, The Independent Darling, and Who Did It Best!

This week we discuss Carlos nearly crashing out because he didn't understand that the first two and half minutes of Doctor Doolittle which only had a black screen and music was an entr'acte and wasn't actually a broken or corrupted version of the movie on Amazon he spent money to watch. Side-note, Carlos didn't like Doctor Doolittle. We also discuss the prevalence of Western movies during this time period despite their fading popularity, Anne Bancroft's angry reaction to Dustin Hoffman's "romantic" wedding crashing in The Graduate, and our love for King Kong Escapes, the Inoshiro Honda kaiju masterpiece where King Kong fights a mechanized version of King Kong...and other monsters.

Want to be part of the excitement, listen and find out who we think could have been added to the Best Picture list! Was the Academy right?  Do you agree with our correct assessments? Listen and find out!  Don't forget to follow us on any of the major social media at theretrospodcast.

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In honor of March Madness and the upcoming NFL season, we put together a bracket of our own! 

This is the Final round for the Irwin Uber Allin Award! Who will win? We've tallied up the votes and determined the victor. Listen in and find out who!

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In honor of March Madness and the upcoming NFL season, we put together a bracket of our own! 

This is the Fifth round! We are now in the Final Four vying for the Irwin Uber Allin Award! What next? Go listen to the fifth round show, and afterwards go to the Retros Podcast Facebook group:

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Fill out the bracket polls with your choices. That's it! We'll tally everything up and announce the winners for the next round. Any brackets not filled will just use our decisions, but we'd rather have the listeners decide!

If you have any questions, you can leave a note in our Retros Podcast facebook group, or you can email us at [email protected]

Happy bracketing!

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