80s Movies: A Guide to What's Wrong with Your Parents

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Film by film, mother-teen daughter movie critics Tara McNamara and Riley Roberts examine what makes movies from the 1980s so amazing and so, so wrong.

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FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF: It's More Valuable to Skip School

80s Movies: A Guide to What's Wrong with Your Parents

04/02/20 • 18 min

Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) is John Hughes' most fun film and, aside from the usual '80s offense of making bad boys sexy, it encouraged high schoolers to ditch. Mother-daughter hosts and film analysts Tara McNamara (Common Sense Media), Gen X, and Riley Roberts (Fanlala), Gen Z, look back at what how the film holds up today and its disturbing legacy.

POLICE ACADEMY is Surprisingly Progressive

80s Movies: A Guide to What's Wrong with Your Parents

08/20/20 • 15 min

Police Academy (1984) was both a product and ahead of its time. Film authorities Tara McNamara, Gen X, and Riley Roberts, Gen Z, examine the ensemble comedy through the modern lens to identify how it unexpectedly defies stereotypes while still falling into the same old '80s traps when it comes to objectifying women.

CADDYSHACK: Under-All the Golfer and Gopher Jokes, Sexy Still Means Slutty

80s Movies: A Guide to What's Wrong with Your Parents

05/10/20 • 42 min

In their follow up to Animal House, Harold Ramis and Doug Kenney toned down the misogyny and upped the Slobs vs Slobs comedy. Tara McNamara, Gen X, and Riley Roberts, Gen Z, look at Caddyshack with the modern lens, identifying how it used comedy to chip away at authority and the pompousness of the rich, but also perpetuated stereotypes about women that took a couple of decades to shake.

How BULL DURHAM Messed with the Minds of Men and Women

80s Movies: A Guide to What's Wrong with Your Parents

04/14/18 • 19 min

Mother-daughter movie critics Tara McNamara and 17-year-old Riley Roberts playfully look at why Bull Durham is the favorite rom-com of men and give fans a different way to think about the classic's impact. Also, does the classic still work today?

9 TO 5: A Snapshot of 1980

80s Movies: A Guide to What's Wrong with Your Parents

12/18/20 • 26 min

Pour yourself a cup of ambition, this episode covers what's considered the most successful political movie of all time -- wonderfully executed as a broad comedy. Film authorities Tara McNamara, Gen X, and Riley Roberts, Gen Z, look back at the 1980 Jane Fonda-Lily Tomlin-Dolly Parton revenge fantasy with a modern lens and evaluate how it reflects the attitudes of the day that affected a generation.

How the U.S. Capitol Insurrection Can Be Traced Back to RED DAWN

80s Movies: A Guide to What's Wrong with Your Parents

01/29/21 • 51 min

Wolverines! Red Dawn is one of the few teen action films of the '80s -- and definitely the most influential. It showed that teens were responsible, skilled, and capable enough to save their town and, possibly, the United States. It's a blow 'em up, shoot 'em up, and set them on fire pic. But the intended message never reached its young audience and the result, as hosts Tara McNamara (Gen X) and Riley Roberts (Gen Z) identify, is that the film has continued to inspire in all the wrong ways.

BEVERLY HILLS COP: It's all fun & games until cops falsify paperwork

80s Movies: A Guide to What's Wrong with Your Parents

11/13/20 • 20 min

Beverly Hills Cop was the No. 1 movie in 1984, a year that many consider one of cinema's best. As Detroit police detective Axel Foley (a role originally written for white actors Mickey Rouke and then Sylvester Stallone), Eddie Murphy made headway for black authority figures as lead characters -- a huge step toward positive representation for the black community. Film authorities Tara McNamara (Gen X) and Riley Roberts (Gen Z) look back through a modern lens to evaluate how the comedy classic holds up and how it doesn't.

PURPLE RAIN: Punchy Music and an Example that Love Means a Fist to the Face

80s Movies: A Guide to What's Wrong with Your Parents

04/10/20 • 34 min

Prince and the Revolution set the world on fire with what may be the best music launch of all time: a film that essentially served as a music video marketing tool and established Prince as a creative genius and sexual dynamo. However, as mother-daughter hosts Tara McNamara, Gen X, and Riley Roberts, Gen Z, discuss, it showed the kids of the '80s that intense love means "I Would Die 4 U" with a few punches along the way.

Bright Lights, Big City

80s Movies: A Guide to What's Wrong with Your Parents

11/17/17 • 19 min

In their first podcast, mother-teen daughter movie critics Tara McNamara and Riley Roberts examine 1988's BRIGHT LIGHTS BIG CITY for all its 80sness, for better or worse.

DELIRIOUS: Eddie Murphy's Stand Up Shows How Socially Screwed Up We Were in 1983

80s Movies: A Guide to What's Wrong with Your Parents

04/24/20 • 31 min

Eddie Murphy's widely popular HBO comedy special was watched, rewatched and quoted by young Gen X'rs. Unfortunately, the anti-gay sentiment was also massively influential at a time when society needed assurances about the LGBTQ community, not validation to ostracize and demean them (in recent years, Murphy has apologized). Youth film authorities Tara McNamara, Gen X, and Riley Roberts, Gen Z, look at Delirious with historical perspective and the impact it made on a generation.

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80s Movies: A Guide to What's Wrong with Your Parents currently has 61 episodes available.

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The podcast is about Soundtrack, Film, 80S, Podcasts, Analysis, Movie, Nostalgia, Tv & Film and Review.

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The episode title 'CLUE's Sexual Stereotypes Were Helpful to No Boddy' is the most popular.

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The average episode length on 80s Movies: A Guide to What's Wrong with Your Parents is 33 minutes.

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Episodes of 80s Movies: A Guide to What's Wrong with Your Parents are typically released every 16 days, 2 hours.

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The first episode of 80s Movies: A Guide to What's Wrong with Your Parents was released on Nov 17, 2017.

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