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the Most Excellent 80s Movies Podcast

the Most Excellent 80s Movies Podcast

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It’s the podcast where a filmmaker (Nathan Blackwell of Squishy Studios) and a comedian (Krissy Lenz of Neighborhood Comedy Theatre) take a hilarious look at the 80s movies we think we love or might have missed with modern eyes and probably a significant haze of nostalgia.© TruStory FM アート
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  • The Right Stuff (1983)

    The Right Stuff (1983)
    2026/05/20
    Breaking Barriers: Krissy and Nathan Strap In for The Right StuffWelcome to this episode of The Most Excellent 80s Movies Show. Hosts Krissy Lenz and Nathan Blackwell strap in for Philip Kaufman's sweeping 1983 epic The Right Stuff — a film so genuinely, stubbornly good that it nearly breaks their ability to snark about it.The central tension here isn't between astronauts and gravity — it's between Krissy and Nathan and a movie that refuses to be easily summed up. With an extraordinary ensemble (Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid, Sam Shepard, Fred Ward, Jeff Goldblum, and at least ten more "wait, is that—?" faces), The Right Stuff sprawls across three hours and twelve minutes like a prestige mini-series that never quite got the memo it was a movie. The hosts dig into what makes it so entertaining moment to moment — the absurdist testing sequences, Goldblum perpetually racing in with news everyone already has, and the quiet, earned power of Ed Harris telling the Vice President to back off his wife.What you get here is two people genuinely wrestling with a film they admire deeply, laughing at the bits that deserve laughs and getting a little misty at the bits that earn it. The conversation is premise-level — no endings spoiled, no surprises given away — just an honest, warmhearted debate about what holds this sprawling, magnificent beast together.TruStory FM | Membership (early, ad-free access + bonus content): Join | Socials: Facebook | Instagram | Bluesky | Learn more about the hosts: Neighborhood Comedy Theatre | Squishy StudiosIf you could only keep one scene from The Right Stuff, what would it be — and why?
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    52 分
  • Invasion U.S.A. (1985)

    Invasion U.S.A. (1985)
    2026/05/06
    One Man Army, Zero Armadillos: The Invasion U.S.A. SituationWelcome to this episode of The Most Excellent 80s Movies Show. Hosts Krissy Lenz and Nathan Blackwell are joined by special guests Francis Zagarigo and Jenna Jacobsen of the Very Fine Friends podcast to take on Invasion U.S.A. (1985) — the Chuck Norris one-man-army spectacular that Nathan has been lobbying to cover for years.The big question the crew keeps circling: is this a movie, or is it a spectacle? Because there's a difference, and Invasion U.S.A. lands firmly in one of those camps. The conversation digs into what happens when a studio decides the solution to a too-long cut is to remove everything that isn't an explosion — including, heartbreakingly, any resolution involving a pet armadillo. What's left is something the hosts describe as witnessing a chaotic family at a carnival, and somehow that becomes the episode's most affectionate note.Francis and Jenna bring fresh eyes and genuine Chuck Norris confusion to the table, which gives the rewatch crowd something to play off of. Whether you know the Norris filmography cold or only recognize him from over someone else's shoulder, the dynamic here keeps things lively — and surprisingly warm. This one stays at premise level throughout, so you can tune in knowing nothing.TruStory FM | Membership (early, ad-free access + bonus content): Join | Socials: Facebook | Instagram | Bluesky | Learn more about the hosts: Neighborhood Comedy Theatre | Squishy StudiosIf you had to defend the United States single-handedly, what 1985 action-movie weapon would you choose and why?
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  • Purple Rain (1984)

    Purple Rain (1984)
    2026/04/22
    Dearly Beloved, We Are Gathered Here to Talk About Purple Rain Welcome to this episode of The Most Excellent 80s Movies Podcast. Hosts Krissy Lenz (comedian and director at Neighborhood Comedy Theatre) and Nathan Blackwell (independent filmmaker at Squishy Studios) are joined this week by not one but two returning special guests—podcaster and writer Kyle Olson and podcast producer and improv impresario Pete Wright—to dig into one of the most electric, beguiling, and undeniably Prince films ever committed to celluloid: Purple Rain (1984).Neither Krissy nor Nathan had ever seen the movie before this episode—a confession that earns them some gentle ribbing from the two superfans across the table. What unfolds is a warm, funny, and genuinely insightful conversation about Prince as performer, The Kid as character, and what it means to watch a film that is less a story and more a time capsule from another world.🎸 The Concert Film That Got a Plot Attached to ItThe group quickly zeroes in on Purple Rain's greatest paradox: the performances are absolutely transcendent—opening on Let's Go Crazy, arguably one of the greatest concert openers in film history—while the story threading them together is, as Pete diplomatically puts it, a little rough around the edges. Kyle suggests there may exist a perfect 50-minute cut of this film that is simply the greatest concert film ever made. The consensus? Every time the band steps off stage, the movie struggles; every time they step back on, it soars.Pete brings essential context: Purple Rain was a massive cultural moment in 1984, released the same summer as Ghostbusters, and it landed especially hard for Minneapolis audiences who recognized First Avenue and Hennepin Avenue as their own streets, their own stomping grounds. Kyle—who lived in the Twin Cities from 2000 to 2010—had visited First Avenue many times without realizing he was standing in the house that Prince built. This film is a time capsule of a city and a singular artist in full ascent.👊 The Kid Is Kind of a Jerk—and That's Kind of the PointOne of the episode's richest threads is the group wrestling with the fact that Prince plays The Kid—a fictionalized character adjacent to his real life—and The Kid treats nearly everyone around him badly. Krissy notes that she kept waiting for more of the film to show Prince's creative genius on screen the way the music does; instead, we get a young man repeating cycles of trauma and slowly, reluctantly, learning to let others in.Pete makes a fascinating observation: despite Prince being the architect of essentially every creative element in the film—the bands, the songs, the image—he chose to let himself look genuinely bad on screen. That's not a vanity project move. It's something closer to art. The comparison to Eight Mile and Saturday Night Fever arises naturally: all three are films about someone with enormous talent trying to escape the gravitational pull of a difficult past.🎭 Morris Day, Jerome, and the Movie Inside the MovieNo discussion of Purple Rain would be complete without celebrating Morris Day and Jerome Benton, who the hosts agree feel like they wandered in from a much sillier, more vaudevillian film—and are absolutely electric every second they're on screen. Their onstage charisma is unmatched, their comedic chemistry reads as completely natural, and somewhere in the multiverse, per Nathan, there exists a Morris Day and the Time's Big Adventure that we all deserve to see.🎵 A Few More Things Worth Knowing Before You ListenThe group's scale for rating films this episode? Poofy white shirts—on a scale of one to ten.The synchronized choreography in the concert scenes sparks a delightful tangent about the continuum from the Temptations and Four Tops all the way to boy bands—and what was lost in between.Pete drops some genuinely surprising trivia about the iconic custom guitar Apollonia gives The Kid, where it was made, and where the last one lives today.The hosts discuss the original female lead who was meant to star opposite Prince—and the behind-the-scenes reason she didn't.Krissy shares a deeply personal and tearful moment involving the Stranger Things finale and two very specific Prince songs played at two very emotional moments.🎬 The VerdictAll four hosts land at seven poofy white shirts out of ten. The film is imperfect, occasionally baffling, and unmistakably of its moment—but Prince is Prince. Krissy sums it up perfectly: even the things she didn't like, she liked that she didn't like them. This is a movie that earns its place in the conversation, not because it's great cinema, but because it's a genuinely unrepeatable cultural artifact. And the music? The music is flawless, full stop.🎁 Bonus Content for MembersThis week's member bonus is a juicy one: all four hosts share their most epic superfan blowout stories—times they threw caution (and travel budgets) to the wind to follow an artist or experience...
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