80s Music
Which band had the following hits: "Rio", "New Moon on Monday", "The Reflex"
Who is Duran Duran
The Declaration of Independence is signed.
When is 1776 (July 2).
In a cosmic comedy of errors, a hulking titanium man-child falls from the stars into the 1980s, tasked by a grumpy future-computer to delete a waitress who is essentially a human "404 Error." The film becomes a rhythmic farce of heavy-metal slapstick where the "unstoppable" hunter is constantly thwarted by the sheer absurdity of physical matter—tripping over the decade’s neon aesthetics and losing his dignity to the confusing physics of revolving doors. It’s a surrealist's dream of a silent movie, where a frantic, shirtless prophet screams about a toaster-led apocalypse while the villainous chrome goliath slowly deconstructs himself through a series of increasingly embarrassing structural failures, eventually turning a dark sci-fi premise into a geometric dance of malfunctioning hardware and missed connections.
What is The Terminator.
When a prize ewe is found dead on the isolated Hogget farm, the veteran sheepdog Rex begins investigating the "guest" in the barn—a piglet who arrived as a carnival prize but now wields a hypnotic, coded influence over the once-unruly flock. As the sheep begin chanting a rhythmic cipher in the dead of night, the mystery shifts from a simple predator hunt to a psychological thriller: has the pig discovered a revolutionary secret to cooperation, or is he a master manipulator orchestrating a silent coup of the farm’s ancient hierarchy?
What is Babe.
A philosophical collision between institutional repression and individual agency, where a closed society uses law to codify its collective trauma. By criminalizing movement, the establishment attempts to freeze time and prevent further loss, only to be disrupted by an outsider who reclaims kinetic expression as a tool for healing. The story concludes when the community realizes that enforced stillness is not peace, but a denial of the human spirit’s need for catharsis.
What is Footloose
If you wanted to call Jenny in 1982, you would need to dial this number.
What is 867-5309.
The Challenger Explosion
What is 1986 (Jan 28).
A holiday comedy of errors, the plot follows a fish-out-of-water "everyman" whose attempts at a romantic grand gesture are thwarted by his own incompetence and a group of pretentious outsiders. Stripped of its violence, the story becomes a frantic farce of miscommunication where the protagonist’s lack of shoes serves as a running gag, symbolizing his total lack of preparedness for the sophisticated world he’s entered. The central conflict is a clash of aesthetics—blue-collar grit versus European elitism—played out across a vertical playground of elevator shafts and ventilation ducts. Ultimately, the "siege" is just a chaotic backdrop for a man trying to survive a series of increasingly improbable slapstick hurdles to prove he can still be the hero of his own domestic sitcom.
A brilliant mind is shattered by a physical tragedy, launching a desperate search for a "cure" that serves as the doorway into a hidden reality. This investigation transitions from a search for medical salvation to a cosmic detective story where the laws of physics are the crime scene and the "victim" is the linear flow of time itself. Strange uncovers a spiritual conspiracy—a world protected by a mentor with a dark secret and threatened by a nihilistic splinter cell—only to realize that the mystery's solution isn't the restoration of his old self, but the total sacrifice of it. By leveraging a temporal paradox, he outmaneuvers an infinite antagonist, proving that the ultimate answer to the riddle of existence is not control, but surrender.
Who is Dr Strange.
The narrative functions as a cinematic treatise on the perennial conflict between orthodoxy and iconoclasm, set within the claustrophobic confines of an elite pedagogical institution. It depicts the rupture of a calcified social order when an agent of romantic idealism introduces the concept of existential agency to a generation bred for compliance. The story ultimately serves as a meditation on the fragility of the individual spirit when caught between the transcendent pursuit of "extraordinary" life and the mechanical cruelty of a system that views self-actualization as a threat to its structural integrity.
What is Dead Poet's Society
Which music video featured the band's lead singer getting sucked into a comic book.
Who is Aha.
Fall of the Berlin Wall
What is 1989. (November 9)
In this absurdist take, a boxer is a walking glitch in the American Dream, a man whose primary combat style is accidental physical comedy and a profound misunderstanding of physics. The film deconstructs the underdog myth by replacing grit with pure, chaotic luck; he doesn't "go the distance" through heart, but rather through a series of increasingly improbable slapstick distractions that leave the heavyweight champion perpetually confused. It is a cinematic fever dream where the iconic training montage is a loop of domestic failures, and the climactic battle is an avant-garde performance piece where the ring becomes a stage for a man who loses the fight but wins the crowd by simply being too bewildered to fall down.
Who is Rocky.
In a world of shifting hierarchies and plastic masks, a veteran enforcer’s grip on reality slips when a high-tech amnesiac arrives, claiming a mission that doesn't exist. Their struggle for dominance spirals into an existential exile, leading them into a house of fragmented bodies and silent screams where identity is literally dismantled. To survive, they must navigate the void between what they were programmed to be and the terrifying truth of their own sentience, eventually staging a surreal revolt against their creator to reclaim a place in a world that has already begun to move on without them.
A lighthearted adventure-thriller that turns a history lesson into a high-stakes heist. By mixing real American landmarks with fictional conspiracy theories, the movie delivers a fast-paced "popcorn" experience that values excitement and patriotism over realistic history. It remains a fan favorite because it makes the past feel like a giant, dangerous, and fun puzzle.
What is National Treasure
Which artist scored the most top 40 hits in the 80s, both as a soloist and as a member of a band.
Who is Phil Collins
World War I ends.
What is 1918 (November 11)
In this high-stakes tale of "Career Growth Meets Extreme Networking," an ambitious trainee enters a mentorship program with a retired gourmet who specializes in "unconventional talent acquisition." While the trainee navigates a series of psychological icebreakers to solve a supply chain crisis involving a DIY garment manufacturer, the mentor provides cryptic professional development tips from his high-security home office. It’s a classic story of work-life balance where one person is trying to secure a permanent contract, the other is planning a destination dinner party, and everyone is learning that "having someone for lunch" is the ultimate power move for climbing the corporate ladder.
What is Silence of the Lambs
An ontological detective story concerned with the disintegration of the authentic self under the pressure of communal myth-making. The narrative tension is not driven by external events, but by the search for a displaced essence: the phantom of a "summer version" that has been rendered invisible by the high-frequency static of mid-century tribalism. High school functions as a labyrinth of performance where the "mystery" is the location of the human soul behind the mask of the greaser archetype. Rather than uncovering a culprit, the investigation reveals a vacuum; the resolution is a metaphysical surrender, where the seeker realizes that the only way to solve the enigma of the other is to undergo a total structural collapse of their own reality, replacing the pursuit of truth with the adoption of the mask.
What is Grease.
A philosophical allegory centered on the transcendence of a simulated existence to reclaim human agency. It follows a protagonist’s transition from a state of systemic sedation—where humanity is unknowingly harvested as a power source within a digital construct—to a state of objective awakening.
What is the Matrix
The band Wham! rose to fame in 1984 featuring George Michael and this forgotten "musician."
Who is Andrew Ridgeley.
The Baltimore Orioles last World Series win.
What is 1983.
In this high-concept workplace comedy, our hero is a stressed-out "subconscious consultant" who leads a band of dysfunctional freelancers on a mission to convince a billionaire’s heir to quit his job through the power of aggressive power-napping. The heist quickly descends into a "vacation from hell" as the team navigates a series of increasingly absurd dream levels, featuring an unpaid intern who is the only one acknowledging the laws of physics, a chemist with a weak bladder causing rainstorms, and an executive assistant forced to wrap his unconscious coworkers in extension cords like human burritos during a zero-gravity elevator mishap. Ultimately, the film serves as a cautionary tale about the lengths men will go to—including building entire imaginary cities and fighting "projection" ninjas—just to avoid having one honest, twenty-minute conversation with their therapist.
What is Inception.
When an eccentric recluse vanishes leaving behind a mysterious trinket, a local investigator uncovers a terrifying cold case: the trinket is a powerful "black box" belonging to an ancient crime lord who will kill to get it back. A small team of witnesses is forced into a high-stakes "witness protection" trek across the country, pursued by supernatural hitmen and betrayed by a high-ranking double agent. The investigation culminates in a desperate sting operation at the enemy’s headquarters, where the detectives realize the true mystery isn't finding the villain, but whether they can resist the corrupting influence of the evidence itself before it destroys them.
What is the Lord of the Rings (yes I know this is a series and not a single movie. Any one will do).
Set against a backdrop of a global alien invasion, the story serves as a high-stakes exploration of deterministic fate versus human agency. The protagonist, an untrained officer, is thrust into a temporal anomaly that transforms a catastrophic military defeat into a persistent, iterative learning process. By collapsing the linear experience of time into a recursive loop, the narrative examines the psychological toll of immortality and the evolution of a soldier through trial and error.
What is Edge of Tomorrow