Favorite Movies of 1989?
 

HM:
Born on the Fourth of July, The Mighty Quinn, My Left Foot, Casualties of War, Parenthood, Urotsukidōji: Legend of the Overfiend, Tango & Cash, A Grand Day Out, Violent Cop, God of Gamblers, The Abyss, Lethal Weapon 2, We’re No Angels, Uncle Buck, Look Who’s Talking, Black Rain, When Harry Met Sally.., See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Driving Miss Daisy, Mystery Train, All Dogs Go to Heaven, Three Fugitives, Lock Up.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
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Jesus of Montreal
Glory
Batman
The Little Mermaid
Darkness Light Darkness
Do the Right Thing
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Crimes and Misdemeanors
The Decalogue
The War of the Roses
Heathers
For All Mankind
The Killer
Dead Poets Society
Field of Dreams
When Harry Met Sally...
Parenthood
My Left Foot
Monsieur Hire
Kiki's Delivery Service
Lethal Weapon 2
My Twentieth Century
Black Rain (S.Imamura)
Back to the Future Part II
Interrogation
Driving Miss Daisy
Drugstore Cowboy
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Born on the Fourth of July
Bashu, the Little Stranger
The Abyss
The 'Burbs
Always
Zatoichi
Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend
A Grand Day Out
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
Tummy Trouble
Music Box
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Valmont
True Believer
Tango & Cash
The Tall Guy
Steel Magnolias
Shirley Valentine
She-Devil
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Scandal
Say Anything...
Romero
Roger & Me
The Return of the Musketeers
Miracles: The Canton Godfather
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Meet the Feebles
Major League
Licence to Kill
Let It Ride
Lean on Me
Knick Knack
Kitchen Sink
Isle of Flowers
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
Henry V
Great Balls of Fire!
The Fabulous Baker Boys
Enemies, A Love Story
Elephant
A Dry White Season
Dead Calm
Cousins
Chances Are
Casualties of War
Black Rain (R. Scott)
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
25 Ways to Quit Smoking

Re: Favorite Movies of 1989?
 

My 10 favourites at the moment

Field of Dreams
Back to the Future II
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Heathers
War of the Roses
Uncle Buck
Tango and Cash
Lethal Weapon 2
Burbs
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

My Favorite 1989 Movies:
When Harry Met Sally...
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Dead Poets Society
Always
Field of Dreams
Back to the Future Part II
Chances Are
The Abyss
Heathers
Look Who's Talking
Criminal Law
The Dream Team
Major League

Re: Favorite Movies of 1989?
 

1) The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
2) Do the Right Thing
3) Henry V
4) Crimes and Misdemeanors
5) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Re: Favorite Movies of 1989?
 

Sweetie
Dead Poets Society
Przesluchanie

Always
Back to the Future Part II
Batman
The 'Burbs
Driving Miss Daisy
Field of Dreams
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Lethal Weapon 2
Leviathan
Lock Up
Look Who's Talking
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Pet Sematary
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
The War of the Roses
When Harry Met Sally...

5. The Little Mermaid
4. Parenthood
3. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
2. Kikis Delivery Service
1. Do the Right Thing

Twin Peaks: Northwest Passage (Lynch)
Nelson Sullivan (Nelson Sullivan)
Gang of Four (Rivette)
The Unbelievable Truth (Hartley)
Homework (Kiarostami)
The Antiquities of Rome (Rousseau)
Black Sin (Straub-Huillet)
Recollections of the Yellow House (Monteiro)
Histoire(s) d'Amérique: Food, Family and Philosophy (Akerman)
Do the Right Thing (Lee)
A City of Sadness (Hou)
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (Greenaway)
The Killer (Woo)
O Sangue (Costa)
Central Park (Wiseman)
Black Rain (Imamura)
Violent Cop (Kitano)

i m surprised with how well the 80s ended with a fabulous bunch of films, from all genres, truly a great end to an amazing decade

10. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
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9. Major league
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8. War of the Roses
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7. Drugstore Cowboy
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6. Field of Dreams
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5. Batman
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4. When Harry Met Sally...
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3. Parenthood
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2. Do the Right Thing
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1. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
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hm: My Left Foot, Born on the Fourth of July, Meet the Feebles, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, UHF, Lethal Weapon 2, Dead Poet's Society, Dead Calm, Road House, Lean on Me, For All Mankind, The Killer, Santa Sangre, How I Got into College, The Gods Must Be Crazy 2

Absurd not to vote for Major League or Kickboxer, admittedly. But sometimes really good stuff gets cut, I've seen. And garbage gets lifted

Re: Favorite Movies of 1989?
 

probably batman and honey i shrunk the kids

Re: Favorite Movies of 1989?
 

1 Indiana Jones Last crusade
2 Dead poets society
3 Crimes and misdemeanors
4 My left foot
5 Do the right thing
6 Back to the future II
7 Drugstore cowboy
8 The little mermaid
9 Sex lies and videotape
10 Glory

Re: Favorite Movies of 1989?
 

Heathers

Re: Favorite Movies of 1989?
 

5. When Harry Met Sally
4. Glory
3. Drivimg Ms Daisy
2. Dead Poets Society
1. Crimes and Misdemeanors

No love for ...Say Anything?

I thought this movie was silly and unbelievable

Thanks for mentioning Crimes and Misdemeanors

Re: Favorite Movies of 1989?
 

Dead Poets Society
When Harry met Sally
Back To The Future II
Indiana Jones

Rough Top 5 cause there are a few I haven't seen in years...

1. When Harry Met Sally
2. Casualties of War
3. Dead Calm
4. Back to the Future Part II
5. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

There are some films like Sex, Lies, and Videotape that might belong there, but it's been too long since I saw them to properly rank them.

Re: Favorite Movies of 1989?
 

Tetsuo: The Iron Man hasn't been mentioned yet, so I'll take care of that.

Never seen it in full, (I know shame on me) but I'm watching it tonight. If it's reallygood/great I'll edit the OP.

That's because drugs are.

Re: Favorite Movies of 1989?
 

Back to the Future II
Batman
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Born on the Fourth of July
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Dead Poets Society
Dekalog
Do the Right Thing
Field of Dreams
The Fly II
Jason Takes Manhattan
Ghostbusters II
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade
Kiki's Delivery Service
Lethal Weapon 2
Major League
NL Christmas Vacation
The Punisher
Road House
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Shocker
Uncle Buck

I'll go with a top five:

1. Do The Right Thing
2. Chocolat
3. Drugstore Cowboy
4. Santa Sangre
5. The Killer

Re: Favorite Movies of 1989?
 

Santa Sangre
Visions in Meditation #1 & #2
Tetsuo: The Iron Man

Re: Favorite Movies of 1989?
 

Do the Right Thing
Glory
Major League
Look who's Talking
Harlem Nights

Seen it, loved it, it made my top10, edited the OP, My Left Foot is out..:cool:

Re: Favorite Movies of 1989?
 

I could pretty much lose all these films save for When Harry Met Sally. I would also keep Heathers.



As for the rest? If I had to lose one year in the 80s, this ain't a bad choice.

'89 was a year of sequels and unmemorable schlock with a few sappy sentimental entries (e.g., Field of Dreams). I would die a flaming death to save When Harry Met Sally from a flaming library of congress, but I dare say that '89 was no '82.

I respect your opinion on the year but the topic isn't 'describe what kind of year 89 was in comparison to other years' or 'all the films from '89 are going to catch fire which one would you save?' Just list your favs from 89..

But to satisfy your need for in-depth convo..:p Before 1989 I've seen many classics but Do The Right Thing was the first one that could project the feeling of heat, hot weather, and actually made my body temp. rise, It was quite a unique experience to me, so I feel the need to always place it amongst my 80's favs when asked.. Has any film ever had this effect on you and if so, which one..?

'89 rules. Suck it, Corax.

"Favorite" (ie, not "best") would be The Woman in Black and Begotten.

Do The Right Thing does effectively convey the sense of being constantly agitated from heat. There is something very weird about Lee's early work. It somehow seems more and less real most films, like a student film mated with a documentary.

"..the violent death of God" ? Just watched the Begotten trailer, it looks fascinating and ominous but don't know If I will ever dare to watch it tho.. Someone on letterboxd wrote; "this is why we have psychiatrists and counsellors"..:D

Some other good ones that haven't been mentioned yet:

Chameleon Street - this won the dramatic prize at Sundance, but no distributors touched it, so it sort of became lost until fairly recently. You could say that it's the Sorry to Bother You of its day.
Mystery Train - a funny companion piece to Stranger Than Paradise.
Sea of Love - Is Ellen Barkin extraordinarily sexy or what?
Speaking Parts - A strong, early Atom Egoyan movie about the dehumanizing effects of video.
The Big Picture - It's rough around the edges, but it's a very funny non-mockumentary effort by Christopher Guest featuring a hilarious turn by Martin Short as a fussy agent.

accurate assessment of the film

Agreed on Mystery Train, added it to my honorable mentions.
Sea of Love needs a re-watch, the other ones I haven't seen, yet.

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Brutal year for me. I've always felt, even then, that the latter part of the 80s was perhaps the most grim for American cinema. I was able to come up with a dozen films (given that I have not seen Cinema Paradiso, Crimes and Misdemeanors, and Do The Right Thing).

12. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
11. Erik The Viking
10. Harlem Nights
9. Lethal Weapon 2
8. The Little Mermaid
7. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
6. When Harry Met Sally
5. Major League
4. Batman
3. Pumpkinhead
2. Field of Dreams
1. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover

Isn't Pumpkinhead '88?

She is, she absolutely wrecked me in that movie (and several others) but I didn't think the movie was very good.

Oh, is it? It came up on a list of movies from '89.

Edit: I see the issue. It was wide-released in January '89 after a limited release in October of '88. Wikipedia lists it on its list of films of 1989 and I saw it in the theater in '89 so I'm keeping it, frankly because there just weren't enough good movies in '89 for me to take it off the list.

Overall, a pretty weak year. Just an opinion.

Yeah, even searching French, British, and Australian films didn't help me much.

No worries, both from 1988

Cinema Paradiso is great by the way, highly recommended.

I needed that list and it was sure Back to the future for me.

I remember I had so much fun watching this. I think I could have more Flashback and more to write about it later.

Re: Favorite Movies of 1989?
 

Definitely Dead Poets Sociaty.I recently watched this movie again, it's incredible, though very sad.

Personally, I always felt the 80’s was a pretty weak decade for films. Not saying there aren’t decent films within it, but the decades that seem to “drone on” with me are the 80’s and the 2000’s+.

*edit; Born on the Fourth of July is out and Dead Calm is in.

Re: Favorite Movies of 1989?
 

Dead Calm is a great thriller. I would probably cut the last 10-15 minutes, which I understand where studio-mandated, but still...

Re: Favorite Movies of 1989?
 

1. The Unbelievable Truth
2. The Abyss
3. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
4. The Killer
5. Do the Right Thing

Re: Favorite Movies of 1989?
 

1. Crimes and Misdemeanors
2. The War of the Roses
3. Henry V
4. Sea of Love
5. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

6. Der siebente Kontinent [The Seventh Continent]
7. Music Box
8. Адио, Рио [Adio, Rio]
9. When Harry Met Sally…
10. Sex, Lies, and Videotape