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Honorable mentions: Colors, They Live, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, A Fish Called Wanda, Willow, Running on Empty, Midnight Run, Stand and Deliver, Scrooged, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Child’s Play, The Accused, Gorillas in the Mist, The Blob, Eight Men Out, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, License to Drive, Red Heat, Married to the Mob, Mississippi Burning, Twins (R.I.P. Kelly Preston)



10. Young Guns Christopher Cain
9. Cocktail Roger Donaldson
8. The Naked Gun David Zucker
7. Akira Katsuhiro Otomo
6. Coming to America John Landis
5. The Vanishing 'Spoorloos' George Sluizer
4. Die Hard John McTiernan
3. Cinema Paradiso Giuseppe Tornatore
2. Bloodsport Newt Arnold
1. Rain Man Barry Levinson

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Beetlejuice
Child's Play
Cocktail
Coming to America
The Dead Pool
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
Rain Man
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Willow



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5. Cinema Paradiso
4. Grave of the Fireflies
3. A Fish Called Wanda
2. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
1. My Neighbor Totoro
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08-18-20
1. A Short Film About Killing
2. Town Zero / Zerograd
3. Time of the Gypsies (extended version)
4. Ghosts… of the Civil Dead
5. Manly Games
6. A Fish Called Wanda
7. Damnation
8. Ariel
9. Alice
10. On the Silver Globe



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08-18-20
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
A Fish Called Wanda
Mississippi Burning
Die Hard
Dangerous Liaisons
Rain Man
Cinema Paradiso
Grave of the Fireflies
A Short Film About Killing
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Eight Men Out
The Thin Blue Line
The Vanishing
Ariel
A Short Film About Love
Working Girl
Midnight Run
Bull Durham
Big
Beetlejuice
Willow
Akira
Story of Women
Landscape in the Mist
Salaam Bombay!
The Bear
The Legend of the Holy Drinker
The Last Temptation of Christ
Frantic
Dominick and Eugene
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
Falkenau, the Impossible
Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser
Let's Get Lost
Hanussen
Colors
Camille Claudel
Bacall on Bogart
Time of the Gypsies
The Little Thief
Miracle Mile
Lightning Over Braddock: A Rustbowl Fantasy
The Girl in a Swing
For Queen & Country
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Young Guns
A World Apart
Without a Clue
Willow
Twins
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
Torch Song Trilogy
My Neighbor Totoro
They Live
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
Talk Radio
The Accused
Shoot to Kill
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Scrooged
Rocket Gibraltar
Return to Snowy River
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
A New Life
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
The Milagro Beanfield War
Married to the Mob
A Man for All Seasons
The Land Before Time
Police Story 2
Inherit the Wind
Imagine: John Lennon
High Hopes
Hairspray
Gorillas in the Mist
The Fruit Machine
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
The Dead Pool
A Cry in the Dark
Crossing Delancey
Coming to America
Child's Play
Biloxi Blues
Beaches
Bat*21
The Appointments of Dennis Jennings
The Accidental Tourist
Above the Law
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Movies from 1988 I Really Like or Love:

Beetlejuice
Grave of the Fireflies
Die Hard
Willow
They Live
My Neighbor Totoro
Akira
The Blob
Dead Ringers
Pumpkinhead
Hellbound: Hellraiser 2
The Vanishing
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Miracle Mile
Brain Damage
The Thin Blue Line
Pin
As Tears Go By
Paperhouse

Of these, Beetlejuice, Willow, Hellbound: Hellraiser 2, and Brain Damage are the ones I love and rewatch the most. Brain Damage is my favorite Henenlotter and I think it's criminally underseen and underappreciated.



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08-19-20
My Favorite 1988 Movies:
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
A Fish Called Wanda
Working Girl
Big
Rain Man
Bull Durham
Daffy Duck's Quackbusters
Beetlejuice
Permanent Record
Eight Men Out
Sweet Hearts Dance
Crossing Delancey
Young Guns
Without a Clue
Frantic
Running on Empty
Die Hard
Midnight Run
Clean and Sober
Stand and Deliver
Sunset
Return of the Killer Tomatoes
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1) The Last Temptation of Christ
2) Coming to America
3) Die Hard
4) Frantic
5) Dead Ringers



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1. Histoire(s) du Cinéma (Godard)
2. The Last Temptation of Christ (Scorsese)
3. They Live (Carpenter)
4. "I... Dreaming" (Brakhage)
5. Distant Voices, Still Lives (Davies)
6. Iguana (Hellman)
7. Ariel (Kaurismaki)
8. Choclat (Denis)
9. My Neighbor Totoro (Miyazaki)
10. A Short Film About Killing (Kieślowski)
11. Akira (Otomo)
12. "On s'est tous défilé" (Godard)
13. Married to the Mob (Demme)
14. Dead Ringers (Cronenberg)
15. Patty Hearst (Schrader)
16. "Rage Net" (Brakhage)
17. Child's Play (Holland)
18. "Cat Listening to Music" (Marker)
19. High Hopes (Leigh)
20. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Almodóvar)
21 Measures of Distance (Hatoum)
22. A Short Film About Love (Kieślowski)
23. Story of Women (Chabrol)



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1. Cocktail


"In one square mile of this saloon lies the greatest concentration of wealth in the world"

#2. Fright Night Pt 2


"Tired of good girls?"

3. Sleepaway Camp 2


"There used to be this camp, about sixty miles from here"

#4. A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master


"Two gates your soul can enter. One a positive gate, the other a negative gate. Key element's that there's a dream master, someone who guards the positive gate, and in fact protects the sleeping host"

5. Friday the 13th Pt 7: The New Blood


"There goes the neighborhood"

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08-27-20
Die Hard
Rain Man
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Mississippi Burning
The Naked Gun
The last temptation of christ
Beetlejuice
Big
A fish called Wanda
The adventures of Baron Munchausen



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The Vanishing 1988 ‘Spoorloos’ Directed by George Sluizer



Re-watched Spoorloos/ The Vanishing last night. I was way too young when I saw it for the first time. Very suspenseful and atmospheric abduction Mystery/Thriller, right up there with Zodiac and Don't Look Now. One of the best Dutch films ever made. (Edited my '88 top ten, The Vanishing is in at 5th place)

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I cant think of much other than Spoorloos and Salaam Bombay and Die Hard for thie year,
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10. Lair of the White Worm


9. Colors


8. The Blob


7. The Accused


6. The Thin Blue Line


5. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad


4. Bull Durham


3. Mississippi Burning


2. Die Hard


1. A Fish Called Wanda


hm: Beetlejuice, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, They Live, Strange Brew, Brain Damage, Child's Play, Rain Man, Eight Men Out, Hellbound: Hellraiser 2, Married to the Mob, Pumpkinhead, Talk Radio, The Decline of Western Civilization Part 2: The Metal Years, Night of the Demons



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Ah 1988, i was turning 6 that year and still remembered St Louis to moving to Omaha in early June with my family and seeing tons of movies on video, theaters, cable and TV and all. I have fond memories of that year.

My top 25 movies of 1988:
Die Hard
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Beetlejuice
Naked Gun
Willow
Coming to America.
The Blob
Akira
They Live
Scrooged
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Rambo III
Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Phantasm 2.
The Great Outdoors
The Land Before Time
Oliver and Company
My Neighbor Totoro
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4
Hellbound Hellraiser 2
Big
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
Crocodile Dundee 2
Twins
Waxwork

HMs: Pumpkinhead, LIghtyears aka Gandahar, Young Guns, Critters 2, Child's Play, Midnight Run, Gorillas in the Mist, The Bear, I'm gonna Git you Sucka, Friday The 13th part 7, Dead Heat, Lady in White, Fright Night 2, Ernest Saves Christmas, Bloodsport, Above the Law, Short Circuit 2, Brain Damage, Police Story 2, Tapeheads, Dead Ringers, Funny Farm, Prison, Jack's Back, Red Heat, Slugs, Night of the Demons, Pin.