I'm making the most definitive list of favorite movies ever.

For every year, I'm listing every movie I've seen and compare them all to each other asking one question; Which movie do I like more. Movies that score in the 80th percentile or higher, advance to the next round: Favorite of the Decade. After each Decade is done, an All Time list will be formed.

Monday, November 14, 2011

Favoritest Movies of 1989



 Some years last months, 1989 was almost a decade by itself.  The last few months of Junior High took forever, but ended with our group of friends back then all going to see Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade!  Which is just about the happiest memory I can recount about a group of friends that, hanging out with any of them 1 on 1, was awesome, but social groups larger than 4 with only one gender represented tend to fall apart.  Look at Voltron; 5 guys, forget it.  4 dudes and a chick, okay.  Single gender rock bands with more than four members? There were 5 of us, and 40% of the group was named Mike, and everyone in the country had a Batman shirt.

So let me present the Perfect 1989 movie:


Little Kill & The Dead Dream... V Part II

It'd star Kevin Costner as a Viet Nam vet, unjustly sent to prison where he died.  But now he's back! And partnered with a dog!  And Is going to an underwater research facility where all the excitement will happen!  Oh the quirky researchers in the underwater lab; Dan Aykroyd, and Keanu Reeves.  Tom Hanks voices the Dogs thoughts. 


Which, if you saw most of the movies on this list, is the movie that would form in your brain... as for the real movies of 1989;

  1. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
  2. Henry V
  3. The Abyss
  4. Back to the Future Part II
  5. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
  6. Batman
  7. Field of Dreams
  8. Lethal Weapon 2
  9. Fat Man and Little Boy
  10. Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
  11. Kiki's Delivery Service
  12. Major League
  13. The Little Mermaid
  14. Godzilla vs. Biollante
  15. Arena
  16. Always
  17. The War of the Roses
  18. UHF
  19. The Fly II
  20. Black Rain
  21. Ghostbusters II
  22. Glory
  23. Road House
  24. Tango & Cash
  25. Babar: The Movie
  26. Licence to Kill
  27. Heathers
  28. When Harry Met Sally...
  29. Weekend at Bernie's
  30. The Karate Kid, Part III
  31. The Experts
  32. Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
  33. Great Balls of Fire!
  34. Dead Poets Society
  35. Chances Are
  36. Hard to Kill
  37. The Dream Team
  38. She's Out of Control
  39. Look Who's Talking
  40. Driving Miss Daisy
  41. Gross Anatomy
  42. Say Anything...
  43. Leviathan
  44. Dream a Little Dream
  45. Lean on Me
  46. Cyborg
  47. Parenthood
  48. Turner & Hooch
  49. Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
  50. Skin Deep
  51. Troop Beverly Hills
  52. Blaze
  53. Her Alibi
  54. The 'Burbs
  55. The Fabulous Baker Boys
  56. Dead Calm
  57. Best of the Best
  58. Uncle Buck
  59. How to Get Ahead in Advertising
  60. K-9
  61. Pink Cadillac
  62. The Wizard
  63. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
  64. The Punisher
  65. Do the Right Thing
  66. Sex, lies, and videotape
  67. Steel Magnolias
  68. A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
  69. Night Game
  70. Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
  71. Pet Sematary
  72. Roger & Me
  73. Worth Winning
  74. All Dogs Go To Heaven
  75. Deepstar Six
  76. Kickboxer
  77. Three Fugitives
  78. Fletch Lives
  79. Red Scorpion
  80. Dead Bang
  81. Lock Up
  82. An Innocent Man
  83. Sea of Love
  84. Born on the Fourth of July
  85. Casualties of War
  86. The January Man

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