Top 30 films of 1989 (baumer's favourite year)IMDB is the source...if it's 1989 on IMDb it qualifies...Aug 25th is deadline

[cannastop]

Edit: Akira is not eligible.

Edited August 7, 2019 by cannastop

[LonePirate]

1. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

2. The Little Mermaid

3. Christmas Vacation

4. Uncle Buck

5. Weekend at Bernie’s

6. Major League

7. Parenthood

8. Heathers

9. Do the Right Thing

10. Black Rain

11. Driving Miss Daisy

12. Lethal Weapon 2

13. Fletch Lives

14. Roger and Me

15. Road House

16. Glory

17. Born on the Fourth of July

18. Steel Magnolias

19. See No Evil, Hear No Evil

20. sex, lies and videotape

21. The War of the Roses

22. Field of Dreams

23. Say Anything

24. When Harry Met Sally

25. Let It Ride

[HeadShot]

1. Kiki's delivery service 

2. The little mermaid

3. Heathers

4. Batman 

5. Honey I shrunk the kids

6. Indiana Jones and the last crusade

7. Look who's talking

8. Back to the future 2

9. Ghostbusters 2

10. Parenthood

 

Haven't seen more than this. Animation aged the best. Kiki is so cozy and amazing. 

[HeadShot]

where is the 1999 list?

[Sue Denim]

1. Glory

2. Do The Right Thing

3. Born on the Fourth of July

4. Dead Poets Society

5. When Harry Met Sally

6. My Left Foot

7. Roger & Me

8. Sex, Lies and Videotape

9. Back to the Future Part 2

10. Batman

11. Driving Miss Daisy

12. Drugstore Cowboy

13. Dead Calm

14. Casualties of War

15. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

16. Lethal Weapon 2

17. War of the Roses

18. Field of Dreams

19. Black Rain

20. Say Anything

21. Road House

22. Lean on Me

23. Steel Magnolias

24. Turner & Hooch

25. Last Exit To Brooklyn

26. We're No Angels

27. Fabulous Baker Boys

28. Sea of Love

29. Parenthood

30. The Abyss

[cannastop]

4 minutes ago, HeadShot said:

where is the 1999 list?

 

[cannastop]

On 8/5/2019 at 9:43 AM, HeadShot said:

1. Kiki's delivery service 

2. The little mermaid

3. Heathers

4. Batman 

5. Honey I shrunk the kids

6. Indiana Jones and the last crusade

7. Look who's talking

8. Back to the future 2

9. Ghostbusters 2

10. Parenthood

 

Haven't seen more than this. Animation aged the best. Kiki is so cozy and amazing. 

If you like animation, you can watch All Dogs Go to Heaven, which is kind of cozy.

Edited August 7, 2019 by cannastop

[Avatree]

10 minutes ago, HeadShot said:

where is the 1999 list?

Finished and countdown done.

 

 

[HeadShot]

3 minutes ago, cannastop said:

If you like animation, you can watch All Dogs Go to Heaven, which is kind of cozy, or Akira, which isn't cozy.

Im on it. Thanks for the rec

[baumer]

35 minutes ago, LonePirate said:

1. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

2. The Little Mermaid

3. Christmas Vacation

4. Uncle Buck

5. Weekend at Bernie’s

6. Major League

7. Parenthood

8. Heathers

9. Do the Right Thing

10. Black Rain

11. Driving Miss Daisy

12. Lethal Weapon 2

13. Fletch Lives

14. Roger and Me

15. Road House

16. Glory

17. Born on the Fourth of July

18. Steel Magnolias

19. See No Evil, Hear No Evil

20. sex, lies and videotape

21. The War of the Roses

22. Field of Dreams

23. Say Anything

24. When Harry Met Sally

25. Let It Ride

This looks very similar to what my top films would be as well. I think you and I might be the only people who submitted list that does not include Batman LOL

 

Say Anything and When Harry met Sally will be way higher on my list but I liked you have road hose and major league and black Rain on there.

[baumer]

23 minutes ago, HeadShot said:

where is the 1999 list?

It was moved to the subsection in the speakeasy which is dedicated to lists. Just go to the Speakeasy and you will see the subsection.

[cannastop]

I guess you'll have to say Japanese Black rain if you want it to be counted that way.

[baumer]

2 minutes ago, cannastop said:

I guess you'll have to say Japanese Black rain if you want it to be counted that way.

black Rain with Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia is the one that I know that was released in 1989

[cannastop]

Just now, baumer said:

black Rain with Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia is the one that I know that was released in 1989

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Rain_(1989_Japanese_film)

[terrestrial]

For me its always a bit difficult to find many titles per year as I cant watch animated without feeling queasy, and do not like certain genres (romance, comedy if its too 'too..', most of horror as I understand the definition of the genre, seems not to be the same as a lot here do) and not knowing all titles released then as not all got released here too.

 

So my provisional top 30 (might change a bit still) - myy 3rd ranked list here at BOT 😉

 

Quote

My Left Foot

Black Rain (Japan) = don't watch it if feeling down already or if being sensitive, e.g. the beginning is extreme and very realistic

Camille Claudel

sex, lies and videotape

Henry V

For All Mankind

The Abyss

Glory

Batman

When Harry Met Sally

Casualties of War

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Lethal Weapon 2 (Danny Glover in the embassy had me in tears from laughter. And I totally get his I am too old for that shit now 😉 - its hilarious in parts, see toilet scene and its conclusion, car vs house, and sombre in others, see the reason for car vs house)

Driving Miss Daisy (would be higher if the story would be more interesting to me)

Johnny Handsome (in my POV underrated)

Field of Dreams

Romero

Sea of Love

Always (Audrey Hepburn was already very ill, her last role)

Next of Kin (in my POV underrated, plus it has Andreas Katsulas in it)

Blind Fury (in my POV underrated)

Road House (the band…. watched it e.g. also for Jeff Healey 😉 )

Licence to Kill (Dalton didn't do it for me as 007)

The Fabulous Baker Boys (loved some details, didn't like all story details)

New York Stories (segment Life Lessons)

The War of the Roses (not a fan of the genre, but...)

Great Balls of Fire! (I think its ratings are ~ 0.5 lower as deserved as the person its about is not well liked by many, but it had it problems too)

Farewell to the King (love-hate)

Black Rain (US) (love-hate)

 

which to pick as #30:

Tango & Cash (I like it as it made me laugh a lot. Probably at moments it wasn't intended to also, some roll-eyes... I've seen the German version.)

Ghostbusters 2 (some details were terrible even for a comedy like that)

 

Edited August 5, 2019 by terrestrial
missing word

[terrestrial]

5 minutes ago, baumer said:

black Rain with Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia is the one that I know that was released in 1989

both got released in 1989 acc to your rules (IMDb counting too)

[cannastop]

1 minute ago, terrestrial said:

both got released in 1989 acc to your rules (IMDb counting too)

Black Rain (Japanese) is also not listed on BOM, so it can't show up for a 1990 list either.

[terrestrial]

1 minute ago, cannastop said:

Black Rain (Japanese) is also not listed on BOM, so it can't show up for a 1990 list either.

I know, that was the reason I am so happy IMDb is also allowed.

It did get released in dom, but BOM dos not list it at all, I tried different versions of the title, nothing shows. Do not understand that, see my post about awards, renowned film festivals,....

[titanic2187]

1 hour ago, cannastop said:

Join anyways.

My 1989s list.

1. Dead Poet Society.

2. Little mermaid

3. Back to future 2

4. Do the right things

5. Driving Miss Daisy

6. Ghostbuster 2

7. Batman - this is 10++ years ago

 

I think i can only pick 1 or 2 in the end

 

If Akira is eligible, then 8!

 

Edited August 5, 2019 by titanic2187

[LonePirate]

19 minutes ago, baumer said:

This looks very similar to what my top films would be as well. I think you and I might be the only people who submitted list that does not include Batman LOL

 

Say Anything and When Harry met Sally will be way higher on my list but I liked you have road hose and major league and black Rain on there.

1989 Batman is a mess of a movie. Nicholson was seriously miscast as his Joker was annoying instead of being menacing, disturbing or even campy. Keaton was fine as Bruce but not enough to save the film, which was painfully claustrophobic.