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What are your top five?

Grave of the Fireflies
5 (7.6%)
Cinema Paradiso
0 (0%)
Time of the Gypsies
4 (6.1%)
A Short Film About Love
1 (1.5%)
Die Hard
8 (12.1%)
My Neighbor Totoro
5 (7.6%)
Akira
3 (4.5%)
The Thin Blue Line
4 (6.1%)
A Short Film About Killing
0 (0%)
The Cold Summer of 1953
0 (0%)
Rain Man
1 (1.5%)
Salaam Bombay!
0 (0%)
Landscape in the Mist
0 (0%)
Assa
0 (0%)
Imagine: John Lennon
0 (0%)
Damnation
1 (1.5%)
Let's Get Lost
0 (0%)
Mississippi Burning
0 (0%)
The Vanishing
4 (6.1%)
Hôtel Terminus
0 (0%)
Cane Toads: An Unnatural History
0 (0%)
Camp de Thiaroye
0 (0%)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
4 (6.1%)
Dangerous Liaisons
2 (3%)
Running on Empty
1 (1.5%)
The Bear
0 (0%)
Torch Song Trilogy
0 (0%)
Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser
0 (0%)
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
0 (0%)
A Fish Called Wanda
2 (3%)
The Last Temptation of Christ
3 (4.5%)
Midnight Run
2 (3%)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
1 (1.5%)
High Hopes
0 (0%)
Story of Women
0 (0%)
Ariel
0 (0%)
Beetlejuice
0 (0%)
U2: Rattle and Hum
0 (0%)
Distant Voices, Still Lives
0 (0%)
Ashik Kerib
0 (0%)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
0 (0%)
Another Woman
0 (0%)
Chocolat
0 (0%)
Big
0 (0%)
Heathers
0 (0%)
Willow
0 (0%)
They Live
0 (0%)
The Land Before Time
0 (0%)
Stand and Deliver
0 (0%)
Dead Ringers
1 (1.5%)
Eight Men Out
0 (0%)
Drowning by Numbers
1 (1.5%)
Camille Claudel
0 (0%)
Powaqqatsi
1 (1.5%)
On the Silver Globe
1 (1.5%)
Hanussen
0 (0%)
Days of Eclipse
0 (0%)
A Tale of the Wind
0 (0%)
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
1 (1.5%)
The Legend of the Holy Drinker
0 (0%)
Jane B. for Agnes V.
0 (0%)
A Ay
1 (1.5%)
Bull Durham
1 (1.5%)
As Tears Go By
0 (0%)
Itinéraire d'un enfant gâté
0 (0%)
Little Vera
0 (0%)
The Big Blue [aka Le grand bleu]
0 (0%)
Coming to America
0 (0%)
Hairspray
2 (3%)
Scrooged
0 (0%)
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
0 (0%)
Kung-fu master!
1 (1.5%)
Bloodsport
1 (1.5%)
Colors
1 (1.5%)
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story [short]
3 (4.5%)
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies [short]
0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 15

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Best Film of 1988
« on: December 05, 2008, 01:09:44 PM »
Vote for your favourite film of 1988

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Re: Best Film of 1988
« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2008, 01:11:38 PM »
1. My Neighbor Totoro
2. Grave of the Fireflies
3. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
4. Die Hard
5. Akira
6. Heathers
7. A Fish Called Wanda
8. Coming to America
9. Big
10. Beetlejuice
« Last Edit: April 12, 2009, 04:31:01 AM by roujin »

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Re: Best Film of 1988
« Reply #2 on: December 05, 2008, 01:12:20 PM »
Cinema Paradiso

With Die Hard, Scrooged, and Big, very close behind
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Re: Best Film of 1988
« Reply #3 on: December 05, 2008, 01:12:52 PM »
The Best Year Ever TM

Also, Die Hard.
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Re: Best Film of 1988
« Reply #4 on: December 05, 2008, 01:14:08 PM »
The Cinema near me is playing Die Hard, and Scooged, this christmas. I cannot wait!!!!
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Re: Best Film of 1988
« Reply #5 on: December 05, 2008, 01:16:32 PM »
The Cinema near me is playing Die Hard, and Scooged, this christmas. I cannot wait!!!!

Yay '88, the year of my birth. Die Hard is the awesome!

And Bloor Cinema in Toronto is play a double-feature of Home Alone and Die Hard on the 17th.
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Re: Best Film of 1988
« Reply #6 on: December 05, 2008, 01:21:54 PM »
A very good year, no doubt.

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Re: Best Film of 1988
« Reply #7 on: December 05, 2008, 01:35:50 PM »
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

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Re: Best Film of 1988
« Reply #8 on: December 05, 2008, 01:37:39 PM »
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

I don't know. Who did?

The title has no question mark.
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Re: Best Film of 1988
« Reply #9 on: December 05, 2008, 01:39:39 PM »
Totoro, easily.
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