Poll

What are your top five?

Near Death
0 (0%)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
4 (6.2%)
For All Mankind
1 (1.5%)
A City of Sadness
2 (3.1%)
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
0 (0%)
Dead Poets Society
4 (6.2%)
Crimes and Misdemeanors
1 (1.5%)
Black Rain [Imamura]
1 (1.5%)
Homework
0 (0%)
Margarit i Margarita
0 (0%)
Do the Right Thing
8 (12.3%)
Glory
2 (3.1%)
Kiki's Delivery Service
2 (3.1%)
My Left Foot
1 (1.5%)
The Killer
2 (3.1%)
Back to the Future Part II
0 (0%)
The Seventh Continent
1 (1.5%)
Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?
0 (0%)
Henry V
1 (1.5%)
Santa Sangre
1 (1.5%)
Monsieur Hire
0 (0%)
Recollections of the Yellow House
0 (0%)
Batman
2 (3.1%)
The Little Mermaid
3 (4.6%)
The Abyss
2 (3.1%)
When Harry Met Sally...
1 (1.5%)
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
0 (0%)
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
3 (4.6%)
Mystery Train
2 (3.1%)
Life and Nothing But
0 (0%)
Blood
0 (0%)
Pedicab Driver
0 (0%)
Field of Dreams
0 (0%)
Roger & Me
1 (1.5%)
Longtime Companion
1 (1.5%)
The Unbelievable Truth
1 (1.5%)
Jesus of Montreal
0 (0%)
Driving Miss Daisy
1 (1.5%)
Say Anything...
0 (0%)
Lean on Me
0 (0%)
Drugstore Cowboy
1 (1.5%)
God of Gamblers
0 (0%)
Music Box
0 (0%)
Visitor of a Museum
0 (0%)
The Gang of Four
1 (1.5%)
All About Ah-Long
0 (0%)
And Then There Was Light
0 (0%)
Steel Magnolias
0 (0%)
Born on the Fourth of July
0 (0%)
Major League
0 (0%)
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
1 (1.5%)
Lethal Weapon 2
2 (3.1%)
Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
0 (0%)
Violent Cop
0 (0%)
Patlabor: The Movie
0 (0%)
Casualties of War
0 (0%)
Les baisers de secours
0 (0%)
Konec starych casu
0 (0%)
Parenthood
1 (1.5%)
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
0 (0%)
Leningrad Cowboys Go America
1 (1.5%)
UHF
0 (0%)
Boris Godounov
1 (1.5%)
Noce blanche
1 (1.5%)
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
0 (0%)
The 'Burbs
0 (0%)
Sweetie
0 (0%)
Mama, There's a Man in Your Bed
0 (0%)
Road House
0 (0%)
Ghostbusters II
1 (1.5%)
My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days
1 (1.5%)
Dekalog [tv]
3 (4.6%)
Lonesome Dove [tv]
1 (1.5%)
Isle of Flowers [short]
0 (0%)
Balance [short]
0 (0%)
Darkness Light Darkness [short]
0 (0%)
A Grand Day Out [short]
1 (1.5%)
Creature Comforts [short]
0 (0%)
Knick Knack [short]
1 (1.5%)

Total Members Voted: 15

Author Topic: Best Film of 1989  (Read 10002 times)

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Re: Best Film of 1989
« Reply #10 on: December 07, 2008, 01:18:09 PM »
Since I don't feel too strongly about any of them, I'll vote by viewing count. Ghostbusters II

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Re: Best Film of 1989
« Reply #11 on: December 07, 2008, 01:26:50 PM »
The Michael MooreSoderbergh love begins. sex, lies, and videotape Roger & Me
But I wish the public could, in the midst of its pleasures, see how blatantly it is being spoon-fed, and ask for slightly better dreams. 
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Re: Best Film of 1989
« Reply #12 on: December 07, 2008, 01:29:17 PM »
Do the Right Thing.
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Re: Best Film of 1989
« Reply #13 on: December 07, 2008, 01:35:09 PM »
I'll vote by viewing count.

That would have me voting for Lean on Me, I think.  "Mr. Clark! Mr. Clark!"

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Re: Best Film of 1989
« Reply #14 on: December 07, 2008, 02:45:51 PM »
1. Do The Right Thing
2. Henry V
3. Crimes And Misdemeanors
4. Glory
5. The Killer
6. Heathers
7. When Harry Met Sally. . .
8. Drugstore Cowboy
9. The Decalogue
10. Mystery Train
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Re: Best Film of 1989
« Reply #15 on: December 07, 2008, 03:04:08 PM »
Crimes and Misdemeanors



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Re: Best Film of 1989
« Reply #16 on: December 07, 2008, 03:43:42 PM »
Do the Right Thing

How that got snubbed for Best Picture is beyond criminal.  The same with sex, lies, & videotape, Glory, Drugstore Cowboy, and Crimes and Misdemeanors

CINECAST!ing Driving My Daisy.  I would've ran over her sorry ass.  That movie was CINECAST!in' boring as shit!
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Re: Best Film of 1989
« Reply #17 on: December 07, 2008, 05:33:11 PM »
It comes down to Right Thing vs. Crimes for me and I think I like Spike a little bit more.

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Re: Best Film of 1989
« Reply #18 on: December 08, 2008, 08:50:37 AM »
Do the Right Thing

How that got snubbed for Best Picture is beyond criminal.  The same with sex, lies, & videotape, Glory, Drugstore Cowboy, and Crimes and Misdemeanors

CINECAST!ing Driving My Daisy.  I would've ran over her sorry ass.  That movie was CINECAST!in' boring as shit!

I second all of this.


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Re: Best Film of 1989
« Reply #19 on: December 08, 2008, 10:13:16 AM »
ugh. One of the worst years yet. I can't believe someone voted for Lethal Weapon 2, and that no one else voted for the Dekalog.
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