The 10 Best Movies of 1989 - Tom Cruise, Jessica Tandy and Weird Al Yankovic?
From Driving Miss Daisy to Dead Poets Society, this list has some classics worth re-renting.
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Hey, remember the '80s? Well, it's nearly time to kiss 'em goodbye, ya Day-Glo yuppie freak. It's the end of an era. No more Cold War (almost). Gone (or nearly so) is the decade that did this to Mick Jagger and this to a young George Costanza. Herein lieth your last chance to reminisce: Welcome to 1989. It's the fall of the Wall and the debut of The Simpsons. (Coincidence? Almost impossible, really.) It's the Exxon Valdez, and two-hundred-some-odd-thousand gallons of eco-nightmare effluent (about which I was taught, primarily, by Saturday Night Live and Mad Magazine). It's the tragic Loma Prieta earthquake, reaching 7.1 on the Richter scale and devastating the Bay Area during the A's/Giants World Series. It's Tiananmen Square. Also happening: Zsa Zsa smacks a cop; Pete Rose is excused from baseball. Along with the births of Time Warner, Disney-MGM Studios, and the Game Boy, out pop Freddy Adu, Lil Romeo and Daniel Radcliffe. Mel Blanc, John Cassavetes, Salvador Dali, and Lucille Ball shuffle off their respective mortal coils. (Ted Bundy, too.) Thanks to a worldwide ban on a lucrative ivory trade, tusked folk prepare to breathe a bit easier during the '90s. Oh, and guess what? BAM! Just like that, one million Ford Tauruses sold in three short years. Meanwhile, down south, Kim Basinger plunks down $20 million and flat-out buys the town of Braselton, Georgia. Speaking of the erstwhile Vicki Vale, you won't be seeing her name in connection with the following top 10 list of luminary films from '89 (which is what we've been building to all along, in case you hadn't divined it), because Tim Burton's Batman didn't make the cut. It may be the best big-screen representation of the coolest caped dude ever (don't give me that Begins stuff -- yeesh), but it's still a little goofy in parts. Also notably absent: Last Crusade. Sorry guys. I'm a Temple of Doom man. Any more? Feel free to scream at me. Giddyap! 1.) Field of Dreams 2.) Do the Right Thing 3.) Glory 4.) When Harry Met Sally... 5.) My Left Foot 6.) Nuovo cinema Paradiso (Cinema Paradiso) 7.) Driving Miss Daisy 8.) Dead Poets Society 9.) Born on the Fourth of July 10.) UHF ------------------------------------------ Most Popular Stories
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