Temporal Top Ten – 1988

Number of movies seen from this year – 157
Number of movies reviewed – 144 (including 20 Encore Reviews)

1988 was a pivotal year for me as a moviewatcher. I was 14 and would spend every Sunday in the theater when possible.

Having seen all 5 Oscar BP nominees, I can’t say they were the most entertaining and enjoyable movies for me at the time (or even now for that matter.)

As you will see, only 2 made my top ten.  Of the other three, even as a hormonal 14 year old, I have never been a fan of Dangerous Liaisons and I found The Accidental Tourist to just drag on.  Mississippi Burning was very good, but there were many more movies that were just better that year.

It would take me another year to see my #1 and that was on video and then cable so many times over and over.  Nothin’ like creating a genre with such a great film.

My #2 is a relatively recent entry into my repertoire and I have loved it both times I’ve seen it because it is the perfect kind of movie for a cinephile like me. 🙂

My Top Ten

10. Working Girl

9. Stealing Home

8. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

7. Midnight Run

6. Rain Man

5. Coming to America

4. Scrooged

3. Big

2. Cinema Paradiso

1. Die Hard

Here’s a complete list of movies that I’ve seen from 1988

 

1. 1. 14 Going on 30
   2. 18 Again!
   3. 1969
   4. Above the Law
   5. Accidental Tourist, The
   6. Accused, The   Encore Review
   7. Action Jackson
   8. Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The
   9. Akira
   10. Alien Nation
   11. Appointment With Death
   12. Bat*21
   13. Beaches  Encore Review
   14. Beetlejuice
   15. Betrayed
   16. Big         Encore Review
   17. Big Blue, The
   18. Big Business
   19. Big Top Pee-wee
   20. Biloxi Blues
   21. Bird
   22. Blob, The
   23. Bloodsport
   24. Brain Damage
   25. Bright Lights, Big City
   26. Bull Durham
   27. Buster
   28. Caddyshack II
   29. Caine Mutiny Court Martial. The
   30. Camille Claudel
   31. Casual S*x?
   32. China Beach: Pilot
   33. Cinema Paradiso
   34. Clara’s Heart
   35. Clean and Sober
   36. Cocktail
   37. Cocoon: The Return
   38. Cohen and Tate
   39. Colors
   40. Coming to America Encore Review  Encore Review 2
   41. Congress, The
   42. Cop
   43. Couch Trip, The
   44. Criminal Law
   45. “Crocodile” Dundee II
   46. Crossing Delancey
   47. Cry in the Dark, A
   48. D.O.A.
   49. Daffy Duck’s Quackbusters
   50. Dangerous Liaisons
   51. Dead Heat
   52. Dead Pool, The
   53. Dead Ringers
   54. Dead Solid Perfect
   55. Die Hard   Encore Review Encore Review 2 Encore Review 3 Encore Review 4 Encore Review 5 6 7 8 9 10
   56. Dirty Dozen, The: The Fatal Mission
   57. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
   58. Distant Thunder
   59. Earth Girls Are Easy
   60. Eight Men Out
   61. Ernest Saves Christmas
   62. Everybody’s All-American
   63. Far North
   64. Feds
   65. Fish Called Wanda, A
   66. For Keeps?
   67. Frantic
   68. Fresh Horses
   69. Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
   70. Full Moon in Blue Water
   71. Funny Farm
   72. Good Mother, The
   73. Gorillas in the Mist
   74. Grave of the Fireflies
   75. Great Escape II, The: The Untold Story
   76. Great Outdoors, The
   77. Hairspray
   78. Hawks
   79. Heartbreak Hotel
   80. High Spirits
   81. Hot to Trot
   82. Illegally Yours
   83. I’m Gonna Git You Sucka
   84. In the Line of Duty: The FBI Murders
   85. Iron Eagle II
   86. Jack’s Back
   87. Johnny Be Good
   88. Lady in White
   89. Land Before Time, The
   90. Last Rites
   91. Last Temptation of Christ, The
   92. License to Drive
   93. Little Nikita
   94. Married to the Mob
   95. Masquerade
   96. Memories of Me
   97. Midnight Run  Encore Review
   98. Milagro Beanfield War, The
   99. Miles from Home
   100. Miracle Mile
   101. Mississippi Burning
   102. Moon over Parador
   103. Moving
   104. Mr. North
   105. My Stepmother Is an Alien
   106. Mystic Pizza
   107. Naked Gun, The: From the Files of Police Squad!  Encore Review
   108. Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon, A
   109. Nightmare on Elm Street IV: The Dream Master
   110. Off Limits
   111. Oliver & Company
   112. Permanent Record
   113. Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach
   114. Police Story 2
   115. Poltergeist 3
   116. Powaqqatsi
   117. Presidio, The
   118. Punchline
   119. Rain Man
   120. Rambo III
   121. Red Heat
   122. Rescue, The
   123. Return to Snowy River
   124. Rocket Gibraltar
   125. Running on Empty
   126. Satisfaction
   127. Scrooged                  Encore Review               Encore Review 2
   128. Serpent and the Rainbow
   129. Shakedown
   130. She’s Having a Baby
   131. Shoot to Kill
   132. Short Circuit 2
   133. Stand and Deliver
   134. Stealing Home   Encore Review
   135. Sunset
   136. Switching Channels
   137. Talk Radio
   138. Tequila Sunrise
   139. They Live    Encore Review
   140. Thin Blue Line, The
   141. Things Change
   142. To Heal A Nation
   143. Torch Song Trilogy
   144. Tucker: The Man and His Dream
   145. Twins
   146. Two Moon Junction
   147. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
   148. Very Brady Christmas
   149. Vice Versa
   150. War and Remembrance
   151. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
   152. Willow
   153. Without A Clue
   154. Working Girl
   155. You Dont Have to Die
   156. Young Einstein
   157. Young Guns