Year in movies: 1989

Inspired by Sinclair, who said that 19--(censored by memory) is the best year ever in movies, we have this feature. Limited research will be required, and requests are encouraged to a point. The idea is to examine the movies from some particular time to determine something, somehow. Results may vary.

Top 10 (gross)
Batman
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Lethal Weapon 2
Look Who's Talking
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
Back to the Future, Part II
The Little Mermaid
Driving Miss Daisy
Parenthood
Dead Poets Society

Random wiki note
License to Kill was released, last of the "old style" Bonds.

Rant
You know what came out in 1989? Do the Right Thing. And Driving Miss Daisy won the Academy Award. Hilarious, in that it proves the irrelevance of the Oscars. They for the most part do not reflect the "best" cinema of the year. Looking back its fairly easy to find a dozen movies better than the "best picture" but that's not the point. Driving Miss Daisy won because of Do the Right Thing. Only after film exposed the raw realities of pregentrified Brooklyn could a pseudoslave teaching a senile old woman about life be recognized as great.