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My Favorite: Movies: 1988

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1988 in retrospect doesn’t seem to shape up as a great year for great films, but oh boy am I missing seeing some very highly rated movies.  Still a lot of the comedies from that year are ones I think back about and still find very funny.  I need to rewatch a bunch of them. HAVE SEEN: Die Hard, Scrooged, Beetlejuice, Rain Man, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Coming to America, Big, Cinema Paradiso, Heathers, Cocktail, They Live, Young Guns, A Fish Called Wanda, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, Midnight Run, Twins, Stand and Deliver, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Adventures of Baron …

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My Favorite: Movies: 1984

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1984 has special connotations due to the George Orwell novel.  It was the year Ronald Reagan won his “Morning in America” reelection to the United States Presidency.  I bet there were some editorial cartoons that year linking the two. It was also the year the Oakland Los Angeles Raiders beat the Washington Redskins (I live in the DC general area now; I still wish the football team would change its name) – a game that sealed my fandom of the Raiders and doomed me to many recent years of misery as they’ve fallen into deep ineptitude.  But that game was …