1989 was one hell of a summer

Was 12, I remember some of it.

"You'll be taking a soul train straight to a disco inferno where you never can say goodbye!"

Summer movie season in 1989 was pretty great.

I saw two of those in the theater (I was 14 in '89): Batman and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. I also saw The Karate Kid Part III in the theater that year, and probably some others.

1989, especially the summer, was my all-time favorite year; not because of movies, but rather, because of what I had going on with Erika, the hottest girl in school (IMO). I'd been pursuing her all through 8th grade (September '88 to June '89), talking to her on the phone most every night, but for most of that time she had a boyfriend so I never made any real headway.

As summer approached, I made a breakthrough, and one night in June I called her at about midnight after having already talked to her for a few hours earlier that night (she had her own phone line in her room; not just an extension but her own phone number, which was extremely rare for a kid to have in the '80s) and told her I was coming over. She was half asleep but she said okay. The only problem was: she lived ~10 miles away. At first I started jogging, but after only a few hundred yards I decided that would take forever, so I went back and got my 10-speed bike. It took me about an hour to get there on a rural road in near pitch darkness, and almost getting hit by a car along the way, and she opened her window and I climbed in. I was there until the break of dawn and left before her mother caught me there.

But in addition to Erika, I was also hanging out with my best friends of all time, Corey and Tom, and we did whatever we wanted to, whenever we wanted to. They practically lived at my house. We went to the arcade, went hunting/fishing/camping, walked around town in the middle of the night, rented movies, drank whatever beer Corey could pilfer from his father or get his older brother to buy for us, and so on. The summer of '89 was simply a blast, but it all came to a screeching halt in September. Freshman year sucked, things cooled off with Erika, Tom turned into a pothead and didn't want to do anything anymore except smoke pot. Ian replaced Tom in our group, but it wasn't the same. Corey, Ian, and I had a lot of fun throughout high school, especially after I got my driver's license in '92, but none of it compared with the summer of '89.

It was the greatest summer movie season in movie history.

I was in college then and we didn't have cable TV in our house .... or the internets???LOL.

Anyway there was VHS tapes.

Movies we had in the houseeeee....ummmm

Batman
LETHAL WEAPON 2
The Survivors
Some old Vincent Price movie and a few other forgetful flicks.
We watched them repeatedly. GOD. LOL. Never again.

5 sequels and Batman. Has Hollywood ran out of ideas? Everything is remakes and sequels these days. Superhero movies aren't real cinema. - Cinephiles in 1989.

Those were some good films in that year.

Some people say 1984 was a great year for films.