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Was 1989 The Best Year for Summer Movies?

One of the best parts of summer is cooling off in a movie theater with the A/C so high you wish you wore jeans.   No one’s doing that this 4 th of July weekend. *sigh*   I’ll let the cinephiles debate if we’re missing much now. But in 1989, the New York Post asked and answered: “Was 1989 the best summer for movies ever? Yes.” You had quite the choice of future classics at the Cineplex that holiday when Batman starring Michael Keaton was #1 at the box office, along with:   ·        Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ·        Dead Poets Society ·        Star Trek 5: The Final Frontier ·        Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing ·        Honey, I Shrunk The Kids ·        License to Kill with Timothy Dalton in his second (and final) performance as 007   And these films were all released before t...