We don’t make disaster flicks like we used to, despite all the disasters we’re dealing with. Pop culture is saturated with nostalgia for the ’90s, but you wouldn’t think of them as good times based on the frequency of blockbusters about something trying to wipe humanity out. Armageddon and Independence Day can and should be considered classics of the genre, but one film doesn’t get the credit it deserves when we discuss this entertaining and cathartic era of Hollywood.
