Looking back at the 1990s, it’s easy to remember the big commercial hits (“Jurassic Park,” “The Matrix”) and the critical darlings (“Pulp Fiction“) that helped shape the movies made — and the way we’ve looked at them — since then. It’s also fun to think about the films that grew and evolved in intervening decades, from “Shawshank Redemption” to “Friday,” to become not just favorites, but cornerstones of our collective movie-watching diets.
And then, of course, there are the movies that we just sadly do not think about enough, if we think about them at all. Not just obscurities or lesser works that somehow got overshadowed, but those star-studded studio movies that sometimes seem forgotten — and certainly go under-appreciated — as time moves on and more movies arrive on screen. Prompted by a visit to Dad’s chest of dusty videotapes, we thought we’d showcase a list of just a few of the movies that we think deserve to be discussed a lot more often.