Remember the 90's? The decade when America ran out of cocaine and was forced to go to the movies instead? Some of those movies were really good! So why did those filmmakers turn out to be so disappointing?
There was a ton big budget slop but there was also a hefty amount of grit.
Movies like
Usual Suspects,
Pulp Fiction,
memento,
L.A. Confidential, aw hell, even
Fight Club were a great mix of pulp and substance.
With dynamos like