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" This is going to make you feel old. Correction: This is going to make you feel old if you saw these in a theater when they came out and not a couple of decades later on DVD, Netflix, or basic cable at 1:30 in the morning. These 25 films turn 25 this year. In some ways 1990 seems so modern, yet keep in mind it was a quarter century ago. Nobody had a cell phone, most of us hadn&amp;#039;t heard of the Internet yet, and I had a lot more hair. In alphabetical order: Another 48 Hrs.  Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte were a smash in the original 48 Hrs., a buddy film about a cop and a crook brought together to find a killer, so of course you knew they were going to make Another. I often wonder what they would have called the third and fourth installments. Still Another 48 Hrs.! No, Seriously, This One Is About Two Other Days! Back to the Future Part III  Back to the Future II and Back to the Future III\u00A0were filmed\u00A0at the same time, which could have been a recipe for disaster, but this movie is actually good. It&amp;#039;s probably the least of the trilogy\u2014you get the feeling that the filmmakers are\u00A0repeating a lot of ideas/scenarios and it&amp;#039;s time to end things\u2014but it&amp;#039;s a fine way to wrap things up. Bad Influence  Before Rob Lowe became The West Wing&amp;#039;s Sam Seaborn,\u00A0and before James Spader became The Blacklist&amp;#039;s Red Reddington,\u00A0they made this slick, sick thriller about a man who makes a new friend at a bar and it turns out to be the worst decision he ever made. Note: Spader is the good guy in this one, and Lowe is in &amp;quot;and I&amp;#039;m creepy\u00A0Rob\u00A0Lowe&amp;quot; mode. Dances with Wolves      This was one of those\u00A0movies that caused\u00A0people to say, &amp;quot;Hey, watching a three-hour movie in the theater isn&amp;#039;t so bad after all.&amp;quot; (The director&amp;#039;s cut is four hours long.) It also went on to win a ton of Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director (Kevin Costner), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, and Best Original Score (John Barry). Darkman  Has there ever been a more disappointing series of movies than the Darkman films? When it first came out I remember thinking,\u00A0like a lot of people,\u00A0that this was going to be the next great comic-book movie, about a disfigured scientist who gets revenge on his enemies. It had Liam Neeson, getting revenge long before anyone was Taken. It was directed by Sam Raimi, for God&amp;#039;s sake! But it&amp;#039;s actually kinda flat, and I remember the audience laughing at the film in all the wrong places. It&amp;#039;s not terrible, but what a letdown. The sequels went straight to video\u00A0(and didn&amp;#039;t star Neeson). Dick Tracy      If there was ever a big-budget comic-book (actually, comic-strip)\u00A0movie that needed to be rebooted, it&amp;#039;s this one. It has a fun cast and it looks great, but it just doesn&amp;#039;t work. A new one seems like a no-brainer. How about Jon Hamm as Tracy? Die Hard 2  Here&amp;#039;s the thing about sequels: They&amp;#039;re not automatically bad. Take the James Bond movies. They&amp;#039;re technically sequels to Dr. No, right? The second Die Hard flick has Bruce Willis fighting bad guys again, this time at a snowbound airport. It&amp;#039;s a fun flick. Unfortunately, the series went downhill after this one. Goodfellas  Goodfellas is\u00A0the ultimate example of a &amp;quot;guy&amp;quot; film, the way that many\u00A0women love Pretty Woman. It also makes me wish Joe Pesci did more movies. Both Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel picked this as the best movie of 1990. Hard to Kill      Cop Steven Seagal is shot a gazillion times and ends up in a coma for seven years. When he wakes up, he teams with his partner and his nurse (yes) to bring down the bad guys who did it. This isn&amp;#039;t the only movie from 1990 in which\u00A0Seagal is hard to kill. We&amp;#039;ll get to that one in a moment. Havana      I hope this doesn&amp;#039;t sound like hyperbole, but Havana might be one of the most underrated movies of all\u00A0time. It doesn&amp;#039;t get any love, with people calling it &amp;quot;boring&amp;quot; or a failed Casablanca retread. They even mocked\u00A0it on an episode of Seinfeld! But it&amp;#039;s a really great drama, beautifully directed (by Sydney Pollack) and shot, with Robert Redford as a gambler in late-&amp;#039;50s Havana, getting caught up in politics when he falls in love with a revolutionary. Home Alone\u00A0  If you remember cute Macaulay Culkin laying down traps for burglars and holding his face in his hands because he put on too much aftershave, then you might be surprised to find out that he&amp;#039;s going to be 35 years old this year.  I Come in Peace (aka Dark Angel)      This is one of those movies that just screams late 80s/early 90s. It stars Dolph Lundgren, the music is by Jan\u00A0Hammer (Miami Vice), and the plot involves a gang of drug dealers. Specifically, an alien drug dealer, who wants drugs for his home planet.\u00A0The only thing I remember about this film is Lundgren&amp;#039;s line after the alien says &amp;quot;I come in peace,&amp;quot; which is &amp;quot;and you go in pieces, asshole.&amp;quot; (Watch above.)\u00A0It&amp;#039;s almost as if they gave the film that title just so they could use that line at the end. Marked for Death\u00A0      First he was\u00A0Hard to Kill, and now Seagal is\u00A0Marked for Death\u00A0(spoiler alert: he survives both movies). Miami Blues\u00A0      Today Alec Baldwin is known mostly for acting in ensembles and his Emmy-winning role on 30 Rock, but he was a leading man once. This is one of his best roles, as a convict released from prison who promptly kills someone at the airport, gets involved with a prostitute (Jennifer Jason Leigh), and impersonates the cop on his tail (Fred Ward). Based on the novel by the great Charles Willeford and one of those cool little movies you should check out. Navy SEALs\u00A0      So who do you want to rescue you when you&amp;#039;re being held by terrorists? Why, Charlie Sheen, of course. This was back when Sheen made a lot of good movies (Platoon, Lucas, Wall Street, Major League, Eight Men Out). Long before he was &amp;quot;Winning!&amp;quot; and battling\u00A0everyone at Two and a Half Men. This isn&amp;#039;t one of those good movies, but there are worse ways to kill a couple of hours (like watching four episodes of Two and a Half Men). Pacific Heights      Maybe Michael Keaton wanted to do something that was a complete 180 from Batman, which was released a year earlier. He plays a weird, violent new tenant staying in an apartment owned by Matthew Modine and Melanie Griffith. Not a bad movie, but Modine and Griffith act so naive and lame you realize that Batman is actually the more realistic film. Predator 2  Supposedly Arnold Schwarzenegger wanted more money and the studio didn&amp;#039;t want to give it to him, so he&amp;#039;s not in this sequel. It stars Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Ruben Blades, Bill Paxton... and Morton Downey, Jr. Quick Change      This is the Bill Murray film people should talk about more. It&amp;#039;s about a group of crooks who pull off a flawless bank robbery but have a hell of a time getting out of New York City. Really funny and entertaining, and the only film that Murray has directed (so far). RoboCop 2      A lot of people, including stars Peter Weller and Nancy Allen (reprising their roles as RoboCop and his cop partner), weren&amp;#039;t happy with how this turned out. Frank Miller&amp;#039;s original script had to be rewritten and several scenes that might have made the movie better were deleted. Or maybe the problem is\u00A0that the main villain/killer/drug dealer is played by a 12-year-old boy. Rocky V      Because the four previous films didn&amp;#039;t tell the whole story. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles  There have been so many versions of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, from the original movies to cartoons to video games, that it&amp;#039;s hard to remember where it all began. This was the first film. Trivia: Robbie Rist, Cousin Oliver from The Brady Bunch, provides the voice of Michelangelo, and Sam\u00A0Rockwell has one of his really early roles as a bad guy. There was a reboot last year with Will Arnett, Megan Fox, and Johnny Knoxville. The Exorcist III      You wouldn&amp;#039;t think that they would have made a third installment after so many people laughed through\u00A0Exorcist II: The Heretic, but they did. This one has George C. Scott battling a serial killer/demon. It really could have been any demonic possession movie because any connection to the original is sketchy at best. The Hunt for Red October      Some may think of Ben Affleck when they think of the Jack Ryan character. Or maybe you&amp;#039;re one of the few who\u00A0think of Chris Pine (there was a movie released last year that I&amp;#039;ve already forgotten the name of). But Alec Baldwin played him first in this political thriller co-starring Sean Connery. (Note to Millennials: Connery was James Bond before Daniel Craig was even born.)\u00A0With this and Miami Blues, 1990 was a good year for Baldwin. Total Recall\u00A0  You know you&amp;#039;re getting old when studios\u00A0start remaking movies you first saw as an adult. The needless 2012 remake starred Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, and Jessica Biel.\u00A0The original starred the future governor of California (not Jerry Brown) and was a big hit, both critically and at the box office. Tremors  This is still the best movie ever made about a giant killer worm living underneath the Nevada desert.\u00A0 "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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