The 1990s was an incredible decade for cinema. The birth of CGI (for better or worse)? That was the ’90s. For the advent of high-quality independent cinema? That, too, was the ’90s. The decade not only saw breakthroughs in terms of filmmaking technology, but it was also arguably the last decade before interconnected film universes became the commodity they are today. Thus, there was something pure about the franchise entries of the decade.