The quality of 90s films was top notch because Tarantino, Scorese, James Cameron, PTA, and Spielberg were all pushing the medium forward both story wise and stylistically. Movies looked better in the 90s before digital cameras took over until those cameras hit their groove in the late 00s. It's not just nostalgia or being shown over and over. There were so many original stories and everything wasn't IP based like it is now. Sure, there were lots of book adaptations like Grisham, Creighton, and Clancy novels as those were the IP money makers of that era. But think about all the original stories we got in the 90s that we no longer see. We'll get 2-3 good ones a year now if we're lucky. Sinners and F1 don't come along as much now because they rarely make money compared to consistent IP money. Most of the good original stories come out of the horror genre. Now, that doesn't excuse that there were derivatives that came out in 90s such as Die Hard in a ______ formulas for action movies. I'd still stack that decade against most other than the 70s in terms of overall quality.