Reagan was your buddy. He gave you a good job and a gas-guzzler as American as old Hell. And if the ay-rabs or UN pussies told you otherwise, John Rambo would blow them higher than their heathen gods.

1990 was the rebirth of Hollywood as a different kind of grindhouse, one that ground up art forms of every kind and splattered them across movie screens in the hope of brand recognition. And for the first time, studios are remaking the first films from that period.