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Even as a child, I was well aware we could do a whole fucking lot better in the cartoon dept than we were getting. Then Batman came along in the 90s and proved me completely right, setting a bar that people look up to to this day.
Some of the films and music were objectively excellent, admittedly. (T2 is a good example, rare sequel superior to the original) Regardless of how much someone may or may not appreciate that specific film or whatever, it was executed extremely creatively and wasn't necessarily easy. Sometimes it wasn't.
My fav thing about it is we weren't 100% corporatized yet. We had the corporations, but they hadn't all decided to act like corporations yet, some still acted more like small business. The world had not become data-driven yet.
I hate to correct you, because T2 is indeed better than the original - but it came out in 1991.
Take heart though, Empire Strikes Back came out in 1980, Aliens came out in 1986 and Star Trek 2 Wrath of Khan came out in 1982. All of these stand the test of time and could be used for your example.
Thank you.
Personally I always discard Alien/Aliens from the conversation, since the second movie departed so strongly from the first. Which one any given person thinks is better is going to be strongly influenced by which genre they prefer more overall, and the two are very different.
Where with the rest of them, it's much closer to the second film being more of an iteration instead of a flat departure, and makes for a clearer example.
Rocky a d Rambo (1) too right?
Batman was good, but Animaniacs was peak 90s TV animation.