3. The Return of the Childhood Favorites of Our Parents
Now, it's perfectly reasonable to see this time as the eras in which long-gone properties like Garfield and The Smurfs were ruined when they were brought back. But let's not forget that J.J. Abrams made Star Trek cool again, Michael Bay injected the kind of awesome we would expect from a live-action Transformers, and James Mangold's 3:10 to Yuma restored hope in the seemingly forgotten genre of westerns. It's often easy to get caught up in the remakes that were, for lack of a better phrase, diluted cat feces. But the 90s brought us a popular resurgence in the character of James Bond with Goldeneye and then managed to do it again (in the hands of Martin Campbell once more) with Casino Royale. A franchise getting a return to form in two different reboots just eleven years apart? That's practically unheard of. But people who missed the Connery days got excitement with Goldeneye and new Bondies got their jolt with Daniel Craig's interpretation. And, of course, we already mentioned that of King Kong and the likes of superheroes including Superman (who was last seriously seen in 1980). Everything comes full circle, and while we've had our fair share of stinkers, we've also had some pretty note-worthy returns as well.