NC: Hello, I'm the Nostalgia Critic. I remember it so you don't have to. You hear it all the time from people, summer movies aren't what they used to be, nobody makes them like they used to anymore. Well, in some respects, they're kinda right. (Clips of Ben-Hur's chariot race scene play out as an example of an old summer epic) NC: Bull-fucking-shit. A lot of people forget there was a dark, dark...DARK time in our history where summer movies were just expected to suck! NC: I remember this dark age so well, I can even pinpoint the exact years it happened: (years pop up on screen) 1996 to 2001.