The Movies of Summer 1996

Hello, one and all! It's time once again to take a step back and think back on a previous Hollywood summer. This time, we're hitting the summer of 96 and its cinematic offerings. What do you remember from that summer? For me, that was the summer I graduated from high school. But, before college started in the fall, my mom decided to give me a gift...My last summer of freedom. She decided that I didn't have to work or have a job that summer. I could just enjoy it, since it was probably going to be my last chance at a "free" summer. So, what did I do with my summer of freedom? Well, I remember a lot of friends, doing a short road trip at one point, and a lot of playing of the Sony Playstation, as like most young men at the time, I was obsessed with Sony's little gray box. Many nights were devoted to Tekken, Twisted Metal and Resident Evil. I was also a humongous fan of anime at the time, so i remember scouring multiple video and comic book stores for elusive titles. It was the summer I discovered Oh My Goddess, which became the basis of my first article here at Retro Junk. In particular, I remember scouring for bootleg videos of anime that had not yet come to America, or had been released in America but were butchered or edited. The original, unedited and uncensored Japanese TV version of Sailor Moon was a particular interest to my friends and I, as the show had debuted on U.S. TV the year before, and we had heard a lot of talk of how entire episodes had been cut out, and there was quite a bit of violence cut from the show.