4. Summer 1996

Key Movies: “Twister,” “Mission: Impossible,” “The Rock” and “Independence Day”
Summer kicked off with “We got cows”-level tornados and Ethan Hunt, which lead to the instantly-iconic (and now-cliched) disaster movie stylings of Will Smith’s first summer blockbuster. Like “Batman” ’89 before it, “ID4” changed the way we market movies by turning teaser trailers into mini-events — thanks to money shots like this that sear themselves into your brains and into pop-culture.

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