For Dream Theater fans September 8th, 2010 was probably a day that none of them could foresee – Mike Portnoy leaves Dream Theater. For those that were paying attention, Mike had already been on a significant hiatus from the band as the fill-in drummer for the deceased “Rev” on Avenged Sevenfold’s then just released Nightmare album as well as the fill-in touring drummer scheduled to play with the band through the end of December 2010. For Dream Theater fans, it was a time of expressing a split between hating Avenged Sevenfold and the anticipation for Portnoy’s eventual return to Dream Theater. That was not meant to be.

Recently, I was on a movie kick and going through a bunch of movies past and present when it occurred to me what a great decade the 90s were for films. There were really a lot of game changers that make that decade unique. That’s not to say that other decades don’t have their great films too – they most certainly do – but the 1990s were not just strong in content, but big on inspiration too.

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