two of my favorite movies from when i was young are Superman and Star Wars. I loved them then, and I love them now. But I wonder if I had never seen them before, how I would feel about them now...
I know. I've had the experience of going back and watching a movie I'd loved years ago, and being disappointed -- not only because I've changed, but because movies themselves have changed. For example, I rented
Raiders of the Lost Ark to watch with my kids. If there's ever a movie that struck me, at the time, as being vibrant and dynamic and action-packed and exciting, that was it! But when my boys and I watched it, a few years ago, it was ... slow. I couldn't believe it! They were bored. In the years since then, action movies have just sped up so much that the difference was really noticeable.
But we've watched some movies together that depended less on action, such as
Big and
Back to the Future, and they've held up pretty well.
My brother and I and our kids rented
Marathon Man over Christmas. I remember really liking that and have been wanting to see it for years. But it's really hard to find in video stores. Finally, we found it! But then we ran out of time and I didn't get a chance to see it. My brother watched it after we left and said it was still good.