Originally posted by: CO
Great movies are great movies ... as a kid you watch movies for a different reason then you do when you are older, but that doesn't mean that we are watching movies for nostalgia purposes now ...

This is a very important point. I don't give any credence to the argument that OOT fans don't give the PT a fair or open-minded appraisal because we saw the OOT when young and now can't see the flaws. I also reject the connected argument that, because of this uncritical love for the OOT, the PT couldn't possibly live up to the expectations of the OOT fans.

I can judge what is good or bad about what I watched when I was a kid. Some of the bad stuff I watch, occasionally, for nostalgia (e.g. Transformers: The Movie). Some of the good kid's stuff, I watch as just that (e.g. Bagpuss). But there are things that I judge to be good now, for the age I'm at. Just as one can grow to appreciate things that one didn't "get" at a younger age, so one can also appreciate things that one loved in childhood from an adult's perspective.

The PT does not live up to the OOT now, today, for me, at the age I am now. The OOT is not perfect but it does satisfy me as much, if not more, as an adult as it did when I was a child. I see the OOT and the PT for what they are. The SEs too, come to that.

Why should the OOT occupy some unique category that no other films occupy? I still watch Labyrinth and The Princess Bride now. Is it because I can't see the flaws in them? I enjoyed Superman & Superman II when I was little. Does that mean that I won't be able to appreciate Superman Returns with my adult mind? Do I have to regress to a child's level to enjoy it?