I've heard these arguments you put forward so many times. That the films are for children or for "open-minded" people and that, because I "fell in love" with the OOT when a child, I couldn't see the flaws in it. Not only that, but that I still can't see the flaws in it and that that means that my expectations were so high for the PT that they could never live up to them.
Bollocks.
I can distinguish between what is good or bad in what I used to watch as a child. Some things I appreciate as good children's entertainment, some things I recognise as crap and some things I enjoy as an adult, with no qualification of what that means. The OOT, for me, fall into that last category. I do not claim that they are perfect. I wouldn't include them in a top-ten of the best films ever made. But they definitely occupy a priveliged place in my favourite films I've seen and probably always will do.
Why should the OOT be treated as such a special case?
As I asked in the other thread (and I'm still waiting for an answer), I still watch Labyrinth and The Princess Bride now. Is that because I can't see the flaws in them? And I enjoyed Superman and Superman II as a child. Does that mean that I won't be able to watch Superman Returns with my adult mind? Do I have to regress to the level of a child to enjoy films, Go-Mer-Tonic?