If you look at a lot of modern blockbusters the good ones are still like that CO; its not a generational thing. We just forget all the unmemorable ones from that same era--The Black Hole, Jaws 3, Rocky II, Death Wish 3, all those terrible Clint Eastwood movies, Smokey and the Bandit, etc.--because if you look at today there is, when you filter out the crap, a remarkable amount of blockbusters aimed at both kids and adults: Superman Returns, Spiderman 2, Batman Begins, Pirates of the Carribean, War of the Worlds, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Transformers, Harry Potter, Men in Black, Finding Nemo. Maybe these aren't quite as good as that late 70's-early 80's crop, but its not as dismal when you really look at the films that stand out, and thats always the way its been, kids of the current generation will be reminicing about the films I list there, not the disposable crap thats out every week. People always talk about the 70's as the golden age of American cinema, but if you actually go back and look at week-by-week the movies that all came out most of them were crap, movies like Taxi Driver and Annie Hall were the minority, but we just remember those ones.