TheBoost said:

In the end people remember good movies. Bad movies fade away.

That's why people always talk about the Golden Days of Hollywood. People remember "Casablanca" not "Shhh Beware the Octopus!"

People still look at Bela Lugosi's Dracula as the icon. Some film enthusiasts recall the lesser later movies in the Universal Monster series. Star Wars will be much the same way.

They could package the blu-ray of Dracula with a picture of Abbot and Costello on the front, but in the end people will remember Lugosi.

that can true in most cases.

but Star Wars has always been an exception to every rule and im afraid the PT will also be an exception. It had too much exposure - so its harder to fade away.

and actually, its not really an exception - Im a big fan of the original Halloween. Before the sequels and the whole michael myers/laurie strode and the remakes (which I didn't see but people whose opinion i trust say they are horrible), this was a classic like Carrie, shining, psycho etc. It was even a Criterion Laserdisc, LOL !!!!!!!! (and maybe that was a little too much) But now, its regarded as just another slasher movie like F13 or NOES...and that sucks.

Rocky was a beloved classic, but now people makes jokes because of the bad sequels.

The original Jaws seems to have come away unscathed.