The other problem is that movies will never again have the impact on society that they did before the 1980s, no matter how great they might be.

When I saw Star Wars in 1977, I had no idea what it was about, there was an oddly cryptic trailer, and that was about it.

When I saw it, my mind was blown. If I wanted to see it again, the only way was to head back to the cinema, and even then, once it left the cinema, it was quite possible that I would never get to see it again!

There was no home video, no VHS or DVD, bugger all on television, and the truly gigantic television that our neighbours owned was a whopping 27 inches in size.

Movies were something you could only see occasionally, there wasn't much else out there as story telling goes, so a good story and amazing visuals would sear into your brain like nothing else could. It was a huge experience.

Now, there are so many ways to consume movies, we watch, many, many more than even the hardest of hard core movie buffs did before the 1980s. Story telling has increased in quality with the explosion of higher quality television series where you can develop characters and stories over 10s or even hundreds of hours, they are the novels of the visual world, instead of the little haikus that movies are.

Never again will movies hold the kind of power, influence and spectacle that they did before that time, partially just because they literally cannot, as the world has changed.

I enjoy movies more now than I did ten years ago, I practice good movie hygiene, I don't watch trailers, I avoid internet reviews, I don't follow the actors' private lives and I don't watch any behind the scenes until after I have been to see the film. It lets me enjoy movies much more, and in a similar way to how they impacted me when I was younger, but it is still a paler experience than before, and that has as much to do with the changes in the non-movie world as those within it.