Have you ever outgrown a movie you once liked?

Jaws, Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, the Thing.

Raiders was my favorite movie for a few years and I watched it hundreds of time.
Now, it's not one I seek to watch.

Same with Jaws although if it was on, I'd watch it. I think it has held up the best of the 4.

The special effects in Star Wars don't carry me anymore. I want more dramatic content.

And the Thing--I feel now that the thing effects are overdone--and peak with the Norris scene-and so it loses steam for me. The Palmer-thing is unintentionally funny-when Windows's legs are kicking in the air.
And the Blair-thing is just too dark and closeup in view. The scene where Macready is alone-that's the last spooky moment when the floor boards start to move. It is still on my favorites list but that is mostly for the FX and visual experience, not so much the story parts.
I think if the movie was made ten years earlier with a cast from that era- and they had more stuff happening in the shadows, I would appreciate it more now.


I feel a cast from that era would be more believable as Antarctica staff.

Russell does not convince me as a helicopter pilot.