When Your Favorite Movie Aged Terribly

Children aren't great movie critics. A film that really impressed you as a kid could be just another example of the horrible schlock rushed to home video to feed the masses. Gen X and Millennials are finding this out now, as Ryan George illustrates. Boomers, not so much, because fewer movies got made or seen in the days before home video, and the movies we saw in theaters required bigger budgets, more vetting, and had to appeal to adults as well as children. B-movies at the drive-in were an exception, but we knew even then that they were not expected to become classics.