Do you appreciate a movie less because you weren't alive when it was released?

Do you appreciate a movie less because you weren't alive when it was released?
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Now Joe, I never said you weren’t as big a fan as I was. You said I wasn’t as big a fan as you. What I said was that you can’t understand the relationship with the movies that my generation has. I do think that the different relationship you have with the movies affects your opinion of the more recent ones. OK, having clarified that, I’ll let Fluther discuss it.
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