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Originally Posted by VenomZ302
Uh, what? I'm an '80s kid, too, but have you actually watched the original Transformers cartoon? Or any of those old cartoons? I watched the entirety of the G1 series last year (bought it on DVD) and it's all pretty painful to watch.
Just like how we of that general age hold the original Star Wars movies as excellent movies. If you go back and watch them today (Empire aside), they're not that much better than the new trilogy. Just because we thought it was good as a kid doesn't mean it was good in the long run...
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I 100% completely disagree with you. I have shown the original Star Wars trilogy in my home theater to many friends and children for the first time in the last couple of years and all of them became instant fans and wanted to see more. Nobody complained about dated anything..As for the Transformers cartoon, and all cartoons of that era, they were all hand drawn which give them a dated look. However all kids 10 and under will watch and fall in love with the series just the same just as we did.. The problem is nowadays there are so many re-iterations of the same show so the kids get confused when they watch G1 Optimus vs G2 G3 and G4 Optimus which are all self contained storyline of the same character each with a different beginning and end.. Very simplistic cartoons like He-Man in the 80's was loved by us as kids (if you are around 30 years old now) that had heroic storylines and so forth with a positive message in the end. Kids today relate to that as well when shown and fall in love with the character and series as well. Even a movie as dated as Clash of the Titans with Harry Hamlin will be amazing to a kid, but to adult teenagers have a harder time with that due to really old special effects. However Star Wars holds up very well, especially the ones that have been restored digitally. I just got done watching the original Ghostbusters on Blu-ray with a 5, 6 and 8 year old for the first time and a 30 year old adult who never had seen it before.. They all loved it like you would not believe.. All of them jumped out of their seats at the beginning library scene..And all of them laughed throughout the movie.. Ultimately if you thought G1 was painful to watch, you are probably in the minority on that one being a fan when you were a kid..