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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gnarlygninja" data-source="post: 9724322" data-attributes="member: 6777714">Imprinting is definitely a thing. I know a lot of people whose tastes seem to have ossified sometime around college, and don't have much interest in anything new or in being critical about the things they loved as kids.  But how strongly it happens can vary quite a lot.  The Star Wars prequels are a good example, that have already been brought up.  I see people on the internet talking about how they were great movies, and it was only cynical older fans who couldn't accept that the franchise had moved on, tanking their critical reception and it seems like a lot of people my age really do love them.  I...don't.  I did when I was younger, my 10th birthday was The Phantom Menace themed, I forced my dad to take me to a late night showing of Attack of the Clones on vacation (apparently I had read the novelization in advance and would not shut up about Yoda having a lightsaber), and I went to see Revenge of the Sith in a bathrobe at midnight with a toy lightsaber.  But as an adult I have no real affection for them.  I think they're terrible movies, much worse than Gen X memed them to be and awful independent of the first three.</blockquote>