I do find it interesting that if you go ahead into the future, the reviewers seem to change their outlook or review of a movie that was universally loved by audiences to align more with audience views than what it was originally in some cases.
I see this quite often. Critics pan a movie, the audience praises it. Then it becomes a piece of highly praised movie history and they change their mind about it.
Good I suppose, that they change their mind. But why even pay attention to critic reviews if they can't recognize a piece of Hollywood history when they see it? Critics like Ciskel and Ebert panned Aliens because "it's about a child being put in danger", while everyone else can recognize it for one of the best sequels and action movies ever made. Then what use are film critic reviews?
Other great movies that got panned by critics:
Casablanca, The Wizard of Oz, Lawrence of Arabia, Ben-Hur, Predator, Home Alone, It's a Wonderful Life, The Shining, Psycho, The Excorcist, Halloween, Fight Club Jumanji, Starship Troopers, Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, Forest Gump, Titanic, 2001 a Space Oddysey, Godfather part 2, Inception, Gladiator, Jaws, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Apocalypse Now, Alien, The Shawshank Redemption, The Matrix, ET, The Sixth Sense, Black Swan, Reservoir Dogs, No Country for Old Men, Se7en.