Sheena - Queen of the Jungle. Loved this movie growing up and I adored Tanya Roberts(my first love!). I don't want to watch it now as I will probably realise it's shite. I've seen Beastmaster recently and that turned out to be a turd that can't be polished. Actually there have been quite a few movies that under the cold light of adulthood haven't measured up to my memories.... Firefox wasn't nearly as awesome as I remembered.

I won't watch Emerald Forest either, a slightly more serious male version of Sheena as it turns out. What is it about child me and jungle stories?

Interesting. I love MOUTH OF MADNESS. Looking back 15 years later it's a little cheese, but overall it's the best Lovecraft movie made to date.

I can't think of any movies I don't want to revisit for fear of ruining them. I like finding out if my memories hold up.

I recognized this problem even as a teen, whenever something really moved me. I left the theater after ET vowing not to see it again as a repeat viewing I just know wouldn't live up to what I had just experienced. I said the same thing after reading the first volume of Piers Anthony's Bio of a Space Tyrant, so my taste was questionable

That said, I think most things hold up for me when I go back to them as in many ways I'm still a kid. I told my sister when she adopted my niece that I would be able to relate to the kid on the same emotional and intellectual level, and that is proving to indeed be the case. The low budget stuff like Land of the Lost holds up because at the core it's well written and the bad acting is part of the "charm".

Actually, now that I think of it, this type of problem affects books much more then movies. Coming back to an old comfort book after a decade or two of expanding your horizons lets you see the real subtexts or bad writing that never jumped out at you before. With a two hour movie you can keep that initial happiness at seeing an old friend going until the credits, but with a book that might take you a few days things are going to work into your thoughts and get you to re-examine the story more closely.

(Going back to Piers Anthony is damned hard)

I watched Jurassic park 2 all the time when I was a kid and loved the hell out of it.

Just watched it on amc after many many years and while I thought going to be some what disappointed.

I sadly was just flabbergasted at how much I hated it. The cuts between the real dino's and the cg ones were just terrible for the most part.

The robots are just puppets. 

There, I've just raped your childhoods good and proper.

Ah, Critters, yeah, don't make me ruin those engrams.

I'm afraid to rewatch Blankman; it's a Damon Wayans film so the risk of disappointment is unusually high.