Just picked up and watched The ABYSS in 4k. How time changes perspective.

SPOILER ALERT for: THE ABYSS and DUNE 2 +

The first (and until recently only) time I watched The Abyss was in the 1990’s. Seems like yesterday; rented vhs movie played on a 19" tv while sitting beneath a shared blanket on a girlfriend’s couch between her and her coworker nurse friend. The movie I remember was immersive as it took place in an almost magical underwater environment. Aside from the nurses becoming angered when a character was resurrected, “It doesn’t work that way!” We all seemed to like the film.

How time changes perspective. A few days back sitting alone largely fast forwarding through the film I was annoyed how cookie-cutter this movie was, - ok we need a scene with a guy with a big wrench. He should wave it around by a big pipe. It will just look good - Yea, the movie looks great but not the same as I remember it decades ago. Perhaps it was timing, I had just screened Dune 2 for a small audience in my home theater. To recover from Dune 2 I went upstairs and fired up The Abyss on a TV. A transition from a dismally dark and bleak masterpiece on the big screen where Paul dumps his love interest Chani to achieve power ( - yes I read ahead and know what happens to Chani - ) to an eye candy campy sci-fi adventure/romance with a magic happy ending where the storyline sells an idealized narrative of love and the institution marriage “WIFE’ projected by the savior/super advanced alien? lifeforms saving the day for all, give me a break.

Have you run across a similar experiences where things you once thought were great became less then impressive when revisited?