Love films as a kid, I never had a problem understanding situations I wasn't familiar with, I can understand a film on something you've specifically gone through can have a more emotional effect. IE your mum died in a car crash with you in the car, you watch a film where that happens, its going to tug on the emotional cords more than if you hadn't experienced it, but nothing more than that.
Currently, films are MUCH much worse in general, action films mostly, the old Indiana Jones, Die Hards, etc, dialogue was better, filming was less flashy, but better.
I simply don't watch adverts, at all, for any films, ever, haven't since adverts started becoming epic spoilers in the mid 90's, before that it would HINT at what the film was about, from somewhere around the mid 90's it became, show every funny moment in a comedy, every major twist in a thriller, every surprise character, or every major chase/action/explosion sequence. The more you watch films, the more predictable they become and the more telling adverts become. The worst being when you're half way through a film you accidentally caught an advert for, and someones about to die, then you think "hey, I've seen him in the advert, he obviously doesn't die here" and the tension, the moment is completely ruined.
Aside from films being worse, there are films I look back and realise how truly awful they are, The Rock, I LOVED that film as a kid, or, ok I liked it, the idea is nice but rewatching it now, Cage was awful, the fighting, the dialogue, its utterly cringeworthy, I still half enjoy it and remember how much I did like it but its pretty painful to sit through the whole thing now.
I can watch loads of films over and over that never get worse though, films that actually are good, Indiana jones, Back to the Future(ok some bad bits, but overall great films), the good Star Wars, The Matrix. The difference in quality, filming, style, dialogue and idea's between 1 and the 2 after it would be a pretty decent description of the general trend of "older" films and newer films.
Religion, as kid I never realised that most often when a writer/director/creator added god into the story it was mostly to pretend to be inteligent and ask difficult questions, now I realise most of the time god gets involved in a story its just a egomaniacal creator with no originality wanting to see deeper than he really is.
