I don’t think it’s weird that old movies would experience a revival at a point where the new stuff is pretty mediocre, just that this movie in particular would be the object of such obsession when I’d never encountered any fandom for it

Ah, that makes sense. Can’t really chime in on that one other than to say I don’t even remember watching it the first time. 😂

Not really weird at all when you consider that Hollywood’s major studios are at their absolute nadir of creativity and originality.