Oh, you betcha: I remember the same phenomenon with the first set of Star Trek films. With one noted exception (my high school prom date, who went completely ballistic when the Enterprise went Em-See-Squared at the end of Star Trek III, I noted that diehard fans of the show and films who were under 30 when Star Trek II came out handled things a hell of a lot better than the ones who were over that age. (Of course, I'm a fine one to talk: I still bawl my eyes out at the end of Alien, when the only interesting character in the whole film besides the cat gets blown out the airlock.)