Two questions re movies in the '80s:<\/p>\n
1. Summer of '96 (I think), I decided to introduce Repo Man<\/cite> to half a dozen (?) people from about the class of '95 and younger. It's one of my all-time favorite movies, and the only movie I've seen more than about four times; it has the highest quote-density of any movie for me; for the first six or so times that I saw it, I caught more of the jokes every time. But the younger crowd were bored silly by it. There were some polite chuckles here and there, but I think a few of them fell asleep, and I got the sense that they were mystified as to how I could possibly like this movie at all, much less as much as I do.<\/p>\n So it seems like the movie is very much of its time. But I was never part of punk culture, and although I was from California, Northern CA is pretty different from Southern CA. So the movie's not about me and my friends; it just worked for me.<\/p>\n So now I'm curious: If you've seen the movie, did you like it? And whether or not you liked it, roughly when were you born and\/or in high school? (If you didn't see the movie, no need to answer this.) I'm just trying to figure out whether it's a generational thing, or whether it was just a personal difference in tastes between me and those other folks I watched it with that time.<\/p>\n 2. The repertory movie theatre in Palo Alto, the New Varsity<\/a> (but that site can't be right, 'cause it says the Varsity \"switched to art house fare [from first-run] in 1987,\" and I'm nearly certain I went to non-first-run movies there during high school) used to have certain specific double features that they would repeat regularly. One of those double features was Harold and Maude<\/a><\/cite> with King of Hearts<\/a><\/cite>. (Btw, a couple of online sources say King of Hearts<\/cite> hasn't aged gracefully; for what it's worth, I saw it again during college and still found it lovely and charming. But I haven't seen it in nearly 20 years, so I dunno.) Tonight, Twig mentioned that the repertory movie theatre in Portland used to show the same double feature. So now I'm curious: is that a standard double feature, or just coincidence?<\/p>\n