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My dad always had a funny attitude toward R-rated movies. I like to tell the story about how, when we were watching Total Recall, he paused the movie during the bar scene and said in a sort of weirdly stern manner, "Now, normally I wouldn't let you watch something like this, but... well, you'll see. This is okay because it's not very realistic." And then whoa, three boobs on a Martian hooker. I'm pretty sure he was being serious, but once I laughed I guess he saw the humor in it. (And I was 10 years old.)
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CoSo, I see you gave The Tree of Life 5 stars on mubi. I'd like to know more about how you felt about it, since I've still got pretty mixed feelings.
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Heh. When I saw it with Ghost Dinosaur, an older lady a few rows behind us suddenly said aloud about 30 minutes in, "I don't even know what's going on anymore."
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I once worked a box office and had a couple emerge from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 20 minutes in.

"We didn't know this was going to be subtitled."

Here's your money, now get off my lawn.
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Well, CD technology was around as early as the late '70s. The first album to be manufactured on CD was ABBA's The Visitor, and the first album to actually be released on CD was some thing by Billy Joel in 1982, coinciding with the release of Sony's first mass-market CD player—only in Japan. It wasn't until around '85 that CDs and CD players were coming down in price and rising in popularity, but I think the concept had reached global awareness by that point (although people were still buying vinyl and cassettes into the late '80s—my dad only started collecting CDs around 1990, I'm pretty sure). Of course, yeah, laserdiscs were still kind of niche (and large) compared to VHS, and DVD wasn't even introduced until late 1996 (again, in Japan first), so it did look kind of cool and prescient in Robocop. I haven't seen many DVD or blu-ray players mounted in a wall (in someone's home, with a bunch of TV screens) like that, though, so it still looks pretty slick today.

(Yes, I did have to refresh my memory on some of the details with wikipedia.)
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/52639743@N02/5917627208/in/photostream/lightbox/
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Yeah, I love Robocop 2 almost as much as I love Robocop. It's one of the better sci-fi franchise sequels.
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Yeah, apparently Ursula K. Le Guin was deeply disappointed in the Earthsea movie (and the fact that its direction was placed in Goro's hands rather than Hayao's), too.

Having read about what a failure it is, I've kept away from it...
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Pan's Labyrinth didn't inspire much feeling in me either way.
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it's basically not good, but it is interesting to see how this ancient wonder of the world takes a back seat to the awkward technology of 3D cinema

also i think it's a joy to listen to herzog's musing, even if i'm finding it a bit more amusing than he intended for it to be
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/video/2011/sep/09/werner-herzog-into-the-abyss
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Cinema 21 in Portland is showing the 3D version of Dial M for Murder from the 16th through the 22nd. Might have to see that...
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