Repo Man
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It’s 4 a.m. Do you know where your car is?
Young punk Otto becomes a repo man after helping to steal a car, and stumbles into a world of wackiness as a result.
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Criterion Collection Spine #654
"Top 50 Film of the 80's Selection"
"Top 10 Films 1984 Selection"
Through the Eye of Criterion"The more you drive, the less intelligent you are."
When I think 'Repo Man' the words, Punk, Sci-Fi, comedy, consumerism comes to mind, the film dig into the issues of society in the mid 80's, Alex Cox not only found a voice in Otto, but without knowing he found the voice of society.
The stunning bleak cinematography from Robby Müller and practical effects made 'Repo Man' stand out from the rest of indie films at the time, and I doubt I seen a film quite like it since.
We can't talk about 'Repo Man' without mentioning the soundtrack (Iggy…
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One of the most central films in my awakening as a real movie buff, REPO MAN positively blew my mind when I first saw it in high school (soon after BLUE VELVET!) I had scarcely ever seen anything so funny, so bizarre, so exhilaratingly unpredictable and ALIVE. There is truly no movie like REPO MAN, and I doubt there ever will be again.
It starts out fairly normally, following a young punk named Otto (Emilio Estevez) who, almost accidentally, finds himself working as a repo man with a very interesting crew of misfits and outlaws (including Harry Dean Stanton and Tracey Walter) who live by a strict code of honor. When they start tracking a stolen car with a radioactive…
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"Yeah. Let's go get some sushi and not pay"
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When you get the Criterion Collection Blu-ray, I want you watch the Iggy Pop interview and try not to stare at Iggy's chest. Good luck.
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One of my all-time favourite movies - cult movie perfection. The dialogue, the characters, the performances and the whacked-out mix of punk rock teen alienation and sci-fi conspiracy hijinks make for a brilliantly original one-off. And the new blu-ray looks GREAT!
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"It happens sometimes. People just explode. Natural causes."
-Agent RogerszWeird and Strange had a fender bender at the corner of Bizarre Ave and Abnormal Boul. The result of that was this film. The movie became a cult classic before it was even done showing at it's premiere.
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Terrific hallmark of the times. The world is better for having this movie in it.
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"Society made me what I am...and it still hurts!"
Without a doubt, this is probably the greatest cult movie ever made. The undeniable truth and humor in nearly every. single. line. of this movie is just wonderfully brilliant and telling. It's one of the most brutally honest, wonderfully intense, and even intimate looks at an era in any movie. The plot is ridiculous, yet it never strays too far from it, even just to develop Emilio Estevez (who is incredible, mind you)'s character even further in to the web that was 1980s punk rock Los Angeles. This supporting cast is unbelievable, with Harry Dean Stanton giving off the second best performance of his career (the first is obviously 1984's best…
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Cult nirvana. Will hold my rhetorical fire on this one for now, but will get into it more at a later date.
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I had to watch this movie before Parker (Junk Food Dinner) sorry bro, you're last to the finish line, hehehehhe!!!! As for the movie, it kicked ass along with the score/ everyone in this movie was great!!!
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"A punk, sci-fi, action comedy" is not a description you hear about a lot of movies. "Repo Man" was obviously made with a lot of resentment and anger for the times, and it's the very definition of a cult film. It's hard to pinpoint the story, and the last thirty minutes or so are a jumbled mess. Plus, most of the performances (save for Harry Dean Stanton and Emilio Estevez) are quite stiff and bad, but this was Alex Cox and his punk buddies making their movie, so I applaud the effort; even if it's a very focused and dated one.
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Yeah, yeah, "plate of shrimp," "ordinary fucking people," Harry Dean, etc. What struck me most about seeing this again was the class anger, and how clearly it links the disgust of suburban punk idiots like Otto to the resentment of the working-stiff repo men (*love* the latter all being named after lawnmower beers, which I didn't notice back in the day). What also struck me is how pointless most of the third act is, other than that it ties up a bunch of loose ends, I guess. But let's face it, no one really wanted to see all these characters running around with guns, right?
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really weird and confusing last third. what the fuck. :D
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A true masterpiece. I loved Otto. I know Otto. I maybe am Otto. Can someone get a time machine and some fanfic going with Otto and Driver for a crossover movie about Otto repo'ing one of Driver's cars? Because that would be pretty awesome.
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One of the weirdest movies I have ever seen by far.