A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most wanted '64 Chevy.
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Ordinary fuckin' people.
Repo Man is a strange little slice of brilliance in cult cinema. Some would be quick to write it off as bad or just plain ridiculous. But films like Repo Man are the ones that I relate to the best. Those strange dreamlike nocturnal trips into odd lands are always intriguing and interesting but their unorthodox nature unfortunately does not give them a proper home in mainstream cinema.
But that's a good thing. Repo Man will reward those who dare to venture into is realm and gives people a great experience to accompany the amazing Criterion release. Simultaneously viewing the film and quickly leafing through its booklet and soaking up the artwork really absorbs you into its…
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"There's fuckin' room to move as a fry cook, man."
Cosmic corporates, sci-fi nihilism, and a shining death-beam in the trunk. Evacuate one system just to enter another. Unpaid sushi.
"You ever feel like your mind is eroding?"
If there was ever a punk rock science fiction movie, this is it. Repo Man is without a doubt the shoddiest film I've ever seen from the Criterion Collection, but somehow its poor workmanship seems to add to the film's unique anti-establishment aesthetic. It's a very different kind of "so bad it's good". It's definitely a bad movie—there are countless continuity errors, some as glaring as cutting from day to night and back again, and scenes pop in and out without any attempt at transitioning—but this low quality feels right at home in the film's universe. It's a movie which seems like it was created by the same social delinquents it features;…
Every time I watch this I love it more. Fucked up and nasty in all the right ways, it's a riff on Kiss Me Deadly for bone heads (non-pejorative). Cynical and angry without being annoying. The first thing that happens is a cop opens a weird guy's trunk and gets atomized, leaving behind a pair of smoking boots. Later when "the government" is investigating an agent assures the local police that "people explode all the time." I'm far enough along on this road that I have trouble even conceiving of somebody who wouldn't like this.
Every line feels like somebody's favorite line. Every scene has a hidden sketch comedy rhythm to it that only reveals itself when it's good and ready.…
"do you think it's too late for us to get romantically involved?"
KISS ME DEADLY with a mohawk and a malibu (if we're going to be reductive about it). a world in which people brag about their lobotomies. thank god alex cox never sold out, because as enduringly relevant as this is (aided, surprisingly, by the kitsch of its time), it's one of the rare films that could be retroactively invalidated.
will explore further upon Criterion Collection release in April.
A nihilistic, cynical but entertaining piece that could only exist during Reagan/Cold War era America. Rooted by a great central performance by Harry Dean, it is born of the politics of its' time yet not at all a political film. Killer soundtrack for any era. Best God damn car in the yard.
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.
“Repo Man” plays like a film financed by a kid of the 1950s selling off his Weird Comics collection when he finally reaches adulthood in the 1980s.
Directed by Alex Cox, who would go on to create “Sid and Nancy” and… “Repo Chick,” this early work about a repo crew who accidentally stumble into an alien conspiracy has a punk attitude of DIYA moviemaking. As in, ‘do it yourself, asshole.”
This garage-made aesthetic is nowhere more iconically presented in “Repo” than in the movie’s climatic special effect of an alien-toting car glowing with hazardous absurdity as the feds close in. In an image that could now be ginned up by a ten-year-old in seconds using Aftereffects, Cox and crew instead…
Repo Man is everything I wanted and more from a cult film; Biting and pitch-perfect social commentary, a witty and amazingly quotable script, and actors all at the top of their game, which is wrapped up in the trappings of a 50s paranoia Alien picture.
Sure, It's completely bonkers, but you can't help but feel utter euphoria as the final frames of this insane piece of cinema flash before your eyes, leaving you in a state of bewilderment and confused chaos.
It also has Harry Dean Stanton saying the F-Word constantly. If that doesn't sell it, I don't know what will.
