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« on: April 01, 2006, 12:28:17 AM »
Despite having Emilio Estevez and being nominated for 2 science-fiction awards, I'd like to mention "Repo Man" here.

This movie, which features an unusual obsession with beer and shrimp, is about a punk turned repo man chasing a chevy which is driven by an insane scientist transporting something to do with aliens in the trunk. I'm not entirely sure if it was actually dead aliens or simply alien technology, but the government has given chase (if you can figure out who IS the government) along with the repo men.

It turns out driving makes you stupid, and this is one magical Chevy.

92 minutes
special features are the commentary, which backed up the idea that all the makers were really thinking was 'vrooooooooom nyeaaaaarrrrrrrr wheeeee' the entire time they made the movie.

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« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2006, 04:41:05 AM »
Everyone here loves it.

I have never seen it.
It's one of those 80's movies that slipped through the cracks.
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« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2006, 08:10:13 AM »
It really is a magical experience. My roommate and I got it because they didn't have Forever Knight at the store. We spent a good portion of it asking each other what was going on.

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« Reply #3 on: April 01, 2006, 09:33:21 AM »
Repo Man is one of the best SF films to come out of the 80s, in my opinion.  It has a surreal plot, great dialogue and some of the best punk rock from the 80s on the soundtrack.  
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« Reply #4 on: April 02, 2006, 07:48:51 AM »
I find it's plot full of holes and hard to follow.

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« Reply #5 on: April 03, 2006, 12:52:26 AM »
For some reason, I've never been able talk (or even think) about Repo Man without bringing up RumbleFish.

I dunno if it's some hang up of mine or something, but most folks I talk to don't seem to get why I always have to put these two movies in the same league when I get into this whole thing about how they're both about a young man fresh out of high school with no direction & all their friends are going off in different directions & too much is changing too fast & so on & so forth...

Then again, people always used to tell me I was the only one who liked Mad Max.


I dunno, is this bad?
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« Reply #6 on: April 03, 2006, 07:14:11 AM »
"You find one in every car..."
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« Reply #7 on: April 03, 2006, 07:35:47 AM »
Repo man is one of those good weird 80's movies that a lot of people don't get. The sorta normal tale of the punk kid learning the ropes of the repo business with this alien in the trunk sub plot is just sorta twisted, and I like twisted.
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« Reply #8 on: April 03, 2006, 11:17:49 AM »
Not strange to me that you bring up RM and RF in the same breath. I see where you are going with that. Also, out of the 4 movies that were made of S.E. Hinton's books, 'Rumble Fish' is the only one that Emilio Estevez isn't in. (On the reverse 'Rumble Fish' star Matt Dillon, was in every one except 'That Was Then, This Is Now'.)
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« Reply #9 on: April 03, 2006, 11:37:25 AM »
I still don't understand why dead aliens kill you....kill you dead....by just looking at them.
Or, for that matter, how a guy who can't drive can fly a car.

Not that I didn't enjoy the movie. It just cracks me up.

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« Reply #10 on: April 04, 2006, 09:15:05 AM »
I think what makes this movie a classic for me is the abundance of quirky characters who are either part of the story, or keep popping up throughout it. That, and all of the great, quotable lines.
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« Reply #11 on: April 04, 2006, 10:27:21 AM »
Also, 'Repo Man' is only 1 of 2 movies I've ever seen (the other one is 'Kiss Me Deadly') where the credits are roled in reverse.
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« Reply #12 on: April 04, 2006, 10:55:02 AM »
I'm pretty sure Seven's credits rolled in reverse too.
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« Reply #13 on: April 05, 2006, 10:12:42 AM »
I haven't seen Seven so I wouldn't have known that.
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