― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Sunday, 11 February 2007 10:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Sunday, 11 February 2007 10:34 (seventeen years ago) link
This is only slightly topped by the fact that they had a chance to talk to Muhammad Ali and his people about having him appear at the end of the film with the preacher and rabbis and the like, in order to show that not even Muhammad Ali could approach the car!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 11 February 2007 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Sunday, 11 February 2007 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link
"Hey, what the fuck are you doing with our car?"
"Your car? Are you sure? This looks like my car. Are there pecan pies in the back?"
"Not any more. We ate them."
― omar little, Monday, 22 October 2007 19:49 (sixteen years ago) link
I still havent listened to that CD. :-(
― stevienixed, Monday, 22 October 2007 20:10 (sixteen years ago) link
neither have i. i always forget about it, being buried in that tin box.
― omar little, Monday, 22 October 2007 22:37 (sixteen years ago) link
the cd that is
― omar little, Monday, 22 October 2007 22:38 (sixteen years ago) link
You also have that tin box edition? I cherish it. The CD might be lost though. Not sure, should check it. As soon as my daughter can sit down for more than an hour, she's going to HAVE TO WATCH THIS MOVIE.
― stevienixed, Monday, 22 October 2007 22:39 (sixteen years ago) link
i also have the evil dead 2 tin box! i missed out on the two lane blacktop one, though
― omar little, Monday, 22 October 2007 22:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Fuck you, Archie! Just for that, you're not in the gang anymore.
― clotpoll, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 06:07 (sixteen years ago) link
This was one of my first movies I remember from when I was around three to five years old. I remember liking how much of an adventure it was, though I can't imagine what else I would've picked up from it at the time. This would've been the silly television-censored version, of course.
Seeing it again recently I was struck by how similar the tone of the bizarro world is to the Grand Theft Auto series. The basic plot of car-stealing aside, the off-the-wall characterizations of people - from the way some people are either infinitely selfish and conniving or these otiose zombies - and the non-stop parody of mass culture struck me as being very similar to the games. There isn't really a classically sympathetic character in the movie or the games.
The radio station commercials Otto listens to at one point also sound like those hilarious pseudostations that appear in GTA.
― Cunga, Saturday, 29 March 2008 06:54 (sixteen years ago) link
You like music, listen to this. I was into these dudes before anyone. Wanted me to be their manager. I called bullshit on that. Managing a pop group is no job for a man.
― latebloomer, Saturday, 29 March 2008 07:02 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't want no commies in my car. No Christians either.
― latebloomer, Saturday, 29 March 2008 07:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Always intense.
When a boat owner defaults on his loan, the bank hires Jeff Henderson to seize its property. The former Army detective tracks the boat down in a backyard or a marina or a garage and hauls it to his storage area and later auctions it off. After nearly 20 years in the repossession business, Mr. Henderson has never been busier.“I used to take the weak ones,” he said. “Now I’m taking the whole herd.”...Mr. Henderson, 48, is repossessing nearly a boat a day, most from the Great Lakes area but a few farther afield. He is looking for a man from the Bronx named Rocko, who told the bank his 34-foot cruiser was at a marina that does not exist. He is trying to get a Michigan woman to tell him where to find her husband’s pontoon boat.The bigger the boat, the harder to hide. A few miles from Mr. Henderson’s office is a house that, even in depressed Michigan, would sell for a million dollars. Tied up on the canal in back, just visible from the street, is a 40-foot Silverton yacht. As Mr. Henderson surveyed the area the other day, something nagged at his memory.Finally he remembered: “I’ve taken this boat before.” Owners of repossessed boats have a few weeks to redeem them, and this fellow had availed himself of the opportunity. Now, a few years later, he was in trouble again. Mr. Henderson shrugged. “I took it before, I’ll take it again. After I take it a few more times, he’ll be eligible for a Christmas card. One guy, I took his boat four times.”
“I used to take the weak ones,” he said. “Now I’m taking the whole herd.”
...
Mr. Henderson, 48, is repossessing nearly a boat a day, most from the Great Lakes area but a few farther afield. He is looking for a man from the Bronx named Rocko, who told the bank his 34-foot cruiser was at a marina that does not exist. He is trying to get a Michigan woman to tell him where to find her husband’s pontoon boat.
The bigger the boat, the harder to hide. A few miles from Mr. Henderson’s office is a house that, even in depressed Michigan, would sell for a million dollars. Tied up on the canal in back, just visible from the street, is a 40-foot Silverton yacht. As Mr. Henderson surveyed the area the other day, something nagged at his memory.
Finally he remembered: “I’ve taken this boat before.” Owners of repossessed boats have a few weeks to redeem them, and this fellow had availed himself of the opportunity. Now, a few years later, he was in trouble again. Mr. Henderson shrugged. “I took it before, I’ll take it again. After I take it a few more times, he’ll be eligible for a Christmas card. One guy, I took his boat four times.”
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 18:35 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm lookin for ROCKO
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 18:40 (sixteen years ago) link
has you seen em?
Some days we're all looking for Rocko.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 18:42 (sixteen years ago) link
I think this is my favorite movie of all time.
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 18:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I will have to watch this again. Tonight maybe. Thinking about it, it never stops amazing me (yes, I am literally amazed!) not just how funny it is, but how fragile, because it could have been so wrong and so bad in so many ways, and yet there's not one misstep. It's some kind of goddamn miracle.
― kenan, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 19:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Hard to top this, but the boat repo man has movie-concept legs.
― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 21 May 2008 07:03 (sixteen years ago) link
think what costner could do with the concept
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 21 May 2008 07:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Best damn boat on the lot.
― clotpoll, Wednesday, 21 May 2008 13:21 (sixteen years ago) link
How much better would Waterworld have been if Costner was a repo man?
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 May 2008 15:27 (sixteen years ago) link
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i was just coming here to quote the 2nd but the first is ridiculously classic & im sad i have no memory of it; must be a HDS one though
― deeznuts, Wednesday, 21 May 2008 15:37 (sixteen years ago) link
the Harry Dean Stanton interview on the DVD is a masterpiece of nihilism.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 21 May 2008 16:03 (sixteen years ago) link
It was Lite who called bullshit on managing a band, nutz.
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 21 May 2008 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link
finally saw it. awesome stuff.
2 points worth mention,beside the ones on this thread:
1. Tarantino probably watched it at least 10 times. 2. the photography is excellent (Robby Müller, who also worked with wim weners and jim jarmusch)
― Zeno, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 19:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Agreed on both.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 19:49 (sixteen years ago) link
dude, you only saw it NOW? how old are you? i do hope you're about 13 or from another planet. ;-)
― stevienixed, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 19:50 (sixteen years ago) link
from another planet. or at least another country
― Zeno, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 23:18 (sixteen years ago) link
http://defamer.com/assets/resources/2008/05/mr_fp_244522.jpg
― latebloomer, Thursday, 5 June 2008 00:33 (sixteen years ago) link
"....you're all repo men!"
"So what if we are?"
*pours beer on floor*
― Brotherhood of Stealing Shit to Sell to Trader Caravans (kingfish), Monday, 1 December 2008 20:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Um, someone please tell me this is a fucking joke:
http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/12/04/repo-man-sequel-starts-filming-next-month/
― Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe, Friday, 5 December 2008 19:00 (fifteen years ago) link
list repo chick dream soundtrack here
― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 5 December 2008 19:07 (fifteen years ago) link
1. MIA - Paper Planes
http://www.waldoshawaiianholiday.com/
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 5 December 2008 19:33 (fifteen years ago) link
"I didn't get fucked and I didn't get kissed/I got so fucking pissed"
Why the title theme is never on any of Iggy's best ofs is one of the great mysteries.
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 5 December 2008 20:09 (fifteen years ago) link
oh god, the art is so awful.
also somebody stop the sequel, please.
― pierre some sugar henry (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 7 December 2008 13:16 (fifteen years ago) link
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090227/ap_on_re_us/repo_violence
Violence between repo men, car owners on the rise
― kingfish, Friday, 27 February 2009 17:28 (fifteen years ago) link
repo chick is done shooting http://www.alexcox.com/blog.htm
who knew this had started?
― just sayin, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 19:47 (fifteen years ago) link
In South America thousands of people go missing every year. Nobody knows where they go. They just like disappear. But if you think about it for a minute, you realize something. There had to be a time when there was no people. Right?
Yeah. I guess.
Well where did all these people come from? hmmm? I'll tell you where. The future. Where did all these people disappear to? hmmm?
The past?
That's right! And how did they get there?
How the fuck do I know?
Flying saucers. Which are really? Yeah you got it. Time machines. I think a lot about this kind of stuff.
― what u arrestin me for, innit (╓abies), Monday, 8 June 2009 04:05 (fifteen years ago) link
C'mon let's go commit some crimes!
REPO MANG
― what u arrestin me for, innit (╓abies), Monday, 8 June 2009 11:14 (fifteen years ago) link
but YOU? !!
(everybody..)
― Mark G, Monday, 8 June 2009 11:19 (fifteen years ago) link
"YOU'RE ALL RIGHT!!!"
― Mark G, Monday, 8 June 2009 11:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Look at 'em, ordinary fucking people, I hate 'em.
just watched coz am so sodding bored. great film
― Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Sunday, 5 July 2009 20:55 (fourteen years ago) link
watching for the first time
rules!
― into the young coconuts (gbx), Sunday, 10 January 2010 02:22 (fourteen years ago) link
i think about it whenever i eat sushi tbh
― jortin shartgent (harbl), Sunday, 10 January 2010 02:24 (fourteen years ago) link
let's do a crime
― into the young coconuts (gbx), Sunday, 10 January 2010 02:24 (fourteen years ago) link