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I'm just a white suburban punk... who hasn't listened to the soundtrack yet.

harry dean stand-thong, Saturday, 1 September 2001 00:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

funny movie: good s/t
"Repo Man is ALWAYS intense!!"
"John Wayne was a fag!!"
"Laugh away, fuck-face!!"

mark s, Saturday, 1 September 2001 00:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

Let's go get some sushi...and not pay!

dave q, Saturday, 1 September 2001 00:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

You always get that WRONG mr Q. It's:
"Let's go get sushi — and not pay!!"

(singsong) "Ev-ry-body dead"

mark s, Saturday, 1 September 2001 00:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

Over-rated. Alex Cox - the indie Micheal Winner (in terms of quality of film only, not table manners etc).

DavidM, Saturday, 1 September 2001 00:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

FOOD. DRINK. POTATO CHIPS.

Joe, Saturday, 1 September 2001 00:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

Repoman is marvellous.

Richard Tunnicliffe, Sunday, 2 September 2001 00:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

One of the great movies of all time. Over.rated.my.arse, DavidM are you that Scottish cunt that presents films on the BBC? ;)

Filled with so much classic lines. I watched Repo Man so many times with a friend that we know all the dialogue by heart and still use a lot in conversation. Say somebody drops a beer: "Somebody piss on the floor again."

toking on a joint: "What's in the car? Drugs? Hermanos Rodriguez don't do drugs."

"Get in the car white boy"

"Otto?!? Otto Parts?".

"Eh pappa es un gringo en la calle con su coche!"

and the of course the whole "John Wayne was a fag" thing.

Omar, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

"i installed two-way mirrors in his pad in brentwood, and he come to the door in a dress."

classic. classic. i've even watched the butchered version on regular TV just for the extra scenes they put in AND to hear them say "melonfarmer" over and over.

your null fame, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

> DavidM are you that Scottish cunt that presents films on the BBC? ;)

Who is he talking about?

Nick, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

my guess = mark cousins (= v.v.irish, but same diff)

mark s, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

Mark Cousins is fuckin A. Bring him back. "This....movie...blew....my....mind.."

Michael Bourke, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

"Repo Man" is one of my favourite films - esp. the censored TV version, where they say "Melon Farmer" - best film (poss. only good film) made by alex cox IMO. I may have to watch it again soon. The first time I saw it, BTW, me & a friend watched that & "Raising Arizona" in one sitting. Great evening!!!

x0x0

Norman Fay, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

"The more you drive...the less intelligent you are". Totally classic.

Kris, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

Wot? Censored version? I always thought they were supposed to say mellon farmer :) And Flip You! :)

re: Cousins fellow, what a faux-pas, I really thought he was Scottish. But is it really him? The guy I'm talking about never has his mind blown by a film, he always says "although X isn't a truly great film...". I mean every flippin time! It drives me mad. But they the BBC finally get rid of him or did some rabid film fan kick his teeth in?

Omar, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

no that's him omar: the prog strand name is "fairly rubbish films which are culty and we're going to make you watch them anyway, but first, here's MARK COUSINS to say all that in a slightly difft way"

mark s, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...
*YAWN* a boring Friday afternoon, so I'd thought go through my GRATE PILE OF VIDEOS I hadn't seen yet, and decided to give Repo Man a go. And...well...


It's bloody marvellous, that's what it is. I looked it up on the IMDB, and to add to the comments previously posted:
"The dubbed dialogue of the TV version (e.g. "melon farmer" as an insult) has achieved cult status in its own right." Intense.

DG, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

i don't want any commies in my car! no christians either!

fritz, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

7 months pass...
This is a thread not revived enough. Talk about a movie that, among other joys, parodies The X-Files a full decade before that show started. Search the DVD release if you can -- the commentary is hilarious (Cox, Sy Richardson, Zander Schloss, Del Moraya, the casting director, and none other than the backer of the film, Mr. Michael Nesmith himself). Good collection of links and info right here -- off you go.

"Say you're thinking about a plate of shrimp. Suddenly someone says plate, or shrimp, or plate of shrimp. Out of the blue. No explanation."

Ned Raggett, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (7 years ago) Permalink

And the equally brilliant Miller quote Kris notes above inevitably reminds me of Momus.

Ned Raggett, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (7 years ago) Permalink

plus now i get to call nath 'harry dean stand-thong' yay

Ron, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (7 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...
yeah this is classic.

worth a read.

cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 29 August 2004 18:50 (5 years ago) Permalink

sorry, this. (that is worth reading too, obv.)

cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 29 August 2004 18:51 (5 years ago) Permalink

that makes me happy.

lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 29 August 2004 18:55 (5 years ago) Permalink

Very spiffy, Mr. Sinkah comes through again on a great film and more. But I'm not too sure what that has to do with Repo Man!

xpost -- ah, clarity!

Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 29 August 2004 19:01 (5 years ago) Permalink

I BLAME SOCIETY.

fuck i love this movie!

Ian c=====8 (orion), Sunday, 29 August 2004 19:03 (5 years ago) Permalink

Where noise-boys and glam fans and punks hold hands and sing, this movie.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 29 August 2004 19:04 (5 years ago) Permalink

don't forget Emilio Estevez fans.

And, oh yeah, CLASSIC. I agree with whoever said it's Cox's best. Sid and Nancy can lick my left one.

Harold Media (kenan), Sunday, 29 August 2004 21:00 (5 years ago) Permalink

I still think it's marvellous.

Ricardo (RickyT), Sunday, 29 August 2004 21:04 (5 years ago) Permalink

They are selling the AWESOME-looking and RARE box set in Amoeba for abour $50. Oh nonononononono!

adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 29 August 2004 21:07 (5 years ago) Permalink

God, I watched this yesterday. See if I can do this right:


There's a lattice of coincidence that lays on toppa' things. Say you're thinkin' bout a plate 'o shrimp, and suddenly somebody says plate, or shrimp, or plate of shrimp outta the blue, no explanation, no point in looking for one either- it's all part of the cosmic unconsciousness.

Give you another example: you know how everybody's into weirdness right now? Supermarkets and books about Bermuda triangles, UFOs, and how the Mayans invented television, that kinda thing? Well, the way I see it, it's exactly the same - there ain't no difference between a flying saucer and a time machine. People get so hung up on specifics that they miss out on seeing the whole thing.

x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Monday, 30 August 2004 01:09 (5 years ago) Permalink

7 months pass...
fucking brilliant

Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 23:46 (4 years ago) Permalink

i love this movie more than life itself

caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 23:50 (4 years ago) Permalink

yes, seriously.

Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 23:51 (4 years ago) Permalink

it's always intense.

Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 23:53 (4 years ago) Permalink

One of the reasons I like this (and to a lesser extent To Live and Die In L.A.) is that it's an unmistakebly "Los Angeles" film that manages to avoid Get Shorty-esque filming locations.

Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 23:55 (4 years ago) Permalink

unmistakably

Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 23:56 (4 years ago) Permalink

"repo man gotta dress square"

g e o f f (gcannon), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 23:56 (4 years ago) Permalink

"Find one in every car. You'll see."

Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 23:58 (4 years ago) Permalink

Gear, in my head you are now a repo man.

Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 21 April 2005 00:00 (4 years ago) Permalink

you know how everybody's into weirdness right now?

Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Thursday, 21 April 2005 00:05 (4 years ago) Permalink

I BLAME SOCIETY.

when i think of repo man, i think of this classic line.

Amon (eman), Thursday, 21 April 2005 00:27 (4 years ago) Permalink

it's an unmistakebly "Los Angeles" film

Yup. What a fine, fine revival. Perhaps I shall rewatch it in a bit.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 21 April 2005 00:28 (4 years ago) Permalink

"That's bullshit. You're a white suburban punk just like me."

"Yeah, but it still hurts."

Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Thursday, 21 April 2005 00:30 (4 years ago) Permalink

Hahah.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 21 April 2005 00:35 (4 years ago) Permalink

OK. Some movie I saw years before I saw Repo Man had a part where two characters reinact that whole "Repo man IS intense" bit, and when I finally saw RM it killed me for days trying to think of what it was.

No wait, it's that "Normal people spend their lives staying out of tense situations. Repo man spends his life IN tense situations"

or something like that

was it a Kevin Smith movie or something? an 80s film? i have no idea where i heard this reference...

Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Thursday, 21 April 2005 01:03 (4 years ago) Permalink

Oh fuck no, it's from "Twister"! hahahah

Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Thursday, 21 April 2005 01:07 (4 years ago) Permalink

greatest. movie. ever.

latebloomer: But when the monkey die, people gonna cry. (latebloomer), Thursday, 21 April 2005 01:12 (4 years ago) Permalink

I watched it again last night and I pushed it up to the #1 spot in my '80s ballot.

Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Thursday, 21 April 2005 01:23 (4 years ago) Permalink

i haven't seen it for years, and i've only seen the flipping melonfarming t.v. version!

Amon (eman), Thursday, 21 April 2005 01:26 (4 years ago) Permalink

During my fevered episodes this morning, I had a dream around 4 am that a really tall guy with long blond locks looking like he's in his late 20s, with three day face stubble wants me to join him for a meal at one of the casino/hotel restaurants. I'm not really interested in him, but he's so nice and friendly I go anyway.

I have no appetite or I already ate, so I said I'll just have this drink and keep you company while you eat. Next thing I know, we're sitting at a booth that looks like the Grande sumthinernuther at the Venetian in Vegas, and he has already finished eating because there's a PLATE OF SHRIMP that's half eaten in between stacks of other half-cleared plates at the table.

I awoke soon after and thought of Repo Man because of the plate of shrimp reference.

Melinda Mess-injure (Melinda Mess-injure), Sunday, 11 February 2007 06:45 (2 years ago) Permalink

Ra-di-a-tion. Yes, indeed. You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense! Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year!

-- J. Frank Parnell

Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 11 February 2007 07:27 (2 years ago) Permalink

I liked being reminded in the commentary that they approached Gene Scott to play the preacher.

sweet jesus, that would've been the greatest great thing ever to happen ever.

GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Sunday, 11 February 2007 10:11 (2 years ago) Permalink

xp: They ought to have them, too.

GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Sunday, 11 February 2007 10:12 (2 years ago) Permalink

Love this movie. I especially loved the reaction of the last friend that I made watch it, who started out hesitant. "What is this? This is stupid. Why are you making me watch this?" And then around the time of the "I blame society" speech she said something like, "This is the best movie I've ever seen." Cut to me, with a smirk of self-satisfaction on my face.

So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Sunday, 11 February 2007 10:34 (2 years ago) Permalink

sweet jesus, that would've been the greatest great thing ever to happen ever.

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 (2 years ago) Permalink

haha... okay, must buy the dvd.

GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Sunday, 11 February 2007 14:53 (2 years ago) Permalink

8 months pass...

"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 (2 years ago) Permalink

I still havent listened to that CD. :-(

stevienixed, Monday, 22 October 2007 20:10 (2 years ago) Permalink

neither have i. i always forget about it, being buried in that tin box.

omar little, Monday, 22 October 2007 22:37 (2 years ago) Permalink

the cd that is

omar little, Monday, 22 October 2007 22:38 (2 years ago) Permalink

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 (2 years ago) Permalink

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 (2 years ago) Permalink

Fuck you, Archie! Just for that, you're not in the gang anymore.

clotpoll, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 06:07 (2 years ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

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 (1 year ago) Permalink

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 (1 year ago) Permalink

I don't want no commies in my car. No Christians either.

latebloomer, Saturday, 29 March 2008 07:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

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.”

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 18:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

i'm lookin for ROCKO

moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 18:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

has you seen em?

moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 18:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

Some days we're all looking for Rocko.

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 18:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

I think this is my favorite movie of all time.

contenderizer, Tuesday, 20 May 2008 18:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

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 (1 year ago) Permalink

Hard to top this, but the boat repo man has movie-concept legs.

Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 21 May 2008 07:03 (1 year ago) Permalink

think what costner could do with the concept

latebloomer, Wednesday, 21 May 2008 07:20 (1 year ago) Permalink

Best damn boat on the lot.

clotpoll, Wednesday, 21 May 2008 13:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

How much better would Waterworld have been if Costner was a repo man?

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 May 2008 15:27 (1 year ago) Permalink

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, March 29, 2008 7:02 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

I don't want no commies in my car. No Christians either.

-- latebloomer, Saturday, March 29, 2008 7:04 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

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 (1 year ago) Permalink

the Harry Dean Stanton interview on the DVD is a masterpiece of nihilism.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 21 May 2008 16:03 (1 year ago) Permalink

It was Lite who called bullshit on managing a band, nutz.

Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 21 May 2008 16:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

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 (1 year ago) Permalink

Agreed on both.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 19:49 (1 year ago) Permalink

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 (1 year ago) Permalink

from another planet. or at least another country

Zeno, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 23:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

latebloomer, Thursday, 5 June 2008 00:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

"....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 (1 year ago) Permalink

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 (1 year ago) Permalink

list repo chick dream soundtrack here

cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 5 December 2008 19:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

1. MIA - Paper Planes

cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 5 December 2008 19:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

http://www.waldoshawaiianholiday.com/

Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 5 December 2008 19:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

"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 (1 year ago) Permalink

http://www.waldoshawaiianholiday.com/

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 (1 year ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

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 (9 months ago) Permalink

repo chick is done shooting http://www.alexcox.com/blog.htm

who knew this had started?

just sayin, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 19:47 (9 months ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

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 (6 months ago) Permalink

C'mon let's go commit some crimes!

what u arrestin me for, innit (╓abies), Monday, 8 June 2009 04:05 (6 months ago) Permalink

REPO MANG

what u arrestin me for, innit (╓abies), Monday, 8 June 2009 11:14 (6 months ago) Permalink

but YOU? !!

(everybody..)

Mark G, Monday, 8 June 2009 11:19 (6 months ago) Permalink

"YOU'RE ALL RIGHT!!!"

Mark G, Monday, 8 June 2009 11:24 (6 months ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

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 (5 months ago) Permalink


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