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managing a pop group's no job for a man...

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:33 (twenty years ago)

guess how many shirts I have

― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:35 (twenty years ago)

how many ties

― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:36 (twenty years ago)

Wow, this must have been one of my first threads. God, I need to see this movie for the 6567897th time.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:36 (twenty years ago)

you better believe they're all silk

― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:36 (twenty years ago)

I have no idea when Repo Man came out. I can barely recall anything about it apart from Nicholas Cage robbing a convenience store of a package of Pampers (and even that may be a misremembering).

I only came to this thread to state that I must have at one time expressed something resembling enthusiasm for it because my wife has for decades accused it of being my favorite movie, or somehow standing for the essence of all I hold dear about the cinema. She has repeated this nostrum so many times that I now have an unmerited aversion for the thing. I doubt I shall ever hold a copy of it in my hand again, for fear my wife will see it and pounce on this fact as the vindication of her oft-stated opinion about my tastes.

So, despite my having no clear memory of it, this film and I share a deep intimate bond. Life is strange, but no stranger than my wife.

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:44 (twenty years ago)

ummmm.....Aimless?

― [tuvan throat singer's profound lyric sheet-must read again] (nordicskilla), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:46 (twenty years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00005K26C.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― [tuvan throat singer's profound lyric sheet-must read again] (nordicskilla), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:46 (twenty years ago)

I have no idea when Repo Man came out. I can barely recall anything about it apart from Nicholas Cage robbing a convenience store of a package of Pampers (and even that may be a misremembering).

Uh dude, what Adam said, Raisin Arizona.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:48 (twenty years ago)

You see? I remember nothing! Nothing! [/sergeant shultz]

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:49 (twenty years ago)

well alright then

― gear (gear), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:50 (twenty years ago)

A Raising Arizona/Repo Man double feature woulda been my favoritest thing ever when I was 11

(Actually it is still my favoritest thing ever)

― disco violence (disco violence), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:21 (twenty years ago)

Speaking of disco violence, the good man pointed this out to me. Looks like the commentary tracks are the same as with the last edition, though there's some new extras?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:26 (twenty years ago)

I have the one in a metal box (with the CD). :-))))

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:30 (twenty years ago)

sy richardson.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:31 (twenty years ago)

Sy Richardson is a goddamn treasure. And his performance in the rather notorious skin version of Cinderella is a clear case of someone transcending the material.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:33 (twenty years ago)

Whatever happened to Dick Rude?

― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:33 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe i used to like these guys

― kingfish pibb Xtra (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:35 (twenty years ago)

Can you imagine I still haven't listened to the CD! I have had it for more than 4 yrs now!

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:36 (twenty years ago)

what the soundtrack? Jucy Bananas, fucks!

― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:37 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I should really give it a listen.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 6 January 2006 21:38 (twenty years ago)

"Shoobidy doo wop, say what, yeah..."

― sengai, Friday, 6 January 2006 21:55 (twenty years ago)

i installed 2 way mirrors at his pad in brentwood and he came to the door in a dress

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 6 January 2006 22:39 (twenty years ago)

Awwww, that doesn't mean he was a homo, Miller. A lot of straight guys like to watch their buddies fuck. I know I do. Don't you?

― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 6 January 2006 22:40 (twenty years ago)

the repo man sushi line is so classic

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 6 January 2006 22:42 (twenty years ago)

yes it is

― [tuvan throat singer's profound lyric sheet-must read again] (nordicskilla), Friday, 6 January 2006 22:43 (twenty years ago)

there's room to move as fry cook

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 6 January 2006 22:43 (twenty years ago)

Fuck John Wayne! Tell us his name you little pussy!

― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 6 January 2006 22:44 (twenty years ago)

JOHN WAYNE WAS A FAG...

THE HELL HE WAS!

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 6 January 2006 22:50 (twenty years ago)

ha "motherfuck a john wayne"

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 6 January 2006 22:51 (twenty years ago)

"The more you drive, the dumber you get."

― no bones, Friday, 6 January 2006 23:45 (twenty years ago)

Er.

"The more you drive, the less intelligent you are."

― Chris F. (servoret), Saturday, 7 January 2006 11:12 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

"He was too, you boys."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 February 2007 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

Ever since JBR compared me to Parnell somewhere else, I feel like I should say "Not - at - alllll" as appropriate.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 February 2007 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

"Miller, you do a lot of acid? Back in the 60's?"
"He has risen!"
"Fuck you, guy"
The repo wives!

This is one of those rare films, like Spinal Tap, where all the dialogue is funny in context.

"Hey kid, you wanna earn $10?"
"Fuck you, queer"

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Saturday, 10 February 2007 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

such a great film. i'm going to buy it on dvd one of these days... the commentary and interviews are priceless.

― the louvin spoonful (get bent), Saturday, 10 February 2007 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

One of Rodney Bingenheimer's many films too. Like Rock and Roll High School.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 February 2007 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

Miller: A lot o' people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch o' unconnected incidents 'n things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice o' coincidence that lays on top o' everything. Give you an example; show you what I mean: suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconciousness.
Otto: You eat a lot of acid, Miller, back in the hippie days?
Miller: I'll give you another instance: you know how everybody's into weirdness right now?...

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 10 February 2007 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

i like how after the "plate of shrimp" speech there's a scene outside a restaurant and there's a sign in the window that faintly reads "plate of shrimp."

― the louvin spoonful (get bent), Saturday, 10 February 2007 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

Some of the best dialogue is least quoted -- it's all the flatly stated mundane/bizarre shit that the agents and guys in hazmat suits tell each other throughout the film. Admittedly a lot of it is buried a bit in the mix but when you start catching it more...

"Look."

"Booth's setting him on fire."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 February 2007 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

"Come on you popsicles."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 February 2007 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

There's also the whole 'without Repo Man no Pulp Fiction argument' that I've heard in various ways.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 February 2007 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

i need to watch pulp fiction again. i loved it when it first came out (i saw it at least twice in the theater and a couple more times on video/tv), but it became responsible for so many of the '90s worst cultural indulgences that i just couldn't even stand hearing its name anymore. it's been years since i last saw it.

― the louvin spoonful (get bent), Saturday, 10 February 2007 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

"Put it on a plate, son. You'll enjoy it more."

"Couldn't enjoy it any more, Mom. Mm, mm, mmm."

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 11 February 2007 03:51 (nineteen years ago)

I'd seen this movie at least a dozen times before I noticed that all the repo men were named after beer. Bud. Miller. Lite. Oly.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 11 February 2007 03:52 (nineteen years ago)

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

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 11 February 2007 03:58 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

xp: They ought to have them, too.

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

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