ordinary fucking people... I hate them!
― Player is killed, but they are resurrected, and the 45 Revolver glow gold (dyao), Sunday, 10 January 2010 05:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Managing a pop group is no job for a man.
― latebloomer, Sunday, 10 January 2010 05:50 (fourteen years ago) link
wauw:
The Wired Repo Man: He’s Not ‘As Seen on TV’
Brian Mason, chief executive of Seven Star Recovery Services, which operates primarily in Orange County, Calif., found a wanted car in MVTRAC’s database while driving on Interstate 5. When his computer matched the plate with the list of wanted vehicles, the ka-ching sound of a vintage cash register rang out. Mr. Mason followed the driver home, where he handed over the car.
― Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ (dyao), Sunday, 28 February 2010 07:53 (fourteen years ago) link
man, this movie is a lot more down on punk than I remembered.
― excuse my while I fold my pants (dyao), Saturday, 26 June 2010 11:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Part of the reason it's so good still! It's like John Waters trashing hippies in the early seventies even though that was his audience.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 26 June 2010 13:02 (thirteen years ago) link
do you think they give a damn about their bills in russia?
― a detective or a pervert (another al3x), Saturday, 26 June 2010 20:51 (thirteen years ago) link
no. everything's free there.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 26 June 2010 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
i totally saw this for the first time like a year or so ago with a few friends, it went about like gbx's reaction above. since then we've made a few other ppl watch it with us and they've all been like 'idk it's pretty alright' so i'm glad there are so many others to validate my stance!
― tru oyster kvlt (arby's), Sunday, 27 June 2010 00:14 (thirteen years ago) link
i can't imagine anyone feeling ambivalent toward repo man. seems like a love-it-or-hate-it film.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 27 June 2010 00:15 (thirteen years ago) link
i dunno i think if you don't really latch on to the dialogue i could see ppl thinking the movie was just a bunch of meh/kinda weird things that happened.
― tru oyster kvlt (arby's), Sunday, 27 June 2010 00:51 (thirteen years ago) link
eatin sushi right now tbh
― flapjackin (gbx), Sunday, 27 June 2010 01:32 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe I won't pay
Punkrock Emilio = the coolest Emilio imo.
Miller: John Wayne was a fag.All: The hell he was.Miller: He was, too, you boys. I installed two-way mirrors in his pad in Brentwood, and he come to the door in a dress.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 27 June 2010 02:01 (thirteen years ago) link
i saw this a few years ago and thought it was OK. i was watching it with friends and there was a lot of talking and drinking, so i really didn't give it the attention it deserved.
gave it another go this past week and i really fucking loved it. so many great little jokes and moments. endlessly quotable, awesome soundtrack, beautiful ending. i foresee this becoming a favorite.
"ah, excuse me while i fold my pants."
― circa1916, Sunday, 4 July 2010 05:35 (thirteen years ago) link
such a great sense of place too. i don't personally know what 1980's LA was like, but this really feels right.
― circa1916, Sunday, 4 July 2010 05:38 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (9 years ago) Bookmark
I think I've found the stupidest thing I've ever written on this site. "The indie Michael Winner"??? I don't even. This is an amazing film.
― like an ant to a crumb (DavidM), Thursday, 16 September 2010 14:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Nine years and fifteen days will change a person.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 16 September 2010 14:51 (thirteen years ago) link
"Enchante."
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 1 December 2010 15:41 (thirteen years ago) link
This is coincidence on the level of the script mechanics -- this fellow came up in discussion on the DVD commentary for the film, which I relistened to last night, and today his obit runs:
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-sam-cohen-20101202,0,7039951.story
It was either Cox or Nesmith talking about how they ended up having lunch with him at some point well after the film was made, and apparently Cohen's two favorite films were Dr. Strangelove and, indeed, Repo Man.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 December 2010 01:21 (thirteen years ago) link
It happens sometimes. People just explode.
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 9 January 2011 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Natural causes.
― Gay for Johnny Moped (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 10 January 2011 08:14 (thirteen years ago) link
serious stealth poignancy on:
- There had to be a time when there was no people, right? Well, where did all these people come from? I'll tell you where. The future. And where did all these people disappear to?
- The past?
- That's right! And how did they get there?
- How the fuck do I know?
- Flying saucers! Which are also? Time machines!
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 10 January 2011 19:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Watched this recently for the first time since i was a teenager and was worried it wouldn't hold up but it's still pretty awesome.
― ENBB, Monday, 10 January 2011 19:42 (thirteen years ago) link
does this movie beat Airplane! for quotability density?
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 10 January 2011 19:45 (thirteen years ago) link
oh that's tough. Airplane is like every single line quotable. Repo Man definitely up there but I dunno about beating it.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 10 January 2011 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Thought the revive would be about this:http://www.hollywoodgothique.com/wp-content/uploads/Repochick.JPG
― C0L1N B..., Monday, 10 January 2011 23:11 (thirteen years ago) link
wait.
WHAT?
― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 10 January 2011 23:24 (thirteen years ago) link
best to forget that movie exists
― omar little, Monday, 10 January 2011 23:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah I just googled and got mega bummed out.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 10 January 2011 23:32 (thirteen years ago) link
what a terrible tagline.
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 10 January 2011 23:34 (thirteen years ago) link
There is no such film.
― that's not funny. (unperson), Monday, 10 January 2011 23:37 (thirteen years ago) link
orly
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1379734/
― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 10 January 2011 23:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh, I'm aware that it was filmed and physically exists and all that, but as someone who's seen the original literally dozens of times, burned out at least two copies of the soundtrack on cassette, owns the DVD, etc., etc., THERE IS NO SUCH FILM AS "REPO CHICK."
― that's not funny. (unperson), Monday, 10 January 2011 23:47 (thirteen years ago) link
lol, sorry. Right there with you.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 10 January 2011 23:49 (thirteen years ago) link
this kind of looks amazing, thoughhttp://bitcast-a-sm.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/wp/wp-content/images/repo-chick-jpeg2.jpg
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 10 January 2011 23:54 (thirteen years ago) link
it looks sort of terrifying
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 00:10 (thirteen years ago) link
I was just singing "Feelin' 7-Up" today and smiling about the movie, and then... this.
― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 04:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Why so tense, guy?
― I am Woolen Man. The scarf and I are one. (kenan), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Leila : "What about our RELATIONSHIP?"Otto : "Fuck that!"*Otto boards spaceship-car*
― Satantango! (Matt #2), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I'M GLAD I TORTURED YOU
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey buddy, how you doing, huh? Hey, don't you remember me? I was in here yesterday. Listen, I think I left a book o' matches over in your office over there. You wanna go check it out for me, huh?
― omar little, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 18:45 (thirteen years ago) link
There's a youtube thing on the making of Repo Chick, which was filmed in front of green screens and then most of the scenery was created with miniatures. I forget exactly how Alex Cox comes across in it, but i remember watching and thinking "This seems really haphazardly put together" or something.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 02:29 (thirteen years ago) link
i just watched the trailer for this ("this" being REPO CHICK) and man it looks like the cutscenes from a 6-CD computer game from 1995.
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 23 January 2011 16:48 (thirteen years ago) link
what in the motherfuck
― marios balls in 3d for 3ds (Princess TamTam), Sunday, 23 January 2011 16:54 (thirteen years ago) link
im almost positive i spotted my beloved cingular umbrella girl in that 'trailer'
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tvsquad.com/media/2006/06/cingular-umbrella-girl.jpg
― marios balls in 3d for 3ds (Princess TamTam), Sunday, 23 January 2011 16:55 (thirteen years ago) link
reminds me of art school girls of doom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOAjW3q7MDg
― marios balls in 3d for 3ds (Princess TamTam), Sunday, 23 January 2011 16:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Cingular umbrella girl (Angela Sarafyan) is, in fact, in Repo Chick according to IMDB.
Has anyone actually seen it?
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Sunday, 23 January 2011 21:11 (thirteen years ago) link
What does Repo Chick repossess?
― toastmodernist, Sunday, 23 January 2011 23:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Will to live maybe?
― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 24 January 2011 03:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Going to see this as a Midnight Movie tonight. I've never seen it projected. So excited!!!!!
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 5 March 2011 01:08 (thirteen years ago) link