Movie: Repo Man

[Mark Hansen]

-John wayne was a fag
-Everything Generic
-Great soundtrack
-Smoking Boots
-Zombie Christian parents
-Produced by Mike Nesmith
-Harry Dean Stanton
-"What about our relationship?"..."Fuck that."
-........................................................................one of my favorite movies ....NOt cRaP

You forgot "Yeah, let's go eat sushi....and not pay!"

Oops, guess I should have read ALL the posts first.

[hench]

just watched this for probably the 60th time last weekend - i'm still noticing shit that i didn't notice the first 500 times... case in point: the body on the floor of the laundromat.

such a great, funny movie. just about perfect.

[Rotten Tanx]

Saw this for the first time the other day. I agree with Sparky about the hype kinda letting it down a bit.

I also agree that it couldn't be made these days. It's as if they were making the script up as they went along. The only comparison I could draw was They Live.

Some of these so-called classic lines don't seem too special to me but some made me laugh or at least had an amusing wtf factor.

I'll say not crap but it kinda feels like the first time you hear a really good, unusual album. You don't love it or hate it, you just think "What's going on here? I need to return to this".

Infact I listened to a Flipper album for the first time the other day and it's the same feeling.

[fishingrhod]

The edited for TV version is hilarious.

NC

"Goddamn melon-farmer."

i love that version. makes me grin.

[sunlore]

So yeah, any of you freaks should know this, but one of those "classic lines" from this movie made it into a Big Black lyric down the line. Which one?

[6079smith]

I was killing people while you were still swimming around in your father's balls! You little scumbag!

Didn't this get paraphrased in a Big Black lyric? Big Money, I think.
Think I'll watch this later, haven't seen it in years. Just for Harry Dean Stanton being nuts the whole way through.

[Yngwie Einstein]

Fucka John Wayne.

[Surfrider]

The recent UK blu-ray release has the full TV version, a really fun booklet put together by Cox (called the Repo Code), and a whole load of other new and very worthwhile extra features. Best blu-ray available.

[Angus Jung]

I hear Harry Dean's voice in my head, saying "Ordinary fuckin' people -- I hate 'em," at least once a week.

(I personally do not hate ordinary fuckin' people but I love this line and the way he delivers it)

[Mr. Chimp]

I probably watched this movie 200 times in my early years.

Love it. Was totally in love with that chick who played Leila.

These are two of my favorites that haven't been mentioned yet:

"The guys that make it are the guys that get in their cars at any time. Get in at 3am, get up at 4.

That's why there aint a repo man I know don't take speed."

"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."

".....You eat a lot of acid, Miller? Back in the hippie days?"

"I'll give you another instance: you know how everybody's into weirdness right now?..."

I will watch this again and enjoy it as much as the first time.

[timpickens]

In my top three favorite movies of all time. I don't think one will ever be able to completely understand this movie, no matter how many repeated viewings.

[etch]

I hear Harry Dean's voice in my head, saying "Ordinary fuckin' people -- I hate 'em," at least once a week.

(I personally do not hate ordinary fuckin' people but I love this line and the way he delivers it)

This bit was used quite well in the first episode of the tv show Party Down.

Repo Man is not crap!

[Tommy]

"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."

".....You eat a lot of acid, Miller? Back in the hippie days?"

"I'll give you another instance: you know how everybody's into weirdness right now?..."

I will watch this again and enjoy it as much as the first time.

I love this movie, and I love that scene. Watched the movie probably 60 times in my life.

Ever see Emilio's directing debut - Wisdom? Shitty movie, but I love that during a scene where he's riding a bus (or maybe it was the train) the phrase "Plate O Shrimp" is graffitied on the wall.

[Isabelle Gall]

This was a pretty excellent film to see as an unduly nervous child. It translated as 'fuck everything, it's all stupid' in my tiny anxiety-ridden skull and was probably the first vaguely punk or anti-social thing I was ever exposed to, so NC for that although I haven't seen it in almost twenty years.

[ogpuprison]

Great movie, although I haven't seen it in 20 years. My mate had the soundtrack and it has some cool stuff on it - especially the slow funk one that starts "..born in Chicago.. if she'll have your dog.." etc etc, whoever the fuck it is

[Angus Jung]

i saw this for the first time maybe 6-8 months ago. it was genius. between repo man and walker, alex cox directed two fantastic films.

Highway Patrolman(1991) is better than all these films.

I've gotta disagree.

I've seen both Straight To Hell and Highway Patrolman, and they both convinced me that Repo Man was all Alex Cox really had in him. Never seen Walker.

[punch_the_lion]

Some funny lines and Harry Dean Stanton make this movie. What little else I've seen by Alex Cox was underwhelming. Sid & Nancy gets so much wrong.

[Angus Jung]

Sid & Nancy

I forgot he directed that too. Shit.

Man, Alex Cox sucks, except he made Repo Man.

[perdothegit]

i saw this for the first time maybe 6-8 months ago. it was genius. between repo man and walker, alex cox directed two fantastic films.

Highway Patrolman(1991) is better than all these films.

I've gotta disagree.

I've seen both Straight To Hell and Highway Patrolman, and they both convinced me that Repo Man was all Alex Cox really had in him. Never seen Walker.

I saw Highway Patrolman a couple of months ago and I thought it was great. So different from Repo Man, it would be silly to compare them but it is a really good film. Walker has some problems but I found it highly enjoyable.

Sid & Nancy was pretty bad though.

[The MayorofRockNRoll]

I had this running through my head today-

"Aw...liddle Archie Warchie hurt his handie-wandie"