I remember when I first saw it for rent when I was younger and I joked about it, because I thought it was about a guy who repos stuff. Well, it is, but there is more too it. That's why I like movies like Swamp Thing. It's a Thing, it lives in the Swamp. I guess "Punk Guy-Time Car" just doesn't sound as catchy. On to the film! I enjoyed this movie for a number of reasons.
#1.EMILIO!
#2.Emilio plays a punk, but he knows he's a kid from the suburbs and doesn't act like a complete douche bag, unlike his old friends who have mohawks and wear converse(bad blood!)
#3.It has a time traveling Chevy Malibu in it. Not as cool as if he rode a time traveling American Gladiator Malibu, but, I can still dream.
Wow, everything in this movie just sort of happened. It was hard to enjoy. I was really angry and tired when I watched it though, so maybe that ruined it, but still there was almost nothing in this movie that established any emotional connection or any semblance of the environment. It was just crazy and messed up I guess.
One of my all time favorites...a great soundtrack...Some of the most quotable and clever dialogue ever..."Lets order sushi and not pay!"...and just fun to watch. Lots of small funny touches too like all the generic products and all the characters are named after beer.If you haven't seen this in a few years watch it again...you tend to catch stuff every time...Remember..."The more you drive, the less intelligent you are."
I cannot tell you how many times I have seen this film in my lifetime. It is one of those "guilty pleasures" that always has me coming back to watch if I catch it on tv. It's weird, well cast, and a lot of fun.
A classic satire about American life in the 1980s. I love this one. I really didn't take note of who the director was until recently. His name is Alex Cox and he has directed a few films that I have enjoyed. Besides this, I loved what he did with the Sid Vicious story in "Sid and Nancy." Cox really has proven his punk rock chops. This film has a great slice of punk rock history on the soundtrack. The soundtrack blasts some of punks icons like Black Flag, the Circle Jerks and (the Godfather of punks everywhere) Iggy Pop! I loved how every product was "generic" while all of the repo crew were named after beers. My favorite character has to be character actor Tracey Walter as Miller. He says my favorite line in a movie filled with quotable lines, "The more you drive, the less intelligent you become (how true this is in 2008)." But it's Emilio Estevez as Otto (great name for a would-be repo man...right? Auto / Otto) who is the main character of this film. After his life turns upside down (loses his job, his girl, his money for college), he wanders the filthy streets of Los Angeles, California, only to be recruited by Bud, a repo man played by Harry Dean Stanton (another great character actor). Bud asks Otto for some help which turns out to be a trick to get Otto to repo a car. When he is successful, Bud keeps him on the team and teaches him the rules of repossession. First, you don't get paid, you get commission. Next, it helps to dress like a detective. Lastly, take speed which is very funny when you consider this film was made during the Ronald Reagan/Nancy Reagan era of just say no to drugs. But it's Bud's "repo code" that he stresses the most. "Never broke into a car. Never hot-wired a car. Never broke into a trunk. I shall not cause harm to any vehicle nor the personal contents thereof or through inaction let that vehicle or the personal contents thereof come to harm." This is even funnier when you consider what looks to be Miller's job. Besides repairing some of the cars, it looks like Miller burns the other contents of the repos. This repo business all connects with the main thred of the film which is a wanted Chevy Malibu with a hefty reward. The government is searching for this car because of what is contained in the trunk. It seems that the trunk holds some bodies from Area 51 which means that they are aliens. Anyone who looks into the trunk doesn't survive. While Otto is learning the repo biz, he is chasing a girl around the city. Another hilarious part is the crazy punk trio that keeps popping up and causing havoc as they commit armed robberies throughout the film. It is a very silly but yet profound look at America. Very worth watching multiple times which is how it became a cult classic. You can see a musical cameo by the Circle Jerks playing in a bar which was weird but still awesome. "Let's go do some crimes." "Let's go get sushi and not pay." "Shrimp on a plate."
Wow, here's an overlooked gem of the 80's! The film is beautifully restored now on DVD with some of the best extras ever done...and the movie itself, pretty damn brilliant, funny, excellent punk soundtrack, good acting, great dialog, poignant satire with a clear (punk) message of those Reagan years ...I could see how this film influenced Tarantino (may be even the Coen brothers?) and the creation of Napoleon Dynamite.
This is Alex Cox's debut feature length film, and brilliantly done! His next film would be Sid & Nancy...
Repo Man is a really strange but entertaining movie. Emilio Estevez plays a punk kid who gets a job as a Repoman. His partner isl played by Harry Dean Stanton.
On the job they encounter angry people who don't want their cars taken, liquer store robbers and a mysterious car. The car kills who ever opens the trunk and a lot of people are obsessed getting it.
The more recent Southland Tales is a little like this movie but this movie is less of a mess and easier to follow. The end is a little corny but still original and different. While I like movies that are original and different lol.
Hilariours and addictive - one of those crazy fun movies you memorize every line and scene; has everything from hot cars to punks to radiation to sex to aliens to guns to drugs to generic canned meat!
I can't believe I had never heard of this movie! I can't believe somebody actually made this movie, and most surprisingly I can't believe I like this movie. It's so retarded it's captivating.
Weird movie. Emilio Estevez plays a punk with a dead-end job who gets conned into becoming a "Repo Man", a repossessor of vehicles of people behind on their payments. Simple enough right? Now throw in gunfights, car chases, a mysterious Chevy Malibu and an extraterrestrial conspiracy. Now you've got something. Not for everybody, but if you're looking for something a little different this could be worth a shot. Harry Dean Stanton as Emilio's fellow repo man and "mentor" and a pretty rockin' soundtrack help things along as well.
There's a reason this wild and weird 80's flick is considered a cult classic. It is so quirky and unusual that you can't help but be charmed by it's originality. Reminded me of the Troma movies in a way. Esteves is good, but Harry Dean Stanton steals the show. The soundtrack is quite remarkable and it is imminently quoteable. Great fun as long as you aren't a stickler for plot or sensibility. Wouldn't you love to have seen in the back of the car?...
So many factors make Repo Man such a great flix. It's Emilio Estevez best film; Harry Dean Stanton is a riot and it has one of the best soundtrax going from the Iggy Pop to the Juicy Banana..Repo Man's always intense; one of my favorites now let's go get a drink
One weird ass movie that takes place in a town where everybody is robbing everybody else. It sort of reminded me of the 'Grand Theft Auto' video games.
I can understand why this movie has a cult following because I enjoyed the energy of the film.
There's always something going on.
Surrealistic journey into the sweaty heart of Los Angeles, through the back lots and down the side streets of the city, as a disenchanted youth attempts to find a place in the world via car repossession and alien abductions.
Cox digs on his love for west coast U.S. punk whilst he riffs on Reaganist family values. Emilio Estevetz pulls off his best role as the disillusioned youth, Harry Dean Stanton brings the craggy faced gravitas as chief repo man.
One of the pinnacles of eighties alternative cinema.
A cult classic 1984 film with an original script, great cast and music. Emilio Estevez plays Otto Maddox, a punker who loses his job at the grocery store and gets recruited to be a Repoman and gets into some big adventures. A great soundtrack, music by great punk rock bands like The Plugz, The Circle Jerks, Black Flag, Iggy Pop, and many others. I see why this movie is a cult classic. Alex Cox does a great job with this film.
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.
Strange yet wonderful. This film is just a rollercoaster for the mind. Sprinkled with early Punk music, this film is just a gem. Funny yet thoughtful yet whimsical.
It's just one of those films you have to own a copy of so you can watch it again and again, discovering new treasures.
Repo Man seems like a movie you either get or you don't. I really didn't get this movie. My thoughts toward the end were just as empty as the generic labels on all of the products in the film. On the other hand, those generic labels were funny shit for sure.
Really, WTF was up with the ending. I'm all for clever uses of MacGuffins in a story and all (I'm being pretentious here by using elaborate terms for storytelling), but...WTF?
Despite that, I thought Repo Man was worth my time. There is something about it which lingered in me after watching it, but I didn't get that feeling while watching it though. And I do have a strange urge to watch it again weeks upon initially viewing it. I mean, it's a punk film with an aura of science fiction to it, revolving around a group of vehicular repossessors who have a code of honor amongst them, like knights. Just writing all of that about the film just made it seem that much cooler.
I might have to give this movie another shot sometime in the future.
I have a friend -- I almost said a "wise friend," but he is not one -- who speaks in approximately 40% Repo Man lines, and for good reason. This is a classic cult classic. Seriously great film. The clostest visual interpretation possible of a mixture of the spirit of "California Ueber Alles" and the pre-Thrasher skateboarding world. It has Emilio Estevez doing the single cool thing he would ever do in life -- besides his, OK, OK, for 80s whiners, involvement in Breakfast Club. Repo Man satisfies on multiple levels. Most importantly, it has Harry Dean Stanton: "Hey, kid. Wanna make 10 bucks," is his line that starts it all, from a repo man rivalry that culminates in a race down the LA aqueduct to the mad scientist carrying the radioactive alien cross-country in the trunk of a car. In this film there is something for every nerdy, post-modern, aging Chuck Klosterman hater and everyone else with any offbeat American humanity, with all that California would originate and export across the country in youth counter-culture, including a punk robbing convenience and liquor stores, plus drug stores, with Otto's ex-girlfriend, long before Drugstore Cowboy. The punk's last words upon being shot spoken to Emilio: "Society made me what I am." "Bullshit," Emilio tells him, you're just another suburban punk like me. Otto/Emilio transformed into the true non-conformist, becoming neither square (though repo men dress like them) nor falling into the boring conformism of anti-social ideologies. Alex Cox, the director and writer, is a genius. Last I checked, Donnie Darko didn't warn anyone about the twin evils of liberal humanism at home or godless communism abroad. Repo Man will show you why you should eat TV dinner on PLATES (it tastes better) and how social redemption is possible. The denouement is one of the most gorgeous and satisfying I've seen -- steel guitars, glowing cars, aliens, postmodern justice for the underdog and the earnest -- an ending only American cinema's rich (and often commercially suppressed) potential for weirdness could ever produce.
"A Onda Punk"
Engraçado e diferente. Cheio de elementos que só parecem coisas de filme-b mas são propositais. Adoro os produtos genéricos nos mercados.
As atuações são horríveis.
Radiation, yes indeed! You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked, goggle-boxed do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense! Everybody could stand one hundred chest x-rays a year. They should have them too.
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