Repo Man

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Summary: Gives "unconventional" a good name
Review: What do aliens, punk rock, no-name food, and repossessing cars have in common? This film tries -- and succeeds! -- in answering the question.

Veteran weird-movie guy Harry Dean Stanton stars with Emilio Estevez in this completely unconventional and at times downright bizarre film that nonetheless entertains from beginning to end.

Anyone who thinks that movies these days are too "formula" will find the film of their dreams in "Repo Man".

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Summary: bizzare cult film
Review: If you havent seen Repo Man..then you're missing out. This has got to be the most bizzare , and funniest films since the Evil Dead trilogy I have ever seen. Not to forget a classic soundtrack that I owned before I even saw the movie. Estevez plays a wannabe tough punker who quits his job after a few "f..you's" and takes a job as an apprentence to a professional Repo Man (Harry Dean Stanton)..he goes through the slums of LA reposessing cars , oh yeah theres also a car with an alien in the trunk with a bounty on it. Just see it...this review can't do it justice

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Summary: Not as special as I hoped
Review: I assume if you are even reading the reviews of Repo Man- Special Edition Dvd, you love this movie.
On to the Special Edition Packaging.
The first thing you have to do is LOWER your expectations. It comes in this cheezy metal box, like a holiday cookie tin. The lid has a graphic of a California license plate that says appropriately enough Repo Man, and Oct 2002 where the date goes on a license plate. It is not embossed or anything that might make it cool. The rest of the box is unremarkable. On the unpainted bottom is a sticker saying what number you have in the limited edition. I have 08512/30000, it is just a sticker.
Inside the disapointments continue. The 24 page book is a minimilist tribute to a great film. There is not very much information of interest, and only a few good photos. You don't need these photos if you have movie. Then there is a 5x7" postcard of the movie poster with chapter info on the back. The dvd and the cd come in 2 disc cd case with no cover. Just a dvd with part of the movie poster silkscreened on it. and the cd with
the 11 original sound track songs on it. Time, >38 minutes. There is no individual packaging for either.
There is nothing in the packaging that makes this special.
The DVD-
The picture quality is excellent. The sound quality is excellent.
There are little to no extras on the disc. This get frustrating as one version of the trailers shows a snippet of a scene where Bud (Harry Dean Stanton) is beating the hell out of some phone boths with a sledgehammer. In another snippet from the same trailer the repo wives look like the may be at the office, or something that is not in the film. Yet, the extras have NO extended scenes or deleted scenes. To make matters worse the commentary discusses a made for t.v. version of the film that was radically different from the version they are talking about. So I keep thinking I want to see these scenes. If they are hidden on the dvd anywhere I cannot find them. I thought a special edition would have more extras.
Buy this special addition because you love this movie and you love the soundtrack and you want to own them. Do not buy this for dvd extras or cool packaging, you will be sorely dissapointed.

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Summary: A Proud One Among Many
Review: Every decade, there seems to be a movie that defines the angst of the culture and the subculture, the collective feeling that something is wrong with the establishment. To call this zeitgeist is misleading; these films don't reflect the spirit of the times as much as they somehow tap into the opposite - they manage to create an all-around sense of unease about the state of the world. In the 1960s, it was The Graduate and the bombshell look at the end. For the 1990s, Fight Club identified many things wrong both with pop culture and those acting in rebellion against it. For the Reagan-saturated 1980s, the distinction falls squarely on Alex Cox's debut film Repo Man. In one of his first roles, Emilio Estevez plays Otto, a street punk who loses his job and college savings in the same day due to misunderstandings and television preachers. At the end of his rope financially and mentally, he agrees to make a quick 20 bucks by helping experienced repo man Bud (Harry Dean Stanton). Realizing the potential to make a good living, and an "intense" life in his new job, Otto signs up with the crew and becomes a repo man. On the way, he meets an unusual woman (Olivia Barash) whom he rapidly falls in lust with. When word comes down the wire that there's an enormous commission out on a 1964 Chevy Malibu, Otto and all the other repo men set out to look for the car with the huge score. What they find in the trunk is so unusual, it will change everything - EVERYTHING.

What makes Repo Man so unique is the obvious satirization not only of regular, and in this case conservative Reagean-esque, culture, from the "John Wayne was [gay]" speech to Bud's trashing of Russia, but the send-ups of punk culture (Let's go do some crimes! Yeah, let's get sushi and not pay!) Otto is the everyman in every sense of the word, as he - like us - realizes that no matter what culture he tries to be a part of, he never fits in, and those strains of culture are so rife with stupidity and hypocrisy that he no longer wants to belong. Like The Graduate and Fight Club, Repo Man also refuses to supply a stock answer, instead making the audience question instead of spoonfeeding them. Plus, it's roll-on-the-floor funny, with some of the best oneliners since Evil Dead 2 or Terminator 2. Alex Cox made Repo Man while still in film school, and he basically admits it's little more than a trumped-up student film. The lack of budget is obvious at times, but the killer screenplay and direction more than make up for that slight fault. As usual, the movie looks excellent on Anchor Bay's DVD; the sound and video are as clear as you can ask for, with a remixed 5.1 audio track to boot. There's a great commentary track with Alex Cox, some castmembers (sadly, no Harry Dean or Emilio), and some crew; it's a lot like a Kevin Smith commentary, with everyone sitting in one room, having a great time talking about a great film. There are no other extras to speak of, unless you buy the collector's tin (which does not look like the normal Repo Man cover - it looks like a California license plate, with Repo Man on it). The collector's tin has the soundtrack on CD and a booklet about the movie with a little comic in it. Unless you are a major fan or must have the best of the best of the best edition, there's no need to buy the more expensive version, but if you want it, you'd better get it quick, because at 30,000 copies, it'll be gone before you know it.

I would definitely check this movie out if you can, and would recommend buying it to anyone who asked.

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Summary: Scenes from TV version MISSING, but talked about!
Review: Half the reason to buy the DVD, especially the commemorative edition, is to see the extra scenes. The comentary focuses on how great the extra scenes in the TV versions were, but are not part of this $50 DVD. I wish I had known this before my purchase.

Wait until they issue a version with both the theater and TV versions.

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Summary: One Of The Best Cult Movies Around!
Review: REPO MAN is a Excellent movie about the Repoing business. I own 2 versions of this movie, the VHS version and the limited edition DVD tin.The DVD has the same features like the regular DVD you would buy separate. The other cool thing about this movie is the the great punk soundtrack. In this DVD version you get The "REPO MAN Booklet", The movie [of course}, and the CD soundtrack. (...) I recommend this movie to anyone who likes cult movies and LA punk rock music.

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Summary: Alex Cox's Legendary Debut
Review: Fantastic movie with surprisingly well casted Emilio Estevez as young, cynical Otto who learns he isn't as well travelled as he thought. Meeting up with a Repo man, Bud, he soon learns the trade somewhat unwillingly. Along the way he bumps into secretive government agents, equally shady competing repo men, loony ex government scientists and aliens you can fit in the trunk of the car. If anything this movie will be remembered for line after line of incredible dialogue best appreciated after a week of insomnia. Characters with names like Bud, Miller, Lite and food with the generic "FOOD" written on its label, this is really a movie about merchandising and it's affect on society. Beyond any allusions, it's a very gritty, well directed and well acted film with an incredible script and story.

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Summary: Repo Man
Review: This is one of the best movies to come out of the 80's. It is so funny and original that I could watch it every night and never grow bored with it. I highly reccomend this movie to anyone who has not had the privilidge of already seeing it. The audio commentary track on the DVD is one of the best commentaries I've listened to.

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Summary: They finally did it. They made Repo Man into a box set.
Review: I've owned this title on VHS for about 5 years now. And I always thought it would remain in obscurity, a very minor foot note in the annals of B-movie history. And yet, it has been gloriously restored in DVD, and to top it all off, they make it available in a box set. Life is good. I will not try to sell you on this movie if you haven't already seen, and fallen in love with it. It would be too hard to explain. It is a journey you must take for your self. But, if you are a true collector of classic B-movie heavies, you must add this to your library. All the extras you get, like the booklet, interviews, and best of all, the Soundtrack on CD(which I once even owned on tape...) would easily cost much more if found, and purchased seperately . I know what I want for my B-day.

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Summary: What's this film about again?
Review: This movie begins with some vauge plot about young punk Otto (Emilio Estivez) who is fired from his job at a grocery store for having a bad attitude. Soon afterwards he is drafted into work for a company that repossess cars. After that, the writers decide not to bother figureing out what the plot should be about, the movie simply becomes a series of random, mostly unconnected events, until they get to the end (which is, at least, conclusionary). There's a car that vaporizes anyoney who opens the trunk which is driven by a guy who's been lobotomized and feels no emotion, a girl who's convinced the goverment's trying to cover up the supposed presence of alien visitors, and a store robbery, a car chase, a scene with Emilio getting beaten up, all which don't seem to have anything to do with one another. About the one reason I give this two stars instead of only one is because there were some scenes and some lines that were said in the film which were amusing to me. (Like the already mentioned ending, and also the dialoge that goes on between Otto and his store robbing friend just before the friend dies. Classic.) Still, the parts in this case are greater than the whole.