Repo Man (Special Edition) dvd movie.|
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List Price: $49.98 Features • Anamorphic • Box set • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • Full Screen • Limited Edition • THX • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 02 March, 1984 DVD Release : 28 August, 2000 |
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Repo Man (Special Edition) description A volatile, toxic potion of satire and nihilism, road movie and science fiction, violence and comedy, the unclassifiable sensibility of Alex Cox's Repo Man is the model and inspiration for a potent strain of post-punk American comedy that includes not only Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction), but also early Coen brothers (Raising Arizona, in particular), Men in Black, and even (in a weird way) The X-Files. Otto, a baby-face punk played by Emilio Estevez, becomes an apprentice to Bud (Harry Dean Stanton), a coke-snorting, veteran repo-man-of-honor prowling the streets of a Los Angeles wasteland populated by hoods, wackos, burnouts, conspiracy theorists, and aliens of every stripe. It may seem chaotic at first glance, but there's a "latticework of coincidence" (as Tracey Walter puts it) underlying everything. Repo Man is a key American movie of the 1980s--just as Taxi Driver, Nashville, and Chinatown are key American movies of the '70s. With a scorching soundtrack that features Iggy Pop, Fear, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, and Suicidal Tendencies. --Jim Emerson |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Very under-rated film |
| Enjoyable on many levels: as a coming of age story, as a portrait of a strange subculture (both repo men, and LA punks of the early 80's), as diverting light science fiction, and as a simple slice of Americana. Not one of the greats by any means, but it stands up and bears multiple viewings. | |
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