Why are the same reviews used for DIFFERENT editions?
Added 3/22/2010
I need to find out witch Repo Man is cut, not cut, what extras what's wrong with certain editions and etc etc but EVERY Repo Man with different editions and different releases have the exact same reviews used for each one!!! WHY? I had the same problem when trying to buy the "special" Swamp Thing with the extra Adrienne Barbeau footage. I just don't understand why Amazon does this, If a review is posted on a certain edition it should stay on only that edition. You'll notice that there is a review down below where they clearly state they are reviewing the "Collector's Edition" of Repo Man and that it is cut which is NOT this one. Is this one cut as well? It probably is BUT then again maybe it's not. Sure they may use the same print but then again it may or may not have extra footage that they may or may not have known was in there (as was the case with Swamp Thing).
So the Repo Man, Repo Man "Collectors Edition" and the Repo Man "Special Edition" all have the exact same regurgitated reviews on their respective pages. This makes no sense to me! AMAZON STOP IT!
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This Is Intense!
Added 2/1/2010
Otto (Emilio Estevez), a young man with no real direction or ambition, stumbles willy-nilly into a new job--repossessing cars. His chief trainer and mentor, played by Harry Dean Stanton, shows him how it's done. After a particularly wild scene, Otto says "This is intense!" to which the older man replies "Repo Man's always intense". That sums up this film.
Repo Man's action, pacing, and narrative style will keep you on edge from beginning to end. Devoid of cinematic cliches, it is strange and unpredictable. Nothing about it is dull or formulaic. And to top it all off, the Repo Men are asked to recover a mysterious Chevy Malibu which is worth some HUGE amount of money. No one knows the story behind it, except some shadowy government agents.
Repo Man was a landmark in the history of independent cinema, produced by former Monkee Michael Nesmith. And it's become a cult favorite, with all the traits of a true indie film.
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He has his Repo Man!
Added 1/21/2010
My husband wanted this. I got it for him, now he's happy. It's exactly "the ONE" he wanted as per the description. Shipping was quick and everything is great.--Thanks!
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About real life, through the unreal
Added 1/4/2010
The only things I can compare Repo Man to are "Naked Lunch" by William S. Burroughs, "White Noise" by Don Delillo and "Atomised" by Michel Houellebecq. It is a dark satire of modern society that shows us characters who are archetypal punks: aware of the total lack of inherent meaning to life (nihilism), caught in a society that's obviously in decay, they try to navigate past the hypocrisy, stupidity, corruption and lies to find a life they can admire themselves for.
Into this framework, director Alex Cox drops unlikely anti-heroes: Repo men re-possess the cars of the presumably innocent, but they also have a code. And they seem to be living for something. Yet even they get caught up in the tangled web of ego (there's a slight Buddhist perspective to this film) and dragged down, but some find a way to thrive, usually by throwing away all of the things that society would respect them for.
If you want a movie about a Nietzschean undergang, this is it: pure nihilism that strips away the illusions of modern society and replaces them with a gritty struggle for survival. It does so with one of the most offbeat dry senses of humor ever seen on film, with not only nothing sacred, but the formerly sacred sought for mockery. This film also has an uncanny insightful eye into the excesses of the 1980s and the obvious hollowness of the institutions and idols we considered important as a culture back then.
As if that weren't enough, it's also a ripping storyline that takes us through the underbelly of a modern city in pursuit of a modern holy grail. While many of these characters are punks, a good many others could have walked in off the street and we would have believed them, but when presented in the ludicrous context of this movie, they stand revealed as the larger-than-life illusions that they are. Do you like seeing people ignore society's reality in order to struggle for a goal? And in doing so, to go everywhere their parents warned them not to go? This is the movie for you.
It's only fair to mention that even if you don't like punk music, the soundtrack to this movie covers all of your bases. Suicidal Tendencies, Black Flag, Iggy Pop, The Circle Jerks and associated punk classics, as well as atmospheric instrumentals from The Plugz (an ad hoc band of former punk celebrities) really guide this movie by tuning us to the source of its characters' discontent. If you like postmodern fiction, particularly from the Burroughs-Delillo-Pynchon nexus, and just like a good ripping movie, Repo Man is where it's at.
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Waste of a Liquid Paper Inheritance
Added 1/2/2010
I saw this flick back in college on it's initial theatrical release. Like any lemming-like English major I pretended at the time it was something profound. Now I view it is a mildly interesting piece of gobbledygook. "Repo Man" fuses the punk ethos with the literary stylings of Pynchon and Burroughs. If you're some kind of academic elitist I guess this flick is for you. Everybody else feel free to scratch your head at this aloof offering from wildly overrated director Alex Cox. The most appealing aspect here is the performance of Harry Dean Stanton as the hangdog repo-man. Emilio Estevez, on the other hand, graduated to the Brat Pack pergatory that he deserved. The best thing you can say is that "Repo Man" is intermittently interesting but wildly pretentious.
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Why are the same reviews used for DIFFERENT editions?
Added 3/22/2010
I need to find out witch Repo Man is cut, not cut, what extras what's wrong with certain editions and etc etc but EVERY Repo Man with different editions and different releases have the exact same reviews used for each one!!! WHY? I had the same problem when trying to buy the "special" Swamp Thing with the extra Adrienne Barbeau footage. I just don't understand why Amazon does this, If a review is posted on a certain edition it should stay on only that edition. You'll notice that there is a review down below where they clearly state they are reviewing the "Collector's Edition" of Repo Man and that it is cut which is NOT this one. Is this one cut as well? It probably is BUT then again maybe it's not. Sure they may use the same print but then again it may or may not have extra footage that they may or may not have known was in there (as was the case with Swamp Thing).
So the Repo Man, Repo Man "Collectors Edition" and the Repo Man "Special Edition" all have the exact same regurgitated reviews on their respective pages. This makes no sense to me! AMAZON STOP IT!
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This Is Intense!
Added 2/1/2010
Otto (Emilio Estevez), a young man with no real direction or ambition, stumbles willy-nilly into a new job--repossessing cars. His chief trainer and mentor, played by Harry Dean Stanton, shows him how it's done. After a particularly wild scene, Otto says "This is intense!" to which the older man replies "Repo Man's always intense". That sums up this film.
Repo Man's action, pacing, and narrative style will keep you on edge from beginning to end. Devoid of cinematic cliches, it is strange and unpredictable. Nothing about it is dull or formulaic. And to top it all off, the Repo Men are asked to recover a mysterious Chevy Malibu which is worth some HUGE amount of money. No one knows the story behind it, except some shadowy government agents.
Repo Man was a landmark in the history of independent cinema, produced by former Monkee Michael Nesmith. And it's become a cult favorite, with all the traits of a true indie film.
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He has his Repo Man!
Added 1/21/2010
My husband wanted this. I got it for him, now he's happy. It's exactly "the ONE" he wanted as per the description. Shipping was quick and everything is great.--Thanks!
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