Hey kid, wanna make ten bucks?!

Repo Man is always intense.

io9 ought to hire the weird dude to be a staff writer.

Garrison "Slipstream"... at 05:10 PM:
Fuck you, queer.

Repo Man is one of the few movies where there is a great line and/or a great payoff in EVERY SINGLE scene.

And it was produced by Michael Nesmith.

"weird pal" is Miller- played by Tracey Walter. A genius of a character actor.
Love that man.

The theory that UFOs are time machines is almost sensible. Interstellar travel seems to be immensely diffcult, and after all we only know of one (sorta, in a way) intelligent species capable of producing flying machines.

Plate o' Shrimp.

@victheremin: HAha, you know I set that up, forgot that I did it and then saw exactly the response I wanted and my first reaction was to get pissed off that someone cursed me out, duh. I'm glad you went through with it.

@Plague: "Bob? Gun."

"The more you drive, the less intelligent you are."

@munkles: Which could lead to an accident, and Tom Cruise isn't always going to be there to save your life.

Annalee, I always heard "Dioretix" as "Diuretics," i.e. Water Pills, but I'll bet the spelling was too close & frightened someone in the production company.

Sometimes people just explode, natural causes

Repo Man had an awesome LA punk soundtrack, too.

This movie will never be forgotten...
Its always in my top 10 movies to watch!

Ya gotta dress kinda square... like a detective...

...a time when the Scientologists were still a power to be reckoned with.
Indeed, vivid recollections as being a little too young to see this when it came out, but VERY vivid recollections of the frequent Dianetics commercials, especially in the LA area-- not just the exploding volcano with the rad analog synth music, but frank introductions on the concept of "Clear". Yikes.

@dOk: Then people fuck with you less.

Let's go do some crimes.

It's speed. NOT coke.

Get your snorts right, dammit!

Busdriver used parts of this clip for the beginning to his album: Temporary Forever

> at a time when the Scientologists were still a power to be reckoned with.

You mean they're not now?

It'll change your life.

*sigh* I may have watched this at least twice a month at The York Theater in San Francisco 1982-1985. The damage is permanent.
best
movie
ever

*sigh* "people just explode, it happens all the time."

Great movie, great soundtrack.

For those of you that have Comcast cable and want to see this classic again, it's available via On Demand until 10.April

Repo Man is getting a revival, sort of ... Alex Cox wrote a comic book sequel called Waldo's Hawaiian Holiday that's being published by Gestalt Publishing. Gestalt's got a video trailer of the thing on their web site.

Weird, according to my previous comment I was watching "Repo Man" two years BEFORE it came out. Guess I should never have accepted that ride from the glowing guy in the Chevy Malibu.

"Ever been to Utah? Ra-di-a-tion. Yes, indeed. You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense. Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year. They ought to have them, too. When they canceled the project it almost did me in. One day my mind was full to bursting. The next day - nothing. Swept away. But I'll show them. I had a lobotomy in the end."

"Uh, isn't that for loonies?"

"Not at all. Friend of mine had one. Designer of the neutron bomb. You ever hear of the neutron bomb? Destroys people - leaves buildings standing. Fits in a suitcase. It's so small, no one knows it's there until - BLAMMO. Eyes melt, skin explodes, everybody dead. So immoral, working on the thing can drive you mad. That's what happened to this friend of mine. So he had a lobotomy. Now he's well again."

Pablo Picasso was never called an a-hole

Social Security...
Has run out for you and me...
We do whatever we can...
Gotta duck when the shit hits the fan...

@Cacafuego:

Yeah, let's get Sushi and not pay.

"The lights are growing dim Otto. I know a life of crime has led me to this sorry fate, and yet, I blame society. Society made me what I am."

"That's bullshit. You're a white suburban punk just like me."

"Yeah, but it still hurts."

@BullfightsOnAcid: C'mon, let's go get a drink.

I guess I have to go rent this one.
Heard of it a lot, but just never saw it.

This is what I love about this site.
I can do without all the spoilers, but I'm a time-shifter so it's my problem.

I somehow have never managed to see this all the way through in one sitting, but I love Alex Cox's other films so I probably should revisit this one.

"Man I used to like these guys..."

A [nearly] forgotten classic---see it as a double feature with Liquid Sky

This movie is so great to use in class when talking about subliminal advertising in films, especially if juxtaposed against something like Reality Bites or Men in Black.

Gorrammit, now I've been earwormed with that 7Up jingle Otto's coworker sang. Oh, and Nesmith produced this movie using some of the money he inherited from his mother, who invented Liquid Paper. Trufax! [Snopes.com]

I'm late to this topic, but this is also one of my favorite films. One of the best soundtracks of a film as well. And of course, one of the most quotable movies around, as the above comments all show.

"...Asked me to be their manager...call bullshit on that.
Managin' a pop group's no job for a man..."

Another Michael Nesmith fav is Tapeheads. The Mike-man has a fine tuned pop culture filter to be sure.

Repo Man was a great movie.

Eyes melt, skin explodes, everybody dead!

One of the last great cult films from a time before forced indie quirkiness was the mainstream. This film and the soundtrack changed my life at 13 years. Oddly, I was just showing it to a friend from the UK a few weeks ago and it fell completely flat. I guess you kinda had to be there. I watch it at least once a year and never get tired of it.

John Wayne was a fag.

THE HELL HE WAS!!!!!

Best line of the movie for me was Bud's dying words:
"I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees!!"

I must have watched this movie a hundred times. Had a major influence on my in High School. Emelio's best movie by far!! It is definitely one of the most quotable movies ever. Still kicking myself for not buying the collectors edition DVD version I saw years ago that came in a collectible tin shaped like a California license plate. It had the soundtrack packaged with it and I heard there were only 30,000 of them made. Probably on E-bay somewhere.

Tapeheads is another movie that jacked me up for years, and I've never seen it! I remember when the commercials for it came out, and they had the clip with the "Mister, I want to lick your bald head and spank it" (or maybe the spank/lick was the other way around). Anyway, I had that line stuck in my head for years, and everyone thought I was inside because no one saw the movie. It was only a few years ago that I saw the commercial for Tapeheads again when it showed up on cable that I knew I was all right and not all of the voices in my head exist only there. I think.

Any movie about repoing cars and UFOS that has opening title music by Iggy Pop and then goes into Black Flag and every other great LA hardcore band of the late 70s early 80s is gonna be the shit.

Yeah, that movie was one of the high points of my youth.
-Kle.

"There's one in every car... You'll see."