― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 29 August 2004 18:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 29 August 2004 18:55 (nineteen years ago) link
xpost -- ah, clarity!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 29 August 2004 19:01 (nineteen years ago) link
fuck i love this movie!
― Ian c=====8 (orion), Sunday, 29 August 2004 19:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 29 August 2004 19:04 (nineteen years ago) link
And, oh yeah, CLASSIC. I agree with whoever said it's Cox's best. Sid and Nancy can lick my left one.
― Harold Media (kenan), Sunday, 29 August 2004 21:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ricardo (RickyT), Sunday, 29 August 2004 21:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 29 August 2004 21:07 (nineteen years ago) link
There's a lattice of coincidence that lays on toppa' things. Say you're thinkin' bout a plate 'o shrimp, and suddenly somebody says plate, or shrimp, or plate of shrimp outta the blue, no explanation, no point in looking for one either- it's all part of the cosmic unconsciousness.
Give you another example: you know how everybody's into weirdness right now? Supermarkets and books about Bermuda triangles, UFOs, and how the Mayans invented television, that kinda thing? Well, the way I see it, it's exactly the same - there ain't no difference between a flying saucer and a time machine. People get so hung up on specifics that they miss out on seeing the whole thing.
― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Monday, 30 August 2004 01:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 23:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 23:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 23:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 23:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 23:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 23:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― g e o f f (gcannon), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 23:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 23:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 21 April 2005 00:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Thursday, 21 April 2005 00:05 (nineteen years ago) link
when i think of repo man, i think of this classic line.
― Amon (eman), Thursday, 21 April 2005 00:27 (nineteen years ago) link
Yup. What a fine, fine revival. Perhaps I shall rewatch it in a bit.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 21 April 2005 00:28 (nineteen years ago) link
"Yeah, but it still hurts."
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Thursday, 21 April 2005 00:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 21 April 2005 00:35 (nineteen years ago) link
No wait, it's that "Normal people spend their lives staying out of tense situations. Repo man spends his life IN tense situations"
or something like that
was it a Kevin Smith movie or something? an 80s film? i have no idea where i heard this reference...
― Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Thursday, 21 April 2005 01:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Thursday, 21 April 2005 01:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: But when the monkey die, people gonna cry. (latebloomer), Thursday, 21 April 2005 01:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Thursday, 21 April 2005 01:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amon (eman), Thursday, 21 April 2005 01:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 21 April 2005 01:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Zebra, Alpha Go! (cprek), Thursday, 21 April 2005 02:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Chris F. (servoret), Thursday, 21 April 2005 02:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 21 April 2005 10:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― nathalie doing a soft foot shuffle (stevie nixed), Thursday, 21 April 2005 11:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 21 April 2005 11:38 (nineteen years ago) link
The only line I ever feel like quoting is "Ordinary fuckin' people -- I hate em."
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 April 2005 12:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― jones (actual), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― [tuvan throat singer's profound lyric sheet-must read again] (nordicskilla), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― [tuvan throat singer's profound lyric sheet-must read again] (nordicskilla), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:13 (eighteen years ago) link
Napoleon: Hey buddy! How you doing? Huh? Hey don't you remember me? I was here yesterday. Heh. Listen I think I left a book of matches over in your office over there. You want to go and check for me huh?
Kevin: Sure thing.
Napoleon: Hey thanks a lot buddy.
Kevin: Any thing for you babes.
Napoleon: All right, you're beautiful. I love you.
― gear (gear), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― [tuvan throat singer's profound lyric sheet-must read again] (nordicskilla), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:35 (eighteen years ago) link
beamish13, yeah, Death & The Compass rules! Last watch I noticed it homages a scene from For A Few Dollars More almost shot by shot, Alex Cox vmic
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 17 July 2023 17:23 (eleven months ago) link
Cox’s work as a western films historian is just incredible. His University of Colorado students are very fortunate to have him as a professor
― beamish13, Monday, 17 July 2023 17:25 (eleven months ago) link
Best god-damn car on the lot...
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 17 July 2023 17:25 (eleven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MGmugjxBjg
― sarahell, Monday, 17 July 2023 17:33 (eleven months ago) link
speaking of Cox, westerns, and food
― sarahell, Monday, 17 July 2023 17:35 (eleven months ago) link
also if I made a "comp for kids" -- this would be on it lol
― sarahell, Monday, 17 July 2023 17:36 (eleven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzi0gjzXCzg
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 20 July 2023 04:34 (ten months ago) link
https://variety.com/2024/film/markets-festivals/alex-cox-directing-kiowa-gordon-repo-man-sequel-1235911445/
The “Repo Man” director is revisiting the off-kilter world of extraterrestrials and car repossession that he mined so memorably in the 1984 cult classic in a new sequel that is being introduced to buyers at the Berlin Film Festival and European Film Market. Entitled “Repo Man 2: The Wages of Beer,” the film is being backed by Buffalo 8 Productions, a film and media company best known for the critically acclaimed work on Netflix series “The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes.” Cox wrote the script along with directing the film.Kiowa Gordon, best known for his role as Embry Call in “The Twilight Saga” and for his work in the AMC series “Dark Winds,” is set to lead the cast as Otto. Emilio Estevez played Otto in the 1984 original. The film picks up after Otto has boarded his trusty 1967 Chevy Malibu to journey across the infinities of time and space. In that time he has aged exactly 90 minutes....The filmmakers promise to “deliver an enthralling mix of punk energy, existential comedy, and unconventional storytelling, navigating the absurd and chaotic world of repo men into a new age of nuclear brinkmanship and driverless cars.”
Kiowa Gordon, best known for his role as Embry Call in “The Twilight Saga” and for his work in the AMC series “Dark Winds,” is set to lead the cast as Otto. Emilio Estevez played Otto in the 1984 original. The film picks up after Otto has boarded his trusty 1967 Chevy Malibu to journey across the infinities of time and space. In that time he has aged exactly 90 minutes.
...
The filmmakers promise to “deliver an enthralling mix of punk energy, existential comedy, and unconventional storytelling, navigating the absurd and chaotic world of repo men into a new age of nuclear brinkmanship and driverless cars.”
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 18 February 2024 14:56 (four months ago) link
...and there's this other nugget from Cox about a perceived connection between Repo Chick and a certain new blockbuster (https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/repo-man-2-alex-cox-exclusive)
Cox later produced a spiritual sequel to Repo Man called Repo Chick, which doesn’t share any characters or plotlines but takes place inside the world of the original film.“Repo Chick isn't actually a sequel to Repo Man,” Cox says. “It’s a story in the Repo World, but it takes place not in the Los Angeles that we know, but as a model railroad layout. The characters are classic model railroad figures like seven or eight centimeters high. It's very like Barbie in terms of its visual aspect, or I should say Barbie is very like Repo Chick.”
“Repo Chick isn't actually a sequel to Repo Man,” Cox says. “It’s a story in the Repo World, but it takes place not in the Los Angeles that we know, but as a model railroad layout. The characters are classic model railroad figures like seven or eight centimeters high. It's very like Barbie in terms of its visual aspect, or I should say Barbie is very like Repo Chick.”
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 18 February 2024 15:09 (four months ago) link
I thought he couldn’t do that bc Universal controlled sequel rights, but I guess that’s not true (or he got them somehow).
― Bison UpChg (morrisp), Sunday, 18 February 2024 15:16 (four months ago) link
this made me look up the actor who says my favourite line (of many!) in the original = leila saying "laugh away, fuckface!"
and it turns out (as everyone except me knows no doubt) she was a very storied child actress with a cult following (who now makes documentaries)
― mark s, Sunday, 18 February 2024 16:53 (four months ago) link
(content warning perhaps for that link: it's mainly about a plotline in little house on the prairie but it's a pretty ugly plotline)
― mark s, Sunday, 18 February 2024 16:56 (four months ago) link
I imagine this sequel won’t be very good (if it ever gets made), but I hope there’s a scene where Otto visits his parents and they’re still sitting there on the couch.
― Bison UpChg (morrisp), Sunday, 18 February 2024 17:18 (four months ago) link
I'm up for the sequel - lots of modern culture/consumerism satire possible nowadays - but really hope he can wrangle such an excellent cast a second time. Tracey Walter and Sy Richardson are still alive. Though Walter has retired and would be in the same 90 minute car, would be cool to see him again.
Have similar high expectations for a soundtrack. Since he's aged 90 minutes, guessing Otto could still be listening to '80s punk?
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Sunday, 18 February 2024 19:45 (four months ago) link
I know how Alex Cox feels. I once found a $10 bill in a parking lot. Now every time I walk past that place I look around hoping to find another one. I haven't, yet. Could happen again though.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 18 February 2024 19:54 (four months ago) link
According to this old blog post from upthread (originally shared by me!), Cox apparently got the rights back in 2015.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 18 February 2024 19:55 (four months ago) link
Since he's aged 90 minutes, guessing Otto could still be listening to '80s punk?
A half hour into the movie he'll have aged 120 minutes and he can start listening to '90s alternative
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 18 February 2024 21:46 (four months ago) link
Cox’s proposed 1995 sequel, WALDO’S HAWAIIAN HOLIDAY, became a fascinating graphic novel
I’m thrilled that he’s making a big-ish film again. I really like the micro budget Corman-produced Searchers 2.0, and Repo Chick has some great ideas. Death & the Compass is just brilliant
― beamish13, Tuesday, 20 February 2024 02:58 (three months ago) link
I forgot to mention-Cox eventually basically gave away the rights to WALDO to two other filmmakers, who ended up so pissed off at him that they made a documentary about their grievances
― beamish13, Tuesday, 20 February 2024 03:01 (three months ago) link
Happy Anniversary to the OG film. 40 years of spacing the cans…https://d2ycltig8jwwee.cloudfront.net/features/None/fullwidth.07e41192.jpg
― Sony's Sports Walkman Universe (morrisp), Saturday, 2 March 2024 06:05 (three months ago) link
<3
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 2 March 2024 06:34 (three months ago) link
Ten (Mostly) Recognizable ‘Repo Man’ Locations You Can Visit 40 Years Laterhttps://lataco.com/repo-man-filming-locations
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 2 March 2024 09:08 (three months ago) link
^I did my best, years ago… most were pretty different and I imagine are even more so now!
― Sony's Sports Walkman Universe (morrisp), Saturday, 2 March 2024 15:03 (three months ago) link
https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/repo-man-oral-history-1984
― 龜, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 02:49 (three months ago) link
Thanking you for that.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 10:42 (three months ago) link
Yeah, that was great. I can't believe Dick Rude was a student at the Lee Strasberg Institute... I assumed he was a real punk!
― Hippie Ernie (morrisp), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 16:12 (three months ago) link
Lol same, Dick Rude makes so much sense as a punk band stage name.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 18:10 (three months ago) link
I’m glad they weren’t able to shoot the original ending… I’m glad the Muhammad Ali thing didn’t work out (that sounds corny). All the serendipity along the way, even on the “negative” side, is remarkable.
― Hippie Ernie (morrisp), Thursday, 14 March 2024 10:00 (three months ago) link