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Picked up some stuff from the video store the other day, so here are my thoughts on "Splice," "Jonah Hex," "MacGruber," "Defendor" and "Repo Men."
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While Avoiding Spoilers Here's my thoughts on Splice:
At first I thought it was going to rip-off the other film Species but it turned out to be both Intelligent and Creepy. It also explored the themes of morals being broken at any given time, the consequences of the characters' actions, and the very nightmare before them of whether a splicing experiment gone wrong like this one, could actually happen in reality. The central themes remind me a lot of Jurassic Park. The overarching narrative parallels the sentiments of Dr. Malcom from Jurassic Park ("but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.") Then It raised alot of questions in my head about parenting and often made me ask myself "Will the way we were raised affect our parenting skills when we become parents ourselves?" (you'll see alot of these themes with Sarah Polley's Character as the story further progresses.)
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Unfortunately, for Mcgruber, that's the point of it. The sketches on the show are funnier. Basically what happened is they took a sketch, that is good as a sketch, but shitty as a whole movie. Like if they took Weekend Update and made it into a movie. The sketch is friggin hilarious. The movie would be utter shit.
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Everyone dies except Sarah Palin? DAMMIT!
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"The good die young, but pricks live forever."
-Lewis Black
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Well I wanted to see Repo men and Defendor had caught my attention.
I will be seeing those.
Though I will admit my heart pratically died when you said you hate Repo Genetic XD Makes sense though, I love the music and it and you don't XD oh well.
Though I do not like Marilyn Manson so that hurt XD
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Also thanks for recommending Unstoppable. I think I will see it for sure too XD.
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Jonah Hex should have been a more of a straight Western, but I think when the studio picked up the comic rights they added a lot of Wild Wild West type tech to make it more like a Superhero Movie.
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Actually, that kind of thing was in the comics. I personally thing the movie was good, but it released opposite of Toy Story 3 so no one went to actually see it.
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Have you ever watched Repo Man from 1984? Great weird punky fun.
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Lloyd! You know they say fate is decided by what you do. Wrong! Fate is decided by Lloyd!
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I was curious how Brad felt about " gamer ". I know I hated how they raped the song sweet dreams, which played at the start of the movie. Sweet Dreams was fine the way it was originally sang.
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Brad did a mention of when he went to see Gamer at the theater quite a while ago on this site. There were parts he liked and parts he didn't like namely the shit featuring Xzibit. He said give it a rental.
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Jonah Hex was terribad. I still don't understand the supposed dooms day weapon at the end; were the makers of the movie under the impression that there weren't canons that shot much further than that in the real world? Was I supposed to be impressed by the explosions, which didn't seem that big? Then there was the pacing, which was god-awful, on top of not explaining half of the shit that went on. Then there was Megan Fox's character, which shows up like one time in the first half of the movie, briefly, then pops up at the end as if she were a sidekick. I watched this on DVD because I hadn't gotten around to it during the summer, but I had high hopes for it from watching the previews.
As for Repo! The Genetic Opera... yeah, it wasn't so great. There are a few songs I like, the best one coming near the end of the movie, but most of the music was unlistenable garbage. That is another movie I had hopes for because it had several people I liked in it, particularly Anthony Stewart Head (who has a great singing voice like his brother, who played the American in Chess). I really like musicals too, so it was a pretty big let down.
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Even though the girl didn't die in Splice she did get a deformed rat baby planted in her belly which is probably a fate much worse than death and would be a good follow up in Splice 2: The Seed of Dren. Jonah Hex you can't call bullshit on until you read the freaking comics man. Val Kilmer was the funniest part of Macgruber and would have made the celery gag actually funny. I have not seen Defendor but I am really glad that you gave Repo Men a good Review because I have been wanting to see it for quite a while and now that I know you like it it has to be good.
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Whenever I see the trailer for Defendor, it makes me think of Special starring Michael Rapaport. The funny thing is, according to your review of Defendor, they sound very much the same. The trailer for Special made you think it was gonna be a wacky comedy but instead it's a very dark comedy borderlining on sad and depressing.
I still want to see Jonah Hex, though.
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While Adrian Brody humping a part animal hybrid is fucked up, that's not what really freaked me out about the scene. What did that is the fact that he'd been raising this creature as his daughter for a significant time, and he'd taken over the more parental role after Polley's family issues turned her into a bitch. He basically fucked his daughter...in fact, wasn't it biologically his "daughter" as I'm sure his genetic material was used?? Ugh...
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That's what got me too, it also had the mother's DNA which makes the ending even more..unsettling.
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I love Elias Kotaes. He is one of the most underrated actors ever. I love that he's called "Canada's Robert DeNiro."
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Jonah Hex had almost nothing to do with the comic other than a few names and a disfigured main character. While it does take place in the DC universe and sometimes you'd get some fantastical elements I'd say most Hex stories I'm familar with (save for the stories where he went to a post-apocalyptic future) it was played more as a straight Western. Jonah Hex has no "bring dead people back to life" touch, no chain guns attached to his horse, mainly he's just a badass Western hero. He's not a good guy, not a bad guy, he's just pretty much a mercenary who you don't want to cross. It could have been a kickass Western. I have no clue what the hell happened to the film other than studio interference.
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Coneheads is one of the better SNL movies. Other SNL movies include Night at the Roxbury.
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I didn't see Jonah Hex and I don't want to but the movie really had next to nothing to do with the comics. The comics from the early 70's to now have always been a straight up spaghetti western series. Sure in the 80's there was a short lived post apocalyptic spinoff which was awesome and in the 90's there were some noncannon miniseries with vampires and zombies but those were downright horrible. The movie from the start had no intention of being anything like the comic. The original script was about a voodoo guy raising an army of confederate soldiers to kill Jonah Hex. The real comics never had any supernatural crap and tried to be historically accurate. I have no idea why someone would adapt something if they had no intention of keeping anything more than a couple character names.
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Thanks for mentioning Unstoppable. I'm planning on seeing it tomorrow night and should be the highlight of my Thanksgiving weekend!
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"There's this dialogue about coffins in it that's stolen straight out of Fist Full of Dollars."
Which, itself, was actually stolen straight out of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo.
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Other than the ending, Repo Men had way too many things that didn't make sense.
**spoilers**
Carol(Remy's wife) willingly married a repo-man and they had kid. Then she wants him to change job ASAP or else she kicks him out of the house?
Jake (Whitaker) doesn't want his partner to become a salesman, so he sabotages Remy's defibrillator in order to cause an accident. How was that supposed to change anything?
Frank (Liev Schreiber) gives an artificial heart and a huge debt to his best repo man? Wouldn't the company give it to him for free? It would have made a lot more sense for him to get a free heart, and then the company could have decided to get it back when they found out that Remy was not repossessing organs for them anymore.
Remy gives up on being a repo man. So he leaves his taser behind and burns his SUV. Then within the next 10 minutes, her steals another Repo man's SUV and taser gun. Why did he get rid of his own equipement in the first place?
If Jake could afford and was willing to pay for Remy's heart and "Vanilly Sky" device, why didn't he just pay the heart early in the movie instead of letting Remy hit rock-bottom?
Also, if Beth had debts on all her organs, then how the hell would she be allowed to get more? If those were illegal black market organs, then why were the repo men after her? It makes no sense.
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I know right! This sci-fi movie about repo men in a dystopian future snatching organs from people makes NO sense!
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Even if a movie has a fantastic concept, it has to make sense within its own context, which "Repo Men" does not.
For what it's worth, I didn't hate "Repo Men" but I did find it to be very mediocre and ultimately forgettable, and not particularly entertaining. I actually expected it to be the sequel to "Repo Man," which would have been awesome, but oh no, it has to be a remake of a film which isn't even five years old (like "Death at a Funeral" or whatever that movie was called). I thought the entire concept made no basic sense, and couldn't understand why people would keep buying replacement organs from this company if they just come and kill you if you can't keep up with your payments. Or why the organs would be mechanical instead of organic, which would be a lot cheaper and wouldn't run out of batteries (thereby killing you). Or why nobody seemed to care about these Repo Men killing people and harvesting their organs in broad daylight with huge crowds watching. Maybe they explained it, I don't remember, I don't care, the movie seemed like a big nothing. I also seem to remember that half the dialogue in the movie was unintelligible and badly-recorded (including almost all of Forest Whittaker's dialogue). One thing I DID like about it was that it had fake product-placement (like Red Apple Cigarettes in "Pulp Fiction"). I absolutely can't stand seeing things like Budweiser in a "Star Trek" movie, or people shopping at The Gap 100 years from now in "Minority Report," so at least that seemed refreshing.
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I 100% agree with these comments. And I don't think this is nitpicking. I noticed them straight out without doing a double-take. These were the exact problems I had with the film, and just because Repo Men is a Sci-Fi film about organ snatching, doesn't mean it can get away with stupid shit like this.
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I don't think there's anything wrong with nitpicking (clearly tee hee) but in the case of Repo Men, I was largely entertained by it, I liked the characters, the interactions with Jude Law and Forest Whitaker (honestly I could have watched a whole movie about the two of them simply taking organs) so in that regard, I wasn't bothered in the least by some of the small things wrong with it. I didn't care, at all. Except the ending, which was awful. It wasn't a great movie, but I really don't care that it didn't make sense. I wasn't in it for it to make sense. I wanted it to be entertaining, and it was.
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Actually, come to think of it, the movie didn't go very far with the whole bionics angle. I think it would have been much more entertaining if you had stuff like Forest Whittaker with these huge cybernetic arms that he uses to crush people's heads while snarling like a bear, or stuff like giant bionic cocks which can be interchanged with cock-shaped machine guns or lasers. Also, Liev Schrieber (who I like) was totally wrong for the badguy, the part was clearly written for Kurtwood Smith.
Also Brad, have you seen a movie called "Dead Snow" that just came out on DVD? I just peeped it out; it was pretty good, basically "Evil Dead" but with Nazi zombies. It has one hilarious scene where a chick is standing on the edge of a cliff while a zombie lurches toward her, so to rectify this problem, she jumps on the cliff until a chunk of it breaks off, sending them both flying.
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Does this mean we'll have a new video series from you, "Video Store reviews"?
Good to know that Defendor got a good recommendation from you. I wanted to see it in theatres, but it was never released as far as I know. So now, I'll have to track it down on video. However, I have to disagree with you on Repo! the genetic opera, as I think it is a visual masterpiece with some catchy songs (and it makes for an interesting double feature with THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW). Repo Men, on the other hand, I agree with you for the most part. It is a good movie, but I couldn't get over A) how much it took from other science fiction films and
Here are my thoughts on Repo Men: http://trevor-trevs.blogspot.com/2010/08/repo-men.html
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Hate to be the boring guy here but I can't agree with you on Repo Men Brad. To me it was easily one of the worst action films I think that has been made in the last twenty years. Despite it's occassionally decent visuals, the film was a wolf in sheeps clothing featuring a bland cyberpunk setting with zero personality, characters with little development making them unlikable and thus boring to follow, poor plot development that's derivative without being enjoyable etc.
Honestly I can go on but I just can't stand the film; hell it was so awful that I had to wash my brain out with some Hard Boiled to remind me what a good action movie was. Sorry Brad but in your words, 'it was not my taste'.
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If Repo Men is one of the worst action movies you've seen, then you need to see a lot more action movies.
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Don't get me wrong, for someone my age I have seen a ton of action movies yet still need to see many more. After all I grew up on stuff like Rambo and Commando moving on eventually to Robert Ginty and the bizarre but wonderfully entertaining works of directors like Mattei and Teddy Page by the time I was around 14.
I may have not seen every action movie ever made but even with my nievity, when I feel that a film is bad I don't mind saying so. I hope I don't come off as snobbish by saying this, but I will stand by my opinion regardless.
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And those are great action movies, but I'll say again; if Repo Men is one of the worst action movies you've seen, you need to see more action movies. Ones that are actually atrocious.
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I nominate "The Firing Line," starring Reb Brown and Shannon Tweed. I love a good Rebbo B movie, but this was hideous, dull rubbish. One of the worst action films ever.
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Yeah, "Repo Men" is kind of lousy, but not even remotely among the worst action movies of all-time. I mean, have you seen any of Michael Dudikoff's films? Or "Nine Deaths of the Ninja?"
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Funny, I grew up on a ton of ninja films as a kid. The American Ninja series as well as 9 Deaths Of The Ninja being some of them. To me, at least the American Ninja films were entertaining as pure distilled movie cheese; the second one arguably being the film that began my interest into action-sploitation. Avenging Force is pretty underrated in the Dudikoff canon for me too.
Though hey I am not bothered by you disliking the movies, to each is their own.
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glad to hear that you still have video stores in your area.
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Hooray for Turok 2!!!
So far, Splice, Jonah Hex, and Macgruber sound like crap to me. Defendor sounds... uh, I don't really even know. I haven't seen Kick Ass, and I'm not a huge fan of modern super-hero movies, or modern Comic book-ish/comic book movies.
As for Repo Men... WHAT? I thought you were going to review Repo MAN, the 1984 film. I would have loved to hear your opinion on that film!
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Embryo is up on the Internet Archive, last I checked. I actually reviewed it (before taking a break from that due to family stuff) as part of a Public Domain thing I was doing and enjoyed it. Hearing you bring it up caused a brief double take.
I saw MacGruber in theaters and probably would've enjoyed it better as a rental. There were just points where I was thinking "I paid full price for this?"
And thanks for confirming all that I've heard about Jonah Hex.
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Come on Brad, it's not because a movie is sci-fi or fantasy that it can throw away basic elements like character motivation.
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I'm not going to nitpick to death a no-brainer science fiction film about organ hunters. It's meant to be entertaining. It was. I don't give a shit about character motivation in a movie that shouldn't be judged by that.
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For what it's worth though, I loved the characters in Repo Men. Except the wife, who thankfully was barely in it.
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Brad- I liked that video. I liked Repo Men up until the ending (which I saw coming). I think that if it had a better ending - one that was not an FU ending, I could recommend it. Same with Existanze.
I'm loving HWAHOG. Look forward to future episodes.
Also, looking forward to new snobs. Are you planning on doing Turkish Star Trek?
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I actually saw Jonah Hex in theaters without knowing it was PG-13, and I was completely pissed. Yes, the movie was originally filmed as R rated, and I could tell when cuts were made to the bloodier parts. I don't know why a director's cut won't be released.
I generally liked Repo Men. The acting was great and the fight scenes were really cool. I especially liked the Oldboy referencing finale. I wouldn't call it a "no-brainer" movie though. I do think Jude Law's motivations were very unclear and contradictory, and a lot of plot points didn't make any sense, so I can't give the movie a free pass because of it's genre.
If it was made as a Crank styled action film I could ignore that stuff, but not if the film makers attempted to make it dramatic and thought provoking.
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I know I'm treading again into seemingly hostile ground here but I agree with this point, if the film was made as a gonzo action film with little pretension I could have looked past it's flaws. For me though, the film was a cold and calculated misfire that was not a 'no-brainer'. Instead it tried in my view to go for a Verhoeven style vibe which barely worked at the best of times. I will admit though that at least Forest Whitaker appeared to have fun making the film.
Going off topic, I still have Jonah Hex and A Serbian Film lurking in my hard drive; now theres a double feature guaranteed to destroy my soul.
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Someone already mentioned it but anyone who likes Defendor should see Special w/ Michael Rapaport- a far better version of that story, in my opinion. If anything; it's a great companion piece...
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oh by the way embryo is now public domain so it is free to watch
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" and couldn't understand why people would keep buying replacement organs from this company if they just come and kill you if you can't keep up with your payments. "
Simple they are the only company around. Repo men exist today and they take people's cars and even houses and other stuff all the time. It's their legal right. As for why mechanical mechanical is much easier to make. Lots of people die waiting for an organ. People would take the trade off for mechanical organ and if they miss a payment well screw them if they broke the law.
It's the future of medicine as envisoned by libertarians.
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I just looked up the plot for Repo Men, and boy, that's quite possibly the worst twist I've ever heard of. Shockingly stupid.
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heading off to watch repo men for myself now, all these back and forth comments on its quality lol. I MUST KNOW! FOR LLOYD!
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Great video you should do more video store reviews. There are a lot of movies that I would like to hear your opinion on that don't fit in the snob or current release category. I actually didn't want to see any of these movies. As for SNL movies the modern ones can't come close to the past ones like Blues Brothers, Wayne's World and Cone Heads. Anyways keep up the great work.
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I couldn't even watch Repo Men. I was so disgusted that they ripped the premise of a movie that isn't that well-known. That stuff irritates me. The creators of REPO! opted not to sue for copyright infringement with one reason being that they would never be able to afford lawyers. That's balls when you can't afford to save your original premise.
I'm a little biased, I guess. REPO! came out first, and I'm a big musical fan. If there's a musical of something, I'd rather watch that instead. That's probably why I prefer Tanz der Vampire to the Fearless Vampire Killers, and the musical version of Rebecca to Hitchcock's version.
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I'm sorry to tell you but Repo-men isn't ripping off of Repo! I'm a big fan of Repo! Myself and the fact is that Repo! Doesn't not own the premise of organ repossession. This type of plot has been around for a long time and fact is the book that Repo-men is based on was made around the same time as Repo! but there was also an older movie with the same premise. Heck even Monty Python had a joke about Organ Repossession.
Besides the premise is the only thing they have in common. The plots are both different.
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REPO! is actually about ten years older than the book Repo Men is based off of. It started off as an off-Broadway musical that eventually became a movie. I also find it interesting that they both happen to have plots regarding organ repossession in a dystopian future where organ replacements are distributed by a huge corporation. The fact that REPO! is several years old and utilizes a premise of organ repossession in a dystopian future is one reason why the creators opted not to sue; they essentially had dibs on the outlandish premise a decade ago. That, and they reasoned that they could never hire lawyers to sue Universal Studios, a company they introduced REPO! to before Lionsgate decided to produce it. In my opinion, it constitutes as ripping off, especially since they were released in theaters so closely together.
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The whole premise of a repo company taking people's organs when they miss a payment sounds like something decades old. It's something that could happen if the libertarians have their way. Heck the medical companies would like nothing better then to sieze implants such as hip replacements in people who don't finish paying them off.
It's a predicatable plot based on real world premises. In fact I wouldn't be shocked to learn if medical transplant makers had looked into the legallity of seizing the transplanted organs or other medical devices if someone couldn't finish off the payments.
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.....Brad's a furry......
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50 Cents for that bag? I think you paid way to much for it. LOL
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I myself would never watch these shit movies.
Splice is just weak genre film. The sex scene sounds ok. And Adrian Brody is always boring with his dramatic face expression.
Jonah Hex is just shit. In these days nobody can make a good western ever.
MacGruber sounds like the latest SNL shit movie. The only I liked was Blues brothers and wayne's world. I would never watch this. Even ET the porn sounds more interesting.
Defendor sounds ok. Woody Harrelson is always good. But the film seems like it is almost shit.
Repo men is just another shitty remake. The original is good and fun to watch. Nobody in hollywood can make a ok remake without a more shit ending.
Most movies in 2010 suck. They are remakes, for women and kids. They just cannot make decent films anymore.
And the TMNT shirt is cool.
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How is Repo Men a remake? It has nothing whatsoever in common with the film Repo Man or Repo the genetic opera which was not found to have anything to do with the book Repossesion Mambo.
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Splice to me,never did intrest me because it will be just one of those "Science Bad" movies,that critics lick all the way up to the ass and give all other movies 1-2 stars,because they are not splice.
..Also,its too bad that Brad dont Review Harry Potter 7 Part 1,but at least He will rewiew the Last Twilight movie(hooray!!),when it comes so i will look foward that.
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We can all talk about the complete rip-off of ideas and the obvious fact that Repo! was a stage musical YEARS before the so called "Repossesion Mambo" (which I've NEVER seen in bookstores) but that's not going to stop the fact that Repo Men was filmed, put out there and not alot of people like it and it will certainly not have the cult-like status that Repo! already has.
But even VERY proud Repo! fans like myself included shouldn't ignore the fact that it is a very 'love/hate' film. If the music appeals to you personally then you'll love it but if not then it's bound to be your idea of hell to watch! So Brad's criticising of it for that is totally justified and you cans see his point! Plus he did like the idea which is something! Just thank God you havent had any of those truely zealous Repo! fans on your back! XD
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Oh jesus christ Jonah Hex, man that sucked.
I mean the current Jonah Hex the comic is fucking BAD ASS, how do you fuck this up?
I can;t imagine how Jimmy Palmiotti (current Jonah Hex comic writer) felt, he was so behind the whole project for a while
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Simple the mere fact is that the majority of people have no frigging clue who Jonah Hex is. Most people who have an idea got the name and character face from his cameos in Batman the Animated Series, the Justice League cartoons.
Hell it was supposedly shown to great applause at Comic-Con that should have clued you in unless that it was mainstream to begin with it was going to be royally fucked up by the studio.
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I actually talked to Jimmy Pamiotti for a bit at Dragon*Con about how bad Hex was. He laughed when I told him that all the movie made me want to do when it was was go out and get one of the books he authored, which I did.
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The Blues Brothers is my favorite movie of all time. I am in love with it. It is definitely the top of the SNL movie scale.
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How did you not enjoy Repo The Genetic Opera?
It isn't the best when it comes to the music, but is is beautiful as hell. Maybe it's because you went into it expecting a horror film? I never saw it as a horror...
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well, repo men started not too bad, but i can see why people dont like it. i didnt hate it though it wasnt that good, and hey, the most things that dont make any sense turn out to be but a dream, what a brilliant move *sarcasm*
But it had some good parts (soundtrack!), my favourite is when Law and Whittaker watch that scene from Monthy Pythons Meaning of Live (Live Organ Transplants)
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I'm ashamed that I think slightly less of you for hating Repo!.
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I need to buy a Marilyn Mansion plushy
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"when you can't find blood for your movie that's when it's just getting sad"
It might have been said before but they do it because its cheap to add and remove. I totally understand your point and agree. I guess rather then add to the budget by filming twice (which jackie Chan was able to film different sequences in a couple of his films for different audiences) then they go the CGI way.
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I love that you couldn't sit through Repo! The Genetic Opera, Brad. I can't blame you. I only finished it because of Anthony Head and wanting to see Paris Hilton's face fall off. That girl from Spy Kids was painful to watch, though.
Sounds like Jonah Hex was just the disaster I feared it would be. What a shame.
So "out of town" this weekend? Sounds like someone's heading up state for a charity drive...
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Well, seems you're getting a lot of comments about Repo!/Repo Men and Jonah Hex. While I won't be adding to the count for the latter, I will be adding to the count for the prior.
While I enjoy Repo! The Genetic Opera, it's... An acquired taste. It's not something everyone can enjoy, and it's not meant to be. However, it's not a horror film in the least. The story, as you said, is interesting and likable, even if the music is not, and it does have quite the star-studded cast. I also use it as my buffer to justify the creation of Saw III and IV, even if that still doesn't justify the terrible plots of said movies (since most of the sets designed for those movies found their way into Repo one way or another).
Repo Men... Well, I liked it. But I can certainly understand the dislike from other fans of Repo! The Genetic Opera. For a good chunk of the previews, it gave credit to Repo! The Genetic Opera for being the basis of the movie... But, come time for the movie's release, it began to note this less and less. The reason for this was due to a supposed change in plot, or so it was rumored. Either way, it left fans of the Opera annoyed for the most part.
Now, in the ending's defense... The twist wasn't much of a twist. They hinted at it earlier in the movie with a rather blatant, easy-to-hear advertisement for one of things that plays a huge part in said 'twist'. Perhaps I've become too used to picking up the little things in movies, but that seemed like a pretty obvious clue.
On a final note, while Repo Men could have been better... Overall, I have to agree with you. It was a good movie. I won't say it's better than Repo! The Genetic Opera, but that's due to personal taste, preference, and acceptance of the movie as a darker comedic musical rather than a 'horror' musical.
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That's it exactly! I haven't seen Repo so I can't really compare the two but people need to understand that Repo! is an aquirred taste and is one of the better reasons for the Saw movie.
I think it's mostly because all the Repo! fans think it's so amazing that Repo is automatically a rip off.
I like the music and the movie with the acting but it's not the cult classic that everyone things it is.
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The Repo Men ending was hinted thoughout the movie. It pertains to the Schrodinger's cat stuff. The ending was quite perdictable because of that.
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I seem to be the only one who hated splice with a passion... it's so full of bogus-science yet it takes itself way too seriously. Also it was really rushed with a lot of (lackluster) action packed into the last few minutes. Oh and don't get me started on the ending... THE ENDING!!!
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The ending of REPO MAN was predictable.
SPOILER!!!
Oh an ad for a Total Recall System?!
But hellya I like the movie!
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Great ep of Brad Tries where most of you seem to be trying not to throw up. Reminds me of the darts parody from Not the Nine O'Clock News.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDvTJyzPGQg&feature=related
"It went in and now it's come out again!"
Anyway sill waiting for Simon MacCorkindale tribute with some Manimal. Also are you ever gonna do any The Greatest American Hero? Always wondered where you got your theme tune from till I found the eps on hulu. Great show I remember from when I was a kid. Can't beat 80's TV Cheese! Maybe you should try some different cheese on Brad Tries?
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I havent seen Splice, but i want to, though...a sex scene with a half rat human hybrid kind of, makes me scared, But i saw Jonah Hex, i fell asleep in the theatres, it just didnt keep my attention, Macgruber i didnt like, cause i dont like SNL, Never even heard of Defendors, but Repo men, i LOVED it, and im glad you did to, minus the ending, that sucked alot.
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I hated Splice. It was an interesting premise, weighed way the hell down by some moronic characters, as you mention. That said, you liked it and I didn't, so it's probably down to more a taste thing. Overall, though, it struck me as an idiot plot. YMMV, I suppose.
Come to think of it, the bag is also deeper than The Last Airbender... Yeah I actually did a joint rant about it with my friend on my YouTube channel. If you thought it was bad with NO knowledge of the series it was allegedly based upon, then it gets FAR WORSE when someone actually knows about the series. Put simply? The movie was made with great knowledge of the series, but with absolutely no talent or vision whatsoever.
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Splice - My fiance and I hated this one. We heard good reviews and thought it looked interesting... but it was like a parade of shark-jumpers about halfway through all the way to the end. Plus, that ending was predictable and made weird implications about male and female sexuality that it never addressed.
Jonah Hex - We're glad we didn't pay money to see this movie. I would much rather watch Wild Wild West ten times in a row than watch this piece of crap again. It was pointless and boring.
Repo Men - Meh. Ending killed it for me, and it lost my attention. I liked Anthony Head in Repo! The Genetic Opera... but the rest of it is pretty bad. Its one of those films that would only be saved by having achieved a cult status.
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Are you shooting HWAHOG as you go along? I thought all the principal shooting was don and you were just editing. And yes, "Hooker" is better than Kickassia.
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I checked out Repo Men after seeing this review. I loved it, having said that... Hey Repo Men, Brazil called it, wants it's ending back.
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Brad,
I have to comment on Repo Men. The thing was I had a major issue with the movie was the whole plot. The story was like Logan's Run except you can BUY that someone who is young may realize they'll never get old enough to be one of the hunted... but in Repo..we have to buy that Forest Whitaker's idea to sabotage Jude Law's character.. it just didn't make sense. Seemed the whole reason he did it was so Jude would have to remain a Repo man to be able to afford the payments, and yet he couldn't keep up with the payments... also I was bothered by the fact that he was injured ON THE JOB, you'd think Repo would cover his medical benefits, OR he could sue them for having faulty equipment. So the whole concept bothered me. That is what made the movie intolerable. I guess if you could buy the nutty premise, you can enjoy the movie, but I just COULDN'T. Then the woman Jude hooked up with, his ex... wasn't hot, so even the "hot" part with the scanning the items wasn't so hot for me because she did nothing for me. that's my thought on it.
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you know, i watched repo the genetic opera on recommendation, and it felt really wierd to watch the first time, very unpleasant....oddly though, each time i watched after it was a lot better.
the new movie repo men sucks pretty hard, it could have been SO much better. They needed to create a better atmosphere and a better plot or rather, better characters and acting to pull it all off, id give the movie an over all 7/10 on joes even scale of 1-10
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One of my brothers friends worked on The Last Airbender... he gave me information about the movie over 6 months before the movie was released, I knew to keep my expectations low from what he told me, it was worse than I could have imagined... and the best part of the whole situation, is that I did see it in the theater, but didn't pay to see it, a friend worked there and let me in for free, the only thing that could make the movie good is if I was paid to see it, and even that wouldn
t do much good.
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Repo A Genetic Opera wasn't a horror film. It was a classical opera. That's like going into a showing of MacBeth and expecting to see Christian Bale dealing with the death of his Father, played by Stallone an it ends with them fist fighting VanDam while hanging from a helicopter with nooses around their necks.
Totally skewed expectations.
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Anyone that compares Repo! The Genetic Opera to Macbeth with a straight face, has basically surrendered the credibility of their argument.
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