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From: moriarty@uw-june (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Repo Man (Very Slight Spoiler) -- Another A picture!
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Date: Sat, 2-Jun-84 20:06:48 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun  2 20:06:48 1984
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Amazing.... all this year, I have seen movie after movie that never appeared
over a B or B+ grading (I qualify that A movies are movies I'd like to go
see for a second time)... about the best was "Moscow on the Hudson".  Now,
in a night of each other, I see two A movies!  One is (reviewed elsewhere)
"The Search for Spock"; the other is a new film called "Repo Man", which I
can only describe as a cult film, and one that reminds me as a type of
new-wave "Airplane" (hope I haven't offended anyone... I don't have much
experience with new wave).  If you saw & liked "Strange Invaders" last year,
you're gonna LOVE this movie!  Basically it has two plots... one is that of
a kid who is tricked into being a repo man (by Harry Dean Stanton, no less;
if a movie has Harry in it, it can't be all bad), and comes to like it.  The
other is that a car has 4 dead alien bodies in the trunk which everyone
wishes to get.  Guess what happens from there on in.  Loads of good writing
and wonderful characters (never much depth, but their meant to be humourous
throughout); I particularly like the three punks who are always holding up
stores (one of them runs off humming "Ride of the Valrykies").  I can't give
away much more, except to say that unless you are turned off by savage humor
at everything (the sight gags are amazing) or new wave music, you will
really enjoy this movie. I've got to see this again, to see what I missed
last time.

By the way, for anyone who has seen it... is the person who plays the you
lead (the neophyte repo man) the son of Martin Sheen?  The resemblance is
uncanny, and I heard Sheen's son was getting into acting (and I believe both
of their "real" names are Hispanic).

				"Wow... this is intense."

					Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer

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