I need your input on the upcoming REPO! The Genetic Opera Episode

It can’t be too big a coincidence that you started following me on Twitter the day after I started tweeting about seeing Repo.

After having heard about the movie from a friend about a week ago, my girlfriend and I finally sat down to watch it last night after obtaining the disc at Wal-Mart of all places. (Thus proving that gratuitous violence is fine, by Wal-Mart standards, as long as there’s minimal sexual content.)

It wasn’t a movie that left me stunned at it’s brilliance on the first viewing, but it takes up residence in your cranium and refuses to be evicted. It’s infiltrated my synapses, and I can’t feel nothin’ at all. It’s probably at least partially due to the growing economic and health crises we’re currently facing. A few songs (particularly “Zydrate Anatomy” and “Chase the Morning”) won’t get out of my head — not a complaint.

It’s certainly not award-winning material, but it’s a good movie. I’ve read somewhere that this is basically the second act of a trilogy, and that shows. The characters were all set on a course by events seventeen years in the past, and this is the collision. It’d be interesting to see what happened before, and what follows, but it’s a fun and funny ride.

I didn’t see it during the tour (obviously because i’m in england) but i have the dvd.

No-one can deny that it WILL be a midnight movie for the ages. Because if you look at the ‘midnight movies’ that changed cinema (el topo, pink flamingoes, rocky horror, the harder they come, eraserhead, and night of the living dead) is that they are all against the grain of ‘society’ as it were. they are midnight movies because they DON’T conform with hollywood’s standards (especially el topo, pink flamingoes, and eraserhead.

The film itself is an intreeging one. I personally wouldn’t say one actors performance is better than anothers, and maybe thats why i can’t give a truly negative or positive review. If any critism i can give is that Anthony head (who i love in most of his roles) singing voice sounds alittle out of key and bill moseley sounds like he’s still crooning with cornbugs and the character of luigi does seem like Otis’s posh brother. A stigma that i doubt bill is going to get rid of any time soon. I enjoyed the character of ‘graverobber’. I would personally like to see a prequel to REPO or a side project about him. The biggest surprise was paris hilton’s performance of Amber sweet. It’s not the fact that she played the role much like she is portrayed by the media, but she gave the character alittle something extra.

It’s not a ‘classic’ by any means of the word and i surprisingly DON’T think it should get a ‘proper’ release in major theatres because when ‘NOTLD’ and some of the others went into the ‘mainstream cinema’ they bombed?! The REPO tour is a good idea and is the best way to promote this film.

Own the film and the music. Would love to see some Zydrate Anatomy mashups… mashups.

As a follow-up, this is definitely the kind of movie that grows on you.

In the four days since I bought and watched the movie at home, I’ve had little interest in listening to anything except the soundtrack. A friend rented a private room at a local karaoke bar (which featured a nice hi-def screen) and we had a private viewing for the three of us. We’re already planning another one, and alerting our friends.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything else quite like it, and it’s fascinating. I agree that a mainstream release would be a horrible failure because so many people aren’t open to something so off the beaten path. My understanding is that, based on sales of the DVD and Blu-Ray, there might be a director’s cut of the movie (and since considerable material was excised, I’d be very interested in seeing that) and a sequel.

I’m sensing an all-operatic episode.. or what about doing the podcast “live on stage?” Ever been to the Sci-Fi Lounge in U. City? Seems like it would be an ideal spot, and the owner is pretty cool. He might even let you host a screening there and then do the show after.

What’s the matter graverobber? Can’t get it up if the girls breathing??!?

abed…

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