Movie Defense Force: Repo! The Genetic Opera
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I remember seeing a early preview for this before it came out and i was just stunned. It was late at night and i was watching it on my computer on youtube trying not to wake anyone so i had the sound off. I couldn't make out what was being said but the visuals were gorgeous. It looked like the kind of world i've always wanted to exist in(being a goth myself).
Sadly when the movie came out i was unable to partake in it. As soon as i found out it was a musical my heart sank. You see for some reason, musicals drive me to an irrational rage i find difficult to control. I do not honestly know why. Just something about people spontaneously breaking into song makes me see red. Was the same reason i was denied being able to go see Sweeny Todd. And i love revenge stories. And i love the concept behind Repo. I just cant watch it. But it is beautiful.
Sadly when the movie came out i was unable to partake in it. As soon as i found out it was a musical my heart sank. You see for some reason, musicals drive me to an irrational rage i find difficult to control. I do not honestly know why. Just something about people spontaneously breaking into song makes me see red. Was the same reason i was denied being able to go see Sweeny Todd. And i love revenge stories. And i love the concept behind Repo. I just cant watch it. But it is beautiful.
The only time I heard about this one was when I read something about a "rip-off" allegation related to "Repo-men"(which I quite liked). But when I saw "Opera" in the title I thought "ok... musical, nope" and never cared about it.
That's exactly what Jim said right at the beginning of the video, that this one is just for the sake of it, not because it needed to be defended.iniudan said:
I never realised that the movie was considered bad enough to need defending.. everyone i know likes it
When Jim released the first episode with the full MDF animation (including the critic with a bonfire) I was curious to know why he chose Repo to be on the bonfire. I've listened to the songs and I'm impressed by the songs alone (excluding '17' of course). Its left me annoyed that in the UK I can't get hold of one of the newer ones made by a selection of the same team.
The premise of organ repo is idiotic. Sure SciFi has usually an idiotic premise, but if it does not surround that premise with something resembling believebility, it's just stupid. Also all the Characters are unlikable or despicable and only ONE! cast member can actually sing (sure, he is awesome, but he gets killed of before the movie is over so there is still movie left without him at least giving an entertaining performance, even if his character is just plain shit)
Repo! has a lot going for it, but it really bungles up the exposition with the pointless comic book vignettes that just basically repeat the same exposition found in the songs, and while it has a great start, once it shifts focus away from Shilo and her father and onto the vapid and uninteresting rich folks and their family drama, it really loses its momentum and limps to the finish. That said, I had a lot of fun for the first half hour or so, crappy exposition be damned.
I think I see Jim's point on this one. Not a film that needs defending but a film where you have to talk people into giving it a chance. I had heard good things about the film but always managed to put off watching it because I'm not exactly a big fan of musicals.
But then one kind of slow night at a sci-fi convention I decided I'm not busy lets give a showing of it a chance. Wow, couldn't believe I had let that one slip under the radar for so long.
Wouldn't mind seeing Jim do a few more films that only needed more exposure.
But then one kind of slow night at a sci-fi convention I decided I'm not busy lets give a showing of it a chance. Wow, couldn't believe I had let that one slip under the radar for so long.
Wouldn't mind seeing Jim do a few more films that only needed more exposure.
Nope... no defending this. Musical = indefensible.
If you TRULY need more illustration to its in defensibility... Paris Hilton... as a psuedo-Goth.
I will stick with 2010s Repo men as it accomplishes basically the same narrative hook, without all the excruciating fluff and not coated in low budget ghettosheen.It is a far better alternative without all the John Waters-esque campiness marinated in late 90s "industrial-dark" hijacked from the closest unattended Nine inch nails video. While "Repo men" is nothing spectacular, It never had any want or actual need to be defended and is able to stand on its own merits.
Metacritic for example shows both films have the same rating of 32. While Repo! is the type of cult hit that a very VERY niche audience will perpetuate and proliferate as a cult classic endlessly drudging this bloated corpse up from the floor of the murky depths, at least Repo men has the decency to be unremarkable and sink straight to the bottom to be quickly submergedand accepting its role to have been a basic popcorn munching time killer and quickly be buried under the silt and sediment of the passage of time forever to be a forgotten memory in the sea of consumed media content.
If you TRULY need more illustration to its in defensibility... Paris Hilton... as a psuedo-Goth.
I will stick with 2010s Repo men as it accomplishes basically the same narrative hook, without all the excruciating fluff and not coated in low budget ghettosheen.It is a far better alternative without all the John Waters-esque campiness marinated in late 90s "industrial-dark" hijacked from the closest unattended Nine inch nails video. While "Repo men" is nothing spectacular, It never had any want or actual need to be defended and is able to stand on its own merits.
Metacritic for example shows both films have the same rating of 32. While Repo! is the type of cult hit that a very VERY niche audience will perpetuate and proliferate as a cult classic endlessly drudging this bloated corpse up from the floor of the murky depths, at least Repo men has the decency to be unremarkable and sink straight to the bottom to be quickly submergedand accepting its role to have been a basic popcorn munching time killer and quickly be buried under the silt and sediment of the passage of time forever to be a forgotten memory in the sea of consumed media content.
Funny story, because it used to be!sid said:
Back when this movie was a 15 minute operatic, he was the only one of three characters. So he had a much bigger part.
Well...ironically, it was the Graverobber who decided that. That guy (Terrance Zdunich) wrote, composed, produced, directed, and acted in Repo! throughout its various incarnations.sid said:
As for the music, that's fairly subjective. I liked most everything in it except for "Seventeen." Eventually, "Mark it Up" managed to grow on me for its bombastic idiocy.
I don't watch enough movies. This is one of the only ones being defended that I've actually seen.
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