dokken

I just can't understand why anyone would be willing to have spent all the time, effort, and money it takes to make a film on something like this. It really takes a lot of effort to make a movie. More than a few people in this world felt passionately enough about this thing to write it, direct it, shoot it, rehearse it, finance it, etc, etc. My god! It's not that it's really bad or anything, there just doesn't seem to be any point in it existing. It's a boring movie about everyday people doing everyday crap. Sometimes they hang out at the beach. Sometimes they bicker. There's some kissing. Why? Why not just do nothing instead?

i thought the soundtrack was quite bad. there was too much blood & guts to take the movie seriously as a drama. many of the more comic elements seemed misplaced. i did however like the acting of jeremy davies & guy pearce.

it seemed like they were trying to marry a more high-minded drama to a low-brow genre flick & it didn't work out like ang lee with the hulk.

I've often thought that I wouldn't like a great deal of the eighties cult classics that I do if I was exposed to them today. I think Repo Man might have proved my little theory. Like some people are saying "I don't get it". I never watched this in the eighties. Although I got a few chuckles the humor seems mostly to be very amateurish. I also don't get why this is supposed to be a punk rock movie. There didn't seem to be that much punk rock in it just a lot of surf music and a few cliche punk rocker thugs.