Repo! The Genetic Opera
This film is the could have been Rocky Horror. It's a movie perfect for riffing but also a film that needs your exposure. I know this email won't do much, but I'm literally asking you to make fun of my favorite movie of all time, a key part of my identity. Please consider it.
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Naomi Nemes commented
Yes yes yes! This is hilariously terrible, and I've watched it four times just trying to understand what the heck is even happening--and I STILL couldn't give you a simple rundown! Its all over the map! And they keep spoiling their dramatic reveals before the dramatic reveal, through these comic panels that spit all the plot points at you. Seriously, pay attention to those comic panels and you will see that the next scene will reiterate everything you already know. No surprises. And it has very little to do with a world's where companies repossess organs, its merely set there. Kind of like describing Romeo and Juliet as being about renaissance-era Verona, Italy when the actual story is about lovers being parted by their feuding families IN renaissance-era verona. The one repo guy could just as easily have been a corporate assassin working for, say, the pharmaceutical industry or some other healthcare profiteer in our world with few changes. I was excited to think, from the description, that this would be an interesting take on ouyr system where the rich poison the world for profit, then sell the world a remedy for the symptoms they caused and get richrer still(like a company that poisons the drinking water then sells the locals bottled water and filters rather than clean their own mess). All that told skillfully through a creative medium. And that is the opposite of what I got.
Yet it has an underground following. Why? Well, lots of crap does--i myself enjoy this terrible obscure cartoon from thew nineties called "Botsmaster" that is now solely available on YouTube. But Repo does have a rather stunning and creative visual style, for all it lacks in plot coherence, character development, and music (which to my ears is both terrible and forgettable--four viewings and I still couldnt whistle a single tune from it if you paid me). But I had a very good memory of the visuals after a single viewing.
This would be amazing to get a riff on!
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Patrice Mims commented
The a future dystopia where the world is surgery obsessed and we financed organs and surgeries and if we can't pay for them...they get repossessed. The moguls vapid, spoiled daughter is plastic surgery obsessed and has a desire to be famous even though she isn't talented (and played by Paris, naturally) so it kind of mirrors real life too. In one of my favorite scenes, while she is bombing on stage, her face falls off.
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Patrice Mims commented
Paris Hilton......
A......."rock.....opera"......horror film.There are so many great *pause* moments for Riffing.
And it's just purely amazing awfulness.
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NikeMelson commented
Zydrate comes in a little glass vial.