If you fancy a night in watching a DVD, then take a look at the selection available at Island Libraries. At just £1.50 per night, they’re a great bargain. Ed
Considering the original release of ‘Repo Man’ occurred a staggering twenty-six years ago and yet could well be one of the most resoundingly well scripted and determinedly cult film phenomenon to appear from the United States, under an independent guise, during the frightening times known as the eighties.
The film demonstrates the capturing of the overall talent that formed it.
In all honesty, the most alarming quality of viewing the release of ‘Repo Man’ on DVD in new and extremely superior angle of coolness is both liberating and highly enjoyable. Hope springs eternal for the glorious and finite structure of Ventnor Library for obtaining a film that is not only versatile, but remains a cult classic.
Admirable work
However alarming the career path of the various actors and actresses within ‘Repo Man’ continued or stalled, the simple demonstrated fact that this was an independent film made with such quotable and nearly missed dialogue, that there is never a beat or frame missed throughout such an admirable work.
Furthermore, the antiseptic and usual blandness of American movies in the eighties bordered on the almost inane and terrifyingly dull in their determination to lower standards and patronise considerably.
The release of films such as ‘Taxi-Driver’, ‘After Hours’ and even ‘Repo Man’ demonstrated clear and precise dark humour that seems to occasionally surface in films of the nineties such as ‘Reservoir Dogs’ and ‘Pulp Fiction’.
Obviously Alex Cox assembled a speedy and consistently unusual film and the opportunity to understand the perspective of how surprisingly lazy Hollywood had become can be measured by viewing a film that contains the line: “Better to die on your feet than live on your knees”.
