Myself(Izzy84075), Arias, Flannel and Oronar watched Repo: The Genetic Opera tonight. Rather than doing posts individually, we're going to try combining them into one big post. I'll start things off. Assume there will be spoilers.
Izzy:
We have a Synchtube channel that we use for music for our group sometimes, and a few days ago Arias added two of the Repo songs to it(Zydrate Anatomy and another one that I can't remember the name of). Now, I had heard of Repo a while before, and had gotten it in preparation to watch it, but never got around to it(As happens quite often). And then Zydrate Anatomy got stuck in my head, and I wanted context for it.
So now we've seen it, and I loved it. I've seen a lot of bad movies lately, and this was not one of them. I can't say any one part of it sticks out in particular as being my favorite part, but there's only one 'bad' part that I can think of. After Shiloh is introduced and they go through a few other scenes, they go back to Shiloh and she's getting a phone call out of nowhere from Rotti. Now, while this could have been done intentionally, as most of the movie follows Shiloh's view, it's the only major 'surprise' in the movie, which is kinda weird.
Most of the music is great(Which is good, 'cus, y'know, opera), with the exception of Rotti's stuff, which is mostly spoken, and I don't feel it fits very well. Though his spoken stuff is much better than his actual singing parts, which is kinda a plus, I guess? The video itself, from what I could see of it(We had a, shall we say, subpar video quality in many scenes), was good, and the acting was right there with it.
Of all the characters, I think it's a tie between Nathan and Graverobber as to which one was my favorite. Graverobber's got a great singing voice, but I love Nathan's Repoman voice.
All in all, a great movie, and one I'll probably get next time my local friends get together for a movie. If you like musicals, this one's probably right up your alley.
I'd go into more detail, but I'm already running a bit long, if we want to have all of us in here.
Arias:
I saw this movie a year or so ago and thought it was great. Never thought of downloading the sound track or watching it again since then until a month or so ago. Izzy and Flannel showed interest and Oro was bored enough to watch with us.
After livestream stopped being crappy and decided to work (Took us 2 and a half hours to watch a 90 minute movie) we finally got into the movie. My favorite character of the movie is Graverobber, hands down. Not only does he have an amazing voice, but he also wrote most of the songs for the movie, did all the comic drawings for it and produced it. This man is oozing with talent.
The best part of the movie for me was when Nathan goes into Repo mode in his basement and starts using the guy he just ripped organs out of as a puppet. I had completely forgotten that part and it caught me off guard. Speaking of their basement, that house has far too many secret doors and chambers. They all lead to the main hallway too, you would think Shiloh or Nathan would have stumbled upon the other's already.
About a quarter way through the movie Flannel noted that Amber Sweet looked "like Paris Hilton, but hot." and at the end we see her name scroll by in the credits. That was a shocker. We also found that Shiloh was the girl from Spy Kids. Dramatic differences in movie choices there.
All the music is amazing and it fits the mood of the movie really well, aside from Shiloh's song "Seventeen" which I thought was out of place and the genre didn't fit all that well. Also all of Rotti's singing was horrible. He was bad and should feel bad.
Overall I am glad that the movie held up and didn't turn out to be one of those things where I think "Why the hell did I enjoy this?". I would highly recommend this to anyone who likes music, blood, guts and laughing.
Oro:
"I ain't posting on your shitty little blog."
Flannel:
So, I think the other two covered most of this. REPO! The Genetic Opera is an amazing film. Best character? Toss up between the Repo Man and Graverobber. Repo Man made me happy because he was creepy as hell and enjoyed his job WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too much, but Graverobber was just this awesome combination of talent, creep, and charisma that just draws you in. He served as a narrator of sorts, starting and ending the movie. He was involved in some major scenes, though, so he went beyond your basic narration.
Also, Shiloh was Alexa Vega from Spy Kids. It was amazing to find out. Also kinda cool to find out that Paris Hilton CAN act and CAN kinda sing. I was rather impressed.
All in all, I really enjoyed this film. I would recommend to everyone, especially the weak of stomach. Mainly because I have a streak of schadenfruede. The music was fantastic, the acting was magnificent, and the world was perfect. I saw on Wiki that they are considering a sequel or a prequel. I think a prequel would be phenomenal. I would love to see the story of Shiloh's Mother.
So yeah. Go watch this. Go watch it hard. So hard. SHAMEFULLY HARD. Just do it.
Also, Paris Hilton's face fell off. And she auctioned it. And one of her brothers killed the top 3 bidders. The other brother won the auction, and now wears her face. Ah, incestuous face love.
Izzy:
So yeah. We all enjoyed it, and, I think, would recommend it. Kinda fun doing this joint post thing, too.
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