First, I feel I must clarify something. Putting blood and guts and goth girls in a movie does not make it edgy, a cult classic, or provocative. It also needs to have acting, good songs if it is a musical, and an interesting story. I have not found a movie I have disliked watching more than this in a long time. As my title says, I felt like I was watching some Disney, Jonas bros kind of crap. But whereas Disney channel stories cater to Hollister type crowds, this is for the trendy, just as spoiled teenagers at Hot Topic. To me there was no difference, it was just blood and guts instead of haircuts and glitter.
The lyrics and songs were terrible. The song "infected" was pointedly bad, and I cringed through most of her whiny teenager performance. "I'm infected....with your GENETICS". I believe there was some sort of line like "damn these GENETICS!" that made me want to vomit. The grave robber was some over-made up guy with this brooding "I'm an attractive, brooding trendy goth guy in a music video" attitude. I think he's supposed to come across as deep, mysterious and bad ass, but he just comes across as more of a self-centered, shallow fashion model then Paris Hilton does.
At one point, in a perfect "like srsly omigos u guiz lololol" styled line, she spouts "why, cuz i'm seventeen, well, it's better than forty!" which then cuts to a horrific rock and roll sugar-coated spoiled brat anthem. Every teenybopper who chose hot topic over ambercrombie was probably rocking out. "Ya, my dad is so lame, he makes me take out the trash it's no fair, i'll show him what a bad ass rebel I am!" This one scene, this Joan Jett-respect killing scene, was more painful that any scene I have ever seen in any movie. Ever.
The whole movie was filled with horrible lines that I could go on and on about. Bottom line is this, this movie made me cringe in it's horribleness. Omigosh, guts and singing at the same time? Yes, trendy teenagers go see it and pretend it's ground breaking, and pretend it's a cult classic, but it's not. I love gore movies, I love horror movies, and any self respecting gore hound or true hardcore horror fan will stay away from Repo, forever.
The lyrics and songs were terrible. The song "infected" was pointedly bad, and I cringed through most of her whiny teenager performance. "I'm infected....with your GENETICS". I believe there was some sort of line like "damn these GENETICS!" that made me want to vomit. The grave robber was some over-made up guy with this brooding "I'm an attractive, brooding trendy goth guy in a music video" attitude. I think he's supposed to come across as deep, mysterious and bad ass, but he just comes across as more of a self-centered, shallow fashion model then Paris Hilton does.
At one point, in a perfect "like srsly omigos u guiz lololol" styled line, she spouts "why, cuz i'm seventeen, well, it's better than forty!" which then cuts to a horrific rock and roll sugar-coated spoiled brat anthem. Every teenybopper who chose hot topic over ambercrombie was probably rocking out. "Ya, my dad is so lame, he makes me take out the trash it's no fair, i'll show him what a bad ass rebel I am!" This one scene, this Joan Jett-respect killing scene, was more painful that any scene I have ever seen in any movie. Ever.
The whole movie was filled with horrible lines that I could go on and on about. Bottom line is this, this movie made me cringe in it's horribleness. Omigosh, guts and singing at the same time? Yes, trendy teenagers go see it and pretend it's ground breaking, and pretend it's a cult classic, but it's not. I love gore movies, I love horror movies, and any self respecting gore hound or true hardcore horror fan will stay away from Repo, forever.