YMMV / Repo Man

• Angst? What Angst?: After Otto loses his girlfriend to his best friend, he's angstless when he runs into them at a punk club.
• Awesome Music: Essentially L.A. Punk: The Soundtrack/Greatest Hits album you need to own. Now.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: A punk at a party wears a Sid Vicious t-shirt. Alex Cox's next film was Sid & Nancy.
• Special Effect Failure: At the start of the scene where Otto vomits over the side of the bridge, Emilio Estevez clearly has something in his mouth.
• Unintentional Period Piece:
  • Nuclear paranoia was much more relevant during the Cold War than it is now.
  • The 1980s punk scene is a large presence in the film.
  • The generic product labels date it to the early 80s, when they were ubiquitous in supermarkets, before stores dumped them in favor of putting off-brand products into "store brand" packaging that looked more like their name brand counterparts.
  • Downtown L.A. become much less of a shithole in the years that followed, so the trash-strewn esthetic looks more like clever set design than it actually was.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: On the other hand, the car's sickly green glow is perfectly realized.

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