Talk:Repo! The Genetic Opera

not a comedy
this film is in no way any sort of a comedy, i removed it from the comedy category's

Thankyou random stranger. Also, for some reason it's in the "comedy musical" category! What the heck? Perhaps anti-repo sentiment labelling it as a "joke" perhaps? The conspiracy widens! Dun dun dun! Who to trust? What to do? The misinformation campaign has begun...

In the meantime, I'm going to remove it from said category, anyone who disagrees can fight me to the death/justify why they think it's something it's not. Crazybilby (talk) 23:47, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

The director says it's part comedy in the commentary tracks on the DVD. They refer to a critic saying he felt bad for the filmmakers that the audience was laughing at the movie. When you have cartoon noises playing as Luigi mimes sex with thin air, or Nathan using a dead body as a ventriloquist dummy with falsetto voice to finish a duet... I'm in the LA shadowcast and have had a number of conversations with Terrance. It's meant to make you laugh. It's at least part comedy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.74.174.180 (talk) 11:27, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Of course it is part comedy. Apparently some folks just have no sense of humor. The film is not only comedic but obviously intended as such. Ronald Joe Record (talk) 18:38, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

I agree. After seeing this two times it is definitely a comedy, though many might consider it a 'black comedy'. I have a few examples: Repo manipulating the body's mouth like a puppet in "Thankless Job", scenes involving Pavi and Luigi's treatment of the Genterns and the silliness of the Graverobber character (he shouts "graves" at the top of his lungs while trying to be sneaky and avoid the police). 11:00, 20 October 2011 (GMT+0) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.184.63.239 (talk)

Plot quotes
What is with all the parenthesised-quotes throughout the plot section? i.e. the bits at the end of sentances such as ("Shilo Wakes") ("21st Century Cure") ("Legal Assassin") ("Zydrate Support Network") etc...? 150.101.156.249 (talk) 02:41, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Those are the names of the songs during those scenes in the musical. --OuroborosCobra (talk) 03:19, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Marked as Biased
This is the most biased article I have ever come across. The critical reception portion focuses on positive quotes from minor fan sites, while ignoring overwhelmingly negative reviews from the film community at large. Ben Lyons, an actual film critic, is quoted by Rotten Tomatoes as saying "I don't know if words can describe just how awful and disgusting and insulting this movie was to watch." It's this sort of criticism that needs to be addressed before the bias flag can be removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.198.189.154 (talk) 01:02, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

It would be good to get some truly neutral writing on this work, it seems like the only people writing are either extremely for or against the opera... 86.19.203.76 (talk) 05:49, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

Zydrate chemistry
Might be a minor point, but I don't think the stuff Graverobber sucks up from corpses is undigested Zydrate that, presumably, the corpses took, back when they were living people.

I think the idea is Zydrate is MADE from something in corpses. Either by processing the green stuff off-screen, or perhaps it just naturally occurs. To be fair, they didn't really address that, but I'd guess the stuff from the corpses is "raw" Zydrate, an ingredient. It doesn't really affect the plot too much, though it's a bit of a loose end.

Anyway... point is, the bit in the article about it being actual Zydrate that "doesn't seem to decay with the body", I don't think is correct. It would require almost everyone to have been taking it before their death (possible, I suppose, but it's supposed to go along with being a plastic-surgery junkie). Graverobber seems to hit success with every corpse he sticks the needle into. So I think it's some naturally-occurring thing. That glows green. From brains.

Oh, it's a silly film...

188.29.165.149 (talk) 16:34, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Related films
71.80.203.159 (talk) 20:09, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repo_Chick
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repo_Man_(film)
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repo_Men
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repo!_The_Genetic_Opera

"See Also" section
The 2011 film Elysium is in Repo's "See Also" section - how are the two films related at all? There's a tenuous link in "films about healthcare in the future", I guess, but that subcategory must include thousands of sci fi films. Elysium should be removed from the Repo page.