Hands down one of the coolest movies I've ever seen. In the commentary track Alex Cox said he blew the entire movie's special effects budget on glow in the dark paint. He only showed plain generic 1980's store products because he hates corporate product placement. The exception was the pine tree air fresheners... I would always have one on my rear view mirror as a little real-life easter egg.
One of the weirdest, greatest Independent films, ever. I have seen it at least 20 times, I own the DVD. I also saw it within a year or so, of its original release, at a theater. Plus I own a personally signed photo from Harry Dean Stanton, I wrote to him.
0:06- Excuse me, can you fight the system without wasting my beer? 0:30- OMG, you found a way to get the calories out of the Pepsi. 1:04- Oh, we survived all the 1983 nuclear bobs in Threads and The Day After. We'll be fine. 1:21- I'm in.
Haven't seen the film yet. Probably going to watch it tonight. But why would the TV version be the best? I can't imagine why someone would say the TV version is the best for any movie. Censored content, edits, etc....
It's the censorship that makes it funnier (IMO) - all the "F" and "M" words are overdubbed in the TV version with less "offensive" words but in such an obvious and silly way - it rather adds to the oddball humour of the film. There are also a couple of different scenes but nothing that affects the story or the length - in fact, one scene in the TV version but not in the cinema version is one of Stanton's best. You can read about it here, but maybe watch it first ---> www.alexcox.com/dir_repoman.htm
4 doors are Cheaper because are made in bigger numbers and seems like another one of those mid range budget movies, where the most money went onto actors and effects and not much left for anything else. So the cars for example are some scrapyard rescues botched together just to survive the filming and later are tossed back where they been picked up from.
One, because back in 1984, a twenty-year-old Chevy Malibu four-door sedan was _dirt_ cheap, and two, it's less flashy, something to further illustrate the characters' confusion as to why the car is worth several times its value. To put it another way, imagine a modern rendition of this movie, with a 1998 Toyota Tercel in place of the Malibu.
I remember this from over 30 years ago, back in the mid 80s...I was at a friend's house in Jamaica and this movie was playing. The one scene that popped up was the 'cop looking in the trunk scene', and me having NO IDEA what this movie was about (I was only 5-6 years at the time) that one scene scared me to death...
