Miller was right." The more you drive the less intelligent you are" I have to drive 26 miles to a shitty job that I despise.I'm so fucking stupid by the time I get there I actually go in and work. Serving up plates of shrimp.
So I'm watching this scene and my little brother comes in and tells me "I got the bus from school today", straight after that Miller says "I do most of my thinking on the bus" Plate of shrimp man
I remember listening to Alex Cox talk about his movie and this scene in particular. According to him this scene was written up as an audition piece for the actors trying out for Miller and there was never any intent to include it in the film; however , he was so impressed with Tracy Walters' reading that he decided to write it in. Tracey Walters is the king of the character actors!
I love the circular reasoning of people from the future using flying saucer/time machines to go to the distant, pre-human past in order to beget the species. Just another great and funny idea in a film full of them.
Of course, later in the film as the Brothers are standing outside the diner at the phone booth after Duke and the gang steal the car, the sign in the window reads, "Plate O Shrimp"
Yeah, the Plate Of Shrimp example is amazing when it does happen, but there's a flip side to that coin: What about the other 99.9% of the time where it doesn't happen?? I'll give you an example: Suppose you're thinking about a box of extension cords. Yet no one mentions anything about a box of extension cords... or any sort of box or cords. You don't think about how freaky the universe is then, do you? This a great movie by the way, just got it on Blu Ray, watching it for the third time.
People are much like the flaming barrel of shit being stoked by an intelligent being who doesn't drive! Though, at the end o the day, we all must sleep...
@hogcontroller That kind of thing actually happened to me. Just a month or so after I'd seen this film I'd just arrived home for the holidays. I started telling my father about this big synchronistic thing that happened on the way, which he didn't understand at all. So he hands me a plate of shrimp - literally! He didn't say there was some in the refrigerator why don't I have some, and no one else was eating. I freaked! In my defense, I was only 18. But, 26 years later it's still weird.
Most quotable movie ever and nobody's ever seen it. I suppose that's a good thing. It would piss me off if people went around quoting it like it was Office Space.
Its true you know. The universe is far stranger than any fiction. I know this to be true in cold hard fact. Otto is transcendent in his understanding of lifes vague.interconnections.
"If only there were some way of finding out how much they owe. And then makin' 'em pay." SEEE? Those guys were totally time-traveling -- they're talking about the subprime mortgage crisis.
Way too cool, this is one of the scenes in "Repo Man" that rules. Miller's explaination of "weirdness" does make sense. "The more you drive, the less intelligent you are",,,lol, for some people I seen around here in my hometown, that is very true, not too many safe drivers here,,lol.
the lattice of coincidence is no joke-happens to me all the time. example:watching old blondie video on-ya you guessed it-youtube and i look at my t.v.-and theres debby harry acting on "tales from the dark side". anybody else?
The whole movie has a hidden message... I think I'm the only one that has actually noticed it. But it's very obvious to someone with a little bit of esoteric knowledge. If somebody else knows what I'm talking about please leave me a comment.
One Day my wife called me up from work, she was going on and on about something that didn't make sense, so I waited until she was done, said goodbye and hung up... Redialled and said "Shrimp, plate of shrimp... confused? Good" *click* She called back 15 minutes later still laughing ;)
Miller was right." The more you drive the less intelligent you are" I have to drive 26 miles to a shitty job that I despise.I'm so fucking stupid by the time I get there I actually go in and work. Serving up plates of shrimp.
So I'm watching this scene and my little brother comes in and tells me "I got the bus from school today", straight after that Miller says "I do most of my thinking on the bus"
Plate of shrimp man
I remember listening to Alex Cox talk about his movie and this scene in particular. According to him this scene was written up as an audition piece for the actors trying out for Miller and there was never any intent to include it in the film; however , he was so impressed with Tracy Walters' reading that he decided to write it in. Tracey Walters is the king of the character actors!
"The more you drive, the less intelligent you are."
That would make the BEST bumper sticker!
There's some absolute genius in the dialog of this movie.
I ate shrimp after seeing this movie, I was planning to anyway....must be the cosmos telling me something.
This film should be played every night at 9pm until everyone realises how it should be a part of their lives. It's timeless too
Hear, hear!!
A couple people asked: They are burning the junk they find in the cars they repo.
You'll find one in every car. You'll see.
"You know the way everybody's into weirdness right now?"
Jesus fuck so funny and perfect
a movie to live your life by.
I love the circular reasoning of people from the future using flying saucer/time machines to go to the distant, pre-human past in order to beget the species. Just another great and funny idea in a film full of them.
II also love the way Otto just walks away at the end. No comment.... just walks.....
That was a l ron hubbard book that otto threw into the flames
It was actually a parody of his first book Dianetics called "Dioretix" as in like the diuretics that you put up your ass.
Mike Haggar yes
Mike Haggar Suppositories...you might as well shove ‘em up yo ass for all the good they’ll do.
Miller would definitely be an interesting neighbor
I bet ol travolta and cruise cried when they see this clip
LMAO! This scene is better than the entirety of their whole career.
This scene is fucking classic. "Did you do a lot of acid, Miller? back in the hippie days?" ROFLMAO
"How the fuck do I know?"
I love Miller because I AM Miller!
Hugh K. Ayers That was Tracy Walter, numbnuts. Let's see you burn some rags and prove it!
On the cover of Dioretix is that a picture of the aliens? The aliens that Otto thinks look like shrimp. It all begins to make sense now.
The Mayans not only invented television. They also invented Daniel Pinchbeck.
That's my life: a lattice of coincidences.
Of course, later in the film as the Brothers are standing outside the diner at the phone booth after Duke and the gang steal the car, the sign in the window reads, "Plate O Shrimp"
Ain't no difference between a flying saucer and a time machine...
Dioretix: The Science of Matter over Mind
Don't ask me why, but I suddenly have a hankering for shrimp.
Yeah, the Plate Of Shrimp example is amazing when it does happen, but there's a flip side to that coin: What about the other 99.9% of the time where it doesn't happen?? I'll give you an example: Suppose you're thinking about a box of extension cords. Yet no one mentions anything about a box of extension cords... or any sort of box or cords. You don't think about how freaky the universe is then, do you?
This a great movie by the way, just got it on Blu Ray, watching it for the third time.
They are burning clothes that were left in the Repo cars.
A classic scene from a classic film
How the Mayans invented television...
People are much like the flaming barrel of shit being stoked by an intelligent being who doesn't drive! Though, at the end o the day, we all must sleep...
the life of a Repo man is always intense
saw this in the theater when it first came out. it was just my brother and me and it was gone within the week.
Sums it all up. ALL of it.
I'm watching this in 2053 and there no other fuckers around.
@hogcontroller That kind of thing actually happened to me. Just a month or so after I'd seen this film I'd just arrived home for the holidays. I started telling my father about this big synchronistic thing that happened on the way, which he didn't understand at all. So he hands me a plate of shrimp - literally! He didn't say there was some in the refrigerator why don't I have some, and no one else was eating. I freaked! In my defense, I was only 18. But, 26 years later it's still weird.
“You don’t even know how to drive!”
“I don’t wanna know how, I don’t wanna learn see!”
“The more you drive, the less intelligent you are.”
You repo men, man, you're all out to fucking lunch.
Suppose you're thinking a out uh... Plate of shrimp
Always loved this movie. Underrated.
my ex used to talk about how every day i drove under the lobotomy bridge on my way to work so i stopped
Dudes really out here talking about the noosphere.
Most quotable movie ever and nobody's ever seen it. I suppose that's a good thing. It would piss me off if people went around quoting it like it was Office Space.
synthstatic This movie and Caddyshack.
I believe you have my stapler?
Its true you know. The universe is far stranger than any fiction. I know this to be true in cold hard fact. Otto is transcendent in his understanding of lifes vague.interconnections.
"If only there were some way of finding out how much they owe. And then makin' 'em pay." SEEE? Those guys were totally time-traveling -- they're talking about the subprime mortgage crisis.
Way too cool, this is one of the scenes in "Repo Man" that rules. Miller's explaination of "weirdness" does make sense. "The more you drive, the less intelligent you are",,,lol, for some people I seen around here in my hometown, that is very true, not too many safe drivers here,,lol.
TAYLOR YARD----------SOUTHERN PACIFIC R.I.P.
They think I come to kill em; and I would.
the man/actor/writer of his words speaks truth
It's all so clear to me now.
I finally understand.
The SubGenius must have slack!
Found it in a Mazuradi in Beverly Hills...know what I mean?
Just enough truth in this movie to make it great.
It's the chicken or the egg dilemma. If people from the future are taking people to the past, then where did the people from the future come from?
where are they at in los angeles by the river???
OBRA MAESTRA
miller explains "the secet"
heh love this movie.
I read this monologue in my voice and diction class in college, got an A.
:)
Miller, Tracey Walter, also scores in MUMMY DADDY as a perfect explainer about out of state happenings ! !
Southern Pacific Taylor yard.......(gone)
Miller for president
True that. If we ever travel to other stars it will probably be because of the work of Mexican scientist, Miguel Alcubierre.
Plate of shrimp.
Plate o' shrimp!
the Repo code....
I think this relates to Carl Jung's theory of Synchroncity.
right you are, same thing, love that psychoanalyst
THE LATTICE IS REAL, PEOPLE
The more you drive.....
Ted kaczynski would say...
ricky bobby
Hey! That book will change your life! HAHAHAHAHA!
the lattice of coincidence is no joke-happens to me all the time. example:watching old blondie video on-ya you guessed it-youtube and i look at my t.v.-and theres debby harry acting on "tales from the dark side". anybody else?
plate of shrimp
the one person who disliked this is the one flying the time machine.
@Trikkerman3 My friends and I still use it. What is your meaning? For us it's about synchronicity.
you do a lot of acid miller? back in the hippy days? LOLOL
Interesting theories...
Come on people!
Dioretix, the science of matter over mind.
flying saucers...which are really ....yeah you got it...TIME MACHINES!
fucking interesting theory man.
Of course they went to the past. Miller was right. A lot of weirdness around like the Mayans inventing tv.
Anybody know What they are burning in this scene, looks like clothing and a hat... ? Does it tie in
@blue32ism
Man, you're so right.
The meaning of life
Classic.
Hmm,Shrimps...
The whole movie has a hidden message... I think I'm the only one that has actually noticed it. But it's very obvious to someone with a little bit of esoteric knowledge. If somebody else knows what I'm talking about please leave me a comment.
am i late for leaving a comment here?
The more you drive, the less intelligent you are!
.. a lattice of coincidence laying all over everything
@KENKENNIFF There is no way he can do worse than the Presidents since 2000.
He burned a Dioretix book lol
One Day my wife called me up from work, she was going on and on about something that didn't make sense, so I waited until she was done, said goodbye and hung up... Redialled and said
"Shrimp, plate of shrimp... confused? Good" *click*
She called back 15 minutes later still laughing ;)
wanna get back in the car?
You eat a lotta acid, Miller, back in the hippy days?
@38WishDreamer Nice!
monologo de aquellos...
Exactly, isn't anybody listening ta Miller!?
@NegFi We new then too. FLYING SAUCERS!