Last night I had a date night with my girlfriend, Jacquelynn, Jax for short.. Our date nights consist of us staying in, getting on skype, and talking to each other while watching a movie and/or tv show, playing some games, talking, and/or other stuff. It's a good time. I greatly enjoy our date night because they seem special compared to what we do most nights. Even if it still all revolves around skype. Last night, Jax picked the movie, as she generally does. (She is a bit more picky than I am. I pick every once in a random blue moon maybe.) She picked Repo - The Genetic Opera. She had heard many great things about it, plus it was about to go off of netflix instant streaming. (trying to be spoiler free) So, "roll film".
I am greatly disappointed in this movie. I really didn't like it at all. I think the concept of the film was interesting. I heard one person say that they tried to focus on too many things with genetics, drug addiction, and organ trafficking. While 90 minutes is a bit short to try to do all this, that didn't really seem to be the problem with me. I feel the author was showing the destruction of two family with a similar dark past. These are all important elements that play into their demise. The big thing for me was the dialogue. Spoken it was alright. Nothing special. But the songs were terrible. Most of the songs seemed to just be regular conversations that were now sung and maybe repeated a bit more. That bothers me. I'm not an expert on musicals at all, but, when a conversation is turned into a song, it shouldn't feel like a conversation with music laid behind it. You can take some liberties, make it more interesting, have more emotion behind it.
Speaking of emotion, I had none from this movie. I am an emotional guy...I cry a good bit. Things make me sad. I couldn't really connect with anyone in this movie, none of their plights mattered to me. They just seemed to make bad decisions for NO reason at all. I'm not talking about bad horror movie type decisions where you know you would never walk up to the creepy crying child in a back alley. Not that kind of bad. bad where you just don't understand why they just did that. A girl runs away from an offered cure to her sickness to then run back to get the cure...What? The singing didn't help. There were a few powerful notes in the play. Most moments where they could have them just fell flat. It made me sad...Well, actually it made me feel nothing. Which made me sad. The one character that made me feel was a grave robber who was barely in the film.
I am also still not entirely sure what the point of the movie was. Some people died and those people had a shared past of anger and hatred. But...there just didn't seem to really be a real reason for why things happened. The catalyst was uninviting, or at least ill explained. The scenes they were trying to explain things were just random and mostly unhelpful.
All in all, a pretty bad movie. I am glad I watched it though. Which may seem weird. I like movies. And I have seen worse
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