The Irksome Fowl

Alright, I was just having a conversation with some friends and I felt the need to get this out into the open very quick and forcefully. I am a huge fan and supporter of Darren Lynn Bouseman's latest movie, the Rocky Horror style rock-opera, Repo! The Genetic Opera. Now most of you have probably never heard of Repo! so I will briefly summarize:

In the year 2056 - the not so distant future - an epidemic of organ failures devastates the planet. Out of the tragedy, a savior emerges: GeneCo, a biotech company that offers organ transplants, for a price. Those who miss their payments are scheduled for repossession and hunted by villainous Repo Men. In a world where surgery addicts are hooked on painkilling drugs and murder is sanctioned by law, a sheltered young girl searches for the cure to her own rare disease as well as information about her family's mysterious history. After being sucked into the haunting world of GeneCo, she is unable to turn back, as all of her questions will be answered at the wildly anticipated spectacular event: The Genetic Opera

So, that being said I have a major problem. This movie is fantastic. Its smart and funny and original albeit campy but it is a good movie. I have personally traveled across the country to see this movie at certain events and I would never have traded the experience. Look around your area and find the nearest place that is playing or will be playing Repo! and go out and see it. You will not be disappointed.

So back to the purpose of this rant. Repo! being a genuinely good and original movie has gotten a slew of bad reviews. I'm only going to pull out one because it is the one that pisses me off to no end and hope the author of said review reads this and chokes on it. So here it goes.

FUCK YOU KURT LODER

How stupid do you have to be to actually think you have the right to say anything about this movie? YOU WORK FOR MTV - YOU HAVE NO CREDIBILITY

You're review of Repo! is biased and unintelligent and that is merely putting it nicely. As an employee of MTV you can not comment on anything musical for the simple reason that MTV DOESN'T PLAY MUSIC. They stopped playing music in the mid-90s when reality TV hit it big. It has been so long since I can remember MTV playing music that I was probably in diapers at the time. So with that being stated I will now calmly state my issues.

1. If you are going to criticize a rock opera, at least watch it. Kurt's summation of Repo! isn't even accurate.
2. If you are going to be a reviewer for MTV go review something that has nothing to do with music. MTV is no longer a credible source when it comes to music and the world knows it.
3. Sarah Brightman(actress/singer who played Blind Mag in Repo! and Christine in the Original Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera", also a world renowned opera singer) WANTED to be in Repo! She wasn't tricked or scammed and she has been on TV as saying so. Get your facts straight before spreading lies.
4. I don't care if you were editor of Rolling Stone in the 80s, you left there and went to MTV to forsake everything musical and follow the crowd of screaming pop culture preteens whose opinion of music ranges from the depressing faux angst of Fall Out Boy and Dashboard Confessionals to the ill-tempered and masoginistic stylings of Kanye West and 50 Cent.

I'd write more but its honestly just getting me furious. I can't stand this stuck-up snobbish society that we currently occupy. People like Kurt Loder never went out to a Repo! showing when it was in theaters or on one of the three Repo Road Tour events that spanned the country and will soon be going to the UK. They never saw the throngs of fans dressed as characters or singing along with the screen, they watched it in a theater with other critics all wanting to say the same thing and following the social preconceptions that the term "rock opera" has incurred. That's all I'll say on this.

Want to check out Kurt Loder's lies? Here's the review of Repo! The Genetic Opera

How about seeing for yourself and checking out Repo! The Genetic Opera