REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA Apology

So, you guys got me thinking – maybe I'm an asshole. Maybe I watched “Repo! The Genetic Opera” in the wrong frame of mind and maybe I didn't give it the credit that it deserved. I have had so many responses to my review of the film – more than I've ever had before; some I have posted, and some I have not. If I have read one defense 3 or 4 times already, you're review probably didn't get posted because I did not want to read the 5th. But it did get me thinking about how maybe I was the only one with this particular mindset. But then, I happened upon some of these little goodies:

PETER TRAVERS of ROLLING STONE says:
“Talented actors are involved, and I will spare them by not citing their names.”
NATHAN LEE of THE NEW YORK TIMES says:
“Darren Lynn Bousman, the director of several “Saw” sequels, has devised an excruciating new torture with “Repo!”
CLAUDIA PUIG of USA TODAY says:
“Repo! might have been an SNL or MADtv skit, but as a movie, it should be repossessed by its financiers.”
MARK OLSEN of THE LOS ANGELES TIMES says:
“The film is bad -- not good-bad, tacky-bad or fun-bad, just plain awful and nearly unwatchable.”
KURT LODER of MTV says:
“A movie in search of a cult. Good luck.”
KYLE SMITH of THE NEW YORK POST says:
“The smudgy pall cast over everything by director Darren Lynn Bousman might work for a five-minute music video, but it quickly becomes as tiresome as the general air of bombastitude.”
ED GONZALEZ of SLANT MAGAZINE says:
“Give me torture porn any day.”
J. HOBERMAN of THE VILLAGE VOICE says:
“So embarrassing that, for the first time, I wanted to avert my eyes from the screen, although that might have also been because Repo! appears to have been shot with a cell phone.”

So then I thought – “Wow. These are the crème de la crème in terms of film criticism in American today. And these critics seemed to have just as vicious things to say about the film as I did.” I even went and read the full reviews of Mark Olsen and Ed Gonzalez and found them to be far more savage than mine.

So what did I miss? What evaded me that so many of these 'fans' of the film got? What made this film so enjoyable to them and such a waste of time and money to me? THEN IT HIT ME! All of a sudden, it snuck up on me and struck me in the back of the head. It was something I had thought of before but had temporarily forgotten all about. And it came back at just the right time – just when I was about to watch the film AGAIN:

“Repo! The Genetic Opera” is FUCKING AWFUL. There's a reason it's sitting at 33% on Rotten Tomatoes and has received comments like the ones above. There's a reason the film only made $180,000 worldwide and played in a maximum of 11 theatres. If it looks, smells and feels like a piece of shit – guess what, it's a piece of shit. Maybe the problem is that I choose to use profanity in my review of the film. So what? I save the clean stuff for films that deserve it, not complete and distasteful bombs like “Repo!” It deserves every 'fuck' and 'shit' and 'motherfucker' that it receives and then some. Some films are beyond awful. Some films are worthless.

So, this is my APOLOGY to all of you out there who wrote in, shared your thoughts and opinions with me and tried to explain why I was full of shit. I sincerely apologize for not ending this ridiculous diatribe earlier and for allowing it to go on as long as I did. “Repo! The Genetic Opera”, which you poor, pathetic cine-tards have latched onto as your Jesus Christ of modern cinema, is one of the worst films ever made.