{"id":32596,"date":"2024-04-05T10:29:39","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T15:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=32596"},"modified":"2024-04-05T10:29:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T15:29:39","slug":"it-has-been-weeks-since-i-quoted-repo-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/05\/it-has-been-weeks-since-i-quoted-repo-man\/","title":{"rendered":"It Has Been Weeks Since I Quoted Repo Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wilder goes down the list of films <a href=\"\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">of 1984<\/a>, including <em>Repo Man<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Repo Man \u2013 A movie about an alien in the trunk of a car being driven around by the physicist who developed the neutron bomb.  In a weird twist, the movie was actually one of the favorites of the actual inventor of the neutron bomb.  The movie still holds up.  There\u2019s one in every car.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My son bought a set of vanilla-lemon pine tree deodorizers and put one in the truck he takes to school.  When I saw it, I pointed to it and said, &#8220;Find one in every car.  You&#8217;ll see.&#8221;  Even though I had not seen the film in nearly thirty years; it was <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/05\/i-think-another-friend-has-died\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Glenn<\/a>&#8216;s favorite movie, so we watched it when I stayed with him ca 1994 or 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and Wilder says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Conan the Destroyer \u2013 Okay, a sequel.  But by far a better movie than the first one.  There was supposed to be a third, but that ended up being Kull, which was a pretty good 1990s movie with Sorbo.  Arnie was also starting to learn to an actor, rather than just being huge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am pretty sure the third film turned out to be <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/18\/on-all-the-conan-movies\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Red Sonja<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilder goes down the list of films of 1984, including Repo Man: Repo Man \u2013 A movie about an alien in the trunk of a car being driven around by the physicist who developed the neutron bomb. In a weird twist, the movie was actually one of the favorites of the actual inventor of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32597,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32596\/revisions\/32597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}