Is Repo Man (1984) still the coolest punk rock sci-fi ever made, or is Alex Cox's Reagan-era weirdo masterpiece just a nostalgia trip we can't let go of?

🛸 We're deep into Season 2 of the Cool or Nostalgia Podcast, where the crew is taking on the sci-fi movies that warped our brains growing up and this episode, we're repossessing a glowing '64 Chevy Malibu straight out of the atomic age.

🎬 Released March 2, 1984, Repo Man was first-time director Alex Cox's punk rock middle finger to Reagan-era America. Emilio Estevez stars as Otto, a nihilist suburban punk who loses his grocery store job and gets pulled into the seedy world of car repossession by Harry Dean Stanton's grizzled veteran Bud. Throw in a lobotomized nuclear scientist hauling something radioactive in his trunk, a $20,000 bounty, rival repo crews, CIA agents, UFO  ...