I bought a DVD of it and it was pretty good. Filmed entirely in front of a green screen. I had seen the trailer for it and the brief shots of the green screen effects didn't look terribly good. I read someone attack it by falsely claiming they had used stock photos as backdrops to the scenes. In fact, they used a lot of models. They bought a lot of model railroad supplies to construct the miniatures they used in the chroma key shots.
It was like when I was in preschool. They wheeled in a TV and turned on Mr Rogers Neighborhood. It started with a shot of a model of the neighborhood with little toy cars parked on the streets. I wanted to see more of that, but they cut to Mr Rogers singing and changing his shoes.
It was like the Japanese movie I Attacked Pearl Harbor which re-enacted World War Two battles using Godzilla-like special effects.
Alex Cox had planned to make Repo Chick, a non-sequel to Repo Man, for six to eight million dollars. When he couldn't raise the money, he did it this was for around $100,000. The filming went extremely fast. The DVD had a doc about the making of the movie and they said they could film 20 pages of script in a day.
I had some thought about doing something in front of a green screen. It would have been far cruder, of course. I thought this movie would give me some confidence in the idea, and it did to some degree, but I could never do all that stuff.
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