If you've seen Repo Men, feel free to read on. If you HAVE NOT seen it, and do not wish to be spoiled, do NOT read further.
This isn't going to go into my thoughts of Repo Men as a movie-- which, until the ending, I was actually surprisingly not angry with, almost pleased. This is more of a comparison piece.
The things it stole from R!TGO, in my opinion: the singer with robotic eyes, the street drug, the freaking barcodes on the organs, the repo man tool kit, the logos for advertising, and, uh, the general freaking plot (repo man versus the company).
What made no sense to me (besides certain plot elements that made no sense, but they had to do with the Repo Men story and not R!TGO) was that there was no real reason for those certain things to be the way they were. The singer had no need for robotic eyes, since her singing was not a factor after her first scene. The street drug was red and came in a little vial, but they never went into any depth with it, it was just a visual element of the movie (it worked well that way, but STILL). I suppose I understand the barcodes, and the barcodes worked their way into being an essential element of the plot, but still... the main logo for the ads for it was a little too close to REPO!'s main logo, and the tool kit for the repo men could have been presented muuuch differently.
Interestingly enough, there is Terrance Zdunich's latest blog about this subject, although it is more addressing the which-came-first issue:
http://www.terrancezdunich.com/blog/?p=3223 
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