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Summary: You're So Cool!
Review: "True Romance" is a personal favorite. Watching it for the first time a decade ago, was mind-blowing. Not since I was young and saw "Star Wars", has a movie so completely transported me, and given me such an overwhelming experience. The movie was my introduction to Quentin Tarantino's world, it's an amalgam of everything I love about his work. This is a touchstone of 90's cinema, a film geek essential. This movie contains classic scene after classic scene. The awesome grand finale is the best mexican standoff since "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly". I love this movie! Revisiting "True Romance" is like seeing old friends again. While the film itself is the usual Quentin Tarantino goofiness, the pace and the acting makes this film a must see. And the acting is incredible--most especially Christopher Walken and Dennis Hopper. Their final confrontation scene may be one of the most amazing dialogs between two great actors ever filmed. How the director gets performances like this out of all his actors amazes me. From James Gandolfini to Tom Sizemore to Brad Pitt to Hopper and Walken, and especially Gary Olman as Drexel, well they all deliver. Christopher Walken & Dennis Hopper share a brief moment in this movie, and it is, without a doubt, the best display of passive aggressive behaviour in any movie, ever. To be honest, I never liked Christian Slater, but he is okay in this movie. The Last scene in the Producer's Hotel Suite is also fantastic. How the hell does Tarantino write such masterpieces? Simply Superb Movie.
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Summary: Tarantino At His Average
Review: This wasn't what I thought it would be. I expected a romance or something and it's all action. But for this kind of movie, it's fun but language is serious and violence is MORE serious. For Quentin Tarantino, it's about average which means an enjoyable violent, fun crime movie (as if violence is ever fun). But the stars in this blew me away: Brad Pitt, Dennis Hopper, Patricia Arquette, Christopher Walken, Val Kilmer, Gary Oldman, and the list keeps going. Just when you think you've seen them all, another pops into the scene completely unexpected.One of the wierd things about this, is that except for a VERY drunk and high Brad Pitt (perhaps playing himself) throughout, none of the big names made another appearance after you first saw them, and yet the way the story moved, this still works here.
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Summary: CONTRIVED BUT WATCHABLE TARANTINO CONTRAPTION.
Review: This is Tarantino and you know it about 40 minutes into the movie. Which is not as quick as one would want, the movie begins with a really drippy "romance" between a floozie and a (pathetically mis-cast) Christian Slater. Based on the idea of the underclass conquering the powerful bigshots the film sees two nobodies dice with death, to find their dream in paradise. Fair enough theme. But trust QT and Tony Scott to make a wannabe mess of that theme, just in the interests of making a doozie. The movie has moments that feel like you are watching Pulp Fiction or Reservoir Dogs, which thus give you a glimmer of hope for something worthwhile to come, but that bit comes in the last 20 minutes or so of the movie when the plot finally begins -- drugs, shootouts, a zonked out Brad Pitt etc, with about 60% of the F-words completely unnecessary. Then there are gaping WTFs. Christopher Walkern, a Sicillian honcho simply vanishes after a cooldude scene with Dennis Hopper. Difficult to see how that fit into the scheme of things other than some pseudo-cool dialogue that carries the sophistication of "your mama" jibes (literally.) Towards the end, we are supposedly meant to enjoy the vicious beating up of Patricia Arquette at the hands of Gondolfini, much in keeping with the gore fest that Tarantino is associated with. Thank you, have a nice day. Next. There's so much insufferably maudlin stuff about Elvis, it made the movie come perilously close to a run-of-the-mill chickflick. Finally, Tony Scott has his photographer shoot with the usual irritating filters, back lighting and blacked out faces presumably because Jeffrey Kimball felt that if you have one photographic idea in fifteen years it's got to be worth repeating. The point is, as it usually is in a typical QT self-contradiction, that you wouldn't want to meet these characters on the street, but these are simply created for online entertainment in our little bizarre modern fairytale. Yawn.
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Summary: Truly A Great Movie
Review: One of the best movies that Tarintino has ever written! It's just too bad that he didnt direct it it would have been much better I bet. This was a very fun film to watch. And its great too because if you have a date you might think of renting True Romance because its about love and all. This movie had great little sub-plots. And an awsome all start cast. Tarintino is a genius!
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Summary: Incredible movie.
Review: Watch the lobby shootout scene, and look carefully in the background. The cop holding the shotgun and looking absolutely stupid is my English teacher. He's a much better cop than he is a teacher. The movie, however, is an excellent film.
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Summary: True love is a dangerous thing...
Review: Quentin Tarantino wrote the ultimate guy flick in the form of a romance movie, and then let Tony Scott polish it off with a bit of Hollywood sparkle. The resulting kitschy film comes off not so much a blockbuster epic, nor does it resemble a Tarantino-like piece of art. It just represents a sort of middle of the road movie that really could have been so much more, but still satisfies.. Clarence is a loser, until he meets Alabama, a young prostitute hired to show him a good time for his birthday. The two fall in love, and what starts with Clarence killing her pimp to take back her stuff, results in a cross country chase with Clarence and Alabama toting half a million dollars of cocaine in a suitcase, with the mob and the police on their tail. The biggest draw of the movie is the star power, and more so the chemistry between certain actors and actresses in the many key scenes of the movie. Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken play their cameos to the hilt, while Gary Oldman's performance as an urbanized white pimp absolutely steals the show in the first half of the movie. Up until Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette reach California, the movie remains dark, gritty, violent, and irreverent. But once the sunshine state hits, the slapstick-like comedy takes over, resulting in a shootout ending that doesn't so much make sense as it does distort the overall tone of the movie. You get the sense that no one really knows what the hell is going on, so each character acts their own way. This results in a strangely mesmerizing but disjointed movie experience, as the movie definitely shines and lulls in its given moments. But still, this movie is way smarter and more enjoyable than many other summer blockbusters that get tossed out there and deserved more acclaim in its 1993 debut than it originally received.
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Summary: Rock and Roll with the King
Review: What can you say about a guy who has the King as a Guardian Angel? Either he is as star-crossed as the King was, or he is very lucky. Lots of action and hilarious dialogue. With all the cameos, you may even find your favorite actor in here.
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Summary: True Wild Ride
Review: This film was just a wild ride from the word go. We're suspended in disbelief as we watch one set of insane circumstances beget another. No matter, Christian and Patricia engage us and assure us at each step... yes, it's believable my character would do this. And we nod, hypnotically, yes, you're right. A good film.
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Summary: A classic of the 90's
Review: Quentin Tarintino was a no-name when this movie hit the theaters. I don't remember hearing much press about it when it was released, but I rented it when it first hit the shelves and I was absolutely BLOWN AWAY. This is such a great movie.
The story starts off when Clarence (Christian Slater) and Alabama (Patricia Arquette) meet at a movie theater showing a kung-fu marathon. They spend the night together *nudge, nudge* wink, wink* and realize that they are in love with eachother and have been brought together by fate. Not a pair to let this moment pass, they get married less than 12 hours later. But, it's not quite happily ever after just yet. Alabama was a hooker (employeed for three days)and when Clarence goes to pick up some of her clothes, he gets into a fight with her pimp (Gary Oldman) and ends up killing him. He takes off (accidently leaving his drivers license behind) with a suitcase of Alabama's clothes. When he gets back to his wife - surprise! - it's not a suitcase full of clothes, it's a suitcase filled to the brim with cocaine. They decide to take advantage of the situation and drive out to LA to see Clarence's friend, Dick Richie (Micheal Rappaport)to see if he has any Hollywood connections who would buy half a million dollars worth of cocaine. Of course he does. But the plot gets more tangled as rightful owners of the cocaine (Tony Soprano, Christopher Walken, and others) want their drugs back and try to track them down & the cops are suddenly involved. This movie is full of everything - romance, humor, action, drugs, rock-n-roll, sex. It doesn't get much better than this. Christian Slater is great & Patricia Arquette is the cutest thing ever. The movie is FULL of famous actors (those listed above plus Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmer - who plays the voice of Clarence's alter-Elvis-ego, Brad Pitt)
The unrated directors cut is great because there are scenes added to the movie that weren't in the orginal - more graphic violence, drug use, language, and sex.
You will not be disappointed by this movie. It's a must-see and a must-own!
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Summary: The best motion picture ever . . . E--VER!
Review: Quentin Tarantio struck all the right notes when he wrote this fantastic motion picture, which, in my opinion, is the greatest motion picture of all time. Everyone can find something in this film that will interest him. If you like, action, violence, drugs, sex, and bad language, you will find it here. If, on the other hand, you want comedy, drama, romance, and a good moral, this film has it, too. One feels every emotion possible simply in the ending of this film. It even ends with a photo finish of the sun setting over the ocean. One thing I must say is that I am glad that Quentin Tarantino did not direct this film. I have read the original screenplay, and on the marvelous two-disc DVD, there is a recreated alternate ending. This ending is terrible. Through the whole film, Alabama (Patricia Arquette) is all like, "I love you, Clarence. I love you, I love you, I love you." Then, all of a sudden, she hates his guts. So, thank you, Tony Scott, for forcing Quentin Tarantino to write the greatest ending of all time. This motion picture is a wonderful film that I feel everyone should watch, own, love, and treasure for forever.
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