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Summary: True Romance Is PURE gold
Review: 'True Romance' was written by one of the best writer/director's of all time...Quentin Tarantino. He did a very nice job with the writing. The casters put a pretty good cast in it, too. Especially with Patricia Arquette. She was good as Christian Slater's love interest. Christian Slater was good, too. He was also good in 'Interview With The Vampire' (Also with Brad Pitt).
Well, the story is about a man named Clarence (Christian Slater) who falls in love with a call girl named Alabama (Patricia Arquette). Alabama tells Clarence that she wants to go away somewhere and that all of her stuff is at her Pimp (Gary Oldman)'s place. He goes there and he kills him. He asks another hooker to get Alabama's stuff, and she does. But when Clarence brings it to Alabama she opens it, but it's not her stuff. It's a suitcase full of coke! So they go across country to get help from Clarence's friend Dick to hide from the mob. Then, the mob comes, and it's a whole mess! And the rest, well, you have to go go and see it...
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Summary: Don't buy this yet
Review: There is a unrated special edition coming in september of 2002, so you might want hold off on getting this now. I don't know the specs or special features but it has to be better the the bare bones disk.
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Summary: True Tarantino
Review: This movie didnt get the proper respect that it has deserved over the years. This is one of Tarantino's best, second of course to Pulp Fiction. This movie is about an Elvis obsessed comic book store worker played by Christian Slater, who falls head over heels with a call girl played by Patricia Arquette. But the path to true romance is never smooth. On their journey to bliss they get involved and unknowingly screw up a drug deal and now have to get rid of the stuff before the mob boss played by Christopher Walken, catches up to them. All in all this movie is filled with action and humorous parts. Brad Pitt does an excellent job as the stoner roommate of Slater's friend in California. This movie is great and I recommend it to any Tarantino fan.
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Summary: Tarantino through and through
Review: This movie is an unforgettable thrill ride from start to finish. Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette are phenominal as the flawed heroes. Gary Oldman is great as the inner-city pimp and drug dealer. You'd never know he's British from his accent here! In addition to being packed with action and great dialogue, this movie contains two of the best scenes ever made in Hollywood. The first is an intense showdown between Clarence (Slater) and Drexel (Oldman) as Clarence shows up at Drexel's place to retrieve his newlywed bride Alabama's (Arquette) things. He's packing heat because of a conversation he had with "Elvis" in his bathroom. This scene will leave you stupified. The second scene takes place in Clarence's father's (Dennis Hopper) trailer when a mob boss (Christopher Walken) shows up looking for Clarence. Walken introduces himself to Hopper in classic Tarantino style - "I am the antichrist. You tell the angels in Heaven that you have never seen evil so singularly personified as you did in the face of the man who killed you." This is an absolute MUST own, MUST watch and rewatch. They don't make them much better than this!
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Summary: Larger-than-life
Review: No doubt this is one of my favorite movies. I was surprised at first to discover that its director was the same guy who made "Top Gun" but it makes a certain kind of sense. The movie is kind of comic-booky, perhaps a reflection of the innocence and distorted reality of the two main characters-Clarence thinks that Elvis talks to him. Everything is larger-than-life, and Clarence and Alabama are super cool and beautiful, even-when they're in the midst of a bloodbath.
What really makes this a fantastic movie though, is the way it combines so much cool stuff into a movie without the plot becoming overly complex. The script is great, the music by Hans Zimmer is great, and all of the little supporting performances-like Brad Pitt, Samuel L. Jackson, and Bronson Pinchot-are great.
At times the love story seems a little corny, but Patricia Arquette and Christian Slater do such a good job of selling it that I can believe that they fell completely in love in one night. In their idealized, cartoony way, they have.
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Summary: a good romance if you like Christian Slater
Review: I love Christian Slater-so I actually like him in anything. But if your looking for a great movie pass this one by. It is a good rent. I wouldn't buy it. If you love love stories then this might fill your afternoon. Not a must see but a cute movie.
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Summary: Comic Book Clerk Spots Elvis in his Bathroom
Review: What happens when you learn how to be a man from the big screen? Clarence Worley is about to find out since his old man was rarely around. When he needs to think, he goes into the bathroom. Guess who visits him there--- ELVIS! Who else? While not considered Quentin Tarantino's masterpiece, this film is important as we think about boys' initiation into manhood. What are we teaching? What is he learning? The cast is stellar. Patricia Arquette gets one of the gutsiest fight scenes I've ever seen. The dangerously handsome James Gandolfini appears as do a hyped-up Michael Rappaport and a couch potatoed Brad Pitt. Now that I think about it, everyone is in this film (Val Kilmer, Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken, Samuel L. Jackson, Chris Penn, Gary Oldman, Balki- can't remember his real name- Bartakamous, Daphne's fiancee from "Frasier"). A film that is important and didn't get the respect it deserved. (Very violent & Frequent use of the F- word.)
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Summary: the other actors in this great movie...
Review: I couldn't read all 100 reviews, but wanted to make sure someone mentioned the other great actors in this picture. Anybody spot chameleon actor James Gandolfini (the Sopranos, the Mexican, the Last Castle, Get Shorty) as Virgil, the mob guy who beats up (I mean beats up) Alabama? If you blink, you'll miss Samuel L. Jackson's appearance. And that's Chris Penn (not Sean as someone mentioned) as Nicky Dimes, and Tom Sizemore (Big Trouble, Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down), as Cody. I also didn't see anyone mention Bronson Pinchot, who's quirky character Elliot sort of bookends Serge, the character he played in Beverly Hills Cop. Finally, let's not forget Saul Rubinek (The Family Man, Rush Hour 2, 1000 other movies) as Lee. My point is this picture doesn't just work because of Q.T.s script or Tony Scott's direction, but because they assembled ALL the right people to play the parts, big and small.
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Summary: Greatest "American" Movie of the 90s?
Review: I am sure my title for this review will generate more than a few cyber-eyerolls, but I mean it in all seriousness (kind of). This movie is chock full of all the American pop-culture references you can handle. These range from Christian Slater-as-Clarence's comic book store ("Heros for Sale"), to his predilection for 70s kung-fu movies, to the Elvis figure that actually haunts him and directs him at key moments in his life (an Elvis that is played in a sort of cameo by Val Kilmer). It also has some of the best and oddest performances of pretty much everyone involved: Val Kilmer (as Elvis mentioned above), Dennis Hopper as Clarence's ultimately wise but washed-out security guard father living in a trailer by the railroad tracks, Brad Pitt has a great small role as "Floyd" the good-natured stoner (another one of his great "grimy" characters), James Gandolfini (Tony Soprano) makes what might be his film debut(?) as a sadistic hit-man, Gary Oldman is perfect as the gloriously pimped-out and evil "Drexel", and how could anyone forget Patricia Arquette as the jiggly "Alabama"? Throw all this together with the pacing and camera work of "Top Gun" (thanks to director Tony Scott) and the typically-brilliant script provided by Tarantino, and that is why I would tentatively nominate "True Romance" as my "Best American Movie of the early-90s".p.s.
Some other great performers that I didn't get a chance to mention in my review, and that make this movie as entertaining as it is, are: Christopher Walken as a chilling Mafia-envoy, Michael Rappaport as the dopy aspiring actor (auditioning, of all things, for a one-time role as Crook #2 for an episode of "T.J. Hooker" that was set to co-star Peter Breck!), Chris Penn and Tom Sizemore as over-zealous narc squad partners, and Bronson Pinchot is a wonderfully whiny "go-fer" named Elliot. This is a great movie!
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Summary: True Romance: A story of True Love.
Review: Director Tony Scott shows what it takes for those who have found True Love. This is a great film that proves it exists, but it requires a lot of violence to do it. Not mindless violence, mind you...no, that wouldn't do. It takes a special kind of violence, the kind that convinces the viewer that each lover is instantly willing to lay down his or her life for the other. Cynics keep telling me that True Love exists only in the hearts of Hopeless Dreamers. Perhaps they're right. I know it's something I've been looking for all my life, but have yet to find it. However, Alabama Worley (Patricia Arquette) and her new husband, Clarence Worley (Christian Slater) succeeded, which must mean it's out there somewhere...Right? From the first frame to the last, this film is unadulterated fun, very well done by an outstanding cast that includes Dennis Hopper and Val Kilmer. If you haven't seen it, be sure to do so...you'll love it. If you've seen it before, see it again...and this time, don't forget the popcorn and your girlfriend
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