Shout to my nigga from the westsiiiiiiiide, iFUX. Dude reminded me about one of my favorite all time movies. This shit is up there with the movies that I can basically watch several times again yearly. Each time you find a different detail or a newer nuance that just helps your appreciation for the film get that much greater. Just like ‘The Professional’, this movie is a classic love story, but unlike the unrequited love contained in ‘The Professional’ this film goes all the way. There is even a bananas sex scene inside of a phone booth. ‘True Romance’ is fire from beginning to end.
Director QUENTIN TARANTINO pulled out all the stops with this flick and every actor plays their role to a fuckin’ tee. I already talked about GARY OLDHAM’s rasta pimp drug pusher character, which he nails, but you have CHRISTOPHER WALKEN cast as a mob boss, JAMES GANDOLFINI as a contract killer, DENNIS HOPPER, MICHAEL RAPPAPORT and BRAD PITT as his stoner roommate. The action is also wild hardbody as we have shootouts galore and fistfights and references to SONNY CHIBA.
I don’t normally fucks with CHRISTIAN SLATER, but dude got that off in this movie. He plays a loser that works in a comic book store and goes out alone to watch double feature karate flicks. His boss at the comic store sets him up with a hooker, played by the then hot PATRICIA ARQUETTE. This is only the hookers second job and she falls apart when she realizes that she is attracted to him because he didn’t judge her lifestyle. The two get married at City Hall the following day. It’s when SLATER returns to her pimp to collect her shit that the shit hits the fan. Classic hilarity ensues in the TARANTINO fashion and dead bodies are left in the wake of these dangerously in love newlyweds. I demand that you see this movie for this one single scene…
Mob boss CHRISTOPHER WALKEN finds SLATER’s dad played by DENNIS HOPPER. The two have a heart to heart discussion about SLATER’s whereabouts. HOPPER gives WALKEN an unforgettable history lesson before he is executed. WALKEN gets played out by a dead man talking. I’m not gonna say another word about this flick. You need to watch this joint this weekend.