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.
Tony Sorprano, before he was Tony Sorprano put his pimp hand down on that chick.
“true romance” = best love story ever.
before i even forget, ay yo, you cool doggie? i heard about that steam pipe explosion…
Great movie. The unrated director’s cut on DVD is worth whatever price the stores are charging.
One correction: Tarantino didn’t direct this flick, he wrote the screenplay. If I remember right it was the first screenplay he ever sold, or it was the first one he sold that actually got made into a movie. Something along those lines. Tony Scott is the actual director.
Queing netflix now.
“You’re an actor. Act, motherfucker”
“Well, he ain’t so much a good guy as he is just a bad mother fucker. I mean, he gets paid by people to fuck guys up”
I could go on for days, so many classic lines throughout this flick..
Super underrated movie if you ask me…
I remember when Patricia Arquette went on the Arsenio Hall Show to promote this movie like it was yesterday. Classic flick, Dallas. One.
Do I look like a blond with big tits and an ass that taste like chocolate shake?
Then why you telling me all this bullshit?
Or something like that lol
monk- it was, “then why you trying to fuck me?”!
yeah and the movie was by tony scott, of top gun fame. the money tarantino made by selling this script helped him finance reservoir dogs. interesting triva bit: tarantino didnt have enough money to pay for makeup effects in his infamous ear scene in RD, so he promised he would write a script for the fledgling makeup/effects company when he made it, hence we have “from dusk til dawn”.
oh and it was french-vanilla ice-cream.
I tried but it is not available here…anybody got a hot copy to loan a sistah that don’t get out much?
1 of my favorite jernts evar!!! Quentin actually wrote this. He was still young in the game to be given more than 1 directorial gig at a time. He had just bust his guns with Resevoir Dogs and the TI’s in Hollyweird figured they might as well greenlight his script for this (which he actually wrote before RD.
Tony Scott was the director.
“come-o from-a behind the couch-o!”
Aother ill flick. You’re on a roll.
James Gandolfini gave Patricia Arquette they only beat down.
wasn’t the hooker’s name Alabama? True Gangsta love flick one of the realest!
good thing i work at a blockbuster….ill pick it up
word. one of my favorite films.
you’re a cantaloupe!!!!!!
Thanks for the shout DP ………Yo This Movie is the dopest
“I wish somebody would come and take me away cause I don’t wanna be here anymore” lol Balki.
Loved the movie, but everytime I watch it, the more I think Gart Oldham’s performance is just too heavy handed and over the top for me. The first couple of times I saw it I thought it was funny, but each time I watch it no, it irks me a little more.
^ I actually thought he nailed the job as an over the top wannabe. Ah well.
^Maybe thats it. I grew up around a lot of cats like that and the older I get the more them type of cats get on my damn nerves.
Hells yesses, gabe, Hopper’s shit was awesome…