True Romance

So many great actors in this film!!! If you haven’t seen this movie you must rent it!! I had already seen it about five times but one night I was bored and I rented it on Amazon to watch it again. Here’s YOUR reason Why:Brad Pitt, James Gandolfini, Patricia Arquette, Gary Oldman, Christian Slater, Christopher Walken, Dennis Hopper , Val Kilmer, Samuel Jackson, Need I say more?Best movie ever, It’s one of those movies you could watch once and then watch it 10 more times and find more interesting things every time you watch it. 5 Stars!!

Quentin Tarantino is one the best directors working today. His strong suit as a director and writer means no bounds. In fact even when he is not directing a film and still writing it, his script is all over it. True Romance is no different.A comic-book geek named Clarence (Christian Slater) and a prostitute named Alabama (Patricia Arquette) fall in love. Clarence breaks the news to her pimp and ends up killing him. He grabs a suitcase of cocaine on his way out thinking it is Alabama's clothing. The two hit the road for California hoping to sell the cocaine, but the mob is soon after them.From the get go it's a Tony Scott film from beginning to end. It's a shame that he passed because he has a particular style to his filmmaking. And man what a legacy that he left behind. This is the work of an auteur.The script is full on Quentin Tarantino. From the dialogue and colorful characters, it's pretty much Tarantino script. It's prove that he is a filmmaking god.True Romance is one of those films that flipped under the raider and has gained a cult following ever since. Great movie, highly recommended.

This movie is criminally underseen. It's one of the flicks Tarantino has ever written and Tony Scott has ever filmed. Filled with romance, inspired characters, solid charasmatic performances and ultra violence this is without a doubt one of my favorite films. The film tells the tale of Alabama played by an amazing Patricia Arquette and Clarence a "so cool" Christian Slater in possibly his best performance. Shes a call girl his friends hire for him. They immediately fall in love and he tries to free her from her violent pimp played by a surprising Gary Oldman. It of course goes wrong and he ends up grabbing the wrong suitcase, one filled with cocaine. They of course go on down to Hollywood to try and sell it and before they know it they have the cops, the mafia and a bunch of criminals after them. The movie is well written the screenplay is smart and overly romantic with some great comedy and action. And it's all just so well executed by Tony Scott. It's really one of the best films ever. Although it floundered at the box office it has since found a most deserved cult following. Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken, Brad Pitt, James Gandolfini, Michael Rappaport, Chris Penn, Val Kilmer, Samuel L. Jackson, Saul Rubinek, Conchata Ferrell and Tom Sizemore also star.Budget: $12.5MBox Office: $12.3M9/10

The cast of True Romance was incredible. It was written by a young Quentin Tarantino. It is still one of my favorite movies. The times have changed though and True Romance is a politically incorrect movie that would not be as popular today as it was back in the 1990s. The language in the movie was abhorrent. You can forgive the f-word because it was used so often to convey how intense everything happening was. I did get tired of hearing it over and over again. The use of the n-word by white actors is very uncomfortable to endure. Back when this was written when whites used the n-word is was the beginning of the woke phase of our society. It wasn't a statement of anything other than I can sound cool when I talk. Now, it is really offensive to hear that word from anybody in my opinion.The director's cut that is available on Amazon Prime ratchets up the performance of Patricia Arquette. She was the killer beauty in an expanded light. Her battle with James Gandolfini became more intense just by adding a few more seconds of screen time at the end of the fight. She was the one that shoots Chris Penn this time around, not the dying gangster.The movie still moves smoothly from scene to scene in the intense build-up of the minimum wage kids trying to cash in with a suitcase full of drugs they happened upon after the battle between Christian Slater and Gary Oldman.True Romance is a relic to when movies were just movies and we glorified how vulgar they could be by calling them art. Everything has become so divisive that a movie like True Romance, if released today without any censoring, it would only add to the continuing divide our country is enduring.

TRUE ROMANCE THE DIRECTORS CUT. CHRISTIAN SLATER AND PATRICIA ARQUETTE BELIEVE IN LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT. ARQUETTE PLAYS AN EX CALL GIRL NAMED ALABAMA SHE MEETS CLERENCE AT A MOVIE THEATRE FOR HIS BIRTHDAY OR RATHER SHE IS HIRED TO MEET HIM AT THE MOVIE THEATRE. SHE SPEND STHE NIGHT WITH HIM. THEN TELLS HIM THE TRUTH. SHE SAYS THAT SHE ONLY SLEEPS WITH ONE PERSON WHEN IN A RELATIONSHIP AND SWEARS TO HIM THAT SHE WILL NEVER LIE TO HIM AGAIN. THEY DECIDE TO GET MARRIED HER HUSBAND DECIDES THAT HE WANTS TO PAY HER OLD PIMP A VISIT TO GET HER BELONGING'S. HE ENDS UP KILLING THE PIMP. HE GRABS A SUITCASE THINKING IT CONTAINS ALABAMA'S PERSONSAL BELONGING'S AS IT TURNS OUT THE SUIT CASE IS FULL OF COCAINE. NOW THEY DECIDE THEY WANT TO SELL IT FOR SOME QUICK CASH. NOT KNOWING THAT THE MOB IS ON THEIR TRAIL NOW FOR THE SUIT CASE OF COKE. WHAT FOLLOWS IS A MESSY BLOODY SHOOT OUT BETWEEN THE COPS THE MOB THE FBI AND ALABAMA AND HER HUSBAND . OH ONE MORE INTERESTING THING ABOUT THIS FILM CHRISTIAN SLATER'S CHARACTER THINKS HE CAN SEE AND TALK TO ELVIS PRESLEY.

If you haven't seen this movie do yourself a favour and pick it up.It was a bloody steal at £8.Starring Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette in a movie written by Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction) and directed by Tony Scott (Top Gun)It tells the story of an unlikley romance in the backdrop of crime, cocaine and drug busts.I Would rather you would go in blind if you have never saw this movie before because its great not really knowing what will happen.Amazing performances by Christopher Walker, Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman and Tom Siezmore.Get it watched people.Also check out the alternative ending on the Blu Ray.

Where are the nice bluray extras in commentary? Uts a great picture, but its quite cheaply made and doesn't have extras or commentary? In the bluray age there is enough space to put things on. Its just cheap.Great movie though, and that is what saves the 4/5 rating. I expect more on a DVD post 2005

This is one my favourite films, one of those which can be watched as many times as we want, without ever getting old... Below, more of my impressions, with some limited SPOILERS.Clarence (Christian Slater) is a rather pathetic guy, with a rather pathetic job and a rather pathetic life. But he is special in one particular way - the Devil likes him and comes sometimes to visit and chat with him and because Clarence is a fanatical Elvis fan, well, to humour him the Devil takes the shape of Elvis Presley. There is no rational explanation for the Devil liking Clarence - and very exceptionally there is no strings attached in their strange relationship. The Devil simply likes Clarence ("I like you Clarence. Always did - always will"). Period.Then one day Clarence meets Alabama (Patricia Arquette). They immediately fall in love, marry the next day and decide to go on honeymoon. But before that Clarence must just go recover Alabama's suitcase containing all her earthly belongings - and that will start a sequence of events which will then continue until the extremely dramatic, bloody and brilliant great finale...The scenario of this 1993 film was written by Quentin Tarantino when he was at the beginning of his career and therefore at the top of his creativity, just after "Reservoir Dogs" and just before "Pulp Fiction" - and Tony Scott used every ounce of genius this scenario contains and as result made what is without question his most brilliant movie (yes, I prefer this one to "Top Gun" - even if they really do not belong to the same categories)!This film is extremely violent and also full of very strong language but all this notwithstanding this is basically a comedy, albeit a very dark one. The brilliance of dialogs and gags is stressed even more by the incredible casting. Other than the two actors already cited, in this film we can also see: Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman, Christopher Walken, Val Kilmer, Brad Pitt, Samuel L. Jackson, James Gandolfini, Chris Penn, Tom Sizemore, Michael Rapaport and Saul Rubinek. They all give great show but it is Brad Pitt who tops them all, even if his appearance is very short - his character, Floyd, is such a stoner, that he probably has pot smoke in his veins rather than blood...))) I never saw a better "weed moment" on the screen EVER!Saul Rubinek plays here a drug trafficker, not exactly the kind of role he is associated with - but he is INCREDIBLE! In fact his character, Lee Donowitz, is a really scary guy... The "Sicilian scene", in fact a conversation between Dennis Hooper and Christopher Walken, became since then a myth in its own. The Patricia Arquette vs. James Gandolfini confrontation also acquired since then a mythical status, as probably one of the most infamous overkills in the history of the cinema... And finally there is Drexl the Pimp, the character played by Gary Oldman - well, this actor enjoys playing weirdoes and sleazes, but rarely he has the occasion to play SUCH a sleazy weirdo...Bottom line, this is an ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE, made of dark humour, violence and strong language, with special appearance by Elvis "Devil" Presley... To buy, watch and keep! ENJOY!

This is an awesome film about ''Love conquers all''. It always has been, and always will be one of my favourite films. If you haven't seen it, really, you must.It features amazing performances by some of the best actors around (Walken, Pitt, Oldman,Hopper) and is written, if not directed by Tarantino. In my opinion it's his best story. Call me sentimental or a romantic but the film theme of love, wins my heart every time (which is why I'm such a fan of another little known Tarantino Gem - Killing Zoe:  Killing Zoe [DVD] [1994 ]). I hope one day I'm lucky enough to meet a girl as sweet, loyal and simple as Alabama.But don't let the 'love' put you off - there's plenty of drugs and guns for everyone. I think, if your girlfriend's pestering you and wants to watch some soppy rom-com on your anniversary or something, stick this on. It'll keep you both happy.This is Tarantino's first film - and I find it quite interesting to watch with that in mind too. You can really see what he had in mind with it, with certain lines and a style of writing which makes much more sense now we know who Tarantino is: all the talk of the Sonny Cheeba films at the start for instance... Anyway, a great film which everyone must see, and having owned 3 or 4 copies of this on various formats over the years, I can say that this Blu Ray is the perfect format for you to see it on.Full marks - 10/10. Using a slightly modified turn of phrase from the film might be best here: It's so cool, it's so cool, it's so cool. Killing Zoe [DVD] [1994

After getting married Clarence (Slater) and Alabama (Arquette) run off with stolen drugs and attempt to sell it which leads a big drugs baron to chase after themArguably Tony Scott's most violent film shows a true dynamic of criminal justice and vigour that could have only been well executed by the man in the know, Quentin Tarantino.As of its release in 1993 there was a collection of relative unknowns starring in this picture that has all gone on to be huge in Hollywood. Pitt, Kilmer, Slater, and Oldman the list is endless. For the already established stars of Hopper, Walken amongst others this was one of their crowning glories. Who can forget the "eggplant" scene with Hopper and Walken, a truly outstanding confrontation where passions, opinions and controversies are running riot.Slater leads reasonably well from the front being engrossed into his role of jealousy and determination for a better existence. However he is upstaged by hooker Alabama, played with a sophisticated sexiness by Patricia Arquette, a marvel who shines through and through. The character opens with a beautifully charming foreplay scene, to being incredibly distraught when involved with the crime sequences, a perfect femme fatale.Despite the stunning array of Hollywood on show this is unquestionably about the startling narrative which encodes your familiar elements of Tarantino. Drugs, business like dealings, brutal killings and no holds barred language. And though Scott does a reasonable job directing this brutal story, there are moments when you would have liked the Pulp Fiction director to pick up the camera. The final scenes in the hotel could have done with a more flinching and focused styling whilst the drug taking sequences can be too kind and sparring of the audiences.However Scott controls the necessary elements of the picture with a modest and still action orientated styling. For example the opening scenes in the bars and cinema are well managed and told with the scripting in mind and the confrontation between Hopper and Walken is certainly the best scene I've ever seen him direct.The feeling of sexual orientation being significant is often stated in his films. The constant topless shots in Top Gun and here the carefully respected sex scene would otherwise be appreciative of the moment rather than posing to get viewers.The ending in the hotel was good and quite stupid of me I had seen Enemy of the state prior to this and couldn't stop the comparisons flowing.This is a great film. Flinching ordeal of a happy life dreaming mixed so fluently with shocking illegal crime activities and with an array of stars this is simply watchable.8.5/10