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Post by agent817 on Jan 20, 2016 19:54:13 GMT -5
What are your thoughts on this film? I remember I first watched this movie in 2001 after buying a VHS of it (Oh man, the moments when I buy a movie without having seen it first), but what led me to watch this was that I remember looking at the Kids-in-Mind website and noticing the ratings of how profane and violent it was. I wondered to myself just how high is the violence rate in the film, so I bought it and watched it that same day. I remember I greatly enjoyed it and sometime later I bought the two-disc DVD set. I also know that this one of Quentin Tarantino's very few films that he ONLY WROTE but not directed (The other was "From Dusk Till Dawn," but I have read that he only co-wrote the script for that and other parts were done by Robert Rodriguez). I had told my dad about this film and tried to get him to watch it, and we finally watched it together yesterday. He also liked the movie.
Sometimes I wonder how different the film would have been if QT had directed it. Now don't get me wrong, Tony Scott (RIP) did a great job at directing it and I am glad that Scott had it end the way it did as opposed to Tarantino's original ending idea.
I remember asking people if they were familiar with it, and they weren't. On the surface, the name sounds like it could be romantic comedy or romantic drama, when the movie itself couldn't be farther away from those genres. It was dramatic in some ways, and also comical, but this movie is still no Rom-Com or romantic drama.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2016 20:05:38 GMT -5
My favourite film of all time.
Because I see alot of who I am in Clarence in who he is and how he goes about things and Alabama is my favourite female ever put to screen which makes me love Tony Scotts ending instead of Tarantinos original idea everytime I go back and watch the movie.
And even though he did not direct it I still consider this a Tarantino movie and would love to see Arquette and Slater in another Tarantino movie one more time.
And what can be said about the Walken scene just sums up Tarantinos style perfectly IMO.
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Post by Gremlin on Jan 20, 2016 20:10:29 GMT -5
Light on plot, awesome character acting, heavy on style. It's a great movie.
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Post by AwamoriRock on Jan 20, 2016 20:29:25 GMT -5
If you count it as a Tarantino movie then it's probably my favorite of his. It was probably because I was young and naive, but the minute Alabama tells Clarence about why she approached him and he just doesn't care because he had such an awesome time, the title of the movie just made sense and I loved it.
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Post by chazraps on Jan 20, 2016 20:41:54 GMT -5
I watched it for the first time last autumn as it was the one disc in a Tarantino collection I hadn't seen, and I was surprised how much I loved it.
I will say this, I'm glad Tarantino did not direct this one. Aside from the obvious nod that this highlights his strengths as a writer, as a director I don't think his style would have fit the film at all, especially knowing how different his original ending was. I wish we could have seen more of his scripts in other directors' hands.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2016 22:13:48 GMT -5
One of the greats. Imprinted on me big time when I first watched it in my early teens and still is highly watchable for me.
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Post by Jam on Jan 21, 2016 0:20:40 GMT -5
My absolute favorite Gary Oldman performance. "He must of thought it was white boy day"
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Post by Some Guy on Jan 21, 2016 0:27:25 GMT -5
I wish they had kept the original Tarantino ending instead of making it so overtly happy, but I really like the movie nonetheless.
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Post by madness50 on Jan 21, 2016 0:27:52 GMT -5
Great performances all around in True Romance. Gary Oldman was awesome, even though he was in roughly five minutes of the movie. Same with Walken and Dennis Hopper as well, the Sicilian scene was so well done and the tension building was awesome.
Alabama and Clarence had great chemistry together throughout. The shootout scene in the hotel was so intense, one of the best scenes in any of Tony Scott's films. It's amazing at all the stars who had supporting roles in the film as well.
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Post by Capt Lunatic on Jan 21, 2016 2:54:05 GMT -5
Samuel L. Jackson steals the show.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jan 21, 2016 3:22:27 GMT -5
"You're a cantaloupe."
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2016 3:44:40 GMT -5
"Hi. How are you? My name's Elliot, and I'm with the Cub Scouts of America. We're... we're selling uncut cocaine to get to the jamboree."
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Jan 21, 2016 6:44:27 GMT -5
I love it, I watched it so much in the late 90s/early 00s that I can still quote it word for word to this day
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Post by SmashTV on Jan 21, 2016 10:45:00 GMT -5
A wonderfully and woefully overlooked film in Tarantino's output. I saw this in the mid 90s, I'd never heard of it but loved everything about it.
The Christopher Walken/Dennis Hopper scene is one of my favourites of all time, it's got an amazing supporting cast (Samuel L Jackson's one minute cameo!), it showed me that Brad Pitt can act and has a more or less happy ending. What's not to like?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2016 11:38:57 GMT -5
"Pick up some beer.....and some cleaning products."
The combo of Tony Scott & Tarantino was perfect though.
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