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Truly A Great Movie
One of the best movies that Tarintino has ever written! It's just too bad that he didnt direct it it would have been much better I bet. This was a very fun film to watch. And its great too because if you have a date you might think of renting True Romance because its about love and all. This movie had great little sub-plots. And an awsome all start cast. Tarintino is a genius!

CONTRIVED BUT WATCHABLE TARANTINO CONTRAPTION.
This is Tarantino and you know it about 40 minutes into the movie. Which is not as quick as one would want, the movie begins with a really drippy "romance" between a floozie and a (pathetically mis-cast) Christian Slater. Based on the idea of the underclass conquering the powerful bigshots the film sees two nobodies dice with death, to find their dream in paradise. Fair enough theme.

But trust QT and Tony Scott to make a wannabe mess of that theme, just in the interests of making a doozie. The movie has moments that feel like you are watching Pulp Fiction or Reservoir Dogs, which thus give you a glimmer of hope for something worthwhile to come, but that bit comes in the last 20 minutes or so of the movie when the plot finally begins -- drugs, shootouts, a zonked out Brad Pitt etc, with about 60% of the F-words completely unnecessary.

Then there are gaping WTFs. Christopher Walkern, a Sicillian honcho simply vanishes after a cooldude scene with Dennis Hopper. Difficult to see how that fit into the scheme of things other than some pseudo-cool dialogue that carries the sophistication of "your mama" jibes (literally.)

Towards the end, we are supposedly meant to enjoy the vicious beating up of Patricia Arquette at the hands of Gondolfini, much in keeping with the gore fest that Tarantino is associated with. Thank you, have a nice day. Next.

There's so much insufferably maudlin stuff about Elvis, it made the movie come perilously close to a run-of-the-mill chickflick.

Finally, Tony Scott has his photographer shoot with the usual irritating filters, back lighting and blacked out faces presumably because Jeffrey Kimball felt that if you have one photographic idea in fifteen years it's got to be worth repeating.

The point is, as it usually is in a typical QT self-contradiction, that you wouldn't want to meet these characters on the street, but these are simply created for online entertainment in our little bizarre modern fairytale. Yawn.

Tarantino At His Average
This wasn't what I thought it would be. I expected a romance or something and it's all action. But for this kind of movie, it's fun but language is serious and violence is MORE serious. For Quentin Tarantino, it's about average which means an enjoyable violent, fun crime movie (as if violence is ever fun). But the stars in this blew me away: Brad Pitt, Dennis Hopper, Patricia Arquette, Christopher Walken, Val Kilmer, Gary Oldman, and the list keeps going. Just when you think you've seen them all, another pops into the scene completely unexpected.

One of the wierd things about this, is that except for a VERY drunk and high Brad Pitt (perhaps playing himself) throughout, none of the big names made another appearance after you first saw them, and yet the way the story moved, this still works here.

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