General movie club topic: http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=78088393&f=197

This weeks movie will be: True Romance

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108399/

My top 10 has constantly changed over the years, but my #1 film has been consistent for a little over a decade now. The cast in this movie is absolutely insane, and even though he didn't direct it, I consider this to be Tarantino's best movie.

I hope you all enjoy! Let the movie club begin.




Side Note: Blah is taking a little break from hosting this. I'm more than happy to take over posting the movies weekly. If you feel like participating, go ahead and shoot me a pm with the movie, any notes you have about it, and anything else you want to include. ChuzzeL's selection will be next fyi.

I actually just watched this last week for the first time cause you would always talk about it haha

Suspense is killing me bro, what'd you think?

Just one of those movies I think about all the time. The performances given by Walken, Hopper, and Oldman are some of the best of their careers, and that's saying A LOT for those fucking guys. Brad Pitt smoking out of a honey bear is something that still cracks me up whenever I think about it, and James Gandolfini fucking killed it with his scene. I just love this movie and I could talk about it forever lol.

Pretty wasted so I needed something to watch anyway. Perfect timing. Seen it only once and I realy liked it.
What a killer cast: James Gandolfini, Samual Jackson, Slater, Christopher Walken, Garry Oldmen, Brad Pitt with the script from Tarantino and music by Hans Zimmer. Just incredible.
Will post my final thoughts after finishing it.

liked it 15-16 years ago even tho can't remember any of it
one of my spouses fave films but hasn't seen it in a long time either
i a mood to wait for another ~15 until rewatch, so many stuff still unseen 2me!

Finished watching it. Still holds up and is as good as I remembered it.
Love Gandolfini and Garry Oldmen. Just my favorite characters in the movie. Christopher Walken was also great, it's a shame that he only appears very shortly, it's still my favorite scene in the entire movie. Extremly intense and just a great dialogue between him and this cop/dad. Tarantino realy nailed the script.
Also like the light tone of the soundtrack, it just makes it something special when it's not generic thriller/action music

Yeah, nothing more to say realy, just a good movie with great writing/dialogues and actors.

While I loved it, it was not as good as I thought it was gonna be.

I could tell almost right off the bat it was written by Q, all the dialogue is superb. Obviously the cast of this film is incredibly strong and has Tarantino all over it as well.

My favorite performances were by:

Oldman as Drexyl (this was truly something special. I didnt know it was him until after the fact)
Hopper as Clarence's father
Walken, this really needs no explanation
Chris Penn as Nicky Dimes

Obviously the scene between Hopper and Walken was incredible. I actually had to 'rewind' and watch it again as I was watching it because it was that great.
The scene with Gandolfini and Patricia Arquette in the motel room was great too.
And the shootout at the end was really fun.

Overall as I stated I really enjoyed it, and would watch it again. But there was a lot of cheesy '90s acting' in it, which may have been done on purpose. And the soundtrack kinda through me off, they play the same damn music the entire time lmao.

If Im ranking Tarantino films(I know he didnt direct it, but its very his style and obviously his writing) I put it more on the list closer to Kill Bill and From Dusk Till Dawn in comparison to the TOP OF THE LIST like Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs

Yeah great scene, I only saw Tony Soprano doing his usual business, what a fucking great actor.

I agree, it's a bit cheesy from time to time, especially the relationship between the two main protagonists went a bit over the board. But it fits in the movie I guess and is not a huge annoyance.

Tarantino didn't do From Dusk til Dawn, that's why it's a bad movie lol. He wrote the screenplay, but it's not even his story.



Cheesy 90s goodness is one of the reasons I love this movie as much as I do. It captures everything that was the 90s soooo damn well.

He wrote it so he could star in it, and it was directed by his friend Robert Rodriguez(who has a similar directing style). The first half of that film is phenomenal, then the vampire shit happens and it gets weird lol. But I still love the film, as QT and Rodriguez are great fucking film makers. He wrote Natural Born Killers too