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This Movie Is 25 Years Old, And Still Rocks

posted 5 years ago by R_Kane (15828)
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The only good movie that Tony Scott, brain-damaged sibling of Ridley Scott, ever made. Then Tony made Domino, WITH EXACTLY THE SAME SHOOTOUT CLIMAX as True Romance, and pissed half the originality of Tarantino’s narrative all away, revealing himself for the creatively bankrupt pustule that he is. This is probably the closest that Christian Slater ever came to giving a good performance; but the scene with Walken and Hopper is pure gold. The film is definitely worth watching. Hitchcock defined “a great movie” as one that has “three great scenes, no bad scenes.” True Romance has two great scenes—the one with Walken and Hopper, and the one with Gandolfini and Arquette—and no really bad scenes. Two stars, not three from Micheline. Watch. Enjoy.

I’ll take this over something like Baby Driver any day of the week, just like I’ll take Brooks Brothers over Gentlemen’s Warehouse.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Oh, yeah! It never gets old. Really great movie with lot of great actors in it. And those two scenes are legendary!

[–] Jones70 (6195) 5 years ago

You didn’t think Crimson Tide, Last Boyscout, and Enemy of the State were good movies?

[–] R_Kane (15828) 5 years ago

I think they are all forgettable. True Romance remains memorable, as does Domino, but for all the wrong reasons.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Crimson Tide forgettable?! Some of those scenes between Hackman and Washington were almost on a par with the scenes in TR, for undercurrents of tension.

I do agree that Boy Scout and Enemy were fine action if unremarkable action movies.

[–] Elvisp23 (317) a year ago

Crimson tide is not forgettable you donkey

[–] davodikum (5971) a year ago

Enemy of the state is a classic

[–] Jones70 (6195) 5 years ago

And i’d also say that his performance in Heathers was really good.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Oh, absolutely! I adore Heathers and he was great in it.

[–] R_Kane (15828) 5 years ago

I forgot Heathers. He was good in Heathers, which was a most enjoyable and truiy dark comedy. His CHARACTER was not at all likeable, unlike in True Romance, but his work was solid.

[–] BlackMass (695) 5 years ago

The Oldman/Slater interaction was absolutely a great scene, and the best one in the film.

[–] Beau_Buffet (327) 3 years ago

Hitchcock defined “a great movie” as one that has “three great scenes, no bad scenes.”

It was Howard Hawks who said that.

/end of pedantry

[–] R_Kane (15828) 5 months ago

Thank you for your correction.

[–] liscarkat (16552) 8 months ago

There are a lot of movies that are fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety, and a hundred years old that still rock!