Top 30 Greatest Movies of All-Time # 7
Title: True Romance
Actors/Director/Anything Worth Mentioning Right Away: Christian Slater, Quentin Tarantino, Dennis Hopper, Patricia Arquette, Sonny Chiba (sort of) and, yes, Brad Pitt
Introduction: I don’t remember the first time I saw this movie, but it was probably as a rental. I ended up buying the DVD at Target one day in the ‘00s because I saw it as some special super cool edition and thought, “Yes, I do need to own that”.
Location: This movie starts in one place and turns into a sort of cross country adventure. I love movies that go on the road like this.
Plot: Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette are on the run from a lot of people and a stoned Brad Pitt is their only hope. Yes, this movie is that complicated. In the beginning, they go on a date to the movies for a Sonny Chiba marathon, something I wouldn’t fully understand until the Kill Bill movies came out. Weird how all these movies are connected, isn’t it?
Acting: I first watched this movie because I was on a Christian Slater kick. I don’t remember what started it, maybe Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, but if it’s a movie with Christian Slater in it and it was made before 1995 or ’96, I’ve probably seen it. This semi-obsession might have also been attributed to the movie Gleaming the Cube because I watched that nearly all the time as a kid when I stayed home from school.
Production: This movie was in theaters, right?
Sex/Nudity: Patricia Arquette shows her boobs.
Special Effects: Lots of people get shot.
Overall Verdict: I’m not someone who likes to pretend to be something that I am not. I first got into Quentin Tarantino movies the same way as most people did—when Pulp Fiction became the gigantic success that it still is. After seeing that, I went back and watch Reservoir Dogs because his other movie people told me to watch. I had seen True Romance prior to both of those movies (and probably Natural Born Killers as well, for that matter) and had no idea of the Tarantino involvement. It wouldn’t be until years later that I would change my actor obsession into a director obsession and realize one man had his hand in all of these great movies and I was actually watching Tarantino movies before I even knew it.
The List Thus Far:
(7) True Romance
(8) Driftwood
(9) Rock ‘N’ Roll High School
(10) G.I. Joe: The Movie
(11) Billy Madison
(12) American Splendor
(13) Last Days
(14) Mallrats
(15) The Dark Knight
(16) Bottle Rocket
(17) Tank Girl
(18) The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl
(19) Big Trouble
(20) The Devil’s Rejects
(21) Raiders of the Lost Ark
(22) Beetlejuice
(23) Escape From L.A.
(24) Howard the Duck
(25) Cabin Fever
(26) Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
(27) Uncle Buck
(28) Donnie Darko
(29) Demolition Man
(30) Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
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