Jul 7, 2024·1 replyTrue Romance slander?
Jul 7, 2024·4 repliesI can't look at Tarantino the same man. I'm sorry
Jul 7, 2024CartierTrue Romance slander?
- Jul 7, 2024PFLP optimisticman
I can't look at Tarantino the same man. I'm sorry
It’s ok I forgive you
Jul 7, 2024·1 reply
Block MutesonWithout going into the N word monologue or Gandolfini beating the piss out of Arquette which are both pretty rancid,
It's a bunch of one day cameo shoots cut together where people talk past each other. Sam Jack? Nope, pooft. Gary Oldman? He's got a plane in the morning. Brad Pitt is in a pocket dimension on a couch. Gandolfini has to pretend he exists at one point. Walken doesn't bother to show up in the third act.
Watch something like Burn After Reading that convincingly weaves together isolated performances with phone calls and the like. Pitt and Clooney don't actually spend any time together at all. That's used as a punchline more than an obstacle. The whole film is premised on miscommunication.
You can make it work or you can just slap together what's available. TR is the latter.
its funny you bring up the gandolfini scene bc its basically the only scene in the movie (besides the superior alternate ending) where patricia arquette asserts some authority over a male figure, whole rest of the movie its just her being a lapdog for christian slater on some macho trip.
- Jul 7, 2024·1 replySnowboy
its funny you bring up the gandolfini scene bc its basically the only scene in the movie (besides the superior alternate ending) where patricia arquette asserts some authority over a male figure, whole rest of the movie its just her being a lapdog for christian slater on some macho trip.
Oh come on man, the scene basically kills her 5 times first. It's so unnecessary
- Jul 7, 2024·1 replyBlock Muteson
Oh come on man, the scene basically kills her 5 times first. It's so unnecessary
oh no I agree, it is gratuitous and unnecessary. I'm just saying, its literally the only scene where she actually does something about her situation and doesnt just rely on her weirdo psychotic bf.
- Jul 7, 2024Snowboy
oh no I agree, it is gratuitous and unnecessary. I'm just saying, its literally the only scene where she actually does something about her situation and doesnt just rely on her weirdo psychotic bf.
Third act growth. Perfunctory
- Jul 7, 2024
I also agree the cast is underutilized as hell. compare to Tombstone that came out the same year and also had a huge ensemble cast, where every character felt essential to the world-building and every actor brought a unique and nuanced portrayal to well-known figures of the old west. night and day.
- Jul 7, 2024
Crazy how 1 one of these movies absolutely stinks compared to the rest
Jul 7, 2024·1 replySnowboyits a lot of things, in general though I dont vibe with all the n-word s*** that has aged poorly and I think christian slater is bizarrely miscast as the lead. the scene with gandolfini is cool tho.
Yeah I'll never get used to the n word s*** from qt. I thought Slater did alright tho but I hear ya
- Jul 7, 2024Block Muteson
Without going into the N word monologue or Gandolfini beating the piss out of Arquette which are both pretty rancid,
It's a bunch of one day cameo shoots cut together where people talk past each other. Sam Jack? Nope, pooft. Gary Oldman? He's got a plane in the morning. Brad Pitt is in a pocket dimension on a couch. Gandolfini has to pretend he exists at one point. Walken doesn't bother to show up in the third act.
Watch something like Burn After Reading that convincingly weaves together isolated performances with phone calls and the like. Pitt and Clooney don't actually spend any time together at all. That's used as a punchline more than an obstacle. The whole film is premised on miscommunication.
You can make it work or you can just slap together what's available. TR is the latter.
Never actually thought about the movie in a cameo sense. Interesting. It didn't really bother me but now that's what I'll think about if I get to rewatch this lmao
- Jul 7, 2024PFLP optimisticman
I can't look at Tarantino the same man. I'm sorry
The IDF s*** yeah?
- Jul 7, 2024PFLP optimisticman
I can't look at Tarantino the same man. I'm sorry
He's always been that guy too. Always been a creep around creeps doing creepy s*** and being edgy.
- Jul 7, 2024·edited·1 replyCRACKASTEPPAVEGAN
Yeah I'll never get used to the n word s*** from qt. I thought Slater did alright tho but I hear ya
slater is good when he has to be the psychotic guy and he does that in this but they also want him to be this charming romantic lead and he just isnt that guy, he doesnt have the range to pull it off. it also doesnt help that the character is kind of stupid and ill-conceived.
- Jul 7, 2024Snowboy
slater is good when he has to be the psychotic guy and he does that in this but they also want him to be this charming romantic lead and he just isnt that guy, he doesnt have the range to pull it off. it also doesnt help that the character is kind of stupid and ill-conceived.
Oh yeah, he's usually in his bag when there's something slightly off with his character. That's why I really enjoyed his performance in Mr Robot, but I didn't mind his goofiness in TR, although I do get that it clashes with the leading man image, and doesn't mesh well in the way that Will Smith for example, does goofy/charming/funny at the same time.
- Jul 7, 2024·2 replies
I'm gonna say it
I'm not really a Tony Scott super fan. I've seen TR, Crimson Tide, and The Fan for the first time in recent years. Didn't love any of them.
- Jul 7, 2024·1 replyBlock Muteson
I'm gonna say it
I'm not really a Tony Scott super fan. I've seen TR, Crimson Tide, and The Fan for the first time in recent years. Didn't love any of them.
I love The Hunger. Deja Vu and his remake of Pelham are pretty good too.
- Jul 7, 2024Snowboy
I love The Hunger. Deja Vu and his remake of Pelham are pretty good too.
Gotta revisit Unstoppable and peep that next ig
- Jul 7, 2024Snowboy
theyre not good movies, thats probably the reason
True romance is the best film Tarantino’s name is attached to
- Jul 7, 2024·1 replyBlock Muteson
I'm gonna say it
I'm not really a Tony Scott super fan. I've seen TR, Crimson Tide, and The Fan for the first time in recent years. Didn't love any of them.
He has the special ability to make 50 million plus budget movies look like they were made as home videos. All his films look terrible
- Jul 7, 2024·2 repliesMarble
He has the special ability to make 50 million plus budget movies look like they were made as home videos. All his films look terrible
S*** man, hard to say that. Movies look way worse now
- Jul 7, 2024·2 repliesBlock Muteson
S*** man, hard to say that. Movies look way worse now
Yeah the new Netflix standard is s*** as well, but something about those early digital shot films (esp by TS) just look so cheap to me. I’m not a big nostalgist but almost any random film from the 70’s look better than most s*** from 2000’s on just because of it being shot on film. Some directors know how to make digital film look interesting, most do not unfortunately.
- Jul 7, 2024·1 replyMarble
Yeah the new Netflix standard is s*** as well, but something about those early digital shot films (esp by TS) just look so cheap to me. I’m not a big nostalgist but almost any random film from the 70’s look better than most s*** from 2000’s on just because of it being shot on film. Some directors know how to make digital film look interesting, most do not unfortunately.
I'm a sucker for the 70s grain and natural light. Before that they knew how to do lighting set ups and production design.
Seems like standards really fell in he 80s with VHS and rentals and consumer grade equipment. Any piece of s*** could make money. No barrier to entry. Dilution of the guilds. Took some decades for the people from that era to actually die out of course. Then the people who grew up admiring them also had to come and go.
There's just not an appetite for that. It's unnecessary. TV is a 10 hour season. Crank it out. Every blockbuster is dictated by VFX work. It's over.
Scott would at least go out of pocket for his own fleet of helicopters. Now it's boring ass drones.
- Jul 7, 2024Marble
Yeah the new Netflix standard is s*** as well, but something about those early digital shot films (esp by TS) just look so cheap to me. I’m not a big nostalgist but almost any random film from the 70’s look better than most s*** from 2000’s on just because of it being shot on film. Some directors know how to make digital film look interesting, most do not unfortunately.
Well I mean a***og is gonna beat out digital always