Hat tip to Kingston Kobain, I finally saw True Romance last night and it is definitely the best movie I've seen in a long while (and I just watched Sling Blade for the first time last week). While the poster says its a Tony Scott film, the Tarantino just bleeds right out of it. It is QT's first screenplay for a major motion picture. The plot is part love story part drug/gangster crime flick. The cast is insanely good: Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken, Brad Pitt, Samuel L. Jackson, James Gandolfini and Val Kilmer. Hans Zimmer (The Lion King, Gladiator, The Dark Knight) provides a really cool sound track. Here is the main theme on xylophone I think - If you are a fan of Pulp Fiction or Resevoir Dogs , True Romance needs to go right to the front of your queue if you haven't seen it yet.
Goddamn that shit was hilarious. Go see The Hangover right now. The trailer (below) does it no justice.
Looks sick.
Such a great film. I just saw it during my recent vacation in Utah. Kiwi director Andrew Dominik, did a lot of cool stuff with it. I see this film as a study on guilt from the perspective of both the esteemed criminal, Jesse James and the cowardly murderer, Robert Ford. Brad Pitt's performance is moving but Casey Affleck's is downright haunting. I liked the wide shots of western landscapes and the edge blurring camera effects that almost denote that the scene is only dimly remembered by its characters. The deeply voiced narratation from Hugh Ross adds a nice somber tone and the accents, costumes and set all seem incredibly authentic.
All in all, I highly recommend this one.It'd been a while since I just sat down and watched a film by myself for the sake of just enjoying good cinema. So tonight I grabbed one of the several movies that arrived from Amazon over the last few weeks. I figured The Machinist (2004) would be a good option to watch alone since my girlfriend would never want to watch it with me. I ordered it because I'm a big Christian Bale fan and I kinda like weird movies.
Well, it did not disappoint. Up until the last, maybe 10 minutes, I had pretty much no idea what the film was about besides Bale's character becoming more and more insane from insomnia. I won't give away the ending, but I will say this film reminded me of Momento, Solaris, Mulholland Drive and strangely, a little bit of Punch Drunk Love. All of these are favorites, so if you like them as well, and you like Christian Bale, I say check this one out. It is 102 minutes of weird shit but I think Bale's acting, the score and the cinematography all make the final resolution at the end worth waiting for.
