I went home from work two days ago and popped in
True Romance. If you haven't seen it, it's a great movie. "Star-studded" would not be the right term for it, but
everybody in it is somebody you know - us movie geeks are just able to name them. More importantly, it's got all the benefits of having a script by a young Tarantino, without the slavish genre-stylization that often, for me at least, gets in the way of the story. But I digress, I'm not here to damn ol' Quentin's way with a camera, but to praise his dialogue.
Dare I say, I can't think of any other movie where I'm as in love with the words being spoken as I am watching
True Romance. I love Kevin Smith's movies, but it often feels as though the characters are reading speeches they'd planned before they walked into frame. I'm not saying it's poorly acted or poorly directed, as it never feels as though the ACTORS are delivering these speeches, it merely feels like characters who planned ahead. And while
True Romance has it's moments of "nobody talks like that", there's a vibrancy to the script that makes the characters feel like real people. I know Clarence Worley. Loves Elvis, works at a comic shop, goes to see Sonny Chiba movies on his birthday... this is my kinda people. A lot of credit has to go to a very, very talented cast, but this is a movie I'd love to just rip an audio track of and listen to it on my iPod. It makes me want to write a movie, just so I can maybe capture some of that sprightly excitement. This movie is restoring my faith in writing. Who cares that it's 15 years old? Who cares that it's directed by the same guy that directed
Top Gun AND
Days Of Thunder? Go rent this movie... better yet, BUY IT. You'll be glad you did. And after re-watching it, I'm willing to give Christian Slater a "Get Out Of Jail Free" card for
Alone In The Dark. Yeah, this is THAT good.
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