March 4, 2021
True Romance (1993) **
Secret Movie Club Drive-In
$31
Wildcard
“You’re so cool, you’re so cool, you’re so cool.”
So, I have spent the last 28 years thinking, “I really should watch True Romance.” Now I don’t mean every day, I wasn’t obsessed with the overwhelming need to watch it while also keeping myself from watching it just so that the anticipation would build, it was just that every time it flitted through the transom of my mind, I thought, “I really should watch True Romance.”
Not to mention the fact that I kept hearing about how good it was! And that cast, those wonderful actors in these chewy roles, and Tarantino back when he was young and hungry, I was really looking forward to watching True Romance.
Finally, tonight, I went to go see it at the drive-in. And boy howdy did it suck. All those people who kept saying how good it was over the years? Liars, liars to a man.
There’s a chance that I am just seeing it too late. Perhaps if I had seen it in ’93, I would’ve enjoyed it a lot more. I was 29 years old in 1993, only a few years older than the young idiot lead characters played by Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette, perhaps I wouldn’t have found them to be such shitheads.
I didn’t dislike the whole movie, I particularly really liked Bronson Pinchot, Saul Rubinek, and Michael Rapaport, but most of it was a stone drag. Had I been watching it at home, I would have turned it off around the point that Slater goes off to find the pimp, which isn’t that far into the movie. But you have to stay until the end of a movie at the drive-in.
Also a lie? That quote. He is NOT so cool. Not by a mile.
365 Films in 365 Days 