A blog post in which Ashley
gets very hot under the collar about Christian Slater, briefly.
Not Natural Born Killers,
but a fair ride.
True Romance is nearly 20 bloody
years old now, time flies when you’re pottering through life I guess. It was
written by Quentin Tarantino, when he was still quite good at writing things,
and directed by Tony Scott, who brought us such quality film vehicles as Top
Gun, Beverly Hills Cop II, Enemy Of The State and Crimson Tide, but who is also
responsible for cinematic horseshit like Days of Thunder, Domino and the
utterly terrible remake of The A-Team (as a Producer), so it’s touch and go
whether True Romance is going to be any good.
The good news is that True
Romance is a bit of a cult hit, especially with girls (because of Christian
Slater being quite yummy, although I’ve always wondered why they fell quite so
hard for the floppy quiff myself) and a lot of people seem to like the thing,
but I’ve had flaming arguments with people about whether or not the Nicholas
Cage – John Travolta powered movie Face-Off is any good, mostly because it’s a
dreadful movie but some people don’t think that this is a true fact based fact,
much like the existence of God.
So just because people like
a thing it doesn’t automatically mean it’s any good. But by now you’ve probably
sensed that I’m waffling a bit, and I am. Well technically I’m stalling. I’m
stalling because I haven’t actually seen the movie and although that hasn’t
stopped me from reviewing something in the past, I do normally need to have an
opinion on the thing that I’ve not seen, like my review of Noel
Gallagher’s – High Flying Birds or The Iron Lady
blog post that I did, but in this instance I have nothing much else to say
except that I have seen Natural Born Killers and I didn’t much like that and so
if Ashley thinks that True Romance isn’t as good as that then that can’t be a
good sign, although Ashley is frequently wrong about matters of culture, like
he is with one of Tony Scott’s more successful artistic outpourings Enemy Of
The State, which you can read about here – The
8 Words Of Ash – By One Get Six Free.
True Romance does get 7.9
out of 10 on IMDb’s reader rating thing though, whereas Natural Born Killers
only averages 7.1 out of 10, so I suppose this kind of backs that up really,
you can trust Ashley’s rather dubious critical eye or you can trust the rest of
the Internet, or you could just ignore all of them and save yourself two hours
by not watching True Romance or Natural Born Killers, it really is up to you.
A word of warning though,
and this really isn’t up to you, you definitely shouldn’t watch Face-Off, and
very definitely don’t watch The A-Team. Really!
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