Jason asked what I did last night. I said I watched a movie alone and he asked what movie. I said True Romance and he seemed to think that was the funniest thing in the world. It took me a while to connect the dots. If you don’t know what True Romance is about, then yeah, it doesn’t sound like the manliest movie ever. Quentin Tarantino wrote it, it was released in 1993, bombed at the box office, but sold well on VHS and now has a cult following. Oh and by the way, it’s really good. Though it’s not directed by Tarantino, it’s still fair to compare, so I’d put it ahead of Reservoir Dogs but behind Pulp Fiction.
I don’t know that I can convince you to watch the movie in its entirety, but if you’ve got ten minutes to spare, watch this scene with Christopher Walken and Dennis Hopper, sometimes called the Sicilian scene. If you do plan to watch the whole movie, don’t watch that scene. I wouldn’t call it a massive spoiler, but it’d be better viewed in context. (And if you’ve already seen it, here’s a Maxim article with insight from a lot of the cast 15-years later.)
Do you know who I am Mr. Worley?
I give up, who are you?
The anti-Christ. You got me in a vendetta kinda mood. You tell the angels in heaven you never seen evil so singularly personified as you did in the face of the man who killed you.