True Romance Limited Edition UHD [Blu-ray]

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When Quentin Tarantino emerged on the scene in the early 90s as the hottest new screenwriter in Hollywood, he came armed with four calling card scripts. Two of them he went on to direct himself, which were of course the era defining ‘Reservoir Dogs’ and ‘Pulp Fiction’. The other two were a pair of ‘lovers-on-the-lam’ thrillers, which although drawn from the same well (the Starkweather killings) couldn’t be more different. ‘Natural Born Killers’ directed by Oliver Stone was a psychotic and controversial acid trip through a media frenzied murder spree. The other was ‘True Romance’.

Accompanying that is the film’s alternate ending, which is brought up many times in the commentaries. It’s also presented here with separate optional commentaries featuring Scott and Tarantino. Tarantino’s script had a different outcome for the film’s two central characters and Tarantino was dead-set on that being the ending. Scott, on the other hand, didn’t feel it was right. It ended up becoming a point of contention between the two and Scott decided to shoot both endings and decide from there. In the optional commentary Tarantino agrees that for this film Scott’s ending does work better. And I must agree with that sentiment after seeing Tarantino’s ending. I see where Tarantino was originally coming from but as pointed out throughout the features Scott’s take on the script places the story in a fantasy movie world and Tarantino’s harsher ending ends up feeling out of place. If he had directed it, as he mentions, it probably would have fit. Arrow’s new restoration and end digital presentation are far cleaner and more film-like in comparison to all of those previous presentations. There’s a very grainy texture to the image now that looks far cleaner and more natural, lending the picture that grittier look that I’m sure Scott and director of photography Jeffrey L. Kimball were going for but was nowhere to the same effect in prior releases. The original photography and grainy nature can limit the finer details at times so the image maybe doesn’t come off as sharp or well defined as one may expect for the format, but that film texture is there and it's rendered perfectly. Once upon a time there was a lonely boy named Clarence who met a lonely girl named Alabama, and they fell in love in a dark cold city named Detroit. Clarence and Alabama were very poor, but they found some magic powder that could make them very rich because some very sad people believed the magic powder would make them very happy and they would pay lots of money for it. So Clarence and Alabama went to Los Angeles, where it was much warmer, and where there were a lot of very sad people who would buy their magic powder. Unfortunately, there were some very bad men who wanted to take the magic powder from Clarence and Alabama, and they followed them to Los Angeles, where they were very mean to the lonely boy and the lonely girl. But the two of them loved each other very much, and they stood up to the bad men, who threatened to kill them if they did not give them the magic powder. But the bad men were very greedy, wanting all the magic powder for themselves, and killed each other instead of Clarence and Alabama, who left the City of Angels with a lot of money and lived happily ever after. Closing the disc are galleries that feature over 70 production photos along with stills of posters and video art from around the world, alongside a collection of trailers that include the U.S. and international spots, the latter of which ends up being more graphic. A U.S. television spot is also included. Smith, Edison (February 19, 2021). "You're So Cool: True Romance; a Pop Culture Fairy Tale". VHS Revival. Archived from the original on May 23, 2023 . Retrieved May 23, 2023.

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never sent the UK 4K UHD version for review purposes, so I'm coming to the film in that format for the first time. The linked review is however still

As I mentioned in the original review of the UK version, I frankly didn't notice the (relatively slight) difference in aspect ratio between the old Warner As a Tony Scott film through and through - at least visually - True Romance must have been one hell of a challenge to render in a way that is at once faithful to the original perceived intentions of the director and the look he gave it, replete with smoky, shadow-strewn rooms and blue light, but Arrow have done a stand-up job. Coming to the film for the very first time and some viewers may not get what the fuss is about at all, enjoying a few undeniably stylish moments for sure, but also wondering why some of it is a little more raw and gritty, and why there's so much damn smoke everywhere. But those familiar with True Romance will love this presentation, lapping up the fine texture, the skin details and the fabulous colour tones, as well as the fact that, hell, it'll make you feel like you're watching it projected in the cinema, with gorgeously restored, cleaned-up image but one that's also utterly, utterly filmic. True Romance is a true oddity, the collision between a neophyte screenwriter obsessed with pop culture and an established director at the height of his glossy but superficial style. Quentin Tarantino and Tony Scott were nobody's idea of a marriage made in heaven, and it's a minor miracle that the film works at all, but the major miracle is that it actually works like gangbusters. The story itself isn't particularly noteworthy: Clarence (Christian Slater) is an employee of a comic book store in Detroit who’s content with his dead-end job until he meets Alabama (Patricia Arquette) at a theater showing a Sonny Chiba triple feature. The two form an instant connection, though there’s more to Alabama than meets the eye. Clarence’s relationship with her will lead the two on a cross-country adventure with a suitcase full of contraband, pursued by both the police and the mafia. The story may not be novel, but the devil’s in the details—Tarantino’s patented dialogue, combined with Scott’s casting choices and staging, resulted in a film that’s stood the test of time despite its unfortunate box office failure in 1993. or 2160) contain the same insert booklet, which provides the following verbiage on the transfer: True Romance is presented in its original aspect ratio of 2.39:1 [ sic] with stereo 2.0 and 5.1 sound. The film is presented in both A concise example of QT-style dialogue — Scott Frank out of Elmore Leonard — occurs in Get Shorty, when some thugs in a barbershop pause to debate the proper usage of “i.e.” and “e.g.” In that instance the chat is obviously cute filler — killers discussing grammar ha ha. When Quentin Tarantino uses this kind of patter it’s always vital to the show at that particular moment — even if the speakers are debating something completely, hilariously obscene.Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote, " True Romance, a vibrant, grisly, gleefully amoral road movie directed by Tony Scott and dominated by the machismo of Quentin Tarantino (who wrote this screenplay before he directed Reservoir Dogs), is sure to offend a good-sized segment of the moviegoing population". [24] Box office performance [ edit ] especially in some of the more sun drenched outdoor moments where close-ups are employed. But HDR and/or Dolby Vision also aid some of the

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a b Spitz, Marc (April 25, 2008). "True Romance: 15 Years Later". Maxim. Archived from the original on February 12, 2013 . Retrieved April 23, 2013.I was impressed with the older supplements when they originally appeared on Warner’s two-disc special edition and I’m still pleased with them here. Arrow then adds some excellent new material (the Pinchot audio interview being the stand-out) that rounds out what is the best collection of material yet for the film. Closing Roger Ebert gave the film a positive review remarking that "the energy and style of the movie are exhilarating", and that "the supporting cast is superb, a roll call of actors at home in these violent waters: Christopher Walken, Dennis Hopper, and Brad Pitt, for example". [22] A negative review by The Washington Post 's Richard Harrington claimed the film was "stylistically visceral" yet "aesthetically corrupt". [23] The 4K UHD Blu-ray was released on June 28, 2022 by Arrow Video. [38] Unlike the previous DVD and Blu-ray releases, this release contains the theatrical cut for the first time since the original VHS release, it also includes the director's cut from past DVD and Blu-ray releases. [39] See also [ edit ]