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Originally Posted by TheCunningStunt
Haha, it was just a fun action/romance/crime flick. I didn't think it was possible to hate it.
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No it isn't. It doesn't masquerade as a fun movie. It masquerades as a 'Cool' movie and presents itself with a moral compass that I have no choice but to view it as such. That's why B movies work. You don't expect anything from them and they don't present themselves as such, so that's why I can dig Jean Claude Van Damme movies. They don't ask moral questions or even expect you to think. They are just 6 pack beer movies and I appreciate them as that but when a film obviously does have a modicum of intelligence then I am going to dissect it a lot more than a B movie and it better add up for me and True Romance doesn't for me at all.
It's not as though I only watch meathead movies and compare everything against them. I am VERY serious about my films but I like B movies as much as something like Salo or The Warrior.
True Romance falls into neither category and just ends up being a film with VERY serious intent only when it needs it and otherwise apes 70's/80's exploitation movies and therefore I just cannot get into it.