True Romance

Episode 121: True Romance (1993)

Theme: Wives’ Choice Month
Hosts: Oz & Curtis

This week, Oz and Curtis celebrate Valentine’s Day the only way they know how — with a Tarantino-written lovers-on-the-run coke-fueled odyssey featuring comic-book clerks, Elvis hallucinations, dreadlocked pimps, and the single most violent housekeeping scene ever filmed. It’s Pump Up the Volume × Reservoir Dogs × The Last Boy Scout × Taxi Driver × Half Baked (the couch guy specifically) — shaken, stirred, and shot at from six different directions.

The hosts break down:

• Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette as Clarence & Alabama — the most chaotic 16-hour courtship ever to end in tattoos and homicide.
• Gary Oldman as Drexel — the dreadlocked, scarred, genre-shifting nightmare who out-scares Dracula.
• The showdown between Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken — a close-up acting clinic in intimidation and cigarette smoke.
• Floyd, the world’s highest liability — a man who gives away addresses like he’s passing out Halloween candy.
• The hotel suite finale: bullets, feathers, cocaine snowstorms, and more intersecting shootouts than a multiplayer lobby.

Final Verdict:

Oz — 86 Squibs of Blood
Curtis — 78 Upbeat Xylophones

Next week: We slam the brakes on the violence and drift straight into Fried Green Tomatoes — friendship, trains, barbecue, Kathy Bates, and the annual LET’S TALK ABOUT FEELINGS episode. Bring tissues…and maybe ribs.