“I swear to you, from this moment forth, I’ll never lie to you again.”

As volatile as it is endear­ing and cap­ti­vat­ing, True Romance is a glo­ri­ous movie about reck­less youth and impul­sive­ness. This is a film, more than any­thing else, about unadul­ter­ated pure love; the kind of love that breaks through impreg­nable walls and burns through the lies we tell each other. How­ever, don’t be fooled by my mag­nil­o­quent descrip­tion, least you fall vic­tim to a shot­gun blast to the face. Although it may have one of the most flow­ery titles in all of cin­e­matic his­tory, True Romance rev­els in the old Ultra-Violence. Oh, and did I men­tion that this film was penned by a young Quentin Taran­tino, still unspoiled by his well deserved ram­pant suc­cess?  His voice shines through not only in every clever piece of dia­log, but the story telling themes he built his name on got their start right here. This is a film burst­ing at the seams with so much raw tal­ent and charisma that it almost shouldn’t exist, but it does, and the final prod­uct is so out­stand­ing and time­less that it’s prac­ti­cally unbelievable.

“For this rea­son above all, their capac­ity for good, I have sent them you… my only son.”

The 1978 film ver­sion of Super­man bor­rowed heav­ily from the Christ mythos, almost as much as it did from the orig­i­nal DC comic book series, “Action Comics”, but the result was some­thing mag­i­cal. The cast per­fectly por­trays their char­ac­ters so mem­o­rably that they’ve become part of the col­lec­tive con­scious. When we think of Lex Luthor, we rarely think of him as he was depicted in the comics or on var­i­ous car­toons, but as Gene Hack­man ham­ming it up with Ned Beatty. Most impor­tantly, the world will always remem­ber the legacy of Christo­pher Reeve when they think of our Man of Steel.