Painfully Enjoyable

Rating: 7/10 (29 November 2002)

Whenever I watch this movie, I have to get ready the mute button: that disgusting "N" word pops out of one of my favorite actors, and he says it more than once. The worst part of this scene, is that it's my favorite one(Rock/me/A Hard Place). Christopher Walken and Dennis Hopper are the best actors in this entire movie. Not to put down the others, but doesn't anyone disagree that that scene is their favorite one? My favorite quote:"...it's better to have a gun and not need it, than to need a gun and not have it". It rides along with that old boy scout motto: always be prepared, but Clarence's way has more lettering, and funnier. You forget that it's a romance until the ending, otherwise people focus on the violence and the profanity. Ridley Scott did a good job of handling Quentin's script (no comment on Oliver Stone's butchering of Natural Born Killers), but I want to see more of QT's direction, (and less of his acting). He'll use that disgusting "N" word, and we'll call him a genius, and I'll be venturing out to view his latest,"Kill Bill".