re: Natural Born Killers vs. True Romance

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It just comes across as being shocking for the sake of being shocking.

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That's honestly all I took away from it at the time. True Romance has a bunch of different levels. How a movie can be filled with that much violence, and yet border on being both a drama and romantic comedy - all the while containing a scene where a 120 pound girl defeats Tony Soprano, the Sicilian scene - as well as Brad Pitt's "Floyd" (his finest character to date, IMHO) - and Oldman's "Drexyl" (sheer acting genius) - when you break True Romance down into the component parts - it just gets more and more awesome.

And I agree with this being the one we'll remember Slater for (at least positively) - more kudos for the late, great Tony Scott - Slater can barely act, yet Tony got his best performane out of him - and by a significant margin.

I haven't seen everything she's done, but Arquette has been "meh" ever since (didn't watch Medium - she gets rave reviews for that - and haven't seen her in Boardwalk Empire yet.)