History YMMV / TrueRomance

* WTHCastingAgency: It's a testament to Creator/GaryOldman's strength as an actor that he can be cast as a scuzzy, brutish, dreadlocked pimp [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy who seemingly thinks he's black]], and ''totally'' make it work.

* Brokenbase: in the director's cut Alabama shoots Detective Nicky Dimes after he executes Boris. However test audiences disliked it as they had sympathy for Dimes and lost it for Alabama as a result so in the theatrical cut it was re-edited so one of the mafioso shoots him. Fans still disagree which version is better.

* Clarence expresses his distaste for [[OscarBait awards films]] and lists his preferred films, naming ''Film/MadMax'' among them. Twenty-two years later, a [[Film/MadMaxFuryRoad Mad Max film]] would get ten Oscar nominations, including one for Best Picture, and walk away with six wins.

** Creator/SamuelLJackson's brief appearance as the drug dealer Big Don with a NiceHat, CoolShades, and a fondness for performing oral sex on women.

* SignatureScene: Creator/DennisHopper vs Creator/ChristopherWalken and their "Sicilians are niggers" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3yon2GyoiM scene]].

** Clarence watches ''Film/ABetterTomorrow II'' on television. Creator/ChristianSlater would later work with Creator/JohnWoo on ''Film/BrokenArrow'' and ''Film/{{Windtalkers}}''.

* Floyd, Dick's stoner roommate played by Brad Pitt, steals the film whenever he's on screen due to Pitt's hilarious performance.

* EsotericHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Clarence’s father is dead, a bunch of innocent policemen died, and Clarence and Alabama got away with a lot of stolen money.]]
* HilariousInHindsight: During the scene on the roller coaster, Clarence used the phrase ''Riddle me this, Batman'' while speaking to Elliot. Creator/ValKilmer later starred in ''Film/BatmanForever'', where Batman faced off against the Riddler.

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* TearJerker: Alabama, the nicest character and a complete sweetheart [[spoiler:receiving an absolutely ''brutal'' beat down given by Virgil]] is arguably the hardest scene to watch in the whole movie, [[spoilers:which makes it all the more [[CatharsisFactor satisfying]] when she fights back against the hulking hitman and, through sheer determination and pragmatism, she ''wins'']].

* TearJerker: Alabama, the nicest character and a complete sweetheart [[spoiler: receiving an absolutely ''brutal'' beat down given by Virgil]] is arguably the hardest scene to watch in the whole movie.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Alabama's original fate, as hinted in ''Film/ReservoirDogs'', remains canon while the events within the films ''happy ending'' was a fantasy that Alabama written in her journal as a means to give her and Clarence some form of closure.

* TearJerker: Alabama, the nicest character and a complete sweetheart [[spoiler: receiving an absolutely ''brutal'' beat down given by Virgil]] is arguably the hardest scene to watch in the whole movie.

* HilariousInHindsight: Aside from [[Film/BatmanReturns Max Schreck]] playing a mafia don, [[Film/BatmanForever Batman]] is Elvis and [[Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy Commissioner Gordon]] is Drexl. There's also Coccotti talking of angels and the AntiChrist. Two years later, [[Film/TheProphecy he'd be one of those angels.]]
** [[TheSopranos James Gandolfini]] plays a character who admits he got sick the first time he watched someone die. Six years later, [[Film/EightMM the same thing would happen again]].

* SensoryAbuse: Alabama's raging scream that ensues at the end of the bathroom fight, complete with beating [[spoiler: Virgil's]] body with a shotgun.

** [[TheSopranos James Gandolfini]] plays a character who admits he got sick the first time he watched someone die. Six years later, [[Film/8MM that would happen again]].

** [[TheSopranos James Gandolfini]] plays a character who admits he got sick the first time he watched someone die. Six years later, [[Film/{8MM} that would happen again]].

** [[TheSopranos James Gandolfini]] plays a character who admits he got sick the first time he watched someone die. Six years later, [[Film/{8MM} that would happen again...]]

** [[TheSopranos James Gandolfini]] plays a character who admits he got sick the first time he watched someone die. Six years later, [[{8MM} that would happen again...]]

** [[TheSopranos James Gandolfini]] plays a character who admits he got sick the first time he watched someone die. Six years later, [[Film/8MM that would happen again...]]