Thoughts on Pulp Fiction

Just watched Pulp Fiction.

It was a real great movie. What your thoughts of the movie?

Christopher Walken was my favorite part of the movie

Fuckin' Marvin

Great movie. Good humor, violence, and story.

Oh that adrenaline.

"No, no, they didn't have blueberry pancakes, I had to get buttermilk". Fabienne was adorable.

9/10

I agree.

Well, Marvin does have a lot of blood in the head area of his body.

it's a fun movie for all the awful sh*t that happens and it's pretty rewatchable too for something so vacuous. it's not my favorite tarantino though. inglorious basterds is more fun and jackie brown has better characters.

You thought it was a great movie? Lol. The first time I watched it, I was borderline horrified. Like the scene in the car...like wtf that was messed up.

Over the years though I've come to respect the hell out of it though for the bizarre-yet highly original storytelling Tarantino does with writing the plot. Also I discovered Dick Dale from the opening credits.

Honestly my favourite Tarantino film. So many classic dialogue scenes, the whole damn movie is quotable.

My favourite is the "Royale with cheese".

I respect it for what it was when it was made (there wasn't anything quite like it) but to me the movie is boring as all hell, mainly because the stories are really not interesting at all. the third one in particular, stands out as entirely pointless (where they need to get rid of the body). I don't mind slow paced films, I don't mind movies with flimsy plots (some of my favorite movies have weak plots but are very well executed) and I actually like many other Tarantino movies (loved Reservoir Dogs, Django and I enjoyed Inglorious and the first Kill Bill). But Pulp Fiction felt... Overblown. The thing about his other movies is that underneath all the (admittedly well written) dialogue, there's a lot of interesting subject matter. With Pulp Fiction, most of the stories go pretty much nowhere, and to me, with Tarantino's style, the story HAS to be good because otherwise the dialogue comes off as very self indulgent and pointless.

That last line pretty much sums up my thoughts on the movie as a whole.

I liked it enough the times I have seen it, but I've never wanted to rewatch it on my own. I find other Tarantino much more enjoyable.

omfg you guys are too young to watch Pulp Fiction

Good movie, but overrated, 7/10

Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.

Love Pulp Fiction. Great cast and lots of memorable scenes and quotes.

Another Tarantino gem.

Well welcome to the nineties where I was a teen

Other movies you should really watch from that era

True romance

Natural born killers

Reservoir dogs

Very bad things

Four rooms

From dusk till dawn

Snatch

Lock stock & two smoking barrels

Fear & loathing in las vegas

Secret window

Once upon a time in mexico

Shallow grave

Get shorty

Trainspotting

Seven

Fargo

Fight club

The beach

Confessions of a dangerous mind

Rat race

Starship troopers

Eyes Wide shut

Carlito's way

L.A confidential

Casino

Goodfellas

Boogie nights

From hell

Strange days

Basketball diaries

The shawnshank redemption

Event horizon

Solaris

As good as it gets

Jackie brown

These are all top movies with all top actors. Of course I'm not saying the '2000's don't have a good movies as well.

But the nineties were some special. These movies have mostly a mature rating, some don't. Since you watched pulp fiction, I presume you're not underage anymore? otherwise the only thing you can watch from this list is rat race.

Pulp fiction is one of my favourite movies

the latest & greatest to me is , burn after reading & shutter island but there are so many great movies it's always hard to pick a favourite,

You should really make sure you watch very bad things, four roooms and true romance from this list

but they're all very, very good

you should really watch true romance then, best role I've ever seen

I agree ...

Natural Born Killer was better

@evildead6789: Thank you for the suggestions. I have seen maybe 10% of the movies you listed, so I have a way to go. But I do plan to watch all the movies you listed soon.

So again, Thank You.

It's a classic, that's for sure. Read some analysis on it and you'll see lots of interesting details in the movie you might've missed - it might elevate the quality of the film for you. I remember seeing this movie when I was 12 years old - loved it then, love it now. Having said that, I think it's slightly overrated.

EDIT: Hell, I'll just share it here. Most people never even give the slightest thought to how much detail went into this movie, or movies in general.

masterpiece

I've never seen it but know enough of it to understand most references.

You should. It's great.

The movie has aged well and is probably somewhere on the internet. I doubt it would be hard to find if you know where to look.

@KHAndAnime:

Thanks for linking it for me. I watched both parts and found it very insightful.

Well pulp fiction is a bit of a dark comedy and that's what I liked the most.

If forgot two more movies on the list

lucky numbers and friday

I'm glad you enjoyed it! I hope more people check it out, because it's extremely surprising to see how different a movie can appear to be once analyzed. Before seeing the analysis myself, I thought Pulp Fiction was a little bit weak on the thematic elements and was made purely to seem entertaining and cool. I mean, let's face it, Tarantino is obsessed with style and things that seem absolutely shallow and trivial on the surface (see: Kill Bill and Grindhouse,) . But now I know that a lot of the ideas that went into Pulp Fiction weren't thrown in just to be "cool", every little bit of the movie was very carefully calculated :)

Screw that. It's well worth the buy as is most Tarantino flicks.

It's a great movie although I do agree some of the scenes tend to drag a bit, namely the scene with Vince and Marcellus' wife dancing. The characters are memorable though and as everyone else has said there are so many great quotes from it. I love the non-linear storytelling that has now become a trademark of Tarantino films also and there is a shock factor that is fairly horrifying when you first watch it (the rape scene, Vince shooting Marvin for instance) but once you get over the initial shock it's really entertaining at the same time.

used to really love Pulp Fiction.. over the years ive realized how overrated it actually is

i think that with pulp fiction, tarantino was very focused on what is cool. it's a big mish mash of zeitgeist and intentionally so. that's a big reason for fracturing the narrative so much. if it was done linearly, people would have confused it for a thriller. by taking away the "what happens next?" hook (coupled with tarantino's trademark tangents), the movie is more defined as the hodgepodge that it is. that's the big reason for the "pulp" introduction at the beginning.

it's a bit like de palma's whole "style is substance" thing except tarantino is a just a better filmmaker. the initial and continued enjoyment of pulp fiction is tarantino's validation.

Lulz. That was like half the time of the bar scene from Inglorious.

I think it's racist garbage. Dead N***** Storage? Talk about being gratuitous.

Overrated? no

*sigh* the older I get the less I find this movie to be enjoyable. There's not much purpose to the movie, yes Sammy J is incredibly cool in it, but he only gets a fairly small bit in it, and the rest just bores the hell out of me.

Nowhere near as good as Reservoir Dogs.

Overrated but not bad.

It's alright.

@Master_Live: I agree. Not as good as everyone raves on about it. Reservior dogs was much better, and Inglorious Basterds is his best.

Awesome, right @evildead6789 ?

I prefer Tony Scott's True Romance more

It's not only a masterpiece, it's one of the best masterpieces

@indzman:

I do too, but Tony Scott, (who committed suicide in 2012), seemed to really know how to make a great movie. Anyway Tony only directed it, it was written by Tarantino.

Pulp Fiction was a brilliant movie. Not much purpose to the movie? The movie is about redemption. Pulp was my favorite movie for years, though like anything too much and it can get annoying.

Anyway, Tony Scott is still my favorite director. How do I say this? The projects he choose just seemed like movies that you could watch several times and enjoy. Not as deep or stylistic as a lot of directors probably, but he just seemed to get better and better.