Pulp Fiction | | Cast : | John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis | | Director : | Quentin Tarantino | | Studio : | Miramax Entertainment | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | October 14, 1994 | | DVD Released Date : | January 25, 2005 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | NC-17 | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
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| Rating |  | | Date | August 08, 2005 | | Summary | Pulp Fiction | Content
 | There are two ways to look at PULP FICTION. You can look at it as just a movie, or you can look at it as a movie that revolutionized the way movies were made. If you look at it as a film by itself, it is a great movie. If you look at it as a revolutionary work of art, well it's still a great movie.
Many people have listed PULP FICTION's merits: awesome cast, outstanding dialogue, the way Quentin Tarantino was able to put this together for such a low budget. Some people have also stated how important the mixed chronology is. However, I haven't really seen anyone discuss WHY the mixed up time is so essential to the film.
The reason is because of this: towards the end of the movie (as viewers see it) Vincent and Jules are discussing something that happened to them earlier that day. One of them decides to make a life changing decision while the other doesn't. Based on those decisions, one of them dies. While it happens later chronologically, it was actually shown earlier in the film. Seeing their dialogue at the end puts everything in a whole new light and gives viewers a whole new perspective. Had Tarantino made a more standard movie, the effect wouldn't be nearly as interesting and attention grabbing.
The only really bad things I can say about the movie are not about the movie at all. Because of its success, later filmmakers tried to copy Tarantion's style instead of just trying to make good films. Also, after this movie came out, a lot of white kids started thinking that it was ok to use the n-word. However, I blame neither PULP FICTION nor Quentin Tarantino for either of those. He made a good film and it should judged for itself. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 05, 2005 | | Summary | A Masterpiece | Content
| This movie is so symbolic. When it came out no one knew what would happen. Tarantino is one of my favorite directors and with this movie showcases his style. Without this movie John Travolta would have disappeared from being in good movies. All the actors are good in their rules. Big ups go to Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, Harvey Keitel, Ving Rhames, and Christopher Walken. This movie is a classic. Highly Recommended. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 03, 2005 | | Summary | BEYOND A SHADOW OF A DOUBT, THE BEST MOVIE EVER MADE... | Content
| ...in the minds of people who haven't seen that many films.
Yes, this is the breakthrough film that gave every 12-year old guy in the world (regardless of age) the unfortunate impression that someone, somewhere gives two s###s about his aesthetic judgments in re cinema.
Give me a guy who reveres this flick and I will tell you the other 24 movies he considers the top of all-time. Not that he has not already Listmania'd them somewhere else on this site, of course, having intuited that we require his wisdom (in truth, we are just entertained by his spelling of "defenately"). He's an upstanding member of the "Clockwork Orange", "Fight Club", "Goodfellas" crowd, a guy who digs the Arty Violence big-time. Not that I do not also enjoy some of this lot of films. It's just that I also appreciate movies with other things on their minds.
My taste in film runs toward the non-nihilistic satire with at least a touch of wit. Active nihilism is occasionally acceptable, but only if the film maker is damn serious about his intentions, refusing to wimp out like Mendez with his supposedly black, but muddle-headed and finally sentimental "American Beauty". Todd Solondz, for instance, sincerely believes that existence is, more often than not, f####d the h##l up, and sees no reason to keep it to himself. Therefore, Todd Solondz always deserves a hearing. Tarantino, on the other hand, has no interest in the ramifications of the copious violence he depicts; it's all just a good laugh, right? Cheesy as a Royale! Ha ha!
"Hey, lighten up, jfigl!" (you say) "'Pulp Fiction's' just a movie, dude!"
"No" (says jfigl) "it's a video game. 'Can you stop Zed from abusing your partner before he finishes up and blows you both away?'"
If you've read many of the other reviews of "Pulp" on this site, you've probably noticed that the movie's "scrambled" structure is often singled out as a "good" thing about the film. Note how few writers then explain WHY this is a "good" thing. In fact, several writers claim both that it is a "good" thing AND that the film is structured that way "for no reason".
As Bo Diddley once so eloquently put it: "Hush yer mouth". |
| Rating | | | Date | July 31, 2005 | | Summary | EASILY THE GREATEST MOVIE I'VE EVER SEEN! | Content
| PULP FICTION WAS A FANTASTIC MOVIE WITH A WONDERFUL CAST. BEFORE I REVIEW THIS, I AM TELLING YOU THAT THIS MOVIE IS ABSOLUTE GREATNESS AND FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DON'T WANNA READ ABOUT IT, STOP NOW AND JUST GO OUT AND BUY THIS BECAUSE IT WAS JUST PURE GREATNESS.
THE MOVIE STARTS OUT WITH TWO BRITISH PEOPLE, A COUPLE, PLANNING TO ROB A RESTAURANT, AND SAYING HOW IT'S EASIER TO ROB A RESTAURANT. IT CUTS OFF, AND GOES TO EARLIER IN TIME, TO WHERE THEY GO TO AN ASSOCIATE OF THEIR BOSS'S HOUSE, AND KILL THEM FOR SCREWING OVER MR. WALLACE (THE BOSS), AND RETREAVING A MYSTERIOUS BREIFCASE. THE MOVIE THEN HAS VINCE (JOHN TRAVOLTA), BUYING HEROIN FOR THAT NIGHT. HE THEN GOES OUT ON A DATE WITH MR. WALLACE'S WIFE TO KEEP HER COMPANY WHERE THEY GO TO JACK RABBIT SLIMS. THIS IS PROBABLY MY 2ND FAVORITE SCENE. WHEN THEY GET BACK HOME, MRS. WALLACE O.D.'S ON HER STASH, AND VINCE RUSHES HER TO LANCE (THE DRUG DEALER) AND THEY GIVE HER A SHOT OF ADRENALINE TO HEAL HER. THE MOVIE THEN CUTS TO LATER ON, WHERE THEY TALK ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF THE NEXT SCENE. IT'S ABOUT A KID NAMED BUTCH, WHO TURNS INTO A BOXER, HOW HE GETS THIS WATCH FROM HIS DAD WHEN HE DIES IN A WAR AND LEARNS WHAT HE WENT THROUGH TO GET IT TO BUTCH. IN THE BOXING MATCH, BUTCH DOESN'T DO WHAT HE'S TOLD BY MR. WALLACE, AND KILLS THE OTHER MAN, AND IS ON THE RUN TRYING TO BE KILLED BY MR. WALLACE. EVERYTHING IS GOING GREAT FOR BUTCH, EXCEPT HIS GIRLFRIEND LEAVES HIS WATCH AT HIS HOUSE. HE THEN GOES THERE AND IS SET UP TO BE KILLED BY VINCENT. HOWEVER, VINCE USES THE BATHROOM, AND WHEN HE COMES OUT, HE GETS SHOT. BUTCH THEN ON HIS WAY HOME RUNS INTO MR. WALLACE, WHERE THEY FIGHT INTO A PAWN SHOP, WHERE A GUY KEEPS THEM HOSTAGE. THEY ARE THEN TIED UP AND ARE GONNA GET RAPED, BUT BUTCH ESCAPES WHILE MR. WALLACE IS GETTING RAPED. HE THEN KILLS THE PAWN SHOP OWNER, AND MR. WALLACE KILLS THE POLICE MAN. MR. WALLACE THEN TELLS BUTCH HE IS FREE TO LEAVE L.A. WITHOUT GETTING KILLED. THEY THEN CUT TO THE SCENE WHERE THEY KILL THE ASSOCIATES AGAIN. ONCE JULES (SAMUEL L. JACKSON) SHOOTS THE GUY, ANOTHER MAN JUMPS OUT AND TRIES TO SHOOT THEM, BUT MISSES ON ALL HIS SHOTS. THEY THEN SHOOT HIM. LOL! ANYWAYS, AS THEY DRIVE AWAY, THEY TAKE MARVIN (JULES FRIEND/WITNESS OF THE EVENT) AND VINCENT ACCIDENTLY SHOOTS HIS HEAD OFF. THEY GO TO JIMMY'S HOUSE (ANOTHER ASSOCIATE OF MR. WALLACE) SO THEY CAN FIX THEIR CAR. THERE WE MEET MR. WOLF, AND HE HELPS THEM GET AWAY WITH KILLING MARVIN ACCIDNELTY. THEY THEN CUT BACK TO THE DINER SCENE WHICH HAPPENS LATER THAT DAY. JULES ANNOUNCES THAT THE "DERVINE INTERVENTION" OF THE GUY MISSING THE GUN SHOTS IS GONNA MAKE HIM RETIRE. HIS LAST ACT, IS TO BREAK UP THE ROBBERY OF THE BRITISH PEOPLE THAT I MENTIONED EARLIER. HE FINDS OUT THE MEANING OF HIS BIBLE QUOTE, HELPS OUT THE BRITISH PEOPLE BECOME BETTER PEOPLE, AND JULES AND VINCENT WALK OUT AS THE MOVIE ENDS.
GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT MOVIE!
PEACE OUT YA'LL
~~~GREGO~~~ |
| Rating | | | Date | July 20, 2005 | | Summary | One of a kind... | Content
| Quentin Tarantino worked in a video rental shop before he started directing. Now, he makes movies that challenges the norm in Hollywood and hangs out with fellow "kick-a$$" director Robert Rodriguez. And of all his movies, I like Pulp Fiction the best. Yeah, his other work were also cool/stylistic/bad-a$$ (pick a word, they're all suitable) but this movie really blew me away with its unique storytelling, superb performances and witty dialogue.
It's hard to explain the story, because it moves in and out of specific events, each interweaving with the next, either before or after the previous event. Confused? Watch it and you'll understand. But ultimately, it is a story about situations with various people, each interesting as hell. We have two hit men, a boxer and his girlfriend, the mob boss, his wife, two petty robbers and let's see...yeah, a guy who smart talks his way to cleaning messes (e.g. dead bodies). It may sound unusual but it all adds up to make a surprisingly entertaining movie.
As I said, there are many things I loved about this movie, but something that really stands out is the screenplay. At the time, it was considered to be new and refreshing, and I can see why. Watching the movie more than 10 times, I realize something...this movie is not important, it probably does not depict real life and it's even incredibly crazy at times. It is also never going to affect me in any way. Well, what makes it special? I would call this cinematic escapism at it's finest. Many times, we find that the characters talk about totally different things than what we expect. But instead of sounding lame, Tarantino has a gift of knowing how far he should take it, and it ends up sounding cool and extremely unique. Tell me, how many people can pull of talking about burgers in Amsterdam sound cool and intelligent...and as insane as that sounds, Tarantino does it. The thing you notice immediately is the passion involved in the movie. You know you're getting whatever the f*ck Tarantino wishes to put into it, without pesky studio bosses, or marketing executives telling him otherwise. It's a huge gamble, but it works.
A good script is integral, but what really sells the movie is the actors...and the fact that Tarantino got a whole bunch of talented people to appear in Pulp Fiction, speaks for itself. John Travolta delivers one of his best performances, launching back his career to an all-time high. Samuel L. Jackson is also superb in his role. The rest of the cast; Bruce Willis, Christopher Walken, Ving Rhames, Uma Thurman, Tim Roth and Harvey Keitel...all give very convincing performances that the movie comes alive and I guess making it so much more than what it set out to be.
Finally, if you look at Top 100 Lists anywhere, on the net, in cinema books...you are bound to find this movie somewhere there, and believe me... it very well deserves to be. Considered historic in American cinema, I for one, recommend it wholeheartedly. |
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