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JD [ 6.0 ]
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I just can't get on the bandwagon of the many followers of this so-called CLASSIC. This is anything but a classic in my opinion. It is an overlong and overly melodramatic story that drags to a typical Tarantino conclusion when you ask yourself "So what was the point?" I must admit, that the coffee shop scene had some entertaining dialogue, and that Travolta and SL Jackson were cast well, but as a whole, this is an average movie at best and one that I feel is not as original as it leads most people to believe that it is. Remember a movie called Deliverance, anyone?
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DeadCanadian [ 10.0 ]
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"Pulp Fiction" is definately not for the squeamish. Having said that, I will also say that it is an excellent movie. The plot is constructed in a jigsaw puzzle fashion, and this made me think about the movie for weeks afterward, trying to figure it out. In the process of working it out, I realized what a brilliant movie this actually is. While watching the movie, it was like a blur of violence and humor(and an extremely entertaining blur it was), but after thinking about the movie and seeing it again, only then did I realize what a great movie it was. So go watch it!
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KIL [ 6.0 ]
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I'm not quite as crazy about this one as the critics. It is entertaining. John Travolta is a weak actor. There is a slight reek of cheese emanating from this picture. www.outcrybookreview.com/meat.htm
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chapter11 [ 8.5 ]
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Easy to dismiss.. very difficult to dislike. It's such a mesmerizing and perfectly-made pastiche of the underworld, and of honor amongst thieves and criminals .. engaging on an intellectual, thoughtful plane, but interesting as plain old entertainment value. Sam Jackson is PERFECT. Just a fine film.
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kcremer [ 10.0 ]
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My absolute favorite movie of all time. Need I say more? Well I'm going to anyway.
I've only seen 2 movies more than twice in the theatres in my lifetime. This is one of them. I watched it 9 times that year!! I knew from the first preview I saw of it that I would love it - and I hadn't even heard of Quentin Tarantino before this. I didn't see Reservoir Dogs or True Romance until a year later. This guy is an extremely talented writer and director (and he has a hilarious couple of scenes in the movie towards the end).
Seeing John Travolta in this movie brought me back to 1978, when I watched Grease 8 times in the theatres. I never would have pitcured him in a movie like this, playing a heroin addicted gangster. He plays the role so naturally and flawlessly.
This movie also introduced me to Samuel L. Jackson, whom I'd only vaguely known of before this. He plays Travolta's gangster partner who "loves the taste of a good burger" and is a lot deeper of a person than his badass persona shows. Almost everything he and Travolta say to each other cracked me up.
There are some equally good supporting performances by Bruce Willis (who I was surprised agreed to do this movie, considering he stars in the most disturbing scene I'd seen in a movie since Deliverance (1972)), Ving Rhames, the beautiful, sexy Uma Thurman (whom I'd also never seen in a movie prior to this), Eric Stoltz, Harvey Keitel, and providing one of the funniest scenes in the movie, the Great Christopher Walken.
This is everything you could ever ask for in a movie: Original plot, perfect casting, very funny and witty dialogue, chronological disorder (there are numerous moments when the movie goes back to a previous scene to show us what happened after the original scene had ended), and as someone who almost never listens to movie soundtracks, a great score. I especially liked "Misrilou" (the song at the beginning of the movie), by the legendary Dick Dale, King of the Surf Guitar.
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Jeff_Wilder [ 10.0 ]
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Pulp Fiction has come to be regarded-and rightfully so-as one of the classic films of the 1990s. That's a lofty title. But Pulp Fiction is one that earns it. It takes the classic crime story and twists it in so many directions that the result is draining. Although you have to follow the plot closely in order to fully understand it, that's not a problem here. It isn't a problem because writer-director Quentin Tarantino has filled the movie with memorable characters and excellent dialogue.
Released in 1994, Pulp Fiction was Tarantino's second film after the 1992 flick Reservoir Dogs. While that one established him in the movie business, this is the one that cemented his status as a visionary filmmaker. Here he took elements that would normally be found in an indie film and aimed them directly at the mainstream movie audience. And it worked. In the process, he created one of the most entertaining films I've ever seen, changed the way the American audience looks at crime films and revitalized a few actors’ careers.
Pulp's plot is a complex one and trying to summarize it here in this review would not do it justice. I will list enough to give the reader a general idea of the characters and where the film goes. The two characters with the most screen time are Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules Winfield (Samuel L Jackson, sporting an afro that makes him look like Ice Cube). They are both hitmen who are employed by the mysterious Marcellus Wallace (Ving Rhames). In one of the opening scenes, they are driving to pull off a hit, while Kool and The Gang's "Jungle Boogie" blares in the background. They find themselves discussing Holland and its Hash Bars and why in Paris, McDonald's has French Words for their hamburgers (They don't say anything. But I bet they also use heating lamps in Paris). There are a lot of hamburger references in this movie, especially in a later scene where Jules dubs them the cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast.
Later on we hear Vincent and Jules talking about Marcellus and his wife Mia, whom Marcellus has ordered Vincent to escort around while the don is out of town. As they talk and as scenes unfold, we learn that Vincent is tough yet dim and Jules is tough yet has a God complex of some sort.
Later on, the scene shifts to the scene where Vincent has to take Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) out for dinner.
They wind up going to a fifties style diner called Jackrabbit Slims. After some discussions about foot massages and what may happen to people who give them to the wife of Marcellus Wallace, they enter a twist contest and win it. It's not long after they win, that this segment kicks into high gear. I won't go into real detail so as not to spoil it for you. Just sufficient to say that Vincent and a drug-dealing buddy (Eric Stoltz) find themselves arguing over the best way to insert a syringe of adrenaline
That's one of several sticky situations these characters wind up in. There's also a sticky situation involving a boxer on the lam named Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis) who made off with some of Marcellus' dough. Coolidge has an affinity for a golden watch that once belonged to his Vietnam Vet father. That affinity lands him in the aforementioned sticky situation, which involves two sex-starved rednecks and an unexpected partner.
There are also two other sticky situations that involve the two hitmen, a fixer-upper known as The Wolf (Harvey Keitel), a racial epithet-spewing buddy of Jules (Tarantino himself in a cameo) and two stickup artists (Tim Roth and Amanda Plummer).
What makes Pulp Fiction work in addition to the characters, dialogue and script is the acting. I wasn't kidding when I noted that this film resurrected the careers of a couple actors.
First off, there's the comeback king himself. John Travolta, almost two decades after Saturday Night Fever and still smarting from the recent duo of talking babies and dogs movies (the second two Look Who's Talking Movies). Vincent Vega was his first role in a while that had some real meat to it and he sank his teeth in. He plays Vincent as a character who is tough but rather dim ("I didn't mean to shoot him, the car hit a bump").
Then there is Willis, who was also in career jeopardy ("I'll take Bob Saget for $200 Alex!") after bombs like North and Hudson Hawk and Color Of Night. The role of Butch Coolidge reminded us of what makes him a good actor. He plays a character that's ultimately tough yet tender and occasionally makes the wrong decision. He's also bald.
It was the lesser-known (at the time) actors who gave the really memorable performances however. Samuel L Jackson's Jules is an Afro sporting, bible quoting hitman. I guarantee that anyone within 5 years of my age is familiar with the famous Ezekiel 25: 17 soliloquy where Jackson delivers a biblical passage at a couple of doomed men. Later on, Travolta and him have a discussion of religion and philosophy.
Then there is Ving Rhames as the mysterious Marcellus. This performance established that Rhames was going to be a force to be reckoned with in Hollywood. With one famous line ("I'm gonna get medieval on your A**") he announced his arrival.
Also giving good performances are Keitel, Thurman, Tarantino, Roth and Christopher Walken.
Very few films have the guts to walk the line between trash and art. Pulp Fiction does it brilliantly.
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Devinmc [ 9.5 ]
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i also thought that this was a good movie john travolta played a very interesting character as well did samuel l. jackson i liked the part were they had the gun to that one guys head in the car and hit a bump and accidentely shot him and then they had wolf i think come over and tell them how to clean up the mess great movie except i think they could have refrained from using the F word so much.
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| Weighted Rating | : 8.3 |
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