NFT: Happy 20th Birthday Pulp Fiction

I was a freshman at Pepperdine, and I went to see it at the little two-screen theater in Malibu. Also in the audience - Nick Nolte, who looked like freeze-dried death. I'm serious, his mugshot looked like it was taken at Glamour Shots compared to how he looked that night.

Usually films cycled in and out of that theater quickly, but Pulp Fiction played on one screen there forever. My buddies and I saw it at least ten times.

Its ensemble cast and terrific dialogue really made it great. Not to mention it restored John Travolta's career. I must have watched it in the theaters half-a-dozen times.

I happily own the DVD.

I remember going to see it with my college buddies when we were sophomores, stoned out of our minds...now that was an experience

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

much better than Forrest Gump.

was taken at Glamor shots...................early favorite for BBI line of the year

I liked it anyway.

Then you should cease asking scary questions.

I was just sitting here eating my muffin when I had what alcoholics refer to as "a moment of clarity".

around before Travolta and Michael Madsen got too old to play the characters.

This woman I work with, Juliana, was speaking during a meeting. At one point she says to another person... "I'm not sure if we're going to be able to have the digital sign ready by X date. Jimmy, any info on this?"

Jimmy responds... "DON'T FUCKING JIMMY ME, JULES!"

There were 10 people in the meeting and 8 got the reference. 1 of the 2 that didn't was Juliana, haha.

The hitmen are in awe of the powers of Winston Wolf as a fixer, yet all he did was tell them to clean the blood off of the car's interior, cover the seats with blankets and tell them to wash the blood off themselves and change their clothes. In other words, basic common sense.

In comment 11922147 Greg from LI said:

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The hitmen are in awe of the powers of Winston Wolf as a fixer, yet all he did was tell them to clean the blood off of the car's interior, cover the seats with blankets and tell them to wash the blood off themselves and change their clothes. In other words, basic common sense.

lmao, yes. I re-watched it recently and man... The Wolf provided some pretty basic information. Beyond having a connection with Monster Joe, he didn't really do anything.

one more time..................

-What?

ENGLISH, MOTHERFUCKER, DO YOU SPEAK IT?

-Yes!

So you know what I'm saying, then!

-Yes, yes!

Describe what Marcellus Wallace looks like!

-What??

Say "what" again. Say "what" again, I dare you, I double dare you, motherfucker! Say "what" one more goddamned time! Describe what Marcellus Wallace looks like!

-Heeeeee's black....

Go on!

-He's bald?

Does he look like a bitch?

-What???

*BAM*

clean the fucking car

Harvey Keitel just killed that role. As others posted, that's what made it so amusing - Winston Wolf didn't really do anything, and yet he made that whole part of the movie just hilarious

Scenes stolen from every B picture ever made, and no, they were not homages either.

Tarantino peaked as a video clerk, then the Peter Principle. I was asked shortly afterwards to look at one of his scripts and I refused.

Glad I did.

Can recite just about every line, and have looked up a lot of trivial about the movie over the years, like what was inside that suitcase.

But does anyone know why Samuel L. Jackson called Tim Roth "Ringo"?

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I believe I saw an interview once with QB where he said that putting the light bulb in the briefcase was the one thing he would change if he was to go back in time and make the movie again. It was supposed to be just a Mcguffin - the light was only to emphasize how alluring the characters all found the contents. He never meant for the contents of the case to be symbolic of anything real.

"I'm a mushroom cloud-laying motherfucker, motherfucker! Every time my fingers touch brain, I'm Superfly T.N.T.! I'm The Guns of the Navarone! In fact, what the fuck am I doing in the back? You're the motherfucker who should be on brain detail! We're fucking switching! I'm washing the windows and you're picking up this nigga's skull!"

"Have you ever given a guy a foot massage?"

About the first public screening at Cannes....
Todd McCarthy--Hollywood Reporter - ( New Window )

The one that says bad motherfucker, motherfucker

Cause I wouldn't eat the filthy motherfucker.

In comment 11922267 Stan from LA said:

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Scenes stolen from every B picture ever made, and no, they were not homages either. Tarantino peaked as a video clerk, then the Peter Principle. I was asked shortly afterwards to look at one of his scripts and I refused. Glad I did.

Oh, that's right, you prefer old man on old man porn... Proving that you don't even have taste in your mouth.

that don't really add up to a great movie. I love so many of the scenes and dialogue, but somehow it comes up short for me when you put it all together.

But fuck if I cared. Such a good one.

inconsequential movie.

In comment 11922410 chris r said:

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inconsequential movie.

No it isn't.

radar going against the grain? Shocker!

In comment 11922267 Stan from LA said:

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Scenes stolen from every B picture ever made, and no, they were not homages either. Tarantino peaked as a video clerk, then the Peter Principle.

Another swing and a miss from Stan!

name 5 movies post 1990 that you think are excellent. The Social Network, which you initially praised, was soon downgraded to "okay".

What ya got?

not a invalidation of your Pulp Fiction opinion.

it's either awful or the most amazing thing of all time.

Interesting definition of overrated.

To Stan, it doesn't matter if:

--a vast proportion of critics really liked the movie,

--A vast proportion of viewers loved the movie. Didn't like it, loved it. Rotten Tomatoes: Critics 94% with an average rating of 9/10. Viewers 96%.

--It made massive amounts of money.

--It generated massive numbers of imitators.

None of that matters. If Stan doesn't approve of it, it's overrated.

I can't find it in the DSM-IV, but there is definitely a diagnosis associated with that level of megalomania.

In comment 11922267 Stan from LA said:

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Scenes stolen from every B picture ever made, and no, they were not homages either. Tarantino peaked as a video clerk, then the Peter Principle. I was asked shortly afterwards to look at one of his scripts and I refused. Glad I did.

I'd be curious to know which scenes were stole from what movies?

It's called postmodernism. The basic idea being that it's the medium itself that is the focus. So, it is really a film about films and the nature of representation itself. Harvey keitel is a parody of the deus ex machina that intervenes to resolve problems in most other action films.

At the time, it seemed epoch making. But it might not play as well to an audience of twenty year olds today. They definitely wouldn't see it ten times.