Best movies of 1994

6800   8.3   9 

I've seen Pulp Fiction 8 times in theatres (2 of those at full-price, 4 at the discount theatre, and 2 at midnight movies after it was out on video), and countless times on VHS and DVD. It's one of a handful of films I could turn on & put on mute & recite all the dialogue from. I can't remember what made me first want to go see it (I do remember that I went alone), but it greatly changed my life and the way I look at & think about movies. It's the cinematic equivalent of NIN's The Downward Spiral...neither should've been mainstream, yet somehow they became so & as a result the bar was raised very high for their contemporaries. And for those of us who fell in love with either (or both), we've never seen/heard the same since.

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301   6.9   7.2 

Credited here, despite not hitting American theatres until Apr. 26, 1996.

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2283   7.2   7.2 

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171   6.4   6.3 

US release date: Sept. 1994

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4640   8.6   9.3 

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1884   7.4   7.8 

Us, we like to make ourselves seem so much more important than the people that come in here to buy a paper or, god forbid, cigarettes. We look down on them as if we're so advanced. Well, if we're so fucking advanced, what are we doing working here?

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3452   8.3   8.6 

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2292   7.6   8 

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1939   7.3   7.6 

He was already dead. He died a year ago the moment he touched her. They're all dead. They just don't know it yet.

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38   4.6   5.6 

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848   6.4   6.9 

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90   6.5   6.1 

What's this? You're wearing the shirt of the band you're going to see? Don't be that guy.

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143   6.5   6.8 

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66   7.1   7 

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