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Pulp Fiction review

Posted : 1 week, 2 days ago on 11 May 2013 05:00

Pulp Fiction is another classic from Quentin Tarantino, his style is not for everyone. Like all Quentin's movie it is full of violence, blood and one very interesting but gory scene. I think I like Pulp Fiction more then any of his other works, the story is great all the actors did a really good job. This movie is a rollercoaster, there are stories in stories and I for one had to watch the movie twice but it was worth it. Again if you don't like violence then don't watch this, but if you want a good time full of violence chaos and a bloody good time then Pulp Fiction is awsome. Once again by watching it, you will understand why it is a cult movie.

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Pulp Fiction review

Posted : 4 months ago on 18 January 2013 10:05

Pulp Fiction

//Arriving in the midst of formulaic Hollywood offerings, Pulp Fiction was the perfectly cultish, quirky antidote to such mind-numbing fluff dominating the cinema; refreshing, bold and striking, it spawned many imitators. Despite its heavy prevalence upon dialogue and disjointed web of events sewn together in a non-linear narrative, audiences flocked and remain enthralled by it to this very day. Peppered with great moments eaten up by actors working at the top of their game (Travolta, Willis and Thurman have never been better, and the film created the aura of greatness that currently surrounds Jackson) Pulp Fiction is primarily successful because of its witty writing, pop culture-surfing, gleeful amorality, cult tuneology and hyperkinetic energy, redefining the crime genre for the foreseeable future. Its compendium format draws upon Black Sabbath and twisty-turny crime literature, but also European movies, Amsterdam and Hollywood history. Indeed, Pulp Fiction operates in the hinterland between reality and movie reality. Into a cadre of movie archetypes — the assassin, the mob boss, the gangster's moll, the boxer who throws a fight — Tarantino injects a reality check that is as funny as it is refreshing. Whereas most crime flicks would breeze over the rendezvous between Vincent and Mia, here we actually get to go on the date— polite chit-chat, awkward silences, bad dancing — before it spirals off into a drugged-up disaster. Just as Resevoir Dogs is a heist film where you don't see the heist, Pulp Fiction never shows its main plot points or their resolution, opting instead to present the audience with detailed conversations about food and Deliverance-style rape. Moreover, after Vincent and Jules take back Marsellus' briefcase, rather than cutting to a cop on their trail, we stay with them and revel in their banal banter as they dispose of a corpse (the genius of Keitel's Wolf in this effort is a moot point — how much intelligence does it take to clean a car, then throw a rug over the back seat?)Although it is termed a crime film, its audacious story dynamics and daring array of characters would prove otherwise generally speaking, since the criminal aspect of the film is never drummed into the mind of the viewer; they're too busy being entertained. What makes the film so great is that it wouldn't work in a linearity, in criss-crossing the exposition, Tarantino forges hooks of expectation and curiosity that pay off one by one in satisfying ways with continuous scenes that interconnect a whole nexus of underworld activity. Its killer dialogue is where its cult worship began, but Pulp Fiction is an equally stimulating visual experience; from the eyeful of Jackrabbit Slims to the magical square Mia draws to underline Vincent's geekiness to Andrzej Sekula's glossy, wide angled image-crafting, the look of it is equally as imaginative without ever calling attention to itself, pop art as film. Unfathomably cool and protean, Pulp Fiction is a wondrous masterpiece of post-modern cinema.

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Pulp Fiction review

Posted : 7 months ago on 19 October 2012 01:48

1994's Pulp Fiction Is Know For It's Rich, Eclectic Dialogue, Ironic Mix Of Humor And Violence, Nonlinear Storytelling, And Hosts Of Cinematic Allusions And Pop Culture References.

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Pulp Fiction review

Posted : 1 year, 6 months ago on 20 November 2011 12:01

Una película clásica de colección en la cual los personajes son todo lo que era menos pensado que fueran

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Pulp Fiction review

Posted : 1 year, 7 months ago on 27 September 2011 12:09

Following the success of 1992's Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino released his finest film to-date, the self-proclaimed masterpiece Pulp Fiction; a film which is arguably the most influential of the last few decades, and one which stands alone as a "to-be" classic. Pulp Fiction remains widely regarded as one of the essentials in modern cinema, which has established itself as a film for the lovers of cinema, as those are the people it gets its greatest amount of admiration from.

Pulp Fiction marked the new-wave, avant-garde cinema, it became recognised for its vigorously exciting flavour and unfathomable cool. Revolving around a deconstructed narrative, composed of three stories, which are all insanely surreal, Pulp Fiction brings you inside a world Quentin Tarantino has successfully crafted through individuality. The film starts with a lavishly entertaining conversation of tension and wit between two robbers, one being Tim Roth and the other being Amanda Plummer, who kick-start the film with furious energy. This scene is then followed by the infamous conversation of Amsterdam and burgers between the justifiable "cool" of Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) and Vincent (John Travolta). From here on in you have entered a world fuelled by greed and missing-morality.

Sure, Pulp Fiction is undoubtedly one of the "coolest" and "hippest" films around, nevertheless it holds much, much more than that. The film stands as a piece which depicts the psychology of normal people who have been thrown into extreme circumstances, meaning their personalities have changed along with their situation. It is a film which is much than amusingly clever on the surface, as in fact Pulp Fiction juggles allegory, such as the "freedom" of Amsterdam being a counterpart for the film's non-conformist, disobedient nature. The film has countless recurring themes, such as redemption, vengeance, spirituality, morality, individual morals, and a person's mannerisms.

Even behind the film's humorous anecdotes there is still a lingering sense of haunting poignancy the film throws upon its viewer. The inviting environments are simply an innovative showcase for a study of one's ethics and the dealing of horrendously problematical situations. The characters are all vigorously layered, with multi-dimensional emotions and spontaneous behaviour. When I say that every actor performs with undeniable perfection, I mean it. From Christopher Walken's cameo as Captain Koons, to Bruce Willis' alpha-male, yet kind-hearted "boxer-thug" performance. Everyone in the film sets themselves a back-drop for their character, letting every character differentiate between one-an-other. Yet, as Harvey Keitel states in the film, "of course you're character, but it doesn't mean you have character".

Dense script-writing, and what might seem like entirely irrelevant dialogue lets Pulp Fiction become its own piece. And rather than being driven by plot, the film is driven by its variety of surreal characters, who all talk in a way which seems so real. Yes, the conversations may not to be the same topic you talk about with another person, but the way in which a conversation branches off to an entirely different topic is something we all do in everyday life. Few films are able to portray dialogue through such a method, which is one of the countless reasons as to why Quentin Tarantino's script is the key instinctive foundation behind the film, since it lays the rules of what is to occur in a latter scene. The script crafts the comedy, as there are no comedic set-pieces in the film, nor is there a comedic narrative. However, the actors' delivery of nerve-biting, ego-driven lines, which brim with humour and emphasised body language, gives the film its distinguished tone of dark comedy.

One of the reasons Pulp Fiction has become so iconic is due to its diversity in film-making, which is comprised of influences from French new-wave cinema, to Asian crime flicks, yet the film is still entirely original. Quentin Tarantino ultimately creates his own sense of "bravo-film-making". The use of tracking-shots, dolly-zooms, variation in lens focus, quick-cut editing, slow-motion sequences, lyrical camera positioning, steadicam tactics and close-up camera shots, the variety Pulp Fiction has is not just held within inside its narrative, but within its technical side too. Then you have the dynamic use of music, which has clearly been hand-picked by Quentin Tarantino himself and suits the film with a simplistic level of ease. The set-pieces are also crafted with scrutinising detail, such as the notorious lair, involving two hillbillies, a gimp and two of the film's protagonists.

Pulp Fiction is, quite simply, a hard-boiled, noir-toned masterpiece of modern cinema, comprised of film-making which deserves to be dissected frame-by-frame. The sheer unadulterated consistency of greatness Pulp Fiction follows means it is a film which should be watched again and again. Yes, all the characters might be "sinners", yet there is no denying that you will be rooting for a certain character(s) by the end of the film, as surely, with characters as diverse as these there must be someone you share the same belief with, right? Devine-intervention is what Pulp Fiction is, a miracle and one which justifies vast acknowledgement. Take for example Jimmy's (Quentin Tarantino) brief conversation on the "gourmet" of coffee, it sums up the magnificence of Pulp Fiction perfectly, not forgetting the addition of "lots of cream, lots of sugar".

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Pulp Fiction review

Posted : 1 year, 8 months ago on 31 August 2011 07:33

Along with typical elements of the director, Pulp Fiction is a chronologically scrambled collection of stories of crime are linked and extremely intelligent and entertaining. With that story, almost tough of Tarantino, the film makes references to other movies, series in several twists that change the opinion of the public about the supposed hero of the story. Fulled with jokes and dirty and gross terms, the film’s atmosphere reigns over drugs, violence, deception and monologues filled with a great choice especially casting John Travolta, Samuel L Jackson, Uma Thurman, Vin Diesel and others to make the viewer out of real life and replace it by the generic provocations and homages to old films and style change and relying on the ever impressive soundtrack by Tarantino. Sensational! Loved how Tarantino accosted themes that could have had terrible scenes or pretty flat, but his irony is fantastic! I don’t understand why I haven’t seen this movie before, maybe as I am older I can understand such things, guess it’s the right time.

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Pulp Fiction review

Posted : 2 years ago on 24 April 2011 09:04

Yep, this is a great one. It all came together, and I never tire of watching it.

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Pulp Fiction review

Posted : 2 years, 3 months ago on 28 January 2011 01:03

very good "classic" Tarantino movie, with a good humourous quotes and perfect performances of Travolta, Jackson, Thurman, Roth, Rhames, etc...

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A great classic

Posted : 2 years, 4 months ago on 9 January 2011 03:24

Actually, it might surprise you, but it is not my favorite Tarantino movie. Indeed, I think 'Reservoir Dogs' is actually better but it doesn't change the fact that it is and remains a great movie with such a huge impact on cinema as an Art. When it was released, I must have been 14 or 15 years old and I saw it three times in the theater, the 1st time in French and then twice in English. As a matter of fact, I have a rather nice anecdote about this. Indeed, it was the 1st time I saw an original version with subtitles and I was completely blown away by Bruce Willis' real voice. When I was just a kid, I used to watch 'Die Hard' with my dad and, in the French dub, they gave him this very specific high tuned squeaky voice. Suddenly, I was confronted with his real voice which was, of course, really deep and masculine. At that point, I realized that dubbed movies were actually real crap and I'm so glad I live nowadays in the Netherlands were only animated features and children movies are dubbed. So, as far as I'm concerned, that was the first impact I got from this movie but, of course, it went way beyond that. For example, the whole hyperlink thing and the way the story was not chronologically told was just completely amazing. Of course, it wasn't the first time that those tricks were used but, back then, it was the first time I saw something like that and I'm pretty sure I wasn't the only one. The point is that Tarantino managed to make an Artsy flick without making it dreary and, for once, you could watch something which was smartly built up and also having a great time watching it. What else should I add ? The music was great (one of the best selling soundtracks ever), the dialogs were hilarious, the cast was awesome (with a major come-back for John Travolta) and the whole thing was just really fun to watch. My only complain would be that, in contrary to the superior 'Reservoir Dogs', you already could feel a little bit Tarantino's ego behind the whole thing (There are many moments which basically scream 'Look how great I'm! I'm so f*cking awesome!'). Still, it wasn't a major nuisance like in his more recent work and the whole thing remains an impressive masterpiece and a must-see for any decent movie lover.

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Tarantino's masterpiece!

Posted : 2 years, 5 months ago on 29 November 2010 06:12

To be perfectly honest, my thoughts of Pulp Fiction before I saw it was that it would be just another crime gangster mafia film but this is no ordinary crime film. In fact, this is no ordinary film! Pulp Fiction is a masterpiece of utter genius that is mixed with violence, sex, drugs, suspense and dark comedy. It is known worldwide as the "coolest film of all time" and there is absolutely no denying that fact! It is perhaps one of the very few films that I think everybody loves; even people who aren't very passionate about film which makes it a landmark.


Pulp Fiction cracked me up when I first saw it. Yeah, it is black-comedy but it is very noticeable comedy whereas in some black-comedies, you can't spot that very well. I think the main thing about this film has that makes it so famous is that is just so random and as the characters say from the script, they mostly just babble random conversations but despite that, it makes sense and flows with the stories. Pulp Fiction probably should have won Best Picture over Forrest Gump despite that is a close favourite also but at least Quentin Tarantino rightly won Best Original Screenplay (like he should have with Inglourious Basterds).


Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield are two hit men on the hunt for a briefcase whose contents were stolen from their boss, Marsellus Wallace. They run into a few unexpected detours along the road. Marsellus is out of town, and he's gotten Vincent to take care of his wife, Mia. That is, take her out for a night on the town. Things go smoothly until one of them makes a huge error. Butch Coolidge is a boxer who's been approached by Marsellus and been told to throw his latest fight. When Butch ends up killing the other boxer, he must escape Marsellus. Pumpkin and Honey Bunny (not their real names) are two lovebirds/thieves who have decided to rob the restaurant they're currently eating at. But the restaurant doesn't turn out to be as easy as the other places they've robbed.


John Travolta was amazing as Vincent Vega!! Travolta is one of those extremely rare actors who have a talent of playing a character in almost every single genre. Vincent is a hit man who works for gangster Marcellus Wallace but starts to jeopardise his job and even his life by slowly falling for his wife Mia (which you will have to see what happens as you watch it). Vincent's fellow hit man accomplice is Jules Winnfield. I believe that Jules ties with Tyler Durden and The Dude as the coolest film character of all time. Jules is an absolutely brilliant character because he is a real cold-hearted killer just like Vincent but Jules tries to make his victims suffer but in a cool way. He is also the one with all the punch-line quotes; like in the breakfast scene, in the car and in the café too. He was robbed of the Best Supporting Actor Oscar which makes that the biggest mistake the Academy have ever made regarding acting. Uma Thurman's performance as Mia Wallace was awesome as well. She collaborates well with Tarantino especially in Kill Bill: Volume 1 and 2 and I just love the Mia-Vincent scene in the restaurant. She seems like a nice woman but is a bit of a drug addict and seems a bitch as well. Bruce Willis isn't in this film THAT much, really. Despite this, he is absolutely awesome still as Butch. Butch is a boxer who owes Wallace a debt. During a confrontation with Wallace, they get themselves into an awkward and uncomfortable situation. Quentin Tarantino plays a supporting role in the Bonnie Situation storyline with Vincent and Jules. He portrays Jimmie and, to be honest, Quentin is actually a really great actor as well as a legendary, genius director and screenwriter. Shame he hasn't done that much acting. I mean, John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, Christopher Walken and Quentin Tarantino as actor, director and co-writer? Get any cooler than that? Hmm... no perhaps not.


Quentin Tarantino and Pulp Fiction match absolutely perfectly because they are both mean one word: cool. This film is so original and it is genuinely unique! It is perfectly made because it is acted, directed and produced perfectly! I am fascinated by the way Tarantino involves food, dance and music in this film and it mixes brilliantly well with the characters and the dialogue of the separate stories. He uses at least one of those in pretty much every film he has made. I also like how all three stories are in random order and change at different times and on a few occasions, some storylines are left abandoned and then return towards the end of the film which stretches the suspense a bit further by the audience thinking ''What now?''. Tarantino has become an icon for making this film because I think this is a favourite from most people. The script is out of this world. In my opinion, Pulp Fiction has the best script of all time because it sticks perfectly to what it is aiming, what its purpose is for the viewers of the film and also it shows that Tarantino is a self-taught filmmaker especially for Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs and Inglourious Basterds but also for the rest of the films has has directed and written. In many ways in many scenes, Pulp Fiction didn't feel scripted at all! It just felt like a group of people ranting and raving which makes it even better.


Overall, Pulp Fiction is one of the best films ever made, hands down! It is a very close favourite of mine and deserves its rightful place there with some of the other landmarks. I may be smooching up to it too much but I seriously cannot think of any flaws that I spotted in Pulp Fiction. It is for me the best film of the 1990s so Pulp Fiction isn't only the best film of that decade but the best film from the best decade of cinema. Quentin Tarantino, you are a f***ing God and I hope you keep on creating films like this! Flawless acting, flawless script, flawless direction and strong characters! Now THAT is perfect!

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