Best movies of 1994

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.

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

US release date: Sept. 1994

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?

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.

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