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Summary: One of the biggest, overrated bores of all time
Review: People in this film, like Tarantino himself, like to listen to themselves talk, and talk, and talk, and talk. Very little interesting happens, and Tarantino rips off 50's movie cliches mercilessly. The only scene of interest in the entire film is the scene with Keitel. The rest is crap. And what's with the rape scene? Come out of the closet, Q! Was that one of your sexual fantasies?!
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Summary: An unbeleivably addictive and fun movie!
Review: Wow. Pulp Fiction amazed me in a way I didn't think was possible in a movie of it's kind.
John Travolta plays Vincent Vega, a somewhat dimwitted hitman who is works with a fellow hitman, a somewhat smarter assassin named Jules Winfield. They have snappy conversations back and forth, ones just like I have with my brother so often. Bruce Willis is Butch Coolidge, a down on his luck boxer who is on the run from Marcellus Wallace (Ving Rhames), a violent crime boss. Uma Thurman is his wife, Mia, and Harvey Keitel is the problem-solving Winston Wolfe. Christopher Walken has a hilarious cameo as a former POW who delivers a special watch to Butch, and Quentin Tarantino portrays the only non-tough guy in the film, Jimmy, with amazing authenticity.
Jackson is thunderingly powerful when he quotes Ezekiel 25.17, and Travolta generates laughter with his bumbling mistakes and volatile attitude. Thurman is oddly sterile in her conversations for reasons I can't figure out, and Rhames always talks annoyingly slowly, but the rest of the actors, expecially Keitel, shine brightly. The redeeming of Jackson's character at the end of Pulp Fiction is almost heart warming.
If there is a downside, it is the part of the movie centering around Bruce Willis and Ving Rhames. It is really boring, and is also the most adult part of Pulp Fiction. I wouldn't mind if it was all cut out.
The realism in Pulp Fiction is just wonderful. This is a very adult movie, only for the mature. It isn't particularly graphic (at least, the version I saw wasn't) but it has tons of f-word vulgarities. It portrays the underworld with surprising gritty realism.
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Summary: Breathtaking filmmaking! One of the best of the 1990's!
Review: One of the most famous movies of the 1990's, Pulp Fiction is a graphic, crowd-pleasing, shocking and awesome crime drama that boasts more astonishing ideas than any movie I can remember for the 1990-1995 period. This is, quite simply, a masterpiece with poignancy, comedy and sheer brilliance packed into one big, explosive movie that we'll never forget. Not only one of the best films of 1990's, Pulp Fiction also gives us one of the most ensemble casts in a film ever. Picture this: Rosanna Arquette, Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta, Tim Roth, Bruce Willis, Christopher Walken, Uma Thurman, Ving Rhames and Eric Stoltz. All of them give great performances and all are amazing actors! What acting heaven! But that's not the best thing about the movie, believe it or not. The script is. Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary breathtaking, descriptive and unexplainably excellent screen-writing skills are ... I just can't explain it. The script is so good it'll knock your socks off. Quentin's direction is also very worthy of praise, he dares to go the next step in filmmaking and wins the audience over. Due to the extreme amount of violence, drugs, language and sexuality, I strongly advise the faint-hearted and children to keep way away from this movie. Otherwise, if you don't mind a bit of naughty fun and a huge, exciting spark in your movie-life, then see this now! Pulp Fiction is definitely an experience you won't forget easily.
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Summary: Decent film, but highly overrated
Review: First of all, I viewed this film primarily because it was a 1998 American Film Institue Top 100 Movies of all Time winner. I was expecting it to blow my socks off. The fact is, it did not. However, I didn't despise it as much as I thought I would, either. Discussing the overall film: It is no doubt a groundbreaker, insomuch as the format of seemingly unrelated vignettes start to coalesce as the film progresses. John Travolta's career was resurrected, playing a hit man named Vincent, who is teamed up with co-worker Jules (Samuel L. Jackson). A series of mishaps and bad fates confront the duo as they set about their odious tasks, with black humor that, at times, is too edgy. Bruce Willis plays the tough guy boxer who runs afoul of Vince's and Jules's boss, Marcellus (Ving Rhames); it is classic Willis, for sure, but the actor faces no new territory here. Uma Thurman is alluring as Marcellus' girlfriend. She is instrumental in the movie's most sickening part, as she overdoses on cocaine, and Vince (who has taken her out for a night on the town) must inject her with a stimulant in the chest to revive her. The starkness of the movie...the apparent shock value...no doubt accounts for its now-cult-like following. However, the language is appalling, and "Pulp..." is peppered throughout with various four-letter words. Hard to believe, then, that this film was nominated for best screenplay at the Oscars! There's no question that some of the dialogue is at times witty, but this does not make it a contender for best screenplay. Now, the DVD itself. I was shocked at how grainy the picture was, particularly when the zoom is initiated. Surely, a 1994 motion picture can have better quality visually than, say, "Ben Hur" or "Lawrence of Arabia!" Also, don't expect any extras, because there aren't any; it is just simply the movie. If you really enjoy this film, you may want to consider holding out for a special edition, or at least one that is remastered. I give it three stars, because the vignettes were cleverly arranged, and some of the stories were interesting. The cast is great too (other than Amanda Plummer, who really could have used the work in Lee Strasberg's acting class); truly, she was just plain annoying, and she turns in a really hideous performance. I'm no prude, but the constant use of the "f-word" was tiresome and trivial. The meek and squeamish should avoid "Pulp Fiction" as they would leprosy. This is vintage Tarantino, who also turns up as a friend of Jules: lots of vulgar language, drug use, and racism abound, but at least he set a new standard formatically. To sum up, not a bad film. A classic worthy of inception in A.F.I.'s Top 100 list? Not a damn chance. A more worthy candidate would have been "The Shawshank Redemption." However, that film was criminally overlooked by the various cognoscenti chosen to compile this list. Oh well...just like Tarantino's stark and dehumanizing landscape, life is not always fair or easy. One final aside: Why is it that every time I see anti-gunner Tim Roth in a movie, he's always armed to the teeth? Can we say......HYPOCRISY???
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Summary: Most over-rated film I can think of.
Review: I just suffered through this movie. The only reason I watched the whole thing was because I paid good money for it.The actors were great, the soundtrack was great but the movie stunk up the place. Unlike many other negative reviewers here I don't object to it on moral grounds. I don't object to the violence (heck that was the only thing that about it that possibly qualified it as "entertainment"). It was just plain pointless and boring. Oh, and did I mention it was really boring? And boring?
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Summary: i saw this movie for the first time recently...
Review: and for all the times i heard how great it was,it was no lie. Pulp Fiction is 3 stories of some people and a couple of strange days with events including softcore S&M gay rape, an accidental fatal head wound, an overdosing gang boss's wife, and the world famous jack rabbit slims twist contest. Now this movie has everything but suspense, but its really not supposed to. It has comedy,romance,violence,and SAM JACKSON WITH A FRO!
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Summary: Where's the Extra Stuff?
Review: Pulp Fiction is my favorite picture of all time, and every actor in this film does a job well done and the screenplay and direction from Mr. Tarentino is exquisit, but where the hell is the trailer, commentary, and deleted scenes? In other words, there's no "Bonus Features" section on this DVD! I would give this DVD five stars, but since there's no extra stuff,it will only recieve four. Thank God it's in Widescreen.
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Summary: My Favorite Film Ever
Review: I never thought I would be the type of person who would watch a film over and over again, learning everything about it and every line in the screenplay. I have seen Pulp Fiction almost a hundred times, and can recite lines verbatim. Everything about it is magically wonderful, the dialouge, the cast, the sets. Hell, the props. I'd be the first to pronouce the uncomparable genius of Tarantino, but maybe he should get his head examined for waiting so long to release a special edition dvd with the deleted scenes featured in the collectors edition of the vhs. I am praying to see a commentary feature in the upcoming release, to hear Tarantino talk about movies is an experience of itself. But, then again, I'd pay to hear him read the nutritional information on the side of a Dr Pepper can. "Serving size, one can, calories, one hundred fifty..."
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Summary: One of my favorites.
Review: This is a perfect, albiet excessively quoted and oft-imitated, movie. Every aspect of this movie has no superior in any other film i've yet seen, only equals - direction, soundtrack, editing, acting, casting, etc... There's not much more to be said about this movie. Even the myriad of imitations its spawned have value in simply reminding you of how good Pulp Fiction is, some even manage to succeed on some level. The criticism most constnatly levied against Pulp Fiction is that it, in itself, is an imitation of other films (Godard and various HK movies seem to get the most mention). However true this may be, it seems to be mostly just some critic's histrionic reaction to others proclaiming originality, and it's really no less true for most other movies. I think both claims are superflous, because regardless of how much it might remind you of new wave or hong kong, it's still exceedingly entertaining and the efforts of its cast and film makers no less attentive. I highly recommend purchase (I've even considered buying the new dvd in addition to the original), and cannot forsee how you can go on living without at least having rented. If you are someone who is greatly affected by portrayal of drug usage and violence, then at least look for the next tv airing of the edited version in your newspaper.
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Summary: So real, you could talk with your friends and is the movie
Review: This movie is all hype, as original as having three stories and how they end up interacting with one another, even parodies of the movie are better than it. I love all of the actors, Bruce Willis as a boxer running from a man he was paid to throw a fright, John Travolta, and Samuel Jackson with his overacting both are hit men, sent to kill Willis. This movie is so realistic that rather than watch it, a person could live it, having a normal conversation or dancing with someone's girlfriend like Travolta and Uma. It does have its funny moments with in your face humor, but otherwise there are four parts of a legitimate movie rather than you talking with your friends. There are also a few cameos, one of which is Christopher Walken who has a comical 5 minutes telling an 8 year old boy how a watch was smuggled safely so Walken could give it to the boy. If you are looking for a DVD with features, there is nothing but the movie.
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