67. PULP FICTION (Quentin Tarantino, 1994, USA) [717.5 points; 10 votes; 1 first-place vote]
S&S: 120 | TSPDT: 64 | BOXD: 54
MORBS SEZ: "I LIKE GOOD MOVIES"Yeah, still a great film. It's a crazy-quilt patchwork of all the stuff he geeked out on that became its own self-contained bit of brilliance, and there's not one thing wrong with that. And I was amused to realize Tarantino's foot fetish for Uma T. was already in full effect.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, January 27, 2007 11:08 AM
It was a long hot summer, my parents were splitting up, life was dull, and then BOOM surf-rock Miserlou took me away from all of that and I could watch the lives of people who were even more of a loser than I but it was all so much more exciting. It did have a huge influence, can we think of any of the songs on the soundtrack without thinking of this movie? And it was a "cool" movie about people who were very bad at being good criminals.
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, February 22, 2005 3:56 PM
A truly impressive "look at me wank, I learned how to wank in color by looking at pretty old movies" exercise by Tarantino. Could have been improved by excising the entire Bruce Willis sub-plot. It was just so self-referentially "aren't I clever" that I found it almost unwatchable. Your mileage may vary.
― Hey Jude, Tuesday, February 22, 2005 4:33 PM
"real movies" aren't tarantino's specialty, it's not what he's actually good at. it's obvious, but i think pulp fiction best got what he does. it's the "if you only see one quentin tarantino movie" movie.
― paper plans (tipsy mothra), Monday, February 9, 2009 4:38 PM
Watched this last year - it still moves, but time has not been kind to the effect of the "5-dollar milkshake".
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, April 20, 2016 5:13 AM
honestly i don't have that much fondness in my heart for PF, hard to tell if that's just because i'm so sick of everything to do with it tho
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Thursday, December 16, 2010 11:01 AM
*~*~*this is how i rate*~*~*
1. kill bill 1
2. kill bill 2
3. death proof (this shit is hella underrate - new york chick in that movie is my boo 4 all time - also the shot in the second part of this where the girls walk into the convenience store and it switches into color and there are all BRIGHT SODAS AND COLORFUL CHIP BAGS is one of my favorite things ever)
4. reservoir dogs
5. pulp fiction
havent seen jackie brown
― nascar jesus (J0rdan S.), Monday, February 9, 2009 4:18 PM
upon considered reflection, Pulp Fiction is totally his WORST movie. wtf ILX
― insert your favorite discriminatory practice here (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, June 25, 2010 6:46 PM
reminds me of ppl claiming Nevermind is Nirvana's worst album
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, December 16, 2010 11:21 AM
it kind of is...?
― from the lowly milligeir to the mighty gigahongro (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, December 16, 2010 11:22 AM
figured you'd be one of em
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, December 16, 2010 11:24 AM
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