Why pulp fiction is bad

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Adult Written by dalton December 27, It's not as bad as CSM says it is. It's not as bad as some people actually say it is. I saw this movie when I was 12 years old.

My mom said it was the most violent movie she had ever saw in Continue reading. Report this review. Written by Anonymous June 23, Cue the Dick Dale guitars It's I, like many hungry cinephiles back in the early '90s, felt the rumbling of something seismic coming our way that summer. Forrest Gump was running early for Oscar glory, and Jim Carrey was solidifying himself as a box office jester with The Mask ; it was business as usual in Hollywood, but lovers of cinema were yearning for more.

Something different, something dangerous. We were at the dawn of Pulp. The first hint came when Tarantino had won the coveted Palme d'Or at Cannes that May, which was met with both cheers and jeers, to which QT did the appropriate thing OK, I thought, this guy is cool.

I was already a die-hard fan of the young director, having seen Reservoir Dogs on a bootleg VHS I would hold screenings in the science room at my high school and regaled friends with tales how it was so intense and shocking it made Wes Craven sick. It was almost a dare to watch, yet anyone who I showed it to was swept away by the hilarious, intelligent dialogue, the staccato structure and the playfulness the movie had even in its most shocking moments i.

Hell, by the end of my senior year, I had the entire school hooked on the Dogs soundtrack, the first and last CD I ever shoplifted I got caught, of course, but the Sam Goody clerk thought I made a good choice and let me go. But word coming from Cannes was that Pulp was an astonishing piece of cinema and Quentin was doing it as one big middle finger to the industry. When I entered my freshman year of film school at Syracuse University, I saturated myself in all things cinema And knowing Tarantino was a CineFreak too only validated my passions: that fact that he was gabba gabba hey One of Us was proof positive that maybe this whole Film Director thing could work out.

He worked at a video store; I practically lived at mine and later worked at Blockbuster and Video on Long Island. He knew everything about obscure Asian, action, and horror films Quentin was my kind of director; one who took pride in that Silver Surfer poster hanging in Mr.

Orange's apartment in Dogs or letting the red stuff flow working with FX maestros KNB, mainstays in the pages of Fangoria even in their early days. He was me, if I was an already-established director traversing the industry on a own wing and a prayer.

But he was also that cool auteur you might not know yet but could throw out in a geek-out circle like "Hey did you see that Reservation Dogs movie from that 'Quint Tarantini' guy?

I ready to mingle with like minded moviemakers-in-the-making at film school, and Pulp Fiction felt like the perfect conversation starter. I would not miss this. A month before Pulp , Natural Born Killers was released and while it's not completely "Quentin," it still kept his name fresh in audiences' minds and got us excited for what the enfant terrible had up his bloodied sleeve. Any movie that makes someone faint gets my ticket money, and this intensified my anticipation to epic proportions.

Hell, I felt like I had already seen the movie, despite the fact that all I knew was the cast and the fact that it was three stories, co-written by the Killing Zoe director and fellow Video Archives employee Roger Avery.

Everything I had read, from The New York Times profile on QT to the endless coverage in Film Threat—which reported that the film was originally in linear order and Harvey Weinstein supposedly asked to break them up—so again, my expectations for whatever this movie was going to be was higher than Eric Stoltz eating a bowl of Fruit Brute.

On Oct. A lot of people fucking adore this movie, to the point of Pulp Fiction posters being a college dorm trope. Pulp Fiction is nothing if not pretty to look at.

I am of the opinion that the purpose of art is to illuminate a social or individual reality. Pulp Fiction utterly fails to do this. It is an entire film composed of motif-without-meaning and empty homage. But 20 years later, just what is Pulp Fiction? Travolta and Samuel L Jackson in matching black suits; Harvey Keitel as Mr Wolf now ruined thanks to Direct Line ; the dance in the diner; Ving Rhames being mean — all so hip, all so enchanting, but none of it adds up to anything.

With the exception of the glorious Jackie Brown , all of his movies amount to nothing more than a few good scenes, while the overall narrative gets lost in his indulgence. Pulp Fiction is not a good film, though I may have believed it was in my younger, more impressionable days, when you had to like the film.