Pulp Fiction (the movie)

how weird would that be

At the wrap party, held on the Jack Rabbit Slim’s diner set, Walken danced alongside John Travolta. “Somebody said, ‘They should do a musical together!’ ” remembers Stoltz. (They were later both in Hairspray.)

"Somebody said, 'They should take a roadtrip together!'" (They were later both killed in an automobile accident.)

"Someone said, 'Travolta is SO gay!" (John Travolta has not come out).

i love how Travolta came up with the 'Batman' and 'Swim' moves in the dance scene!

yeah that was awesome. lol at the 9 year old Travolta winning the twist contest

http://nyookami.tumblr.com/post/43539515046

aw travolta was awesome Hairspray

I couldnt stand it any longer. Am watching it right now

Pulp. Not Hairspray

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and none of them were "bad motherfuckers"

Worst fairytale ending ever

Watched this last year - it still moves, but time has not been kind to the effect of the "5-dollar milkshake".

Haha, yeah I remember thinking that didn't sound all that expensive even in 1994.

I worked at a Friendly's back then. One of their milkshakes was about $2. McDonald's was a little over $1.

$5 dollar or 5 euro milkshake would seem a bit pricey to me tbh

what if it has bourbon in it

“My name’s Paul and I leave the rest to y’all.”
I like how, besides the dancing, Vincent Vega is a walking disaster through this film. He makes every single situation worse by his actions or inaction!

Had a boy in a grade 7 class this morning with wild red hair who wouldn't sit down. Was so tempted to go Sam Jackson on him--"You, Carrot Top" (points to desk)--but thought better of it.

I was trying to find J. Hoberman's review of Natural Born Killers--couldn't, but did scare up Stanley Kauffmann's Pulp Fiction review:

https://newrepublic.com/article/61392/shooting

Found the last couple of paragraphs interesting as a snapshot of an old-guard critic (Kauffmann was 78 at the time) confronted with a sea-change of sorts. If you love the film, and maybe even if you don't, you'll dismiss it as cranky old-guy whining. I have great patience with that perspective. (I wish he were still around, in part because I think he'd be taking a battering ram to the last few Wes Anderson films.)

“tried various keys in the lock and had at last picked the right one.”

Ha this is a good metaphor for why I don’t like Reservoir Dogs (and other things as well). Guess it’s just an elaboration on “trying too hard”

the last paragraph is pretty awful ad hominem trash though. glad fewer like him are no longer around to spew that shit. Does he just want to go back to the Donna Reed Show? ugh.

I wish he were still around, in part because I think he'd be taking a battering ram to the last few Wes Anderson films.

He'd be 108 tho, so he probably wouldn't know what Wes Anderson, a battering ram, or films were by that point.

Does he just want to go back to the Donna Reed Show?

Kauffmann? I think he wanted to go back to early-'60s Antonioni and Bergman.

(xpost) True enough! I really didn't care much for the reviews he wrote the last two or three years he was active. (He kept at it for at least another decade-plus after the Pulp Fiction review.) Battering-ram wasn't his style anyway.

Funny to see Pulp Fiction alongside grunge music. Do think the latter was speaking to a younger crowd whereas I am not sure PF will hold up in the same way.

For what it's worth, at 78, I'm pretty sure "grungy" to Kauffmann meant grunge meant rock meant hip-hop--all just undifferentiated noise to him. The thing I take from that last paragraph is that the meaning of escapism had completely flipped from the '40s to the '90s. And I think there's at least some truth to that. (Less so today in the superhero epoch.)

Very weird how people will say x thing will have nothing to say when it's selling millions!

The thing I take from that last paragraph is that the meaning of escapism had completely flipped from the '40s to the '90s. And I think there's at least some truth to that.

Well, to "well actually" this at least a little bit, 40's escapism also included poverty row westerns and crime thrillers alongside the musicals and comedies Kauffman was thinking of - and of course ACTUAL pulp fiction! So I think that escaping into the lives of violent men was as much a thing then as it was in the 90's, just perhaps the level of respectability of this escapism changed, you wouldn't have seen it at Cannes.

Good point.

I read this review (and Kauffmann generally) in the pre-internet '90s. When I discovered John Simon a couple years later I often found it difficult telling them apart; I realized Kauffmann was often the better writer.

I don’t find the review heinous but calling Tarantino “Tarantino himself, passable in a small role” and expressing that he doesn’t understand why Uma is meant to be desirable are big thumbs down from me. Tarantino cameos are always the worst thing about his films, especially when he’s dropping racial slurs - yeah i know these are seedy underworld characters but the man truly cannot act and it comes across terribly.

I actually watched Reservoir Dogs again for the first time in about fifteen years and had forgotten how much I loved Mr Orange’s whole deal and how fucking dumb everyone is in that film. Nice Guy Eddie’s ability to read people but inability to follow through on his hunches is fatal.

I wish I would have been old enough to have seen Pulp Fiction when it came out. I saw it one night when I was babysitting and I thought it was electric. Over twenty years later, it still had that feel to me despite the fact the film itself has entered mass culture reference hell (and also Keitel doing those ads as the Wolf, yuck) ages ago.

Plummer and Roth are beneath comment.

I remember reading this line at the time and thought, "OK? Elaborate?"

That’s not a statement it makes sense to elaborate on tbf

They're below in the comments.

"Keitel doing those ads as the Wolf, yuck"

Lol I really like them

he doesn’t understand why Uma is meant to be desirable

Dude was 78 but apparently died at 76. RIP.

xp I don't like or hate those ads, but they are in character for the Wolf. Like the Wolf would actually do those ads if he was a real person.

I probably mentioned this upthread or so, but before this movie came out my friend had a copy of the screenplay. I didn't want it to be spoiled, but made a copy of it for myself for later, though when I was xeroxing it the only word I saw was "chainsaw."

xp those ads are like Pulp Fiction, which is a series of little sketches.