![]() ![]() Pulp Fiction introduced fans to many unforgettable characters, including Butch Coolidge, an aging boxer who is in hiding from Marsellus Wallace after a double-cross scheme. The role of Butch was originally designed for Matt Dillon Bruce Willis poses in a light collared shirt and dark jacket in 2019 | VCG/VCG via Getty Images While Pulp Fiction features a star-studded cast, including Uma Thurman and Harvey Keitel, two actors, in particular, really stood out - Bruce Willis and John Travolta. Pulp Fiction is feisty, fun, edgy, and full of clever cinema references that continue to thrill movie buffs of all ages. Not only did the movie revive a love for the neo-noir crime genre, but it revitalized the careers of several actors who are still going strong in the entertainment industry to this day. I'm not.Pulp Fiction was released in 1994, a movie that is widely considered to be Quentin Tarantino’s greatest work. ![]() ![]() The bland, boring locations of the movie look "good" in 2.35:1 1080p with DTS HD-MA audio and a bunch of extras if you are really interested. Pulp Fiction is competent with unique inspirations, but the movie has almost no original ideas and it has been massively over-regarded for far too long. The lazy Panavision photography just plonks the camera down at standard angles and indulges in far too much steadicam for its own good, all while never giving us much in the way of geography. Almost every other shot takes place at street level in the most mundane parts of Los Angeles without any sense of location. Jack Rabbit Slims appears to be the only set specifically designed for the movie, which is why there is a colorful vibrancy to this scene that is found nowhere else. He was probably just happy to get work at the time but there's no reason for why the rest of the cast didn't question the overwritten material. Travolta in particular seems off and alienating. Tarantino also seems to have an inability to reign in his actors here, leaving them to ham their way over the boundaries which gives many characters an unfocused, disconnected, and confusing riff. I can't believe I am even wasting my time bringing it up in this review, but it's a good example of frequent nothingness that should have been excised. It adds absolutely nothing to scene at all and I cringe whenever I hear it. There is an utterly pointless interaction between Travolta, Thurman, and Buscemi about a $5 shake that seems to go on forever. The editor should have been a little more liberal in cutting down the talking. Don't be fooled by the all-star cast and the larger-than-life characters.įor years people have been quoting the screenplay as if it were a breathtaking breakthrough in movie dialogue. Pulp Fiction takes virtually no inspiration from anything with an ounce of class. The trashy nature of the stories and the wider world that the characters inhabit is a nice homage to the dime novels of the 1950s and other trash cinema of the era. It's time for scrutiny.Īs a 150-minute series of vignettes within vignettes it makes for good entertainment the first few viewings, but I've seen Pulp Fiction from beginning to end about 10 times now and I can honestly say I am done with it. For years people have regarded Pulp Fiction as if it is somehow far beyond any kind of criticism. Now that it's almost 23 years later can we have a level-headed point of view on this movie? The hype machine in 1994 went into maximum overdrive with Pulp Fiction in a way that has rarely been repeated, even in a world over-saturated with easily accessible and multiple forms of media. ![]()
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