re: So I finally watched Pulp Fiction all the way through

still my favorite movie ever...

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I give it a solid B. A good, but not great, movie.

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Whatever it is it's better than Forrest Gump.


eta* I'm in the Jackie Brown is better club as well.

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There are dozens of us...

DOZENS!

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i don't know if i'll say JB is better, but i used to be DESTROYED on this board for defending JB

Those who are seeing PF for the first time now will have a hard time "getting it".

You have to realize that at the time, there wasn't much like it, ever, in a fairly major release.

It was dark, funny, original, non-linear. This was very edgy stuff. It was a cinematic slap in the face.

Now, 20 years later, there have been so many apes and ripoffs and copy cats, that it it doesn't seem "original".

Also, it is a very dialogue driven movie, and one that again, has been copy-catted to death.

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Forrest Gump had a very clear and concise story that was easy to follow. I hate waiting 2 1/2 hours for the punch line to a movie. Up until the final scene, when we re-visit Tim Roth and Amanda Plummer in the coffee shop, I was going to write off the film as nothing but mediocre.

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In what way was that the punch line?

After the first couple of stories, it ought to have been obvious you were seeing stories about a fairly small group of people in and around the same time frame from different perspectives. How the Hunny Bunny scene tied into the rest did not pay off until the end, but it's not like the movie required it to in order to pull the whole thing together.

One of the coolest things about the movie is re-watching it and putting the scene in order in your head.

Take your Hunny Bunny scene. It's at that point Jules decides to quit because earlier he had gotten some sign from God. When we first saw Bruce Willis stroll into Marcellus' bar we saw Travolta and Jackson in there in t-shirts and shorts...and no clue why. Jules was going to quit. Because he quit, Marcellus was with Vincent at Bruce Willis' apartment...but wasn't there because he had gone to get donuts while they waited.

Etc, etc...

For a movie like this, that was seen as so groundbreaking both in terms of style, dialog, etc that I think it's nearly impossible to give it it's due 20 years after it's release when what made it so groundbreaking has been copied hundreds of times by movies you've likely seen.

Or...you may very well have not liked it even in 1994.

That's well stated

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Those who are seeing PF for the first time now will have a hard time "getting it".

You have to realize that at the time, there wasn't much like it, ever, in a fairly major release.

It was dark, funny, original, non-linear. This was very edgy stuff. It was a cinematic slap in the face.

Now, 20 years later, there have been so many apes and ripoffs and copy cats, that it it doesn't seem "original".

Also, it is a very dialogue driven movie, and one that again, has been copy-catted to death.

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this is true.

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Or...you may very well have not liked it even in 1994.

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I saw this in the theater when I was 15 and loved it. I've come to appreciate it more over time as I've picked up some of the more subtle themes. This movie gets better if you dig beneath the surface a little.

I've just never been the biggest Tarantino fan. I have seen most of his films and they all jive about the same with me. Good, entertaining films that fall short of greatness. There is nothing deep about them at all. He's just a fan boy paying homage to different styles of filmmaking. I can respect that but that in no way makes him so genius you have to "get" in order to enjoy his films.