Pulp Fiction (1994)
I know I’m not the only one who doesn’t like Pulp Fiction, even though I wasn’t able to find any like-minded people at film school. It’s just not my cup of tea: excessive language, excessive violence, cheesy dialogue, strange visuals, and a story that’s meant to be a throwback to old pulp fiction novels of the 1950s. If that is your cup of tea, you might love it!
Famous for John Travolta’s comeback, Uma Thurman’s dancing, and Samuel L. Jackson’s monologue about his favorite Bible passage, it’s a tongue-in-cheek action drama about two hitmen, one of which falls for their boss’s wife. There’s quite a bit more to the story to that, so don’t throw anything at me for condensing it as such, but it’s told so out of order, and the movie is so long, it was practically impossible for me to understand anything more than that. At nearly three hours, even though I watched the censored version on television, I didn’t get much more out of the movie than a ton of violence and some terrible wigs. I don’t know why the dance scene became so famous; to me it looked incredibly stupid. Again, don’t throw anything at me, but I obviously didn’t get the point.
If you do want to give it a shot, you’ll see a huge supporting cast of Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames, Harvey Keitel, Christopher Walken, Tim Roth, Eric Stoltz, Rosanna Arquette, and Amanda Plummer. This is a highly acclaimed classic from the 1990s, but if you don’t like it or don’t even get all the way through it, you’re not the only one.
Kiddy Warning: Obviously, you have control over your own children. However, due to language and violence, I wouldn’t let my kids watch it.
More Bruce Willis movies here!
Famous for John Travolta’s comeback, Uma Thurman’s dancing, and Samuel L. Jackson’s monologue about his favorite Bible passage, it’s a tongue-in-cheek action drama about two hitmen, one of which falls for their boss’s wife. There’s quite a bit more to the story to that, so don’t throw anything at me for condensing it as such, but it’s told so out of order, and the movie is so long, it was practically impossible for me to understand anything more than that. At nearly three hours, even though I watched the censored version on television, I didn’t get much more out of the movie than a ton of violence and some terrible wigs. I don’t know why the dance scene became so famous; to me it looked incredibly stupid. Again, don’t throw anything at me, but I obviously didn’t get the point.
If you do want to give it a shot, you’ll see a huge supporting cast of Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames, Harvey Keitel, Christopher Walken, Tim Roth, Eric Stoltz, Rosanna Arquette, and Amanda Plummer. This is a highly acclaimed classic from the 1990s, but if you don’t like it or don’t even get all the way through it, you’re not the only one.
Kiddy Warning: Obviously, you have control over your own children. However, due to language and violence, I wouldn’t let my kids watch it.
More Bruce Willis movies here!