World Famous Comics: Pulp Fiction (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Pulp Fiction (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Starring: Rosanna Arquette, Steve Buscemi, Paul Calderon, Bronagh Gallagher, Peter Greene Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Miramax Entertainment Number of Items: 2 Region Code: 1 Release Date: August 20, 2002 Running Time: 154 minutes Theatrical Release Date: October 14, 1994
Product Description: A couple of hit men, a fighter forced to throw a fight, the wife of a mobster, and two would-be robbers all find redemption. Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure Rating: R Release Date: 25-JAN-2005 Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com essential video: With the knockout one-two punch of 1992's Reservoir Dogs and 1994's Pulp Fiction writer-director Quentin Tarantino stunned the filmmaking world, exploding into prominence as a cinematic heavyweight contender. But Pulp Fiction was more than just the follow-up to an impressive first feature, or the winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival, or a script stuffed with the sort of juicy bubblegum dialogue actors just love to chew, or the vehicle that reestablished John Travolta on the A-list, or the relatively low-budget ($8 million) independent showcase for an ultrahip mixture of established marquee names and rising stars from the indie scene (among them Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames, Harvey Keitel, Christopher Walken, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Julia Sweeney, Kathy Griffin, and Phil Lamar). It was more, even, than an unprecedented $100-million-plus hit for indie distributor Miramax. Pulp Fiction was a sensation. No, it was not the Second Coming (I actually think Reservoir Dogs is a more substantial film; and P.T. Anderson outdid Tarantino in 1997 by making his directorial debut with two even more mature and accomplished pictures, Hard Eight and Boogie Nights). But Pulp Fiction packs so much energy and invention into telling its nonchronologically interwoven short stories (all about temptation, corruption, and redemption amongst modern criminals, large and small) it leaves viewers both exhilarated and exhausted--hearts racing and knuckles white from the ride. (Oh, and the infectious, surf-guitar-based soundtrack is tastier than a Royale with Cheese.) --Jim Emerson
A Freak Occurrence If somebody pointed a gun at me and said,"You gotta have an opinion -about what the best movie of the 90s is" I'd tell them to point that gun away from my head before it accidently goes off. And then for lack of a better answer to this impossible question, I would answer PULP FICTION. In anycase, anyone crazy enough to point a gun at somebody while asking their opinion about what the best movie of the 90s is might not like other answers I might come up with as much.
I think it is the funniest movie I've seen that actually doesn't go in the comedy section at the video store. There are no flaws in it. It's perfect. Quentin Tarantino cannot ever top it and will probably never even come close. When he dies they will refer to him first and foremost as the director of PULP FICTION. His place in history as one of the great directors of cinema is secured with this film.
High Art that Makes the Mind itch in Places that can't be Scratched This supremely artistic vehicle designed obviously to showcase the many sides of Samuel L. Jackson's multidimensional talents, is a cinema-graphic triumph of a very high order.
Tarrintino has done it again: pulled off the impossible and the surreal and made it seem so imminently possible and real: This movie, more than any other, is truly a new metaphor of our hectic times. As is true with all of his work, the technical aspects of Tarrintino's work are so carefully worked out and put in place - the utter cleverness and darkness of the subtext, the casting, the scenery, the character development, the script, the writing, the directing, the brutal artistic honesty -- that the critic has no place to turn to "nitpick."
His art, as is the case with any truly good art, is "above critique:" It just "IS." Period.
It's multi-sided vignettes are angular pegs that do not fit in any square holes, yet taken together, they add up to a whole much larger than the sum of their parts. Altogether the movie (or the book) shouldn't work, but the script and the writing are handled with such exquisite aesthetic balance and sensitivity that not only do they work, but in doing so, the movie sets a new standard of cinema-graphic possibilities: It is an aesthetic feast well ahead of its times; one that makes the mind itch in places that can't even be accessed, let alone be scratched.
This is the only movie I have watched twenty times and still see new things in it that speak to our hectic times. It does not come as a surprise, nor does it bother me that its primary appeal is worldwide, rather than domestic. It was especially an unexpected hit in Japan and Europe. Every actor in it should have won an academy award, especially Jackson, Travolta, Thurman and Willis. It is like a basketball team that wins the NCAA championship: It could not have been pulled off without all of the characters playing their respective parts and doing so at the highest level of their art. Amen.
Five stars
Classic Tarantino, Jackson and Travolta A great weave of 4 seemingly unrelated tales which artfully tie together during the movie. Timeline shifts seem confusing at first but pull together in the end. Another one for your collection.
Tarantino Rocks!! Pulp Fiction is the definative film of the nineties. In a word it is perfect!! Great acting, great story and of course who can forget the Tarantino diaologe. I do not really know what else to say that has not already been said so I will just leave it at that. Tarantino is a genius!!
Great movie...but simply overrated. Pulp Fiction is probably one of the greatest movies of the 1990's, but is it the best? No of course not. It's just ONE of them, but not it.
The movie in some way is unique and has some memorable dialogue and characters. But let's face it...It's completely OVERRATED. I swear I have seen this movie in every TV network I change it to. It's on almost every other week, even on HBO, STARZ & MAX. I have yet to see any other of his movies on TV like Reservoir Dogs or Jackie Brown. It's just Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction.
Alot of his fans considered this to be Tarantino's best film, but honestly Reservoir Dogs was much better in terms of everything: characters, dialogue, storyline, directing, acting; even if it was a low-budget film, it still rocked.
The movie is great, but like I said it has too much hype surrounding it. If it didn't maybe the movie could have been perfect. That's why I give it 3 stars - I would give it 3.5 stars but I can't. Great movie, but the hype totally takes 2 stars away from it...it gets 3 stars.
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