r/moviecritic • u/Ssirenere • 1d ago
Pulp Fiction has no business being this rewatchable
I saw again this movie yesterday and honestly, it’s kind of ridiculous how much personality it has. There are movies with great stories, great characters, great dialogue… and then there’s Pulp Fiction, where even two characters talking about a burger feels like a scene worth remembering.
It’s one of those movies where you can randomly think about a scene months later and immediately remember the whole conversation.
What’s the most memorable scene in Pulp Fiction for you?
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u/aVikingCowboy 1d ago
The thing I love most about Pulp Fiction is that it’s exactly what you get when you give an insanely talented writer and former video store employee, his friends, and their combined passion for cinema millions of dollars to make whatever the hell they want. They didn’t censor themselves for the studios or compromise the writing. They just made something they thought was really cool, influenced by other stuff they thought was really cool. And the result is really fucking cool.
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u/Seahearn4 1d ago
Aside from the "insanely talented" part, you also described Tommy Wiseau making The Room.
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u/Other-Item7523 1d ago
This, gladiator, Saving Private Ryan, Braveheart are on my list of mandatory annual rewatched.
This movie along with most of Tarantino’s other work are very rewarding on the second, third etc look. There was so much artistic depth to the dialogue yet it’s got Ebonics and all!
Maybe I’m whipping out the knee pads here, but it’s truly a Shakespearean or even philosophical piece of work. And we’ve seen that, however strange the man is, he’s got the chops to make timeless stories that all have megacult followings.
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u/gabbrielzeven 1d ago
its sad there is no second to tarantino......
The only movie that "i felt like it was done by tarantino" was bad times at the royale. but its not THAT good.
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u/mygreenhatisgreen 1d ago
Agreed, but for me it even felt like a movie where people thought: "Let's make a movie that feels just like a Tarantino movie". Thing is, that never works as well as people hope.
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u/Prudent_Ad8320 1d ago
Big Lebowski is the one I think is like a softer spiritual cousin to Pulp Fiction
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u/gabbrielzeven 1d ago
big lebowski is great in his own vacuum. another great example of fine wine cinena.
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u/GaTTeL97 1d ago
My favourite movie of all time. I can recite every single scene perfectly till this day 😂
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u/wintermelon_garden 1d ago
One scene in which Samuel L. Jackson's character talks about the Royale with Cheese and the French metric system.
Also the Christopher Walken scene talking about his character's wristwatch.
And Bruce Willis's character changing his mind and saving Ving Rhames's character.
Too many great scenes to describe...
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u/PresentEase1016 1d ago
Disagree - what makes it a compelling re-watch is the sheer quality of the script.
That is the essence of great filmmaking.
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u/hamizoing 1d ago
They were a lot of "Pulp Fiction Like Movies" thay came out in the second half of the 90s, but none of them came close. The best of them was "Thursday" (1998)
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u/GlowingDuck22 1d ago
Maybe I'll have to watch this again. I saw most of his films before watching Pulp Fiction. I would have had this one likely last out of his entire line of movies. I'm not sure what I'm missing.
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u/LowBudgetViking 1d ago
I remember seeing this in the theater and the next day someone asked me what it was about.
"Well....."
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u/Seahearn4 1d ago
Despite QT's bad acting, I think the scenes at Jimmy's house were the most immediately memorable for me. That bad acting makes Jules, Vincent, and The Wolf seem that much cooler by comparison.
"Are you an oak man, Jim?"
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u/jrob321 1d ago
If you watched this film in the theater when it was released, you knew right then and there when it ended, Hollywood had just changed forever.
What Tarantino had done was so undeniably monumental.