Immaturity is not the same as embracing your inner child

Rating: 3/10 (27 July 2014)

I remember seeing a late night show with Pulp Fiction in a movie theater where half the audience was drunk. I was uncomfortable, not so much with the violence, but with the unabashed enjoyment of the audience. I thought I was supposed to have my laugh get stuck in my throat because of said violence. I may have been wrong. Since then glorifying violence has become a staple in Tarantino's films.
Pulp was the last Tarantino movie I actually enjoyed. I watch a lot of films and get many of Tarantino's references, but I rarely find a point to them nowadays. I think he became to enamored with his own movie- making. Today it's more self absorbed than an Andy Kaufman joke.
If you thought Kill Bill was grand then you will probably enjoy this. If a grand budget could turn a Barbara Cartland book (she's a really bad romance novelist) into Jane Austen, then this pulp fiction drivel would have become Kurasawa, but sadly it remains a shriveling mess albeit one in a beautiful wrapper.