A film which celebrates brutality while supposedly parodying it.

Rating: 1/10 (10 September 1999)

The acclaim for Pulp Fiction shows just how ethically sick many of us in this culture have become. This movie makes a joke out of murder, torture, and shooting heroin. Tarantino isn't making fun of these people or even the pulp fiction genre--he's celebrating them. He gets off on all of this and he hopes we will too. If it's hip to think that this celebration of evil is cool, then I want to be as unhip as possible. Being a teacher of modern German and Russian history, you might say I'm not inclined to see physical brutality as entertainment. And I frankly don't give a rat's a** for the opinion of all those clowns who gush over how tremendous this garbage is. "Best movie of the '90s, hands down?" What a crock.