Quentin shows his genious side

Rating: 10/10 (13 August 2003)

Quentin Tarrantino has become famous for making funny, film-noir type films. Tarrantino's first film, Reservoir Dogs, was also a great critically aclaimed film.
But Pulp Fiction truly blows you away. At 154 min., this movie can truly be called an epic. With its intertwining twist of a plot, to it's constant changing in the timelines, Pulp Fiction is a movie that you watch over and over again, finding something new to treasure every time. Tarrantino won an oscar for his offbeat, yet very attractive screenplay. As in Reservoir Dogs, it shows that gangsters are able to talk about things like pop culture, or McDonalds and the metric system. Pulp also introduced Tarrantino to box office success, making one hundred million dollars in theaters.
All the characters, including two hitmen(John Travolta and Smauel L. Jackson), their boss(Ving Rhames), their boss's wife(Uma Thurman), a down-on-his-luck boxer(Bruce Willis), two diner robbing thugs(Tim Roth and Amanda Plummer), and a "special" clean up man named Wolfe(Harvey Keitel). Travolta, Jackson, and Thurman all were nominated for oscars, but all fell short. Travolta understandably lost to Tom Hanks for Forrest Gump, but Jackson's academy award was stolen away by old-timer Martin Landau for Ed Wood.
Tarrantino was also nominated for his directing, and Pulp Fiction got the Best Picture nomination. Both of these, lost to the other great film of '94, Forrest Gump
Pulp Fiction has become one of the biggest cult movies off all time. Most thought Tarrantino could do no better than Reservoir Dogs, but he truly proved them wrong, and blew them away in the process. If you ever rent Pulp Fiction, you'll find yourself watching it, atleast five times. Whether it's trying to find out what's in the briefcase, or just mezmerized with the film itself, you will watch it again.
9 and fourth/10 stars