My guilty pleasure

Rating: 10/10 (2 March 2008)

I prefer Pulp Fiction to Reservoir Dogs. I find it to be the funniest out of the two. There are so many funny situations that has me in stitches and it mainly involves Vincent and Jules. The scenes I laugh the most at is when Vincent shoots Marvin accidentally in the head, Jules and Vincent cleaning the car after and when Vincent brings an o-ding Mia to Lance's house, that just has me in stitches every time.
I loved the interaction between Jules and Vincent. I couldn't wait for the film to switch back to them because they had really good chemistry, they were so hilarious together and I just enjoyed their reactions to the situations they found themselves in throughout the movie. I like that again Quentin Tarantino shoots the film out of sequence because it means that John Travolta who is shot in the middle of the movie, is alive at the end.
There are other story lines entined in the film- Ringo and Yolanda robbing the coffee shop, Mia and Vincent's date, Butch (a boxer) who is paid to take a dive but ends up killing his opponent and trying to keep one step ahead of Vincent and Jule's boss Marsellus Wallace but as I have said I am more interested in the scenes that feature Vincent and Jules.
I can see why this film was the comeback vehicle for John Travolta as he is just brilliant in it and it never seems like he doesn't belong in the role, what I also like about his role is he is not afraid to send himself up which we see especially in the dance scene with Uma Thurman. I can't imagine anyone else in Samuel L. Jackson's part, he just makes it his own. The other actors who I feel make the film entertaining is Uma Thurman, Ving Rhames, Rosanna Arquette and Eric Stoltz.
Yes, it has violence, some people class it as racist, I really don't know, maybe I'm wrong but I get the impression he is not doing it to be racist but is showing a world that not anyone sees or thinks still exists. It might be ugly but at least it is honest in saying our world is not as perfect as we think and the subjects covered in the film are happening somewhere. I have respect for Quentin Tarantino for not copping out and not trying to soften the hard core subjects the film features such as drug use and murder. A very good job, Quentin.