Just watched it for the first time today

Rating: 10/10 (30 September 2014)

I started university this week and when I wandered around the campus I saw a market-style DVD stall. I purchased two DVDs, one The Dark Knight (I am yet to see as of writing) and the other Pulp Fiction.
And while I struggled to appreciate the movie when watching it, within a few hours I found that I enjoyed it and it was worth buying for repetitive viewing.
Pulp Fiction is indeed one of the greatest movies ever (take that AFI's top 100!) for many a reason. Firstly, the dialogue. It is often irrelevant to the situation when it is spoken, but Quentin Tarantino covers a variety of interesting topics, so many in fact that I struggle to recall them all.
Secondly, the way it is done is so captivating. Tarantino uses techniques found in films from many decades before. For example, when Vincent reads the note Mia left him, rather than a brief glimpse of it, we get to read it in detail, while Uma Thurman voices over what her character wrote. Also in scene transfers rather than a split-second cut, the screen gradually fades to black and then back to colour. It all adds style.
Then of course there the iconic shots/images. Again there are too many to recall. How this movie won only 1 Oscar from 7 nominations is beyond me. At least it won the Palme d'Or at Cannes.
My only real problem was that the movie, which is about two-and-a- half hours long, felt slow in a few places, especially in the final scene in the diner but then again it must have been like that for a valid reason.
The cast all did a superb job. None of the characters, maybe with the exception of John Travolta, appeared throughout the entirety of the movie. They had their stretches of time and all were memorable. Even writer and director Tarantino's Jimmie was impressive. Apart from the pawn shop characters, who are meant to be the nastiest (is what I said actually true?), I didn't dislike any of them, although everyone in Pulp Fiction, an intense crime movie, is meant to be bad, overaggressive or stupid in some significant way.
I wondered if the money I spent on the Pulp Fiction DVD could have been better spent before I watched the film but now I regret NOTHING.