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Rating: Null/10 (6 April 2003)

WARNING!!!! SPOILERS!!! SPOILERS!!!! I saw "Reservoir dogs" years ago. Not when it was released, maybe four or five years later... But it stuck with me since the first moment till the end. Wow. It was like BANG! I loved the movie. Now I see many people comparing the dogs with the pulp. I think that isn't right. I mean - the stories, the situations, the characters are completely different. SPOILERS Dogs - we have actually four main characters - mr. Orange, mr. Blonde, mr. Pinc, mr. White. Plus Nice Guy Eddie and Joe who are also important, though not that much. And we have a single story about un undercover cop, whose intervention failed a heist, and the other guys wandering what went wrong, and trying to find the rat. SPOILERS Pulp - well, it's a little more complicated. On the one hand we have a boxer, who took the bribe to go down, but he didn't do his part and tries to get away with the money, without getting killed by the mobsters. On the other hand we have two mob hitmen who have serious troubles getting rid of the dead body on the backseat of their car. Then we have the bored wife of the mob boss overdosing. Then we have two wannabe armed robbers in a restaurant. Finally we have two guys caught by homosexual rapist cop and his also perverted brother. Many people say that the films were hard to follow. I had no any troubles at all with that, and I'm telling you I am not a rocket scientist. Of course if your favorite movie is "The fast and the furious" - that's another story. SPOILERS I would like to add a little about the violence in "Reservoir dogs" - all the guys in the movie are criminals, so what did you expect? And anyway, the blonde guy is obviously a cyco, and it's much more believable that he is about to cut someone's limb or ear, or hose, or finger. Anything, instead (for example) explaining to everyone that he is Napoleon and the next year he will repeat his russian invasion, or stopping every one of three men, telling him how did he shoot the poor albatross. Get it? And if you think a little, SPOILERS you will find out that in the whole movie we have 1/ mr. Pinc escaping from the cops, 2/ mr. Blonde cutting off the cop's ear and getting shot by mr. Orange, 3/ mr. Orange and mr. White running from the cops and stealing a car, shooting the woman in it and two cops, 4/ everybody shooting the others in a mexican standout, 5/ mr. White getting shot by the cops, after shooting mr. Orange. So what do we have here: five violence scenes. Now let's compare this to "Gladiator" who won five Oscars. SPOILERS We have: 1/the german battle 2/Commodus kills his own father 3/Maximus klls his executors and flees 4/Maximus' family gets killed 5/ Maximus in his first gladiator fight 6/M. in his second gladiator fight 7/the barbarian horde 8/the tygers and the Tygris of Gaule 9/M tries to escape from the dungeons 10/final swordfight M. against Commodus. Oh, and should I mention "Braveheart" (an english soldier cuts off the throat of Gibson's beloved),"Apocalypse now" (Sheen shoots with his gun an innocent woman just because he is in a hurry) or "The godfather" (the last part, where Michael's people kills his enemies and he actually becomes Don Michael). In the end I can say that Tarantino's first two movies are priceless pieces of cinema. LIke it or not - it's a fact. Enjoy!!