Bluemoon's Official Top 100 Films

[hilts]

It’s good, but I think a lot of people are trying too hard to go against popular consensus when choosing it over Pulp Fiction.

Spot on fella Pulp Fiction is just a better film, Jackie Brown is pretty good but that’s about it really.

 

[Cellarite]

Spot on fella Pulp Fiction is just a better film, Jackie Brown is pretty good but that’s about it really.

There’s a reason that popular films are popular - because a lot of fucking people like them. It isn’t difficult.

“Let me put my tweed jacket and monocle on and think of an obscure, Paraguayan movie about a fisherman with a cleft lip so people think I’m intelligent.”

Nah, you’re ok mate, just put fucking True Romance on and stop pissing about. There’s Minstrels to be eaten here.

 

[hilts]

There’s a reason that popular films are popular - because a lot of fucking people like them. It isn’t difficult.

“Let me put my tweed jacket and monocle on and think of an obscure, Paraguayan movie about a fisherman with a cleft lip so people think I’m intelligent.”

Nah, you’re ok mate, just put fucking True Romance on and stop pissing about. There’s Minstrels to be eaten here.

True romance made my top 20, that pisses on Jackie Brown as well.

 

[urban genie]

I actually prefer Kill bill

True romance made my top 20, that pisses on Jackie Brown as well.

True romance is tarantinos best film.

 

[hilts]

I actually prefer Kill bill


True romance is tarantinos best film.

I think he helped write the screenplay but it was directed by Tony Scott I think. My favourite that he was involved in.

 

[urban genie]

I think he helped write the screenplay but it was directed by Tony Scott I think. My favourite that he was involved in.

He wrote it, and was gonna direct, but got fed up and sold the script, he still considers it one of his best stories.

He wasn't originally happy as the only change Scott made was giving thmw a happy ending, but accepted he passed the directing gig over so accepted the slight change.

It is a tarantino film,

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

6. Pulp Fiction 14/162

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Pulp Fiction is a 1994 American neo-noir black comedy crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, who conceived it with Roger Avary. Starring John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, Tim Roth, Ving Rhames, and Uma Thurman, it tells several stories of criminal Los Angeles. The title refers to the pulp magazines and hardboiled crime novels popular during the mid-20th century, known for their graphic violence and punchy dialogue.

Tarantino wrote Pulp Fiction in 1992 and 1993, incorporating scenes that Avary originally wrote for True Romance (1993). Its plot occurs out of chronological order. The film is also self-referential from its opening moments, beginning with a title card that gives two dictionary definitions of "pulp". Considerable screen time is devoted to monologues and casual conversations with eclectic dialogue revealing each character's perspectives on several subjects, and the film features an ironic combination of humor and strong violence. TriStar Pictures reportedly turned down the script as "too demented". Then Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein was enthralled, however, and the film became the first that Miramax fully financed.

Pulp Fiction won the Palme d'Or at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, and was a major critical and commercial success. It was nominated for seven awards at the 67th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won Best Original Screenplay; it earned Travolta, Jackson, and Thurman Academy Award nominations and boosted their careers. Its development, marketing, distribution, and profitability had a sweeping effect on independent cinema.

Pulp Fiction is widely regarded as Tarantino's masterpiece, with particular praise for its screenwriting. The self-reflexivity, unconventional structure, and extensive homage and pastiche have led critics to describe it as a touchstone of postmodern film. It is often considered a cultural watershed, influencing films and other media that adopted elements of its style. In 2008, Entertainment Weekly named it the best film since 1983 and it has appeared on many critics' lists of the greatest films ever made. In 2013, Pulp Fiction was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"

Good film.
The only Tarantino one I have time for.
It was so successful in my view, that he simply repeated himself with the epic over the top monologues in every scene and eventually parodied himself in the films he did afterwards.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

I thought Django was pretty epic

Nah!

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

You aren't. I thought PF overrated, although I completely understand why so many love it. I like his Kill Bill films best. For LA crime drama I'll take Chinatown and, especially, L.A. Confidential.

Never got the Kill Bill franchise at all. Ridiculous glorification of unrealistic violence.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Never got the Kill Bill franchise at all. Ridiculous glorification of unrealistic violence.

I think the over-the-topness of both the violence and the revenge motive is what I liked about it. But not in my top 20 either.