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No, it's not on at 10, or anything, before you rush off to check your TV guides, it's because I just realised that Pulp Fiction is ten years old this year.
I for one find that incredibly hard to believe, especially when you compare it to other top grossing movies from 1994:
Forrest Gump
True Lies
The Santa Clause
The Flintstones
Dumb and Dumber
Clear and Present Danger
Speed
The Mask
Interview with the Vampire
So why has Pulp Fiction aged so well?
Personally I think that part of it is down to the fact that you can't pidgeon-hole it to any time period. There's no clue in the soundtrack (which is all over the place) or the fashion as to when this is supposed to be, so when we watch it, it doesn't look physically dated. What's more, whilst the dialogue is excellent, it contains few phrases that are of a period either - when I watched the Mummy Returns and heard the kid say "Can't you two get a room" I just knew it wouldn't age well - people will stop saying that!
Also, there's no reliance on special effects, which can age a film ever so quickly. Half of the focus of Forrest Gump was in the clever way that the retard got to meet all those famous people. These days that's nothing special and you're left with a movie about a retard that's full of clichés.
The only film on the list I'd make a point of watching now would be Dumb and Dumber, simply because it's a great comedy, and some comedy does seem to age well - stupid people are always funny I guess?
Anyway, back to Pulp Fiction. There are two points that keep on coming back through this movie, and they're the key reason's - in my mind - why this movie was great back then, and has lost nothing through the years. Conflict and Dilemma.
Right through the movie there are confilcts - Jules and Vincent picking up the case from Brett, Butch and Marcellus, Vincent and Mia, The Bonnie Situation - plus so many inbetween. So often the characters have conficting views on what they want, or even just conficting views on what has happened. Even Jules and Vincents beliefs on how they avoided the bullets are a cause for confilct - act of God or just luck?
Dilemma is great in movies for a very simple reason, it asks the question, "what would you do?" What's great about Pulp Fiction is the range of dilemmas. When Vincent takes out Mia Wallace he's clearly attracted to her - but this is his bosses wife, he can hardly do anything about it, can he? His suggestion to himself, go home, beat off, is probably the best solution, until it all goes wrong when he finds her a little worse for wear.
The Bonnie Situation is a dilemma in itself for Jimmie Dimmick. He can't have gangsters in his house, with a dead body in the garage, as when his wife comes home, he'll end up with a divorce. He wants to help though, so that gives them a short time period in which to sort things out, so we get the Wolf in to help.
Surely the greatest dilemma of all comes in 'The Gold Watch' section. First of all, when Butch realises that Fabienne has left his gold watch, an unconfortable hunk of metal that had been up at least two bottoms, at home, and that his home could be dangerous, should he go back?
Then, later on, is the greatest dilemma of all. After escaping from the Gimp, Butch is about to leave, but should he leave the man that wants him dead to be sodomised and probably murdered? If he goes back his own life will be at risk, and Marcellus may still want him dead anyway. What would you do? Would you leave him?
It's scenes like these that keep me coming back to this movie, and realising how great it is. Think of how simple some of the other top movis of that year are. Speed - there's a bomb on the bus, if it drops below 50mph it blows up. All that it is a problem, and the purpose of the movie is finding the solution. Unfortunately (or fortunately) I can't really remember any of the other movies that well, so I can't really recall any situations in them. But perhaps that's the point?
Pulp Fiction may well be ten years old, but it's every bit as great now, and in ten years time I imagine I'll still be saying the same thing.
I for one find that incredibly hard to believe, especially when you compare it to other top grossing movies from 1994:
Forrest Gump
True Lies
The Santa Clause
The Flintstones
Dumb and Dumber
Clear and Present Danger
Speed
The Mask
Interview with the Vampire
So why has Pulp Fiction aged so well?
Personally I think that part of it is down to the fact that you can't pidgeon-hole it to any time period. There's no clue in the soundtrack (which is all over the place) or the fashion as to when this is supposed to be, so when we watch it, it doesn't look physically dated. What's more, whilst the dialogue is excellent, it contains few phrases that are of a period either - when I watched the Mummy Returns and heard the kid say "Can't you two get a room" I just knew it wouldn't age well - people will stop saying that!
Also, there's no reliance on special effects, which can age a film ever so quickly. Half of the focus of Forrest Gump was in the clever way that the retard got to meet all those famous people. These days that's nothing special and you're left with a movie about a retard that's full of clichés.
The only film on the list I'd make a point of watching now would be Dumb and Dumber, simply because it's a great comedy, and some comedy does seem to age well - stupid people are always funny I guess?
Anyway, back to Pulp Fiction. There are two points that keep on coming back through this movie, and they're the key reason's - in my mind - why this movie was great back then, and has lost nothing through the years. Conflict and Dilemma.
Right through the movie there are confilcts - Jules and Vincent picking up the case from Brett, Butch and Marcellus, Vincent and Mia, The Bonnie Situation - plus so many inbetween. So often the characters have conficting views on what they want, or even just conficting views on what has happened. Even Jules and Vincents beliefs on how they avoided the bullets are a cause for confilct - act of God or just luck?
Dilemma is great in movies for a very simple reason, it asks the question, "what would you do?" What's great about Pulp Fiction is the range of dilemmas. When Vincent takes out Mia Wallace he's clearly attracted to her - but this is his bosses wife, he can hardly do anything about it, can he? His suggestion to himself, go home, beat off, is probably the best solution, until it all goes wrong when he finds her a little worse for wear.
The Bonnie Situation is a dilemma in itself for Jimmie Dimmick. He can't have gangsters in his house, with a dead body in the garage, as when his wife comes home, he'll end up with a divorce. He wants to help though, so that gives them a short time period in which to sort things out, so we get the Wolf in to help.
Surely the greatest dilemma of all comes in 'The Gold Watch' section. First of all, when Butch realises that Fabienne has left his gold watch, an unconfortable hunk of metal that had been up at least two bottoms, at home, and that his home could be dangerous, should he go back?
Then, later on, is the greatest dilemma of all. After escaping from the Gimp, Butch is about to leave, but should he leave the man that wants him dead to be sodomised and probably murdered? If he goes back his own life will be at risk, and Marcellus may still want him dead anyway. What would you do? Would you leave him?
It's scenes like these that keep me coming back to this movie, and realising how great it is. Think of how simple some of the other top movis of that year are. Speed - there's a bomb on the bus, if it drops below 50mph it blows up. All that it is a problem, and the purpose of the movie is finding the solution. Unfortunately (or fortunately) I can't really remember any of the other movies that well, so I can't really recall any situations in them. But perhaps that's the point?
Pulp Fiction may well be ten years old, but it's every bit as great now, and in ten years time I imagine I'll still be saying the same thing.
Yeah gotta love Pulp Fiction. Spent a few months studying it and other Gangster films a little while ago. A really interesting film to look at and discuss in detail.
"I'm going to take you hostage with that scalpel, then I'm going to use you as a human shield, while I kill that guard over there with that knife. Then I was thinking about breaking your neck."
"Really, and how were you planning to do all of that?"
"You know my handcuffs ...... I picked them"
"Really, and how were you planning to do all of that?"
"You know my handcuffs ...... I picked them"
Yeah true lies was pure entertainment.
Its what governor schwarzenegger does best.
Ive probably spelt his surname wrong, but i cant find the will to check.
Its what governor schwarzenegger does best.
Ive probably spelt his surname wrong, but i cant find the will to check.
Notorious Biggles wrote:
> True Lies was brilliant!
you only liked it because it had harrier jumpjets blowing up a bridge! :D
No, it was a great film, in my opinion. can't wait for true lies 2.
> True Lies was brilliant!
you only liked it because it had harrier jumpjets blowing up a bridge! :D
No, it was a great film, in my opinion. can't wait for true lies 2.
True Lies was brilliant!
Anyway, I know what you mean. As a movie, it still seems modern, even as it ages. But then, classics do seem timeless. Funny to think of it as being 10 years old though. It certainly doesn't seem that old.
But then it doesn't seem like it was 10 years since Kurt Cobain killed himself either, but it will be in just over a months time.
Anyway, I know what you mean. As a movie, it still seems modern, even as it ages. But then, classics do seem timeless. Funny to think of it as being 10 years old though. It certainly doesn't seem that old.
But then it doesn't seem like it was 10 years since Kurt Cobain killed himself either, but it will be in just over a months time.
Personally, out of all those films you listed, Pulp Fiction strikes me as the oldest.
No, it's not on at 10, or anything, before you rush off to check your TV guides, it's because I just realised that Pulp Fiction is ten years old this year.
I for one find that incredibly hard to believe, especially when you compare it to other top grossing movies from 1994:
Forrest Gump
True Lies
The Santa Clause
The Flintstones
Dumb and Dumber
Clear and Present Danger
Speed
The Mask
Interview with the Vampire
So why has Pulp Fiction aged so well?
Personally I think that part of it is down to the fact that you can't pidgeon-hole it to any time period. There's no clue in the soundtrack (which is all over the place) or the fashion as to when this is supposed to be, so when we watch it, it doesn't look physically dated. What's more, whilst the dialogue is excellent, it contains few phrases that are of a period either - when I watched the Mummy Returns and heard the kid say "Can't you two get a room" I just knew it wouldn't age well - people will stop saying that!
Also, there's no reliance on special effects, which can age a film ever so quickly. Half of the focus of Forrest Gump was in the clever way that the retard got to meet all those famous people. These days that's nothing special and you're left with a movie about a retard that's full of clichés.
The only film on the list I'd make a point of watching now would be Dumb and Dumber, simply because it's a great comedy, and some comedy does seem to age well - stupid people are always funny I guess?
Anyway, back to Pulp Fiction. There are two points that keep on coming back through this movie, and they're the key reason's - in my mind - why this movie was great back then, and has lost nothing through the years. Conflict and Dilemma.
Right through the movie there are confilcts - Jules and Vincent picking up the case from Brett, Butch and Marcellus, Vincent and Mia, The Bonnie Situation - plus so many inbetween. So often the characters have conficting views on what they want, or even just conficting views on what has happened. Even Jules and Vincents beliefs on how they avoided the bullets are a cause for confilct - act of God or just luck?
Dilemma is great in movies for a very simple reason, it asks the question, "what would you do?" What's great about Pulp Fiction is the range of dilemmas. When Vincent takes out Mia Wallace he's clearly attracted to her - but this is his bosses wife, he can hardly do anything about it, can he? His suggestion to himself, go home, beat off, is probably the best solution, until it all goes wrong when he finds her a little worse for wear.
The Bonnie Situation is a dilemma in itself for Jimmie Dimmick. He can't have gangsters in his house, with a dead body in the garage, as when his wife comes home, he'll end up with a divorce. He wants to help though, so that gives them a short time period in which to sort things out, so we get the Wolf in to help.
Surely the greatest dilemma of all comes in 'The Gold Watch' section. First of all, when Butch realises that Fabienne has left his gold watch, an unconfortable hunk of metal that had been up at least two bottoms, at home, and that his home could be dangerous, should he go back?
Then, later on, is the greatest dilemma of all. After escaping from the Gimp, Butch is about to leave, but should he leave the man that wants him dead to be sodomised and probably murdered? If he goes back his own life will be at risk, and Marcellus may still want him dead anyway. What would you do? Would you leave him?
It's scenes like these that keep me coming back to this movie, and realising how great it is. Think of how simple some of the other top movis of that year are. Speed - there's a bomb on the bus, if it drops below 50mph it blows up. All that it is a problem, and the purpose of the movie is finding the solution. Unfortunately (or fortunately) I can't really remember any of the other movies that well, so I can't really recall any situations in them. But perhaps that's the point?
Pulp Fiction may well be ten years old, but it's every bit as great now, and in ten years time I imagine I'll still be saying the same thing.
I for one find that incredibly hard to believe, especially when you compare it to other top grossing movies from 1994:
Forrest Gump
True Lies
The Santa Clause
The Flintstones
Dumb and Dumber
Clear and Present Danger
Speed
The Mask
Interview with the Vampire
So why has Pulp Fiction aged so well?
Personally I think that part of it is down to the fact that you can't pidgeon-hole it to any time period. There's no clue in the soundtrack (which is all over the place) or the fashion as to when this is supposed to be, so when we watch it, it doesn't look physically dated. What's more, whilst the dialogue is excellent, it contains few phrases that are of a period either - when I watched the Mummy Returns and heard the kid say "Can't you two get a room" I just knew it wouldn't age well - people will stop saying that!
Also, there's no reliance on special effects, which can age a film ever so quickly. Half of the focus of Forrest Gump was in the clever way that the retard got to meet all those famous people. These days that's nothing special and you're left with a movie about a retard that's full of clichés.
The only film on the list I'd make a point of watching now would be Dumb and Dumber, simply because it's a great comedy, and some comedy does seem to age well - stupid people are always funny I guess?
Anyway, back to Pulp Fiction. There are two points that keep on coming back through this movie, and they're the key reason's - in my mind - why this movie was great back then, and has lost nothing through the years. Conflict and Dilemma.
Right through the movie there are confilcts - Jules and Vincent picking up the case from Brett, Butch and Marcellus, Vincent and Mia, The Bonnie Situation - plus so many inbetween. So often the characters have conficting views on what they want, or even just conficting views on what has happened. Even Jules and Vincents beliefs on how they avoided the bullets are a cause for confilct - act of God or just luck?
Dilemma is great in movies for a very simple reason, it asks the question, "what would you do?" What's great about Pulp Fiction is the range of dilemmas. When Vincent takes out Mia Wallace he's clearly attracted to her - but this is his bosses wife, he can hardly do anything about it, can he? His suggestion to himself, go home, beat off, is probably the best solution, until it all goes wrong when he finds her a little worse for wear.
The Bonnie Situation is a dilemma in itself for Jimmie Dimmick. He can't have gangsters in his house, with a dead body in the garage, as when his wife comes home, he'll end up with a divorce. He wants to help though, so that gives them a short time period in which to sort things out, so we get the Wolf in to help.
Surely the greatest dilemma of all comes in 'The Gold Watch' section. First of all, when Butch realises that Fabienne has left his gold watch, an unconfortable hunk of metal that had been up at least two bottoms, at home, and that his home could be dangerous, should he go back?
Then, later on, is the greatest dilemma of all. After escaping from the Gimp, Butch is about to leave, but should he leave the man that wants him dead to be sodomised and probably murdered? If he goes back his own life will be at risk, and Marcellus may still want him dead anyway. What would you do? Would you leave him?
It's scenes like these that keep me coming back to this movie, and realising how great it is. Think of how simple some of the other top movis of that year are. Speed - there's a bomb on the bus, if it drops below 50mph it blows up. All that it is a problem, and the purpose of the movie is finding the solution. Unfortunately (or fortunately) I can't really remember any of the other movies that well, so I can't really recall any situations in them. But perhaps that's the point?
Pulp Fiction may well be ten years old, but it's every bit as great now, and in ten years time I imagine I'll still be saying the same thing.