I just watched Pulp Fiction for the first time. Was it good?
It's one of the best of the 90's honestly. I'm not entirely sure it deserved to beat Three Colors: Red for the Palme d'Or, but it's still very good. It's really funny, and it subverts many of the tropes of these types of genre pictures. It was the first big "postmodern" hit film, and it's status is well deserved.
With Pulp Fiction, the America viewing public finally acknowledged all the films they once saw as a "guilty pleasures" as legitimate art. All of a sudden Texas Chainsaw Massacre was inducted into New York's Museum of Modern Art. Slasher films were revived and shared movie theaters with "high art". Now people had an excuse to say all the crappy movies they had seen were important. All of a sudden academic papers were being written on the virtues of Ernest films. Quality of writing dipped, because people were more concerned with "impressions to ideas" or used it as an excuse not to actually learn anything so they could justify sitting alone masturbating to porn, rather than reading book. It was another excuse for our generation to feel entitled to their tastes, and consequently defend them inarticulately.
People are nostalgic for the days of Pulp Fiction, when indie film making "actually meant something." This was when not every indie film starred Michael Cera or was directed by Wes Anderson. This was when indie films were "cool and unpredictable."
I believe Pulp Fiction does not mean anything, its a void that convinced the film viewing public of its importance and quality with xenophobia disguised as irony and substance veiled by coolness.
This film is not unique, it is empty. It is a number situations rather than subjects, and it made this generation dumber.
Well at least its better than Four Weddings and a Funeral. (or is it? They were both nominated, I guess they should both be classics.)
>>64260015
I think it's lack of a point, is itself the point. Like I said, the first postmodern movie that became a monster hit.
>>64260015
>With Pulp Fiction, the America viewing public finally acknowledged all the films they once saw as a "guilty pleasures" as legitimate art.
So it's sort of like the French New Wave finally made it's way over.
>>64260015
Nigga u gay
>>64259237
You tell us OP. That is, unless you can't think for yourself.
>>64260015
>when OP starts a bait thread and someone writes a multi-paragraph intelligent response
>>64260490
I think it's pasta.
I marathoned it with my wife and her kids this past week end. It's fucking glorious.
>>64260725
I remember you.
Its got like 3 good scenes and the rest are crap
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