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Has Pulp Fiction dated?
soixante:
We are getting close to the 10th Anniversary of Pulp Fiction's premiere at Cannes, and its subsequent American release in October 1994. Ten years is a good benchmark to see how a film holds up. OK, so it has only been nine years, but still, Pulp Fiction is getting better with age (unlike Butch).
Let's put Pulp into perspective -- before it came out, no independent film had grossed $100 million at the domestic box office. Think of all the Pulp Fiction ripoffs that have followed. All of these films merely demonstrate how great the original is.
The landscape that Tarantino helped to create has changed, and it will be interesting to see how Kill Bill plays in 2003.
av8raaron:
No - Pulp is one that stays in my DVD rotation.
SHAFTR:
I don't think so.
It gets better and better with each viewing. I find it very refreshing.
AlguienEstolamiPantalones:
some of it has dated
thats why i would rather watch Jackie brown right now then pulp. Jackie has a timeless quality to it where as pulp just seems rather mid 90's right now, and even though it helped create lots of those cliches that other people later drove into the ground, it still falls into that category.
when i watch the royal with cheese scene i keep feeling overkill, because it was quoted and used to death. But yet the scene with marsalous trying to get butch to throw the fight, that feels still as fresh as it was in 94. But other stuff to me feel played out and dated, like the piercing scene feels mad mad dated, and well son of a preacher man will always now remind me of every annoying college girl in that era who used that song for their answering machine message
so in all pulp is a better overall statement, but Jackie brown is more satisfying.
so in all pulp is a better overall statement, but jackie brown is more satisfing.
pgr:
Umm.... I don't think its dated. It is one of the best films ever made and I'm sure many people share my opinion. I've watched it countless times and it still seems fresh.
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