Count me in as sill thinking it should have won the Academy Award for Best Picture over Forrest Gump. Still my favorite movie of all time.
Well…Vincent dies in the shower actually. BUT, I’ll bet if QT had thought of that, he definitely would have rewritten it to have him get shot or fall back on the crapper.
Fair enough, but it’s the flushing of the crapper that put Butch on guard. (That and finding the submachine gun on the kitchen counter, something you can bet would never have happened if Jules had still been around.) I’ll modify my statement to say Vincent died in the toilet, rather than on the crapper, but the effect is basically the same.
I find it interesting that Vincent craps twice in the same movie (most people in the pictures are *never *shown either crapping or whizzing). Maybe he was blocked after his dinner with Mia? 
One side effect of heroin use is, apparently, constipation.
Well, there you go! 
Or, not.
Not a huge fan of everything he has done.
That said, I just watched it a month or so ago. Still brilliant. Still amusing, unnerving. Perfectly written, beautifully cut. It feels slightly gritty, which I’ve always loved.
Hell of a movie.
Thanks, Kramer.
My issue is that after saying he blew Marvins head CLEAN OFF - we see Marvin’s head still in the place his shoulders intended.
In my humble opinion, his films have revealed his limited talent as time has gone on. His talent is evidently greater than mine - but I have no desire to see KB, IB, H8 and definitely Jackie Brown or Django Unchained - again.
MiM
I won’t deny that I thought that whole “gimp” scene was strange. But I guess I’m a bit like the “narrator” in The Kinks’ “Lola” (who’d left home only a week before) - not exposed to all the weird things that our species “has to offer.” I’m more experienced than I was when that movie came out, of course - but in some ways I’m probably just as naïve as I was then. And, frankly, I’d like to keep it that way.
It was violent. There’s no doubt about that (I don’t want to meet anybody who thinks it wasn’t). But I’ve heard that Reservoir Dogs was MUCH more violent than Pulp Fiction was. I’ve never seen Reservoir Dogs. I was able to tolerate the violence in Pulp Fiction. I’m not sure I’d be able to do the same with Reservoir Dogs.
I saw Inglorious Basterds. I thought it was great. Christoph Waltz was fantastic as Hans Landa (I believe he won a ''Best Actor" Oscar for that performance).
OmG - I just laughed my ass off at that!
Agreed!
Tee hee!
“Reservoir Dogs” is absolutely more violent. The violence in “Pulp Fiction” is often gory, but it’s often preposterous and cartoonish. That is not true of “Reservoir Dogs.”
It was Best Supporting Actor… which, of course, he promptly won again just three years later for another Tarantino film. He is one of only eight men to win it twice (including Walter Brennan, who actually won it three times.)
Waltz was the only thing making Django watchable. He’s fantastic. And I generally love all things Quentin (including PF).
I agree with the poster from back in 2017 who thought that the problem – one of the problems – with the “dead n***** storage” scene was the way Tarantino delivered the line. My take on that scene was that Jimmie, married to a black nurse, and clearly a friend or associate of Jules’, has, or feels like he has, “N-word privileges”. Tarantino, however, gives the line like he’s aware he’s saying a taboo and loaded word, like he’s showing how edgy and controversial he is. Compare that to the casual way Jules uses the word when talking to Vincent or to Marcellus; to him, it just means “a black guy”. It’s organic to Jules, in a way that it isn’t, to Jimmie.
Of course, that might have been Jimmie emphasizing it just to piss off Jules, since he knows he has leverage. Seems like a risky thing to do to a professional killer who’s just brought guns, a partner, and a dead kid into your house, though.
The complaint regarding Tarantino and his acting is weirdly reflected in Harrison’s Ford admonition to George Lucas: “You can type this shit, but you sure can’t say it.” Tarantino wrote great dialogue, he just wasn’t competent enough as an actor to pull it off.
“I heard there was a director’s cut of Reservoir dogs. What could they add - a man’s only got two ears.”