Oh, and for the record, Pulp Fiction is an amazing, fantastic, hillarious, smart movie. Mr. Armadillo hates it and is bored out of his pants every time I watch it. Which is another benefit of watching it, for me 
Oh, and for the record, Pulp Fiction is an amazing, fantastic, hillarious, smart movie. Mr. Armadillo hates it and is bored out of his pants every time I watch it. Which is another benefit of watching it, for me
~MixieArmadillo
Always looking for new ways to get into her honey’s pants.
Cursed hamsters! They lied, I even refreshed, and previewed to make sure that hadn’t posted!
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The following words will get me banned here and disowned at home, but I haven’t particularly enjoyed, or see great quality in, ANY of the Monty Python movies. I have found them boring and the attempts at humor overworked. They should have quit after the second season.
There, I finally said it aloud.
Just for the record, I don’t get Kane either. Most of what I get out of the clips we’ve watched are cool technical things, camera shots, etc. But the movie is boring, if I remember right.
Dropzone! Never say anything even remotely derogatory about Monty Python again or I’ll remove your gums with a…
Slow down, Gadfly. It’s art. Art is subjective. That’s the nature of the beast. People have different opinions about everything, even… The funniest series… Of all time…
JEWELLER’S FILE!
‘The Piano’ - looks pretty, but so what? All my friends raved about it, I found it a huge bore.
‘Titanic’ - but then I don’t fancy Leonardo de Caprio. Also too long. ‘A Night to Remember’, despite lame title, is far better for tension and drama.
‘Gone With the Wind’ - romanticises racism
PS ccwaterback - you’re the only person I’ve come across who’s (a)also seen and (B) liked ‘Good Housekeeping’ - strange, haunting film, excellent.
‘The Piano’ - looks pretty, but so what? All my friends raved about it, I found it a huge bore.
‘Titanic’ - but then I don’t fancy Leonardo de Caprio. Also too long. ‘A Night to Remember’, despite lame title, is far better for tension and drama.
‘Gone With the Wind’ - romanticises racism
PS ccwaterback - you’re the only person I’ve come across who’s (a)also seen and (B) liked ‘Good Housekeeping’ - strange, haunting film, excellent.
well… takes all sorts… would consistently rank TSAM in my top 5 films of all time… can’t say the same unfortunately about anything else the Farrelly Bros. have done…
I’ve always been of the opinion that The Princess Bride was more of a “cult classic” thing, but then again, being a Rennie, an avid fantasy reader, and an MMORPG (read: Everquest) player of 4+ years, to me and my friends, it is considered a cult classic.
I can’t believe in a thread talking about a movie that might be senseless violence with no discernible plotline, that no one’s mentioned Gangs of New York. My hubby and I watched it through to the end, because neither of us could believe that the entire movie could make NO sense whatsoever. I said, it HAD to tie things together in the end, right? Apparently, I was wrong. There’s a couple hours of my life I’ll never get back. I only watched it till the end, for the same reason you can’t look away from a terrible car accident.
Are you guys sure you don’t mean Housekeeping, the Canadian film with Christine Lahti? I checked IMDB, and the only film listed under Good Housekeeping doesn’t sound haunting or excellent. (Strange, maybe.)
Anyway, I liked Housekeeping. I like a movie that takes the time to really set the atmosphere.
Yes, Pulp Fiction is a good movie. I saw it in the theater and laughed my ass off. It’s just funny. When Vince turns around and accidentally blows the kids brains out I thought that was one of the funniest things I’d ever seen.
But, see, I knew it was just a movie.
Things that are funniest are things that are completely out of place. And there is much in this movie that that covers. The Le Big Mac scene is funny because A) you don’t expect it to be the sort of thing gangsters talk about when they’re just shootin’ the shit, and B) movies in general just don’t HAVE that sort of banal, every-day, “dorm-room” type of dialogue. Dialogue nearly always either advances the plot or provides character development/exposition. It’s never just talking. That’s what makes the scene so novel.
Harvey Keitel’s scene was one of the most entertaining things I’ve ever seen him do. Just being so nonchalant & matter-of-fact about cleaning up an accidental killing - that’s funny!
See, you gotta dissociate from the violence of the movie. The incidental-ness of it is where the title comes from. You just accept that for the main guys, killing someone is like filling out a spreadsheet for one of us - just part of the everyday grind.
And this movie started my life-long appreciation for Ving Rhames.
Which reminds me… part of Pulp Fiction’s greatness is how it’s effortlessly slipped into pop culture. See, one of the funniest things I’ve ever read of Terry Pratchett’s was a short exchange in his book The Truth:
“…and then I’m gonna get medieval on his arse.”
There were more pressing problems, but this one intrigued Mr. Pin.
“How, exactly?” he said.
“I thought maybe a maypole,” said Mr. Tulip reflectively. “An’ then a display of country dancing, land tillage under a three-field system, several plagues, and, if my ----ing hand ain’t too tired, the invention of the ----ing horse collar.”
Now THAT is really really damn funny.