Pulp Fiction

The scene where Vincent is shocked about the cost of the $5 milkshake really dates the movie. Today we would be shocked that was priced that low! :D

A favorite line:
"Ha, ha, ha, they're your clothes "my brother".
 
I have seen it enough times to have almost memorized the script. In a strange way the movie is mesmerizing and reels you in.

As to the language I already know all the naughty words. Quentin is just using the vernacular of the underworld culture he is depicting. "Keepin' it real" so to speak.

If the language was sanitized the movie simply would not work.
 
About the language.......right out of college I was working in one of those areas you don't want to be in at night. Or have a really good reason for being there in the day time. Felt really bad for those good people who had to endure it. And, there were quite a few.

At any rate I heard what I strongly expect are "those words" regularly used as nouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs. I can recall a surveillance when every third word from a group on the corner seemed to be "that word".

So, you might not like the language, but, for various classes of folks, it's just everyday terminology. Others use it for shock value-or to fit in with their group.
 
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Rustyt1953 said:
I have seen it enough times to have almost memorized the script. In a strange way the movie is mesmerizing and reels you in.

As to the language I already know all the naughty words. Quentin is just using the vernacular of the underworld culture he is depicting. "Keepin' it real" so to speak.

If the language was sanitized the movie simply would not work.
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Saw it once on AMC which bleeps out profanity. All the bleeps made it sound like an air raid warning
 
Onomea said:
I don't like all of Tarantino's stuff either, but I do like some of it a lot. Like Pulp Fiction. I also thought his Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was terrific. (I think maybe that one is generation specific in its appeal. For me, born in 1952, it was right on target.)

Another good Tarantino movie is Jackie Brown.
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I too loved Once Upon a Time but not so much for the dialog but for the background shots.
I know almost every one of them, I used to run around on the same streets and even saw a few of the good looking hitch hikers.
Never saw a Manson Girl that I know of.
I hated the ending. I had a better one but Tarantino never asked my opinion.
 
When one of my kids was little, he went through this phase where he was a little distracted/self-absorbed and would reflexively say "What?" when I'd start to tell him something, even though he clearly heard me -- it was like it just took a second to register and I'd have to repeat myself. After a while it got so annoying I had to resist the urge to blurt out, "Say 'what' one more time **********!!!!"
 
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