There are people on this very board that honestly believe this wasn't the best movie of the 1990s

There are people on this very board that honestly believe this wasn't the best movie of the 1990s.

Big Lebowski, Shawshank Redemption, Fargo, Good Will Hunting, and American Beauty are all better than Pulp Fiction.

Also Reservoir Dogs does everything Pulp Fiction does but better and cleaner. And I like Pulp Fiction. Just nowhere near the best of the 90s.

>shawshank

the others i could understand being better but not this one

I personally like The Big Lebowski better, but Pulp Fiction paved the way for black comedy and excessive violence.

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.)

Do people actually think this reddit shit is good? What the fuck?

So it essentially helped to destroy film as a serious art form? It essentially finished the job Star wars and Jaws started.

I will never get why people love Tarantino so much. His only movies I've enjoyed are Django and Resevoir Dogs, and neither are masterpieces in my opinion. Someone please enlighten me.

That's some shitty normiecore taste right there.

That said, everything by Cuckoldino is terrible as well, so you're not quite wrong.

I'd say fargo
Shawshank is kinda meme

Move aside plebs, best 90'skino coming through

Goodfellas and L.A. Confidential are both better

The Fifth Element was one of the 90's films that surprised me. Seemed to come out of left field at the time. Video game piqued my interest at one point too. Fargo was good. I'm not sure how much I trust my judgement during that time period anyways since it's high school/college years.

Tarantino films are cinematic masturbation.

Sure, he's showing you things you like. You liked them the first time around when you saw them in whatever genre he's lifting them from. But he doesn't add anything new to it, doesn't comment on it, doesn't provoke any more thought.

Which, don't get me wrong, is fine. Not every movie needs to be art. But lets not confuse Tarantino's very enjoyable brand of pablum with real cinema.

the shit taste in this thread is almost palpable.

eh, only worth it for qt dunst

but anons, this was the third greatest film ever made and certainly the only 90's movie in the top ten.

There is no right answer here faggots 90s where the golden age so much good shit came out you just cant tell what is THE BEST almost every genre had several high level movies beside the already posted you have
Boogie nights, Heat, Dances with Wolves, Trainspotting, T2, Sling blade, Goodfellas, Silence of the lambs good animations Aladin Beauty and the beast, Lion King. Blair Witch put "found footage" on the map etc etc

More like wasn't the most overrated movie of the 1990s. It is such a bland movie that the only thing it has going for it is violence and dialogue (which is sometimes done too much) - there is no real compelling narrative that actually gets you invested into the movie.

The nonlinear storyline doesn't work because the plot is so paper thin that the audience can't really tell you what it is about or determine an overarching goal of the film. This results in what is simply just watching events happen randomly for 2 hours with zero emotional attachment to the characters.

Furthermore, some scenes can straight up be cut from the movie, particularly the one of Christopher Walken explaining shoving the watch up his ass for 2 years to a kid just so Tarantino can look edgy.

i just rewatched this and it's pretty meh

Great taste bro, have you watched the god awful remake yet?

Absolutely.
All of this is trash.
I do not recognize this.

>paved the way for excessive violence
You haven't seen a single film from the 70s have you?

>Doesn't recognize The Piano.
>Thinks his opinion on film matters.

Pulp Fiction is overrated. Honestly back in the 90s the most memorable movie I saw in the theater was Forest Gump or The Matrix.

Pulp Fiction is reddit trash

what movie?

>I do not recognize this.
>what movie?
fucking plebs

Seems like 90's kino peaked with this thing.

I don't believe I've seen it actually.

>look at me I'm better than you because I know the name of a movie you don't!

>The Professional is trash

nah mate, you're trash. You probably haven't even watched it.

I've not seen it but since it's got a surfboard and someone mentioned there was a remake, I'm gonna guess it's Point Break

I'd say that Tarantino makes 'meta-films' - they are a 'take' of a generic film through a film. Sort of like a musician writing a song about writing a song, and deliberately putting into the song many generic songwriting tropes so as to 'challenge' the listener all the while entertaining them. This form of art works on many levels, and appeals to plebs and patricians alike for very different reasons.

Shit tier choices, except for Fargo

coen brothers > tarantino

its objective fact

Is it bad that Reservoir Dogs is my least favorite taratino movie?

I honestly will always watch Shawshank Redemption anytime it is on and had my dad take me to see it when it was in theaters. It's a great movie regardless of made up Internet site allegiances

Tried to make my mom watch this movie halfway through she goes "user this is so stupid" it was the Madonna scene.

Yeah, but only because he made Django.

Underrated post.