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[CortJstr]

http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=02072008

I'm always happy to seen Roomba movie re-enactments but I was never all that crazy about Pulp Fiction. For which I caught no end of flack in 9th grade.

Their hair and Beef's mustache are pretty tight, though.

[Arachno-capitalist]

I LOLed pretty hard on this one. French people are just plain silly.
Also, weren't we all supposed to die of bird flu like 5 years ago or something? What ever happened to that?

[Carlos del Vaca]

I'm always happy to seen Roomba movie re-enactments but I was never all that crazy about Pulp Fiction. For which I caught no end of flack in 9th grade.

Dammit, and I thought you were cool.

Bacon tastes goooood.  Pork chops taste goooooooood.

[lprkn]

I like Pulp Fiction, but I think a lot of people don't see how silly it is sometimes, they're just like, "OMG, masterpiece!" This strip riffs on the silliness a little, that's all.

[CortJstr]

I went through the same thing with Jurassic Park in middle school. Both are fine flicks, but for not claiming them as the best ever I was shunned. I was also pretty tired of hearing the Pulp Fiction soundtrack every fricking day.

Now Rent I thought was all but unwatchable. That opinion practically got me ejected from drama.

[colmore]

You know what else is OK but is definitely not the damn best picture of all dime?  Donnie Darko.  Sheesh, I caught flack for that one in frikkin' college.

Bird Flu are a hardcore band in Athens, Georgia.  They're fun, but I think we're safe.

[chuanoplast]

I wonder if Teodore can dance on the Roomba.

[wombat]

Tragically- or fortunately - I have never seen Pulp Fiction, so I don't get this at all.

[CortJstr]

Tragically- or fortunately - I have never seen Pulp Fiction, so I don't get this at all.

And you've never even heard reference to the Royal with Cheese conversation? Come on, the Simpsons did a bit about that with Krustyburgers.

[wombat]

That does sound vaguely familiar now that you mention it but I wouldn't have known it was from Pulp Fiction. Wasn't that a movie where they shoot a lot of people? Why would they be talking about hamburgers in France?

I don't watch the Simpsons enough either so that doesn't help.

[littlefallsmets]

Yeah, "Pulp Fiction" is a decent movie but it is heavily overrated.

The direction and the dialogue are top-notch and some of the character moments are really quite awesome but... there's a whole lot of hipster-pop-culture-douchery and violence-worship in the mix there to counter-act the really good bits.

[CortJstr]

It's Quentin Tarantino. Quirky dialog and ultraviolence are like his trade marks.

Vincent: You know what the funniest thing about Europe is?
Jules: What?
Vincent: It's the little differences. I mean they got the same shit over there that they got here, but it's just - it's just there it's a little different.
Jules: Examples?
Vincent: Alright, well you can walk into a movie theater in Amsterdam and buy a beer. And I don't mean just like in no paper cup, I'm talking about a glass of beer. And in Paris, you can buy a beer at McDonald's. And you know what they call a, uh, a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris?
Jules: They don't call it a Quarter Pounder with Cheese?
Vincent: Nah, man, they got the metric system, they wouldn't know what the fuck a Quarter Pounder is.
Jules: What do they call it?
Vincent: They call it a "Royale with Cheese."
Jules: "Royale with Cheese."
Vincent: Thats right.
Jules: What do they call a Big Mac?
Vincent: A Big Mac's a Big Mac, but they call it "Le Big Mac."
Jules: "Le Big Mac." [laughs] What do they call a Whopper?
Vincent: I dunno, I didn't go into Burger King. But, you know what they put on french fries in Holland instead of ketchup?
Jules: What?
Vincent: Mayonnaise.
Jules: God damn!
Vincent: I seen 'em do it, man, they fuckin' drown 'em in that shit.
Jules: That's some fucked up shit.


I also just noticed that the alt text says both "edged out" and "landslide." Aren't those antonyms?

[littlefallsmets]

Yeah, that's kinda the thing. I'm not much of a Tarantino fan at all and... in some of the circles I've moved in at points of my life, I might as well have two heads to say that.

There's no doubt that he's a talented screenwriter and a solid director but... instead of making good movies pretty well, he likes taking awful ideas and awful genres remaking them really well. Arthouse versions of direct-to-video crap.

In "Pulp Fiction" there were these... hints of the talented filmmaker rising above all the chopsocky bangbang quip-quip bullshit and those were the parts of Pulp Fiction I really quite liked... and then the rest was a bunch of people talking about ALF and shooting each other in the balls or whatever.

Basically, I only like Tarantino's stuff when he isn't being Tarantino.

[Carlos del Vaca]

That does sound vaguely familiar now that you mention it but I wouldn't have known it was from Pulp Fiction. Wasn't that a movie where they shoot a lot of people? Why would they be talking about hamburgers in France?

By my rough count, they shoot four people.  Whether that constitutes "a lot" probably depends on how many action movies you watch.

I love Pulp Fiction.  I know it has its flaws, but it's one of those movies that when I'm surfing past Encore and it's on, I end up watching it just about every time.

[Ben-San]

There's no doubt that he's a talented screenwriter and a solid director but... instead of making good movies pretty well, he likes taking awful ideas and awful genres remaking them really well. Arthouse versions of direct-to-video crap.

We postulate first that some people enjoy the usually-done-poorly ideas and genres which Tarantino enjoys remaking, and moreover that they are neither idiots nor bad people for doing so. This may be difficult for some of us, but it is a necessary step.

Next, we imagine that in our own favorite genres or conceits, most directors do not put much effort into their films. This will be easier for some of us than others depending on what one's favorite genre might be.

Now we imagine how we would feel if told that, because that genre is usually done badly, the directors who put effort into it are wasting their time and should be doing something else. Or, perhaps, we imagine that a director has started to put effort and talent into films of this genre without doing that thing where someone unfamiliar with the genre creates a movie superficially within the genre but substantially of another genre so as to get mainstream reviewers praising you as the first person to do well with the genre ever. (cf. reviews in mainstream publications whenever a Real Novelist works on a superhero comic book and addresses issues that she's absolutely sure she's the first writer ever to address in comics because, y'know, she's a Real Novelist.)

Anyhow, this is how the Tarantino fans I know feel about him: that he's a director who is applying directing ability to usually-poorly-implemented genres they like in a non-deconstructive and non-hostile-to-the-fans-of-those-movies fashion.