CINEMATOGRAPHY

Now this isn't in my justification, but I feel like I need to also discuss this. The color scheme in the movie is very weird, but it also helps put the audience in the boots of the characters. The warm effect over the entire movie makes it seem like a summer extravaganza, with the cold nights at the diner, but the hot sunny days. The green grass, the red seats of the diner. It makes it seem like a 1950s movie, but it isn't. As shown throughout the movie, the colors blend like an art book, affecting the point of view of the audience when they look at the movie together. 

I also loved the soundtrack, reminded me of Kill Bill. Also, Uma Thurman was an excellent actor in Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction, two different characters but she played them wonderfully. The actors in this movie are brilliant picks. Uma Thurman shows off cracked-out wives in the 90s, while Vincent and Jules show the nonchalant hitmen. The soundtrack, the score, and just how the sound effects in the back show the environment leading up to a stress in the scene. Especially in most scenes, the sound effects, such as the shoes scuffling around, or the voices, culminate in an ending that is either happy or sad, or shock and grief, or death. 

CHARACTERS

Tarantino does an excellent job describing characters, whether it be intense like the second storyline introducing Jules, or slow and boring, but also inquisitive, like Butch. 

The characters in this movie have to be straight out of a comedy book. Jules is a nonchalant man, quoting the bible while aiming straight 9mm at a man's head. But there are also characters like Fabienne, who shows a weak, fragile emotional state, a contrast to Butch, who after an ordeal with Zed and Maynard, picks her up on the Chopper. I won't get into too much detail, I don't want to ruin the story. 

Tarantino does an amazing job developing characters over time, and by the end of the movie, we understand why Vincent is the way he is at the beginning of the movie. Character development is important to a plot, like when Vincent goes to pick up Mia, it shows that she tries to be mysterious, but she is just a crackhead, which makes the plot interesting, and their date even more fun, but highs always crash, and this one crashed a red Malibu into Jesus's house. 

CHARACTER - 10/10

CGI

I don't think there was any CGI in this film. Many practical effects, blood, yelling, guns, and drugs. The only CGI I would say would be in the crash at Lance's house. I am unsure if that even counted as CGI, but I don't remember any smoke from the engine so it might have been fake. 

Another CGI part could have been Vincent's mistake in the car with Jules and Marvin. It seemed fake, but honestly, it could have been real with how intense the scarlet red was. This is also a movie from the 1990s, not a lot of CGI in present-day movies such as this. 

CGI - 1/10

THOUGHTS

I found the movie very funny, and my dad especially since he hadn't watched the second half of the movie since the pirated DVD from 2004 was corrupted. 

My dad and I laughed so hard during the conversations Jules and Vincent would have, and it was such a good movie. Now thinking about the whole movie, there is no way in hell my mom and sister would watch this and enjoy this humor. 

I found the movie mature, but also comedic. It kept its nonchalance in scenes, like the washing scene, but also the stare-down ^^^, it showed that comedic effect again. 

The stress, the music, and the dialogue culminate in such insane ways, like making Ringo get Jules' wallet and count out the money slowly, and cool. 

I hope whoever reads this review wants to watch the film, my dad and I rented it on Amazon Prime Video for $3.99. 

I give this movie a 10/10, I'd even put the poster in my room next to some of my favorite pop culture movies, games, and music. 

Enjoy! 

yash. 

94' Los Angeles

TLDR: I laughed a lot with my dad watching this. 

A nonlinear story about a set of characters in the deranged city of angels. Each storyline intertwines with the other, connecting via conversation or action. 

A Bonnie and Clyde robbery of a diner, or a one-liner cap to the dome. 

Or a twist contest at a "wax museum with a pulse",  with Jesus's identical druggie twin and a dude with slicked black hair reviving a girl with adrenaline at 1:30 am. 

The plot of the story does not mix until the movie passes the halfway point, where a WWI gold watch explores the "cavities" of two men and a car crash leads a boxer and his enemy to the basement of a VCR tape store with two "eager" gentlemen. 

Finally coming down to being washed with a hose by a wolf and the director at the so-called dead person storage. 

Still talking about complete nonsense as the guns come out, the hammer cocked, and the complete silence, not uncomfortable silence, but the calm before the storm. 

SCARY

I found the movie not very scary. More thrilling than anything. When the scenes cut back to Jules and Vincent in the apartment, divine intervention was the scariest part of the movie. 

To be honest, the so-called "scariest' moment of the movie in Zed and Maynard's care, was more funny than anything, because of the character development and how the story was told, we knew, as the audience, that someone was getting killed. 

A little peek of being scared was Butch popping in those pop-tarts, looking at Vincent's trusty little friend on the counter. 

SCARY - 3/10

ANTAGONIST DEVELOPMENT

This movie did not have much, or if any antagonists, I mean maybe the dude eating the Big Kahuna burger but they did something to offend Marsellus. Jimmie was not a villain, nor was Marsellus. He seemed to be a mean person, but he also helped in situations where it was needed. He was portrayed as the big bad man, but in reality, he was just a guy trying to survive in L.A. 

The scene with him and Butch really resolved their issues, but also showed the audience that Marsellus was not an antagonist to the movie, but simply an ally-turned-enemy turned back into a semi-ally to Butch. 

ANTAGONIST DEVELOPMENT - 5/10