Movie #23

23. Pulp Fiction

This is definitely the best Quentin Tarantino film ever made, and some movie critics will even go so far as to say it's the best movie ever made. It would have been a lock to win Best Picture of 1994 had it not been for Forrest Gump. And I think the funniest part is that my parents went to go see this for their 12th wedding anniversary...how romantic. This classic comes with a fair chunk of memorable quotes such as:

Jules: Hamburgers. The cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast.
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Jules: Do you know what they call a Quarter Pounder with cheese in France?
Brett: No.
Jules: Tell him, Vincent.
Vincent: Royale with cheese.
Jules: Royale with cheese. Do you know why they call it a Royale with cheese?
Brett: Because of the metric system?
Jules: Check out the big brain on Brett. You one smart motherfucker.
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Captain Koons: The way your dad looked at it, this watch was your birthright. He'd be damned if any of the slopes were gonna get their greasy yellow hands on his boy's birthright. So he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide something: his ass. Five long years, he wore this watch up his ass. Then when he died of dysentery, he gave me the watch. I hid this uncomfortable piece of metal up my ass for two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the watch to you.

Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) and Vincent (John Travolta) work as hitmen for crime boss Marcellus Wallace (Ving Rhames). Wallace is currently dealing with Butch Collidge (Bruce Willis), a boxer who failed to throw a fight after taking Wallace's money and is now planning to flee the city, but can't leave his father's watch behind. Vincent faces some problems of his own when Wallace asks him to show his wife Mia (Uma Thurman) a good time while he's away. Some of these people redeem themselves and some don't, and all meet an end appropriate to their choices.

Pulp Fiction was nominated for seven Oscars including Best Picture, and won for Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen (Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary.) It also won the Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, but that doesn't mean anything anymore if something like Fahrenheit 9/11 can win it. Incidentally, Tarantino was the President of the jury for the 2004 Cannes...so just what the hell does he know about movies??