#95 on 1998 AFI 100 Greatest Movies of All Time
#7 on AFI's Top 10 Gangster Films
There's a hurricane outside and we are home from work, so we figured it was a good enough time to watch the next movie on the list. Which is Pulp Fiction. This is the first movie on the list that both of us had seen before, which shouldn't be too surprising. We were definitely looking forward to watching it again, since neither of us had seen it in quite some time. Which means we had forgotten a number of things about the movie. When I think of Pulp Fiction, I think of the Royale with Cheese conversation, and the robbery at the diner. But it's been a long time and I had definitely forgotten many things. So, here are the things we (mostly I) had forgotten about Pulp Fiction.
1. This is a really long movie.
We got the netflix envelope and opened it up. "Great, it's Pulp Fiction... oh my God, did you realize that this is a two and a half hour movie? Wow."
2. The $5 milkshake.
When Vincent Vega takes Mia Wallace to Jackrabbit Slim's (the restaurant where the waitstaff dress like Marilyn Monroe, etc. and they have the twist contest), Mia orders a milkshake. More specifically, a $5 milkshake. They then proceed to have this whole conversation about the milkshake and how Vincent Vega can't believe she ordered such an expensive milkshake. Now, I'm assuming that my reaction is because twenty years have passed since this movie was made, but I just didn't think $5 sounded like it was that much for a milkshake. For the record, I also had forgotten that Steve Buscemi played the waiter dressed as Buddy Holly.
3. Eric Stoltz is in this movie.
I had forgotten about a lot of people in this movie, like Amanda Plummer and Rosanna Arquette. I definitely forgot about Eric Stoltz as Lance, the heroin dealer who explains how to stab Mia with the needle after she ODs.
4. The watch up the ass.
How do you forget Christopher Walken talking about having a watch up his ass? I didn't really forget about it, I just forgot that it was in this particular movie.
5. The briefcase.
What is in the briefcase? There are so many answers to this question and it spawned so many pseudo-philosophical questions when I was in high school and then in college. A lot of people think it was Marcellus Wallace's soul, and there are lots of reasons for that. Some people think it's the loot from Reservoir Dogs. For the record, Quentin Tarantino has said that there is no actual official explanation, that it was written in so that people would come to their own conclusions. However, I have to share that when we started watching the movie today, I asked Mike, what do you think is in the briefcase and he said "Keyser Soze's files from the Usual Suspects". HA!
6. Marcellus Wallace is going to get "medieval on your ass".
I forgot about that line. I did not forget about bringing out the gimp or the wonderful scene where Bruce Willis keeps picking up larger, more dangerous weapons. But I forgot about how Marcellus is going to get medieval on Zed's ass. And I remember how people would often spell it "midevil", as though he was going to do something in the middle range of evil things...
Overall, we enjoyed it a great deal. We had a lot of difficulty figuring out where to put this on our list. So we had to come up with a new method, whereby we each keep a separate list and then average it out. So the combined list will still appear on the side, but I am going to put each individual list here in the post. And here they are:
| Mike | Sara | |||
| 1 | Do the Right Thing | 1 | Pulp Fiction | |
| 2 | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | 2 | Do the Right Thing | |
| 3 | Pulp Fiction | 3 | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | |
| 4 | Blade Runner | 4 | The Last Picture Show | |
| 5 | The Last Picture Show | 5 | Blade Runner | |
| 6 | Toy Story | 6 | Yankee Doodle Dandy | |
| 7 | Ben-Hur | 7 | Toy Story | |
| 8 | Yankee Doodle Dandy | 8 | Ben-Hur |
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