Pulp Fiction

I just watched Pulp Fiction ALL THE WAY through for the first time and it completely blew me away. I had seen parts of it, actually large parts of it, but I never had time to find out how the plot strung together. 

I have to say that by far the best parts in that movie were when Samuel L. Jackson's character and John Travolta's character were talking to each other and having philosophical discussions. If you don't know, but you probably do, they play two assassins, Vincent and Jules, hired by Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames) to carry out various tasks for him. The timeline jumps around, so nothing is in chronological order, which is one thing I really like about Quentin Tarantino movies. Anyway, they are sent at first to kill a couple of guys who screwed Marsellus over somehow and take a very special case away from them to give back to their boss. You never find out what is in the case, but you know it's something really, really valuable. They take one of the guys back with them, an unfortunate accident occurs, and they need a cleanup guy for the job. There is a long section of the movie devoted to Bruce Willis's character, Butch, who is a boxer who goes back on a promise to Marsellus and then has to avoid getting killed for it. That part is probably the most disturbing part in the movie, but it is very well done. 

This is one of those movies where the more you watch it the more it makes sense, so I won't try to explain it all here. But I want to give this movie praise and say how much I enjoyed it, which I really did. By far the best aspects of the movie are the writing and the acting. The cinematography is just basic, but you can tell that the directing behind it was outstanding. Watch for subtle changes in camera angle during conversations that make you feel a shift in mood, and long, continuos shots, both moving and not moving, and remind yourself that the director did them for a reason. Anyway, KICKASS movie! Go rent it or something.