Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3360 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-09-16
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Box set, Collector's Edition, PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 148 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
With the knockout one-two punch of 1992's Reservoir Dogs and 1994's Pulp Fiction writer-director Quentin Tarantino stunned the filmmaking world, exploding into prominence as a cinematic heavyweight contender. But Pulp Fiction was more than just the follow-up to an impressive first feature, or the winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival, or a script stuffed with the sort of juicy bubblegum dialogue actors just love to chew, or the vehicle that re-established John Travolta on the A-list, or the relatively low-budget ($8 million) independent showcase for an ultrahip mixture of established marquee names and rising stars from the indie scene (among them Samuel L Jackson, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames, Harvey Keitel, Christopher Walken, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Julia Sweeney, Kathy Griffin and Phil Lamar). It was more, even, than an unprecedented $100-million-plus hit for indie distributor Miramax. Pulp Fiction was a sensation. No, it was not the Second Coming (I actually think Reservoir Dogs is a more substantial film; and PT Anderson outdid Tarantino in 1997 by making his directorial debut with two even more mature and accomplished pictures, Hard Eight and Boogie Nights). But Pulp Fiction packs so much energy and invention into telling its nonchronologically interwoven short stories (all about temptation, corruption, and redemption amongst modern criminals, large and small) it leaves viewers both exhilarated and exhausted--hearts racing and knuckles white from the ride. (Oh, and the infectious, surf-guitar-based soundtrack is tastier than a Royale with Cheese.) --Jim Emerson

Amazon.co.uk Review
With Pulp Fiction writer-director Quentin Tarantino stunned the filmmaking world, exploding into prominence as a cinematic heavyweight contender after initial success with 1992's Reservoir Dogs. But Pulp Fiction was more than just the follow-up to an impressive first feature, or the winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival, or a script stuffed with the sort of juicy bubblegum dialogue actors just love to chew, or the vehicle that re-established John Travolta on the A-list, or the relatively low-budget ($8 million) independent showcase for an ultra-hip mixture of established marquee names and rising stars from the indie scene (among them Samuel L Jackson, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames, Harvey Keitel, Christopher Walken, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Julia Sweeney, Kathy Griffin and Phil Lamar). It was more, even, than an unprecedented $100-million-plus hit for indie distributor Miramax. Pulp Fiction was a sensation. It packs so much energy and invention into telling its non-chronologically interwoven short stories (all about temptation, corruption and redemption among modern criminals, large and small) it leaves viewers both exhilarated and exhausted--hearts racing and knuckles white from the ride. (Oh, and the infectious, surf-guitar-based soundtrack is tastier than a Royale with Cheese.) --Jim Emerson

Special Features

• Deleted Scenes: The Drug Deal Monologue, Mai Interviewing Vincent, The Esmeralda Cab Scene, Monster Joe's Truck and Tow, Extended Jack Rabbit Slim's scene
  
• Theatrical Trailers (11:03)
  
• TV Spots (13)
  
• Production Design featurette
  
• Pulp Fiction Still Gallery
  
• Siskel & Ebert "At the Movies" The Tarantino Generation (15:50)
  
• Independent Spirit Awards - Michael Moore interviews Quentin Lawrence and Sam (11:27)
  
• Cannes Film Festival - Palme d'Or Award Ceremony, acceptance speech (5:16) Charlie Rose Show (55:22)
  
• Tarantino Fiction - original documentary
  
• Behind the Scenes montages

DVD Rom Bonus:

• Enhanced playback track
  
• Synchronized Trivia Game
  
• Screenplay Viewer
  
• Open Mic Commentary

Customer Reviews

didnt rate it then, dont rate it now
Saw this at the flicks back in '95 - didnt like it then, bought the DVD (mainly on the say so of the wife), don't like it now.

OK it looks great, OK it's got the usual Tarantino 'pop culture' references script, yes its got good performances in it (not you Quentin, I'm talking Sam Jackson), yes it's probably one of the most stylish films of the 90's.........

BUT

It's also one of the most overly self-indulgent, over-long, plagiaristic and flabby films ever commited to celluloid.

On top of that it also manages to prove just how pointless and useless Bruce Willis really is and includes several scenes which bored me to tears (I dont care what anyone else says, the Jack Rabbit Slim sequence is dull, dull, dull - go on watch it again and see)

2* as the soundtrack is cool and there are some decent extras, but Tarantino's masterpiece? - hardly.

Reservoir Dogs and Jackie Brown are both far superior to this fatuous nonsense.

Here's a test - take your Pulp Fiction DVD from the shelf, go to DVD player and proceed to insert DVD - what are you thinking? can't be arsed to watch it? - point proved.

Oh and it was responsible for resurrecting Travolta's career, and surely nobody really wanted that??????

Pulp fact
I liked this film when I first saw it and now I have changed my mind with repeated watching. Like all Tarantino films, the dialogue between characters is unnatural. It feels like one person talking to themselves. The characters all talk in this faux intelligent geeky way about tiny things and there is no discernable differences between outlook or delivery of the characters words. The story doesn't hang together very well and the use of celebrity cameos is just celuloid cronyism. I fell for the hype, save your time and money and don't buy into this trash. Travolta is a fake, Jackson can't act, QT is annoying, Thurman is lovely, Keitel is cheesey and not at all hard like he makes out. There is too much wrong with this film to call it a classic. It's silly. At least Tom Cruise isn't in it, I might have given it an extra star just for that, but I didn't.

Cool film!
Great film! But...

The only problem i have with this film is the way the characters have the tendency to engage into needlessly pedantic and sometimes philosophical conversations about silly things like foot massages, eating pork products, cheeseburgers etc. Apart from that its an ace film!