Everything Wrong With Pulp Fiction in 20 Minutes or Less 

7:17 So when Mia snorts the Heroin, she thinks that it's coke because of the container it was in. Coke is known to come in a baggie. Heroine is known to come in to balloons for this reason. When the dealer says "I'm out of balloons, is a baggie okay?", that is something that he needed to clarify with Vincent because that is how people differentiate coke and heroin they look very identical in powder form. With Mia not knowing this, she OD'd. It took me years to realize this and is one of the greatest attentions to detail I've ever seen...Blows my mind till this day. I'm requesting 3 sins off.

the most accurate part is that you kept removing sins

The reason Vincent didn't hear Butch is because...well he did hear Butch. Marcellus lost a lot of money on Butches fight and wanted to cap him personally. When they found out Butch wasn't at his apartment they waited for him to come back, eventually they got hungry Marcellus left his Mac-10 in the apartment to go get donuts. Vincent had to use the bathroom, while in the bathroom he heard Butch come back, but he assumed it was Marcellus with the donuts. He walked out eager for a sugary snack but instead got blasted by the guy he was supposed to kill.

They did actually lose the contest. It's shown briefly in the news in the background that they had actually stolen the trophy. Not even I picked that up so I can't blame giving a sin for that

cinemasins: everything wrong with pulp fi- me: *I DONT REMEMBER ASKING YOU A GODDAMN THING*

If you worked at a McDonald's when this came out, the biggest ding was having to hear every smartass ask for a 'Royale with cheese'.

You know a movie is great when you can remember the exact moment and circumstances when you saw it for the first time. I had a friend who lived in my apartment complex, his older brother showed me this movie and played the OutKast Aquemini album in the same night. I was never the same.

Vinces death is absolutely essential to the meaning of the movie. Gold watch sequence is so important the movie changes completely without it.

the scene with the overly long description of what she wants for breakfast is for hinting she's pregnant and has a large appetite

I'll never forgive you if you haven't removed a sin for "Oh man I shot Marvin in the face."

I agree that Jules says “Brad” and not “Brett” but I always assumed it was either Jules simply not caring enough to remember Brett’s name, or Jules intentionally screwing it up as if to say “I don’t care enough about you, nor are you important enough, for me to remember your name”

The opening credits was necessary to detach you emotional from the opening scene. It was genius really. It essentially resets the viewer, and prepares them for the overall story "order"

more than half of these "sins" is what makes this film so brilliant

You know its a good ass movie when cinemasins apologizes for removing so many sins

Totally dig that Marsellus let Butch go. He knew what Butch did to come back and that Butch was home free if he just left. Coming back was a purely selfless act that did nothing but create negatives for a guy who was a hated enemy. And saved his life. Marsellus got a heap of character exposition there by recognizing that and letting him leave (and Marsellus was saved from certain death several times in the last few minutes so hes probably just grateful it ended with him alive. Also there is NO doubt he had other things on his mind, all he wanted to do was concentrate on the horrible upcoming torture)

17:16 I would say that the reason the wolf is so successful is that he's easily able to stay calm in a stressful situation. Whereas in most cases people can't see the obvious when they're freaking out

1 sin to Cinema Sins for not acknowledging that Steve Buscemi was the waiter who took Vincent’s and Mia’s order

CinemaSins has finally done Pulp Fiction. What a moment in history.

11:10 Vincent though he had heard Marcellus entering. The next scene confirms that because Marcellus was carrying 2 cups of coffee before he was hit by Buch.

Sin on Cinema Sins. The whole movie is about Butch's legacy, which is Butch surviving and passing on the birthright watch passed down to him.

Seen this movie a million times and never noticed Vincent was walking to the bathroom in the first scene until now...

Cinema sins I don’t remember asking you a god damn thing!

10:30 this dialogue was completely necessary because it pays off with one of the best lines in the movie which is when Butch says "Did you get your pancakes?" later on.

I in 89-91 I lived in the apartment building that the Brett seen was shot in, and I can assure you that someone absolutely could have gotten shot there & no one called the cops, LOL. 1. It was in the middle of Hollywood 2. It was in a REALLY SKETCHY area in the middle of Hollywood (my roommates BF was murdered around the corner from our building, my old janky car was stolen by a homeless person 2 weeks after I moved in) 3. The building had started as a luxury hotel built at the turn of the 20th century & was built to completely different standards than buildings of today. The lathe & plaster over brick walls were so thick & sturdy as to be nearly soundproof. I could play LOUD punk rock music all night long & never bother my neighbors. You couldn’t hear it through the floors/ceiling or outside my apartment unless you were standing in the hall directly outside my front door. It was also RIGHT next to a freeway off-ramp that was LOUD & busy 24 hrs a day. Gunshots could easily go unheard in that environment. 4. It was an old, rundown, dirty, cheap AF building managed by a skeezy creepy alcoholic 2nd rate Boss Hogg impersonator, filled with a random eclectic assortment of very low income goths, punks, bikers, seniors, undocumented immigrants, people on disability, addicts, mentally ill, LGBTQ couples etc who most likely wouldn’t want to get involved with the bigoted a-holes at LAPD if they didn’t absolutely have to…and as someone who was regularly profiled, targeted, harassed, even assaulted back then by LA & OC PD’s simply because I looked wEiRd & listening to anti-authoritarian music, I don’t fucking blame them. That building in that city in that particular moment in time that the movie is both being filmed and taking place, it’s not at all implausible that shots would go unheard or ignored.

How does Vincent not hear this? He does, he just assumes it's Marsellus coming back with the coffee which Butch "runs" into

Is it me or was this the most times he removed sins for a movie?

So @58 seconds, you see Vince walking out in the background. I absolutely love that attention to detail

You gave a sin for Vincent not hearing Butch, but its extremely reasonable to think that Vincent heard Butch and just mistook him for Marsellus, who we see heading towards the apartment after Butch leaves.

little fun fact: The Adrenaline Shot scene was filmed in reverse :D

I demand you remove another 50 sins for the whole "fox force 5" scene being a huge foreshadowing to the entire Kill Bill story

I just love how Jules is tripping about not getting shot. "We should be f***king dead man!" 😆 Nice realistic touch 👌

I always though he said "check out the big brain on bread!" I have used that line my whole life 😂🤦‍♂️

"Don't be a--" RECTANGLE! God, that had me laughing for so long. Haha

No sin removal for “Zed is dead baby”

6:57 Vincent and Mia didn't win the dance contest but stole the trophy! When Butch later sits in the taxi you can hear about it in the Radio broadcast.

Pulp Fiction is a Classic and oh so good. You missed a big blooper/sin but you touched on it. Has anyone ever noticed that when MIa and Vincent arrive back to her house after dinner, they enter, she puts in the code to the alarm, plops down on the couch and one of the patio doors behind her is wide open?

Dude, the only thing wrong with pulp fiction is that I’m not watching it at this moment

Wow. This is arguably the most lenient CinemaSins has ever been with a movie, especially when they had 20 minutes to sin it.

He removed 16 sins off this movie. You can tell he loves it.

You can remove another 10 for sinning obvious joke situations and set ups of surreal situations / behaviours... so for a 2.5 hour film to only have 75 sins seems like a good deal

I've seen this movie at least 20 times and never noticed Vincent walking in the background of the beginning of the movie

They actually did lose the Twist Contest. They stole the trophy. You can hear someone mentioning it either on a radio or a TV in the background later.

Personal head cannon here but I think the reason there’s a distinct lack of cops in this movie despite all the crazy shit happing is because it takes place during the events of reservoir dogs

I had the pleasure of seeing this in the theater and I think decades may have gone by before I noticed Vincent walking by in the opening coffee shop scene.

11:10 Vincent assumes the noises Butch is making in his apartment is Marcellus coming back with the donuts and coffee.

Idk about everyone else but I thought the scene where Quentin Tarantino talks about how fucking good his coffee is, was amazing.

He literally ran out of the ring...straight out the building...he still had his gloves on in the cab...he knew he wasnt gonna be able to make it back to the locker room get his watch if he had it with his other stuff.

@2:18 When Marcellus calls The Wolf later on in the movie, he gives a physical description of Jules and Vincent, which The Wolf takes note of. So it’s reasonable to assume that Marcellus briefed Jules and Vincent the same way before they confronted Brett and Co.

10 sins to Cinema Sins for not realizing Fox Force Five was really Kill Bill.

7:04 they lost that contest, later in the movie radio announces that prize for that contest has been stolen 11:09 also Vincent didn't react to the noise because he thought it was Marsellus, who was out for coffee and thought he had returned

I feel like Butch making the toast was more of him asserting a form of dominance, like "Yeah Im running but Im getting my watch and making some toast so you havent beaten me". Felt alot more sensical like that

Oh and as far as him canceling the hit on Butch all he would have to say is " I found him he earned a pass and its over." And it would be over

Samuel L Jackson's performance in Pulp Fiction is one of the best performances I've ever seen in my entire life

They put a sin in just for having Kathy Griffin in the movie lmao. Im dying

As a fighter I can confirm that eating the toaster pastry the day after a fight would be a priority

Honestly, i believe when a movie is really good its difficult not to try to to look for any mistakes in a movie. I had the same problem when watching Knives Out the second time around.

"I find it hard to believe that THIS many women are just standing there touching their faces" Uh about that...

I remember walking out of the theatre at 16 years old, thinking I’d just witnessed the ultimate game changer in the film industry. 26 years later, and I still can’t think of another movie that made me feel that way.

You’re so great at this . Obsessed with these. Thank you

I like to think he says "Brad" instead of "Brett" because he just doesn't care. He's too busy remembering all the lines of his big memorized speech to get distracted with names and details.

11:17 Vincent does notice the sound it’s just that he thought it was Marsellus , Marsellus went out to get donuts and that’s why when leaving Bruce runs into him.

I laughed out loud at "RECTANGLE!" That has bugged me since the very first time I saw this movie. (And I saw it 6 times in the theater in 1994.)

My favorite movie of all time. Watched it numerous times a year since I was 12 and IVE NEVER NOTICED VINCE WALKING IN THE OPENING SCENE!

You forgot to remove a sin for Vincent calling Butch a “palooka” 40’s term for a boxer who throws a fight on purpose

11:10 Vincent doesn't react to the noise in the kitchen because he thinks it's Marsellus returning from his coffee/donut run

Fun fact: in a bit of subtle storytelling Tarantino makes it clear that the gun on the counter did not belong to Vincent but it belonged to Wallace, who was tagging along and had taken a break to get coffee and donuts and given the fact you can’t carry around an UZI in public he had to leave it on the counter.

Even the weakest performances in this movie (which arguably was Butch) is such a national treasure. Easily one of my favorite films of all time.

Now, just play the entire movie to show everything right with it. It's fucking awesome!

12:20 The cops don’t show up because they’re all too busy dealing with a diamond store robbery.

every time Vincent goes to the bathroom something bad happens, Mia overdoses The diner gets shot up he gets shot by Butch

*11:09* Vincent most likely heard all the noise, but presumed it was Marsellus back front the donut store. Thank me later 👌🏽

Movie: shows first frame. MovieSins: and I took that personally.

I've probably watched it 500 times in the past 25 years and I've never noticed Vincent walking to the bathroom until now. Thanks for pointing that out

Quentin Tarantino actually asked Kurt Cobain from Nirvana to play Lance the drug dealer but he declined, that is why he looks so much like Kurt Cobain

SIN: In the car scene, Vincent shoots the guy in the head with a decently sized gun, and we see all the blood splatter that it caused. However, when we later see the body, the damage is far less severe than it should be. Tarantino also reuses the artistic style of the corpse’s eyes in Kill Bill - for Gogo’s death.

The blueberry comment line was a hint that Butch's girlfriend was pregnant. Earlier she wanted to tell Butch she was pregnant but he was sleeping.

This movie is perfect, I don't care what anyone says

I've heard the reason that law enforcement is " conspicuously absent" when Butch hits Marcellus, is apparently ( according to fan theory) this was taking place at the same time as the diamond heist in " Reservoir Dogs" and most of the police where handling that. The " Quentin Tarantino" movie universe is apparently " connected"

You forgot to point out that fast food places don't sell burgers in the morning.

Assuming that both Vincent and Jules' pistols were loaded with the same number of bullets, then Jules fired his weapon two more shots than Vincent, one into Flock of Seagulls on the sofa and one into Brett's arm. JULES WAS OUT OF AMMO, AND THE GUN MIRACULOUSLY RELOADED before the third guy shot at them. THAT'S the miracle.

The scene where Vincent gets shot, the uzi is Marcellus’s and he went out to get coffee and donuts explaining why he would just leave it there and that Vincent doesn’t get worried if he hears anything that butch does because he probably thinks it’s Marcellus

Conversations about blueberry pancakes is what makes movies like Pulp Fiction so realisticish.

Two points worth noting: 1.) Heroin was typically stored in balloons; blow in baggies. Lance mentioned being out of balloons. Mia, being a seasoned cokehead, saw the baggie and it's not far-fetched to assume the contents were cocaine. 2.) Marcellus was out getting coffee and doughnuts, and Vince was taking a shit (notably his 2nd of the film). So hearing the sound of an occupant in the kitchen wouldn't have alarmed him, as it easily could have been Marcellus preparing to eat some breakfast.

I don't think I've ever seen y'all remove this many sins from ANYTHING.

The pop tart scene bothered me too until I realized that Vincent did not expect the palooka to return and Marcellus was out getting coffee and donuts and was expected back shortly. Vincent thought the noise was Marsellus. Simple.

"You're the weak, and I am the tyranny of evil men" One of the greatest movie quotes of all time.

13:17 I love how they just take a sin off without even saying anything

One mistake: You ask how Marcellus is going to explain letting Butch go to his crew and other gangsters. Guys like Marcellus don't explain anything to anyone when it comes to their actions or decisions.

11:10 actually Vincent hears the sounds but he doesnt react. Because he thinks that it is Marsellus Wallace who is making the noises and the gun on counter is Marsellus' gun. In the scene where Butch hits Marsellus with his honda you can see that Marsellus has two coffees and donut package in his hands. He is going back to Butch's apartment.

16:10 tarantino's acting was not that bad. He played a weird low key everyday man. His lack of acting skills made his character more realistic

To address your question “how will Marsellus explain to his crew to stop looking for Butch?” Marsellus Wallace doesn’t seem like the type to explain shit to anybody

idk why 🤷🏾‍♂️ but I really ENJOY the sound that’s made when a sin point is taken away

Movie character: sneezes CinemaSins: he didn’t use his elbow?! 10 sins added!

"Strip." "All the way?" "To your bare ass." *Quinton Tarantino's private conversation with Harvey Weinstein somehow made it into the final script*

When Julia Sweeney appeared you missed the chance to say "Holy sh*t! _It's Pat"_ I'm forced to give CinemaSins a sin for the omission.

As a life-long Tennessean, I really appreciate you sinning the timezone thingy.

I watched Kill Bill first then Pulp fiction. Because of this, I instantly realized that Mia's Fox Force Five story is infact QT's Kill Bill story

Butch: "I specifically reminded you not to forget my father's watch!" Fabienne: "Well if it's so important, how come YOU forgot it?" Butch: 🤯

4:24 There are way, way more heroin addicts than you think who are extremely high-functioning. Back when I was a junkie, I got complimented by my boss and customers all the time for what a great friendly mood I was always in. You only ever see the stereotypical decrepit seedy thieving street junkies on TV, but there are tons and tons of opiate addicts who have families, careers, stable home lives, what have you. It's honestly easier to be a functional junkie than a functional alcoholic.

Another sin off should be for the comedic timing of the Flowers on the Wall when Marcellus and butch see eachother and the song goes “it’s good to see you!”