Our First Quentin Tarantino Movie Reaction Was PULP FICTION (1994) [REACTION] First Time Watching! 

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I'm almost 50. This movie came out when I was a teenager. I worshiped it like you wouldn't believe. Everybody my age did. We thought it was the coolest thing in the world and to be honest I still think it is and I like watching it with people who have never seen it so I can see their reactions to it

I love the running gag of eveytime Vincent goes to the bathroom something bad happens. -when Mia overdoses -when he waits to ambush Butch -when he washes his hands in Jimmy’s house -the restaurant

Mr. Wolf (the cleaner) had Jules and Vincent do the grunt work of cleaning the car, but he wasn't "doing nothing" or just telling them to do what they should already know to do. Remember, there's a (mostly) headless body to dispose of as well. The stuff Mr. Wolf had Jules and Vincent do was just to get them and the car out of the area without immediately getting spotted with blood everywhere. He's handling the body, paying off Jimmy for his trouble, cleaning up loose ends, etc.

Vincent Vega is always in the bathroom because heroin is an opiate and opiates can make you constipated. He's got a lot of time to read on the toilet. It's a nice touch.

Vincent shut the door because Marcellus was there. Marcellus left to get donuts and coffee and left his gun.

Martin and Lewis refers to Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis who are white and Amos and Andy refers to a pair of black actors. So Martin and Lewis would be ordering a vanilla shake and Amos and Andy means a chocolate shake.

One inside joke is whenever something big goes down, Vincent is always in the bathroom. He’s in the bathroom when Mia overdoses, when the diner gets robbed, and when Butch comes back to the apartment. Vincent is a heroin addict, so he’s probably chronically constipated.

can't really talk during a tarantino movie, miss all the best diaologue

“Yeah he was in Grease he’s about to be killin this.” Cue one of the most iconic dance scenes of all time lol

Smoking was common IN restaurants and buildings during this time. Hell I worked office jobs where I could smoke cigarettes at my desk!😂

Samuel L. Jackson wrote a children's bedtime book called Go The Fuck To Sleep! I'm not joking.

Tarantino's philosophical chit chat is legendary.

22:38 - That's not President Nixon. That's Ed Sullivan. He hosted a TV variety show in the 50's and 60's. Acts like Elvis Presley, The Rolling Stones and The Beatles (among hundreds of others) all appeared on the show. The theater where the show was taped has been re-named The Ed Sullivan Theater. Currently, the Late Show with Stephen Colbert does their shows from there.

Butch couldn't take his watch with him because he knew he's gonna run from the boxing match in his boxing gloves, straight to the taxi.

The gun on the counter in Butch’s apartment was Marcellus’ not Vincent’s. He was staking out the apartment with Vincent and left to get coffee and donuts, which is why Butch running into him at the nearby intersection wasn’t that much of a coincidence.

At the end of the movie Jules keeps yelling “Be Cool!” John Travolta actually ended up doing a movie later called “Be Cool” which is the sequel to “Get Shorty” which stars Bruce Willis. Just a fun little “did you know” fact. 😅

Travolta goes to bathroom - Mia ODs Travolta goes to bathroom - coffee shop robbed Travolta goes to bathroom - left uzi on the counter, gets smoked

In my top ten films of all time. A stupendous film.

Marcellus and Vincent were hanging out at Butch's apartment for the very unlikely reason that he would show up there. That's why Vincent was carelessly taking a dump with his machine gun on the counter. Same reason why Marcellus went out for donuts and was walking back to Butch's apt. He completely did not expect to run into Butch.

Jules’s wallet is real, they actually sell wallets that say “Bad Mother F***er”

Pulp is a MASTERPIECE and quite arguably the most important film of the 90s. It literally changed cinema. It's QT's seminal work. The Academy should be ashamed for not giving Sam the Oscar that year.

"Don't shoot Vincent, he's cool." Vincent was literally there to kill him. 😂😂😂😂

Mia mistakenly thought Vince’s heroin was cocaine. That’s why she OD’s. Heroin can be snorted too, but Mia snorts way too much of it. Plus, Lance (the drug dealer) tells Vince earlier that the strain of heroin he’s selling him is for a madman, meaning it was super strong.

I'm never done watching PULP FICTION, after first seeing it in the theaters 30 years ago. You get something new out of it every time.

Smoking was banned on planes in 2000. You were close, but Vincent and Jules would've been allowed. This was set in 1994.

I can't believe how many people think he's a cop. His shirt says security guard..

Love you guys. Gonna make a few comments to help clarify: Q. Why didn’t Butch just keep the watch with him A. He had a boxing match. He likely didn’t want to get it stolen. Either stolen while it was unattended during his match or stolen afterwards since he knew he would not be throwing the match and would have people going after him. Q. Why did Vincent use the bathroom/leave his gun A. He’s a functional drug addict but a drug addict nonetheless. Heroin makes you constipated which is why he’s always having to use the bathroom Q. What’s the odds he runs into Marcellus A. Marcellus and Butch were staking out at his place. He went back to his place. Marcellus went out to get donuts and coffee. Vincent is his muscle so he needed to stay at the apartment in case butch showed up Also the reason Vincent was alone was because Jules quit the day before due to his belief in divine intervention

Such a great choice... Pulp Fiction is foundational. Tarantino changed the movie game forever, especially with this film. Amazing reaction... Thank you!

This movie will forever be iconic. Such a classic

20:00 - "How d'ya want that shake, Martin and Lewis, or Amos and Andy?" Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were a (white) comedy team, while Amos and Andy was the title of an old radio comedy about black characters. So, I'm guessing a Martin and Lewis shake was vanilla and the Amos and Andy was chocolate. (Now what would a Strawberry shake be?)

"This is turning weird, I think" 😂

_Please do + Quentin Tarantino_ 🔥 *Reservoir Dogs* (1992) ★ - *Kill Bill: Vol. 1* (2003) 🔥 *Inglourious Basterds* (2009) ★ - *Kill Bill: Vol. 2* (2004) BONUS TRACK Directed by *Robert Rodríguez* : 🔥 *Desperado* (1995) Antonio Banderas , Salma Hayek , *Quentin Tarantino* , Steve Buscemi & Danny Trejo and then the sequel 🔥 *Once Upon a Time in Mexico* (2003) Antonio Banderas , Salma Hayek , Johnny Depp , Willem Dafoe , Mickey Rourke , Eva Mendes , Enrique Iglesias (Pop singer) & Rubén Blades (Salsa singer) ★ - *From Dusk Till Dawn* (1996) George Clooney , Salma Hayek , *Quentin Tarantino* & Danny Trejo ,

Mrs. October was right about Pulp Fiction being about redemption (as well as the recurring idea that people's fates are a result of their choices). Most movies (good movies, anyway) will have a theme and the various characters will represent different expressions of how that theme could play out. So, for example, how could different characters interact with the theme of redemption? One could choose to do the right thing, one could choose to do the wrong thing, and one could initially choose to do the wrong thing but then change course and do the right thing. In this movie, you have: - Jules who sees "the miracle," makes the choice to leave the criminal life and, as a result, lives (presumably). - Vincent who ignores "the miracle," stays in the criminal life (and continues his heroin habit), and, as a result, dies. - Butch who starts out doing the wrong thing -- screwing over a crime boss to steal money from him -- which puts him in danger, but then, when they're both in trouble, decides to do "the right thing" and save Marcellus instead of just running away and leaving him to his fate. As a result of his change of course from bad to good, Butch is saved from the danger. It's three characters being given a decision point where they choose between doing the right thing and doing the wrong thing, and the choice each one makes leads to their individual fates.

This is turning weird is a huge understatement😆

I’m from the Netherlands and the mayonnaise is a bit different, but even with mayo made here (Canada) fries and mayo is great. Give it a try sometime and you’ll see what I mean.

"They Look Iconic" .... "He looks like he'd be in N'SYNC or somethin'" lmfao!!

94-96 was peak cinema

DO “KILL BILL” DO “KILL BILL” DO “KILLL BILLLLL”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think that movie pretty much gives you everything that Tarantino films are all about

John Travolta as the Fonz, that is funny. No that was Henry Winkler but during that time period Travolta was on a different tv show called Welcome Back Kotter playing the role of Vinnie Barbarino. Also during the dance competition you said it should be good because Travolta was in Grease, but a year before Grease came out he starred in a movie about a dancer called Saturday Night Fever. If you want to see his moves as a dancer you should check that one out.

Sam Jackson always said that PULP FICTION was about redemption.

The jumping timelines are one of the things I love about Quentin Tarantino movies. His unique story telling style keeps you engaged and paying attention because you know that if you are distracted for almost any amount of time from the movie that you're probably going to miss something important that ties everything together in the end. Her confusion about John Travolta's character Vincent seemingly dying and then coming back. Was simply a matter of jumping timelines. If you notice towards the beginning of the movie just after Vincent and Jewels kills the two guys in the apartment. It jumps to the scene where Marcellas Wallace is talking to Butch about throwing the fight. And when Butch goes to the bar to buy a pack of cigarettes. He meets Vincent who is wearing the clothes from the scene in the backyard of Jewels friend after getting hosed off. Then when you see the scene where Butch kills Vincent and you don't see Jewel's with him. Is because The scene in the diner with Jewels and Vincent has already happened but has yet to be shown. Point is Jewels isn't with Vincent in Butches apartment because Jewls by that point in the timeline has already had his epiphany and has already retired from the life. So Jewels wasn't there to save Vincent. Watch it a couple more times and you'll figure it out. It's a fantastic story telling style if you ask me. It definitely keeps you on your attentive feet.

It was no coincidence that Butch ran into Marsellus. If you look before he was hit, Marellus was holding coffee and donuts. Vincent and Marsellus were staking out Butch's apartment and Marsellus went out to get donuts and coffee while Vincent waited. By the way Vincent is always on the toilet because he's a heroin user and it makes you constipated

People definitely still hand roll tobacco into cigs, I have a friend who does that. It's kind of hipster here in L.A., actually, although almost no one here smokes anymore. It's also traditionally kind of a cowboy thing.

You poor poor summer children... the 80s and 90s were the best generation to grow up... you young-ins just get remakes of the best times 😂

There's so many layers of meaning to this film...countless people have literally written dissertations on the meaning within Pulp Fiction. And they hold up -- like comparing the trio of Jules, Vincent, and Butch to the journey of the Buddha in Siddhartha. Mrs October is right...upon multiple viewings there's so much to ponder. Why does Marcellus Wallace always have a bandaid on the back of his neck? What was in the briefcase? What is a miracle? Why was Tony Rocky Horror thrown off the balcony? Did Vincent accidentally shoot Marvin cuz his hands weren't steady? What is the meaning of The Gold Watch? And on and on...

(Year of release and/or commercial availability in parentheses below.) Reel-to-reel tape recorders/players (mid 1950s) were pre-cassette (1962). Not pre-vinyl (1930), but pre-cassette. In this movie's timeframe (1994), we were using CDs (1983). As an audio engineer in the 90s, I was using digital audio tape (DAT) (1987), and Alesis DAT (ADAT) (1991). An ADAT tape looks like a VHS tape. In fact, you could use VHS, but it wasn't a good idea, since a good quality ADAT tape was thicker and thus, less prone to stretching when you start and stop. It was an 8-track format. Having reel-to-reel in your home in 1994 would've been what we now might refer to as a hipster conceit. My parents had one when I (1961) was a child.

The difference in what happens to Vincent vs Jules arguably comes down to how each of them interpreted the "miracle" when they somehow didn't get shot.

Check out True Romance (Great scenes from Gary Oldman and Christopher Walken). Released in 1993. Written by Tarantino. Directed by Tony Scott, who directed Top Gun and Man on Fire (Denzel Washington).

The first episode of a tv show is a pilot, because it’s job is to get the show “on air”

Now go back to Captain America: Winter Soldier and read Nick Fury's gravestone at the end 😂

The announcer at Jack Rabbit Slim's was portraying Ed Sullivan.

You guys are making me feel OLD. I saw this film opening night at the theatre and it was absolutely unlike anything we had seen. Its influence has been so large since its release that I imagine it is hard to discern just how different it was in 1994. Btw, the guy at the restaurant was Ed Sullivan, not Nixon, and the Fonz wasn't played by John Travolta.

Love the rectangle catch, mrs October! I had the exact same reaction first time I saw it. 😂 Greetings from The Netherlands!

One of the best soundtracks ever. A high-selling one too. A lot of 90's kids had the CD.

Be cool like Fonzi. Fonzi (The Fonz) is a character from a US sitcom called Happy days back in the 70s, even us Brits over here grew up on that show 😀 Also Wanker is a british slur, which is the same as jerk off 😅

Zed was a security guard, not a cop.

I was 17 when this film came out, it was revelatory to me about the art of cinema and storytelling, it challenged me and i completely rolled with it from first viewing...... I absolutely LOVE this film, THANK YOU Octobers xxx ❤❤❤

In France you can buy a beer, in McDonald's...IN THE DRIVE THRU!

Loved the reaction. Pulp Fiction along with Reservoir Dogs revolutionised the whole movie industry and the way movies were made when they came out. I'd have watched RD first but it IS a must watch.

Mia snorted the heroin thinking it was cocaine, that´s the detoning to had the overdose (heroin can be snorted as well, but the most common way it´s like Vincent did, using a needle. Also Mia was fully drugged in that moment). And Vincent goes a lot to the bath, due to he´s an heroin addict, and that provokes you, sometimes, constipation. Even the shot to Marvin´s face, it´s due to heroin, that also provokes you spasms (in this case pulling the trigger).

The bible verse is made up. Marvin worked for Marcellus and was a plant in their group which is why Vince and Jules didn't kill him. Which also makes his accidental death more of a shame. Mia and Vince did not win the trophy, they stole it. That part was edited out for length. The gun in Butch's kitchen was Marcellus' who left it there to get coffee and donuts. Butch seeing Marcellus walk in front of his car is an homage to the same scene in Psycho. And I'm sure everyone else will tell you why Vince is in the bathroom all the time.

You should watch Jackie Brown. It's another Tarantino film that isn't as talked about as most of his movies, but it's excellent.

There's something about you two that makes me really enjoy your videos. Can't put my finger on it. I think your probably at a stage in your movie discovery journey to take mental notes of who's directing the movie. We forget that movies are art creations, just like novels, poetry, theatre, sculpture, painting, anime, etc... The artists often have their own unique style, which gives context to the piece. I saw that you recognize Tarantino on screen. Pulp Fiction is often rated as his best movie ever. Here's a description of Quentin Tarantino's style: "His very cinephile style is recognizable, among other things, by its postmodern and non-linear narration, its well-crafted dialogues often peppered with references to popular culture, and its highly aesthetic but extremely violent scenes, inspired by exploitation films, martial arts movies, or spaghetti westerns. He is a very recognizable director because his style is so unique. It's seldom shown in chronologically order. Some believe that by using stylized violence, he forces audience to question their own fascination with said violence. Tarantino loves dialogue and thinks they should be great. There's sometimes tension building during those conversations, or not, but the characters are always talking in a very involved manner.

The scene in the diner happened brfore Wallace tells Butch to take the dive in that bar, remember Vince and Jules walk into the bar with the goofy clothes on and Vince ran into Butch buying cigs... The story does jump around a bit in reality, Butch shooting Vince was the last part of the story, Vince was alone in Butch's appartment Jules is off walking the earth at that point...

Fun fact. Ezekial 25: 17 is on Nick Fury's headstone in Winter Soldier

To me, it always seemed that if Vincent had listened to Jules and walked away, he would still be alive. The whole time Jules was trying to explain to him the significance of the miracle and Vince didn’t listen. He got away with the Mia and Marvin situation and then the miracle, he had all the signs telling him to move away from the life but some people are blind. Love this movie

Wait till yall watch Reservoir Dogs. Tarrantino's first hit before Pulp Fiction. Can't wait for Django.

The dance moves are mostly iconic because of this movie.

Reflection had me dying 😂😂😂 I'm in tears

Butch had called ahead to have the cab waiting. Needed a getaway after the double cross.

Big Kahuna Burger and Red Apple cigarettes are 2 fake brands created by Quentin Tarantino for many of his movies.

A jip means a ripoff. The emcee at the restaurant was supposed to be Ed Sullivan, a famous variety show host in the 60s. The "cool player thing" was a reel to reel player that some people use to have. Zed wasn't a cop; he was just a security guard.

Shake Explanation: [Dean] Martin & [Jerry] Lewis: White, aka Vanilla Amos & Andy: Black, aka Chocolate

I definitely used to roll my own cigarettes. Especially after the price of pre rolled cigarettes went up. I remember when a pack of Marlboros were thirty five cents. And you could buy cartons all day long for around four dollars a carton. Now cigarettes sell for over seven dollars a pack and upwards of seventy five to over a hundred dollars a carton depending on the brand. And fewer and fewer places are selling cigarettes now. I myself quit smoking after over thirty five years of smoking. Only to suffer a heat attack three months later. The cardiologist said it was more than likely partially due to the stress of quitting that could have triggered the heart attack. So now I'm sixty one years old and I have multiple health problems. The worst of which is issues directly related to my lifelong untreated sleep apnea that tried to kill me just this May. I had an acute respiratory failure and my blood oxygen levels were dangerously low and my CO2 levels were through the roof. At the ER they told me that I was touch and go there for quite a while after I arrived and that I had given them several scares. I spent the following five days in the ICU. They told me that had I gone back to sleep one more time. That I more than likely never would have woken up. I spent three days trying to get out of bed to get my phone and call for help. But I kept falling back asleep. I was dying and didn't even know it. But I was finally able to make it to my phone charging in my living room and called 911. I'm glad to still be here.

Big Kahuna and Red Apple are fictional brands in Tarantino movies.

No one thought anything about Pulp Fiction, except it was an INCREDIBLE film. Saved my life oddly enough. Nope that would have been the 90s

Fonzie is from the TV show Happy Days played by Henry Winkler. For your generation he also played the principal in the movie Scream. No cap. It was fire. Skibidi Ohio Toilet

It wasn´t that common to roll cigaretes in the 90s, but since Vicent returned from Amsterdan that was a thing in Europe because they taxed cigaretes but not the smoke. After this movie people started to roll cigaretes again.

Great reaction, as always.

Actually, mayo is quite good on baked potatoes! ❤😊

Jipped or Gipped is a term when you got that bad side of a trade or deal.

According to Tarantino in various interviews, "the story" of Pulp Fiction is actually three stories, and, yeah, they're supposed to be cliché stories (though told with Tarantino's signature flair). Tarantino's inspiration for Pulp Fiction came from the old pulp fiction novels and comics of the 1930s. Pulp fiction novels were books filled with lurid, low-brow, distasteful characters and stories -- usually about criminals and murderers and delinquents -- and were considered cheap, low-brow entertainment. They were called "pulp fiction" because they were printed on cheap, rough paper made of pulped wood rather than the smooth, more expensive to produce paper that more socially acceptable books were printed on. They were the B-movies of books. Tarantino's idea was to take three cliché stories that often appeared in these types of pulp fiction novels -- (1) The henchmen showing up to kill someone, (2) the henchman being tasked with babysitting the boss's wife (but don't touch her, or else!), and (3) the boxer ordered by the crime boss to take a dive in the fight but then double-crossing the crime boss -- and weave those three classic stories together. He basically said, "What if all three of these stories happened in the same city over the course of 24-ish hours, and were loosely connected by characters in each story who knew characters from the other stories?" His other inspiration was old action movies where the bad guys would show up at the beginning of the movie and kill someone, then the movie would always cut to the hero and we'd follow the hero's story for the rest of the film as he tracked down the bad guys. Tarantino thought, "What if, instead of cutting to the good guy after the first killing, we instead just keep following the bad guys through the rest of their day? What else would they get up to? What mundane stuff would they talk about in between the action scenes?" And the answers to Tarantino's questions became Pulp Fiction.

There were less ads when this aired on TBS than on this channel.

I probably know every line of dialogue in this movie lol. 90% of my movie quotes come from this damn movie and the funny thing is, when I saw it in the theaters in 1994, I didn't appreciate it. It was much much later in life that I did and do. Hell, I drive around to the soundtrack sometimes.

'94 was one of the best years for the then new wave of movies and music. Rarely any happy endings in movies, the blockbuster movie was a new thing (T2 for example.), bigger budgets, lots of money, grunge music, gangsta rap, lyricism.... all happening at this time. This movie was definitely the first of its kind and was very shocking at the time. Yes, Quentin pushed the envelope, he was the new kid on the director's block so he did it big and crazy. This was the era when things took a turn, the "new" parental advisory stickers were also put on artist's music. Smoking in venues wasn't really outlawed until 2003.

Henry Winkler played Fonzie in the tv show Happy Days he’s also the timid coach in the water boy and many Adam Sandler movies

More Samuel L. Jackson? You get a load of him in *Jackie Brown*, Quentin Tarantino's next movie after Pulp Fiction.

My God, my God. The announcer is Ed Sullivan😅

'This movie got potholes' -- I bet you see every pothole on the street w them binoculars on lol

Def. check out True Romance, written by Tarantino.

i just dont understand why Samuel didnt won a oscar for this....

I had a boss who had me keep his wife entertained. He couldn’t stand being around her all the time, and I guess he thought it was safe because I’m pretty fucking unattractive.

Check out the movies Jackie Brown(1997), Goodfellas(1990), From Dusk Till Dawn(1996), and Scarface(1983).

I got robbed at a gas station in the early 2000’s when I was in my early 20’s. Someone stuck a gun in my face but I couldn’t help but make jokes when it happened

So it's a well known thing that Tarentino has a huge foot fetish. You'll notice a lot of foot stuff in his movies.

The reason he ran into Marsalas was because he was with Vincent and apparently went out for coffee and doughnuts for their stake out of his apartment.

The comedian Bill Engvall says women always have more questions than there are answers.

Travolta played Vinnie (another Vincent!) Barbarino, a Sweathog in the 70s show, _Welcome Back Kotter_

Vincent left his weapon on the counter and shut the bathroom door because Marcellus was with him before he went out for coffee. Vincent though he had returned, which is why he was surprised to see Butch standing there with his gun.😎