lsvtec
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Originally posted by dohcvtec_accord@Jun 18 2003, 09:59 AM
Come on now, you can't compare Pulp Fiction to Memento. The stories weren't executed the same way (Memento was back-to-front, while Pulp Fiction jumped around and filled in bits and pieces as the story went on) and Pulp Fiction had so many other worthwhile qualities that Memento lacked. Pulp Fiction didn't even have too much graphic violence compared to his or other director's movies. Reservoir Dogs, on the other hand, had plenty of violence, but was a completely different genre of movie from Pulp Fiction. To say that Tarantino regurgitated the story from Dogs to make Fiction isn't plausible at all.
Tarantino also did Four Rooms, which had almost no violence, and relied solely on the story and comedy to pull the movie along. It may have been similar to Fiction in that it wasn't a chronological movie, but it was more streamlined than Fiction was.
Memento was just a shitty movie with a shitty story that happened to be executed in a unique and interesting manner. Think about it...if the movie had been chronological, the story would have been inane and boring.
My $.02 anyway.
You misread that, I was not comparing the two. I would watch Pulp Fiction again, but I think I would rather watch Killer Clowns from Outer Space than Momento any day. He didn't regurgitate the story, he reused his one good idea in film making, the movie that is in no chronological order. Beyond this one idea he is devoid of anything entertaining or worthwhile. After seeing one movie in this style the rest are boring. Pulp Fiction was just funny enough to keep my attention through the scene/plot jumps. Reservior Dogs had absolutely nothing going for it and I have yet to see Four Rooms. I never said that he regurgitated the story from Dogs to make Pulp Fiction, he regurgitated the style of the movie.