Word: pulped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...forced to watch Forster's bondsman go to a record store, browse among tapes, and finally buy, quite clearly, a Delfonics hit. The merchandisers of old chestnut love songs must be rejoicing with a future return more guaranteed than the suddenly fortunate surf bands who saw new sales with Pulp Fiction's skittering guitar soundtrack...
...together the short-attention-span oddities of his first two endeavors. Now, shocking devices foisted upon this movie's stultifyingly paced plot and Grier's well-intentioned yet boring performance seem instantly tired. At one point, the "sudden shoot" gimmick--witness Tim Roth's character in Reservoir Dogs, or Pulp Fiction's poor victim of Vincent Vega's gun and a bump in the road--seems downright offensive, suggesting a world where such cavalier violence on a woman is far more disturbing and sinister than Tarantino blindly intended...
...Very unfunny. Jokes about dyslexic girls who stick tampons up their noses aren't funny. The word "fuck" does not make everything funny, nor does its constant use by virtually every character add anything to its content or make any kind of social statement--Pulp Fiction came out four years ago. Phrases like "hyper-aggressive tight-ass busybody cunt" are not funny and do not sound very good coming out of Woody's mouth, nor does tiresome prostitute humor ("No, no. Hit me, then the blowjob"). Richard Benjamin having sex with Julia Louis-Drey-fus in front of a blind...
...wait is over. It's 3 1/2 years since Pulp Fiction exploded at the Cannes Film Festival, and now everyone can stop wondering what Quentin Tarantino will do next. The answer, in JACKIE BROWN: more of the same, and less...
...caper film--an anecdote told at epic length. Grier, foxy lady of '70s blaxploitation, is given little chance to radiate; you never even glimpse her magnificent shoulders. As for Tarantino, he is playing peekaboo with his sizable talent. Jackie Brown marks time, lots of it, between Pulp Fiction and his next great project...