What the corpus says about Pulp Fiction (1994)

What was said about it (26)

1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:37:16 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Black Sabbath · programming · Best double features: Black Sabbath (anthology), Saturday Night Fever, Inglourious Basterds, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. · "So you get an anthology movie."
2. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:37:26 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Inglourious Basterds · programming · Inglourious Basterds paired for its short-story structure; Once Upon a Time for bookending Tarantino's career. · "I have bastards because I feel like structurally it's it's got some the short story aspect of his very, it locks in together."
3. [The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:59:07 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Misery (the host's read) · programming · Butch's Girlfriend Award for weak link of the film is borrowed from Pulp Fiction. · "The Butch's girlfriend Award, Butch's girlfriend from Pulp Fiction."
4. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:27:53 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Ice Storm ↔ Pulp Fiction · programming · Next episodes will cover two famous movies; Ryan and Simmons tease Pulp Fiction. · "I've been watching a lot of pulp fiction lately."
5. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:03:58 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Pulp Fiction · programming · Reservoir Dogs found much of its audience after Pulp Fiction, via rentals. · "After Pulp Fiction and then circled back and rented Reservoir Dogs."
6. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:04:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.35)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read) · lineage · Pulp's opening two-song credits echo the radio dial concept from Reservoir Dogs. · "Well, the radio, the concept of the radio had been in Reservoir Dogs, but I think switching the songs in the middle, because you hear him change the dial."
7. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:06:07 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Pulp Fiction imitators (the host's read) · lineage · The Royale-in-Paris, Amsterdam conversation is the most parodied and copied stretch of screenwriting of the last 30 years. · "Yeah. I would argue this is the most ripped off four and a half minutes of screenwriting in the past 30 years."
8. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:17:32 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read) · lineage · Marcellus's you-pride-only-hurts speech to Butch is the same speech Pacino gives DiCaprio in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. · "And it's the same speech that Pacino gives DiCaprio at Rousseau and Frank in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood."
9. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:40:31 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Psycho · lineage · Killing Travolta halfway through is compared to Janet Leigh dying in Psycho. · "there are a lot of moments in this movie that remind me of Psycho"
10. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:41:44 · unknown (0.00)] Deliverance ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read) · lineage · The pawn shop sequence is inspired by Deliverance and transplants a Tennessee 1974 pawn shop to Hollywood. · "It's not just that he's inspired by deliverance."
11. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 1:08:39 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Station Eleven (the host's read) · lineage · Time-shifting storytelling that Pulp put front and center is still used in current TV. · "Yeah, it's like still showing up in like station 11."
12. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 1:08:54 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Reservoir Dogs · lineage · Bonnie, Alabama and Red Apple cigarettes recur across Tarantino's first films, a shared universe. · "Quentin's version of Shared Universe, too, is incredible."
13. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 1:09:30 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ True Romance · lineage · Alabama, Keitel's partner in Reservoir Dogs, shows up a year later in True Romance. · "she shows up one year later in true romance"
14. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 1:55:45 · unknown (0.00)] Shaft ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read) · lineage · Bad motherfucker wallet reference to the Shaft theme. · "It was a reference to the theme song of Shaft."
15. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 1:57:02 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Jackie Brown · lineage · The white Honda Civic Butch drives is the same car Jackie Brown drives. · "The 1980 Honda Civic, the white car butch drove when he knocked Marcellus down. Same car, Jackie Brown drove."
16. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:03:10 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Reservoir Dogs · lineage · Mexican standoffs Apex Mountain: True Romance and Reservoir Dogs still beat Pulp's. · "Mexican standoffs, probably still true romance."
17. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:12:52 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Rocky · lineage · Tommy Morrison led cards and was cast in Rocky V, used to argue Butch could have been a decent boxer. · "Tommy Morrison led multiple cards and got cast in Rocky 5."
18. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:23:29 · unknown (0.00)] Kiss Me Deadly ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read) · lineage · The briefcase is an overt mimic of the Kiss Me Deadly briefcase, a metaphor for danger. · "It's interesting because it is such an overt mimic of the Kiss Me Deadly briefcase"
19. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:07:20 · Andy Greenwald (0.60)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Pulp Fiction · lineage · Both are 'emptying the cupboard' of their makers' influences and obsessions, introducing a whole cinematic world through soundtrack, look and talk. · "it's like pulp fiction or Grand Royal magazine, where it's just like the emptying of the cupboard of influences and obsessions."
20. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 1:12:00 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Pulp Fiction · lineage · Vic Vega and Vincent Vega are brothers; Tarantino wanted a prequel before Madsen and Travolta aged out. · "Vic Vega and Vincent Vega from Pulp Fictions were brothers."
21. [The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:18:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Captain Marvel (the host's read) · lineage · Samuel L. Jackson driving around mid-90s Los Angeles evokes Jules Winfield, a clever but surface 90s nod. · "a Samuel L. Jackson character in the mid 90s driving around in a car in Los Angeles, a la Jules Winfield in Pulp Fiction."
22. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:17:38 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood · theme · Motifs echo across Tarantino's movies. · "It's so awesome to see the motifs echo across his movies."
23. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:21:13 · Bill Simmons (0.35)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Pulp Fiction · theme · Mirrors and reflections recur as a motif of how characters see themselves. · "Reflections in how we see ourselves as a big thing in the movie."
24. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:30:07 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Pulp Fiction · theme · The movie has a stoned, dreamlike quality that makes viewers question whether the dancing happened. · "I think there's like a reading of the movie that it's incredibly surreal and you've got a bunch of high people"
25. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:30:56 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Pulp Fiction · theme · Many elements only work here, a kind of happy accident. · "Like there's so many things in this movie that just are kind of little miracles."
26. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:43:30 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · theme · As Scorsese's party sequence is hell to him, the basement is a powerful Black man's idea of hell, and the movie keeps a surreal feeling. · "To me, this is almost like, not just Bruce Willis, but like a black man, like a powerful black man's idea of hell is being locked in a basement and raped by hillbillies."

Films put beside it more than once (5)

1. [pairs] Pulp Fiction ↔ Reservoir Dogs · said 7 times in 3 episodes
2. [pairs] Pulp Fiction ↔ Inglourious Basterds · said 3 times in 2 episodes
3. [pairs] Pulp Fiction ↔ Forrest Gump · said 2 times in 2 episodes
4. [pairs] Pulp Fiction ↔ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood · said 2 times in 1 episode
5. [pairs] Pulp Fiction ↔ Deliverance · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (2)

1. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:29:00 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Pulp Fiction · fun · Ryan complains about a continuity hole: Travolta never hears Willis come in. · "How does John Travolta not realize he's in the kitchen?"
2. [The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:19:49 · Brian Koppelman (0.90)] Pulp Fiction · fun · Brian saw it opening night in 1994 and promised himself he would become a filmmaker. · "that's probably when I made the promise to myself that I would find a way to become a filmmaker."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (19)

1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 1:13:11 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Inglourious Basterds · programming · The Inglourious Basterds spelling is a Tarantino flourish; Reservoir Dogs' title is also odd. · "It's my flourish."
2. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 1:13:11 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Inglourious Basterds · programming · The Inglourious Basterds spelling is a Tarantino flourish; Reservoir Dogs' title is also odd. · "It's my flourish."
3. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 1:31:17 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ↔ Deliverance · programming · A guest pick for a double bill: road trip gone wrong. · "Oh, my God. Road trip gone wrong."
4. [The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:44:07 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] earlier Vietnam films ⇒ Forrest Gump (the host's read) · lineage · Gump's Vietnam section riffs on the earlier Vietnam films: music, combat, drill instructor. · "A journey that riffs on all the Vietnam films that came before."
5. [The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:16:14 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Wanted: Dead or Alive ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read) · lineage · Bounty Law is based on Steve McQueen's Wanted Dead or Alive. · "Bounty Lostar, which was based on Wanted Dead or Alive with Steve McQueen"
6. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:37:14 · unknown (0.40)] Hard Boiled ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker had not yet seen Hard Boiled, but the standoff read as John Woo. · "I don't know if I'd seen hardboiled or whatever, any of those movies yet"
7. [Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:20:35 · unknown (0.40)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Inglourious Basterds · theme · The Ark ending is a mini alternate-history course correction, like Inglourious Basterds. · "this is me creating an alternate history where there is like some modicum of like a microcosm representation of a course correction"
8. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:38:01 · Adam Nayman (0.75)] Elvis ↔ Forrest Gump · lineage · Forrest Gump already did the bit where Elvis took his moves from a kid in leg braces. · "How could they ever improve on the Bitten Forest Gump where you find that Elvis didn't actually get his moves or style some black music?"
9. [The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:37:06 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read) · lineage · Tarantino wanted the Spahn Ranch sequence to feel like Texas Chain Saw Massacre. · "Tarantino wanted it to look like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and had his crew research, Texas Chant, and the whole feel of it and how desolate it was."
10. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:37:47 · unknown (0.40)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (the host's read) · lineage · Called a bad-but-fun movie that would not exist without Tarantino, part of the ripoff era. · "kind of bad and would not exist without Tarantino."
11. [The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:50:48 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ↔ Inglourious Basterds · theme · Looking at the 2009 summer, which also had Inglourious Basterds, shows what this summer lacked. · "that was the summer of Inglorious Bastards, but also, um, you know, what what it had that this summer didn't have."
12. [The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:47:14 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Forrest Gump ↔ The 1960s · theme · Raftery's old take: Gump as a happy reboot letting boomers wave away the 60s. · "Forrest Gump sometimes feels like a happy reboot of the Vietnam era"
13. [The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:37:25 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Apocalypse Now ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read) · lineage · The dogs at Spahn Ranch play the role of the Duvall helicopters, constantly present and disorienting. · "He wanted the dogs to be the helicopters."
14. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:37:51 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Very Bad Things (the host's read) · lineage · Part of the era of Tarantino ripoffs about groups of friends. · "Well, that was the era of the Tarantino Ripoff era."
15. [The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:16:29 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Social Network ↔ Inglourious Basterds · craft · The best line reading category: Eisenberg's 'That's good, you should be proud' alongside 'Everybody in the German army has heard of Hugo Stiglitz'. · "It's an all-time line reading that could base smarminess, jealousy, and resentment without showing much emotion."
16. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:39:25 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ Forrest Gump · theme · Dewey is the Forrest Gump of American popular music, inhabiting every style. · "he's almost kind of the forest gump of American popular music because he inhabits all of them."
17. [The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:44:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Lee Van Cleef ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the maker said so: he told me; I asked Quentin about it) · lineage · The painting of Rick in the driveway came from Tarantino finding a giant Lee Van Cleef painting in the actor's garage while scouting. · "that's why I put a painting of Rick in the driveway."
18. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:47:05 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Killing ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the maker said so: a Tarantino quote the host reads) · lineage · Tarantino said Reservoir Dogs was his version of Kubrick's heist film, without meaning it as a ripoff. · "but I did think of it as my killing, my take on that kind of heist movie."
19. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:36:07 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Inglourious Basterds · craft · Tarantino's opening scenes: the Christoph Waltz opening in France is also up there. · "That whole opening where you meet Christoph Waltz's character in France is also way up there."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (5)

1. [speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
2. [speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
3. [speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
4. [speaker] Andy Greenwald · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · Loves Anderson as a time capsule of his early-twenties New York longing, Salinger pastiche, indie rock and TV references. Believes the movie is a near-perfect masterpiece and exists for Chas's one line. Cannot stand twee excess, finding Darjeeling problematic. · stances: Movie is perfect, no remake; Chas's 'rough year' line is the emotional core; Gwyneth Paltrow's Margot is her last great performance; Luke Wilson was underrated and sad
5. [speaker] Brian Koppelman · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · Loves craft: Chandor's economy, not speaking down, and actors like Tucci and Hoffman. Sucker for heightened workplace dialogue and one-night structures. · stances: Margin Call is among the 10 best of 15 years; Hanks does not play sleaze; Conflict structure over a night is the point

The shows' running bits (3)

1. [bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
2. [bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
3. [bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

The whole prompt

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Pulp Fiction (1994) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about Pulp Fiction (1994) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:37:16 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Black Sabbath · programming · Best double features: Black Sabbath (anthology), Saturday Night Fever, Inglourious Basterds, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. · "So you get an anthology movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:37:26 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Inglourious Basterds · programming · Inglourious Basterds paired for its short-story structure; Once Upon a Time for bookending Tarantino's career. · "I have bastards because I feel like structurally it's it's got some the short story aspect of his very, it locks in together."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:59:07 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Misery (the host's read) · programming · Butch's Girlfriend Award for weak link of the film is borrowed from Pulp Fiction. · "The Butch's girlfriend Award, Butch's girlfriend from Pulp Fiction."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:27:53 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Ice Storm ↔ Pulp Fiction · programming · Next episodes will cover two famous movies; Ryan and Simmons tease Pulp Fiction. · "I've been watching a lot of pulp fiction lately."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:03:58 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Pulp Fiction · programming · Reservoir Dogs found much of its audience after Pulp Fiction, via rentals. · "After Pulp Fiction and then circled back and rented Reservoir Dogs."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:04:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.35)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read) · lineage · Pulp's opening two-song credits echo the radio dial concept from Reservoir Dogs. · "Well, the radio, the concept of the radio had been in Reservoir Dogs, but I think switching the songs in the middle, because you hear him change the dial."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:06:07 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Pulp Fiction imitators (the host's read) · lineage · The Royale-in-Paris, Amsterdam conversation is the most parodied and copied stretch of screenwriting of the last 30 years. · "Yeah. I would argue this is the most ripped off four and a half minutes of screenwriting in the past 30 years."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:17:32 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read) · lineage · Marcellus's you-pride-only-hurts speech to Butch is the same speech Pacino gives DiCaprio in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. · "And it's the same speech that Pacino gives DiCaprio at Rousseau and Frank in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:40:31 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Psycho · lineage · Killing Travolta halfway through is compared to Janet Leigh dying in Psycho. · "there are a lot of moments in this movie that remind me of Psycho"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:41:44 · unknown (0.00)] Deliverance ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read) · lineage · The pawn shop sequence is inspired by Deliverance and transplants a Tennessee 1974 pawn shop to Hollywood. · "It's not just that he's inspired by deliverance."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 1:08:39 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Station Eleven (the host's read) · lineage · Time-shifting storytelling that Pulp put front and center is still used in current TV. · "Yeah, it's like still showing up in like station 11."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 1:08:54 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Reservoir Dogs · lineage · Bonnie, Alabama and Red Apple cigarettes recur across Tarantino's first films, a shared universe. · "Quentin's version of Shared Universe, too, is incredible."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 1:09:30 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ True Romance · lineage · Alabama, Keitel's partner in Reservoir Dogs, shows up a year later in True Romance. · "she shows up one year later in true romance"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 1:55:45 · unknown (0.00)] Shaft ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read) · lineage · Bad motherfucker wallet reference to the Shaft theme. · "It was a reference to the theme song of Shaft."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 1:57:02 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Jackie Brown · lineage · The white Honda Civic Butch drives is the same car Jackie Brown drives. · "The 1980 Honda Civic, the white car butch drove when he knocked Marcellus down. Same car, Jackie Brown drove."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:03:10 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Reservoir Dogs · lineage · Mexican standoffs Apex Mountain: True Romance and Reservoir Dogs still beat Pulp's. · "Mexican standoffs, probably still true romance."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:12:52 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Rocky · lineage · Tommy Morrison led cards and was cast in Rocky V, used to argue Butch could have been a decent boxer. · "Tommy Morrison led multiple cards and got cast in Rocky 5."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:23:29 · unknown (0.00)] Kiss Me Deadly ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read) · lineage · The briefcase is an overt mimic of the Kiss Me Deadly briefcase, a metaphor for danger. · "It's interesting because it is such an overt mimic of the Kiss Me Deadly briefcase"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:07:20 · Andy Greenwald (0.60)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Pulp Fiction · lineage · Both are 'emptying the cupboard' of their makers' influences and obsessions, introducing a whole cinematic world through soundtrack, look and talk. · "it's like pulp fiction or Grand Royal magazine, where it's just like the emptying of the cupboard of influences and obsessions."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 1:12:00 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Pulp Fiction · lineage · Vic Vega and Vincent Vega are brothers; Tarantino wanted a prequel before Madsen and Travolta aged out. · "Vic Vega and Vincent Vega from Pulp Fictions were brothers."
[The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:18:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Captain Marvel (the host's read) · lineage · Samuel L. Jackson driving around mid-90s Los Angeles evokes Jules Winfield, a clever but surface 90s nod. · "a Samuel L. Jackson character in the mid 90s driving around in a car in Los Angeles, a la Jules Winfield in Pulp Fiction."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:17:38 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood · theme · Motifs echo across Tarantino's movies. · "It's so awesome to see the motifs echo across his movies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:21:13 · Bill Simmons (0.35)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Pulp Fiction · theme · Mirrors and reflections recur as a motif of how characters see themselves. · "Reflections in how we see ourselves as a big thing in the movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:30:07 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Pulp Fiction · theme · The movie has a stoned, dreamlike quality that makes viewers question whether the dancing happened. · "I think there's like a reading of the movie that it's incredibly surreal and you've got a bunch of high people"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:30:56 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Pulp Fiction · theme · Many elements only work here, a kind of happy accident. · "Like there's so many things in this movie that just are kind of little miracles."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:43:30 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · theme · As Scorsese's party sequence is hell to him, the basement is a powerful Black man's idea of hell, and the movie keeps a surreal feeling. · "To me, this is almost like, not just Bruce Willis, but like a black man, like a powerful black man's idea of hell is being locked in a basement and raped by hillbillies."
[pairs] Pulp Fiction ↔ Reservoir Dogs · said 7 times in 3 episodes
[pairs] Pulp Fiction ↔ Inglourious Basterds · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Pulp Fiction ↔ Forrest Gump · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Pulp Fiction ↔ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Pulp Fiction ↔ Deliverance · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:29:00 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Pulp Fiction · fun · Ryan complains about a continuity hole: Travolta never hears Willis come in. · "How does John Travolta not realize he's in the kitchen?"
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:19:49 · Brian Koppelman (0.90)] Pulp Fiction · fun · Brian saw it opening night in 1994 and promised himself he would become a filmmaker. · "that's probably when I made the promise to myself that I would find a way to become a filmmaker."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 1:13:11 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Inglourious Basterds · programming · The Inglourious Basterds spelling is a Tarantino flourish; Reservoir Dogs' title is also odd. · "It's my flourish."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 1:13:11 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Inglourious Basterds · programming · The Inglourious Basterds spelling is a Tarantino flourish; Reservoir Dogs' title is also odd. · "It's my flourish."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 1:31:17 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ↔ Deliverance · programming · A guest pick for a double bill: road trip gone wrong. · "Oh, my God. Road trip gone wrong."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:44:07 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] earlier Vietnam films ⇒ Forrest Gump (the host's read) · lineage · Gump's Vietnam section riffs on the earlier Vietnam films: music, combat, drill instructor. · "A journey that riffs on all the Vietnam films that came before."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:16:14 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Wanted: Dead or Alive ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read) · lineage · Bounty Law is based on Steve McQueen's Wanted Dead or Alive. · "Bounty Lostar, which was based on Wanted Dead or Alive with Steve McQueen"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:37:14 · unknown (0.40)] Hard Boiled ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker had not yet seen Hard Boiled, but the standoff read as John Woo. · "I don't know if I'd seen hardboiled or whatever, any of those movies yet"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:20:35 · unknown (0.40)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Inglourious Basterds · theme · The Ark ending is a mini alternate-history course correction, like Inglourious Basterds. · "this is me creating an alternate history where there is like some modicum of like a microcosm representation of a course correction"
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:38:01 · Adam Nayman (0.75)] Elvis ↔ Forrest Gump · lineage · Forrest Gump already did the bit where Elvis took his moves from a kid in leg braces. · "How could they ever improve on the Bitten Forest Gump where you find that Elvis didn't actually get his moves or style some black music?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:37:06 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read) · lineage · Tarantino wanted the Spahn Ranch sequence to feel like Texas Chain Saw Massacre. · "Tarantino wanted it to look like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and had his crew research, Texas Chant, and the whole feel of it and how desolate it was."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:37:47 · unknown (0.40)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (the host's read) · lineage · Called a bad-but-fun movie that would not exist without Tarantino, part of the ripoff era. · "kind of bad and would not exist without Tarantino."
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:50:48 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ↔ Inglourious Basterds · theme · Looking at the 2009 summer, which also had Inglourious Basterds, shows what this summer lacked. · "that was the summer of Inglorious Bastards, but also, um, you know, what what it had that this summer didn't have."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:47:14 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Forrest Gump ↔ The 1960s · theme · Raftery's old take: Gump as a happy reboot letting boomers wave away the 60s. · "Forrest Gump sometimes feels like a happy reboot of the Vietnam era"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:37:25 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Apocalypse Now ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read) · lineage · The dogs at Spahn Ranch play the role of the Duvall helicopters, constantly present and disorienting. · "He wanted the dogs to be the helicopters."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:37:51 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Very Bad Things (the host's read) · lineage · Part of the era of Tarantino ripoffs about groups of friends. · "Well, that was the era of the Tarantino Ripoff era."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:16:29 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Social Network ↔ Inglourious Basterds · craft · The best line reading category: Eisenberg's 'That's good, you should be proud' alongside 'Everybody in the German army has heard of Hugo Stiglitz'. · "It's an all-time line reading that could base smarminess, jealousy, and resentment without showing much emotion."
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:39:25 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ Forrest Gump · theme · Dewey is the Forrest Gump of American popular music, inhabiting every style. · "he's almost kind of the forest gump of American popular music because he inhabits all of them."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:44:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Lee Van Cleef ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the maker said so: he told me; I asked Quentin about it) · lineage · The painting of Rick in the driveway came from Tarantino finding a giant Lee Van Cleef painting in the actor's garage while scouting. · "that's why I put a painting of Rick in the driveway."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:47:05 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Killing ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the maker said so: a Tarantino quote the host reads) · lineage · Tarantino said Reservoir Dogs was his version of Kubrick's heist film, without meaning it as a ripoff. · "but I did think of it as my killing, my take on that kind of heist movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:36:07 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Inglourious Basterds · craft · Tarantino's opening scenes: the Christoph Waltz opening in France is also up there. · "That whole opening where you meet Christoph Waltz's character in France is also way up there."
[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] Andy Greenwald · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · Loves Anderson as a time capsule of his early-twenties New York longing, Salinger pastiche, indie rock and TV references. Believes the movie is a near-perfect masterpiece and exists for Chas's one line. Cannot stand twee excess, finding Darjeeling problematic. · stances: Movie is perfect, no remake; Chas's 'rough year' line is the emotional core; Gwyneth Paltrow's Margot is her last great performance; Luke Wilson was underrated and sad
[speaker] Brian Koppelman · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · Loves craft: Chandor's economy, not speaking down, and actors like Tucci and Hoffman. Sucker for heightened workplace dialogue and one-night structures. · stances: Margin Call is among the 10 best of 15 years; Hanks does not play sleaze; Conflict structure over a night is the point
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Pulp Fiction (1994); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Pulp Fiction (1994) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.