There was a long period of time where I felt nothing but irritation towards Quentin Tarantino and all of his films, including
Pulp Fiction, which he directed in 1994. This was during high school, where it seemed like watching Tarantino was a rite of passage. Afterward, no one was sure why they liked the movies they saw other than the fact that everyone else saw them, and now they could quote them and reference them together. It was similar to how people seem to only remember the funny, quotable parts of
Apocalypse Now. I didn't hate Tarantino, but I hated what his movies became when stupid kids watched them, when they had no plot or characters, just single lines of dialogue. It wasn't so much that they were "popular" as it was that they just became so devoid of what it was that I liked about them.
After a long enough stretch of time, and my mind open enough to re-visit them, I finally sort of fell in love with these movies again.
Pulp Fiction is an incredible movie - for so many reasons. It helped that I watched it again when I had seen more films, and I knew the genres that Tarantino was referencing; when I was mature enough to think about the meaning of the plot and characters instead of just "heh, foot massage!" Of course, like all other very famous and loved movies, there is so much analysis on this now that it's tiring to me. So I'll skip over that, if you want to find it, the internet is here for you.
