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Original in Pulp Ficion, here not so much...

posted 14 years ago by austin-night
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**SPOILER ALERT**

The obvious Pulp Fiction rip-off scenes: a)guy walks into the room and sees a gun on the table, realizes the guy is pinching a loaf and shoots him. b) guy pulls a gun on another guy at nearly point blank range and unloads on him and misses every shot, then get shot by his supposed victim.

In Pulp Fiction is was original, in this movie it's not... Bad decision to take someone else's ideas and use them in this film...

Not to mention, during the initial briefing before they all split up, the chief of police told the deputies that this guy was coming into town and he was "bringing hell with him" and then said, "shoot to kill". It's funny that they would add those lines and then let the first 4 people he killed not be only armed, but have plenty of time to shoot him before he shot them.

This could have been a much more exciting and intense film had the writers tried to be more serious. It's almost as if they were attempting to make the bad guy (or the movie for that part) "cool".

I'm not a troll. I was looking forward to this movie but was kinda' disappointed.

[–] austin-night 14 years ago

I actually paused the movie halfway through in order to make my original post (yeah I know, I'm a prick). After watching it all the way through, though I don't take back my thoughts on my original post, I will say that it was a pretty good movie. I really liked the twist on antagonist/protagonist toward the end. The final words, "We were going to have a boy" were actually quite powerful and helped give the movie more of an emotional impact than I was expecting. Good movie considering that it was filmed in just four weeks.

[–] Shantanab-Lone-Voyager 14 years ago

I found similarities with the plot-line of Jonah Hex (2010) too (although I consider Red Hill a much better film).
Just consider the basic plot :
1.Guy was attacked by a bunch of powerful men, with some personal grudge against him, in his own home when he was totally unprepared....and finally he avenges them.
2.His House was burned to ground, family was brutally murdered.
3.The Guy was left scarred in the face - kinda like the two face from Batman.
4.Both the movies takes place in similar kind of countryside landscape.

Happiness is only Illusion

[–] Dan_Finn 13 years ago

i think you missed the point of why the shots missed. as have many people on here there is a supernatural link which was suttle but obvious enough.

[–] uponapyre 13 years ago

Subtle*

Sorry, but if you can't spell the word then I doubt you know what it really means.

There was nothing subtle about this film, just ideas that were poorly delivered.

No my dear, procrastination is an art form!

[–] UberNoodle 13 years ago

"Sorry, but if you can't spell the word then I doubt you know what it really means."

Ah, no. If you're going to be snarky and rude then at least make sense. Spelling and knowing what words mean have nothing to do with each other. Perhaps you're not aware that spoken language has existed far longer than written. Are you saying that countless ancestors and even people today don't know what they are saying only because they couldn't or cannot write it? Ludicrous. The simple existence of the dictionary proves just how, not to mention that even you were speaking for years before you were able spell half the *beep* that came out of your mouth.

The supernatural aspect to this film WAS subtle, actually. The rest of the plot and story, not so. But that's not what you said, regardless of spelling.

[–] MrBelette 13 years ago

Did you mean shuttle ?

[–] Dragon_Eye_Morrison 13 years ago

"In Pulp Fiction is was original"

It wasn't, QT is anything but an "original" director, go check the "connections" list of PF here in imdb and you will see the list of films from which PF has taken things. Neither scene that you describe were born in that movie.

[–] whookie 13 years ago

God, OP.. you are a troll whether you like it or not. If that's your idea of a rip-off then please, just stop watching movies.