Uma Thurman is a Goddess… First Time Watching *PULP FICTION (1994)*

[@izzonj]

The drug that Vincent bought was heroin, not cocaine. That's why he shot it up. Later Mia found it in Vincent's coat pocket and thought it was cocaine because it was in a baggie, instead of a balloon as heroin was typically sold. She sorted what she thought would have been a decent amount of coke but it was a HUGE amount of heroin, especially for someone who wasn't a regular user, and that's why she od'ed.

[@sollinrng3497]

it is also noted that one of the side effects of heroin is constipation. Which is why we always find Vincent on the toilet.

[@philmakris8507]

That $5 shake is the equivalent of $11.50 in 2024

[@reservoirdude92]

Jesus, how do people just drop that AUDIBLE plot point out of their minds when it's mentioned explicitly?

[@floorticket]

@@philmakris8507 Not with bourbon in it or nothin'. Straight Martin and Lewis.

[@russellward4624]

​@@philmakris8507they probably aren't far off that now lol

[@kuribayashi84]

"Why did he pause for so long?" Because he's Christopher Walken, thats why. :D

[@PorterJustPorter]

His computer is actually slow... Walken pauses, but not this long.

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

That was heroin that Vincent bought, not cocaine. It’s specifically mentioned in the scene you were watching, like 10 seconds earlier, lol.

[@Paul77ozee]

There too busy talking instead of listening.

[@luvlgs1]

i've told him a thousand times@@Paul77ozee

[@garylee3685]

People work graveyard shifts and eat burgers in the morning all the time, just saying. Zed was a security guard, not a cop. One of the effects of heroin use is constipation, so Vince was in the bathroom a couple of times.

[@coolassbrian]

I worked at a restaurant for years. My coworker showed me a panic button under the bar. We didn’t think it actually worked so I pressed it. Low and behold, some cops came in with shotguns a few minutes later. I sure felt like an idiot. Lol

[@LotusVette84]

And then everyone stood up and clapped....

[@foljs5858]

@@LotusVette84 More like: "So, one day I had a steak" "FAKE! NEVER HAPPENED!'

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

Does Ollie realize that the ‘little kid’ that got the watch given to him was a flashback to when Butch was a kid? I couldn’t quite tell by what Ollie was saying during the hotel room scene.

[@paulamoya7956]

Same ! I was yelling . Butch IS the little Kid!

[@RolyPolyOllieReactions]

I realized only after the movie ahahah!

[@accordgolfer]

The kid that got the watch was Butch. It was a flashback

[@torpedoboy4]

After all these years, I just caught that she says that the "Japanese" Fox was a "Kung Fu" master. Also, when were you going to realize the watch story was a flashback of Butch's childhood? Also, most reviewers don't realize that Marvin is the informant that ratted out his friends, and that's why his life was "spared". He told Jules and Vincent when and where to show up. Even though some of the situations seem random, there's also nothing random about the interactions and the results. They all act as catylists and backdrops for a moral play and the choices we are all given that determine our futures.

[@0okamino]

Considering his attitude towards Japanese people, I’m guessing she didn’t learn from Pai Mei.

[@leannerose6181]

This movie brought back John Travolta's career

[@carladavis1473]

Hmm, I guess. I thought that too but Look who's talking was pretty successful as well and that came out before pulp fiction. And the sequels look who's talking too abs look who's talking now came out right after and before pulp fiction. So Maybe he was on his way back? Or already back? 🤷🏾‍♀️

[@richardzinns5676]

The suitcase with unidentified glowing contents is a tribute to the 1950's movie Kiss Me Deadly.

[@kylewestlake982]

I'm firm believer in the Steve Buscemi/Mr. Pink/ Buddy Holly theory.

[@themoviedealers]

Also seen in Repo Man.

[@strongdecaf3729]

Blew my mind when I saw it at the theater in 1994. It's like a movie that takes place in movieworld. The pop culture references were totally fresh and inventive. ( The funniest line that gets missed by younger generations is "correctamundo" 🤣)

[@izzonj]

How many young folks know who "Fonzie" is? Or "Arnold from Green Acres". I once found a script for PF on line. They were changes in the movie but the one I thought was most interesting was when Vincent and Jules were going back and forth about pigs and dogs being filthy or not, in the script, Jules said, "That would have to be one mother fucking charming pig. We're talking about the Cary Grant of pigs". I loved that reference! I imagine that it was changed because they didn't think either Jules or the audience would connect with Cary Grant. But I think it's much better than Arnold!

[@KansaSCaymanS]

Tarantino is the master of mundane conversations that draw you into the characters’ world. 😎👍

[@fjpapp7952]

Zed's dead baby, Zed's dead

[@VonPatzy]

I love how 2020s reactors are always confused by the 5 dollar shake being a bone of contention for Travolta. Inflation has rendered the conversation confusing. He asks if it has booze in it because 5 dollars was some bougie bullshit for a milkshake even in LA. It also helps put in perspective just how ridiculously premium his bag of heroin actually was.

[@izzonj]

Just like when the watch The Godfather and Michael sees in a newspaper headline that his father was shot, they all say, "That's how he found out? Why didn't they call him!" They don't realize there was no way to call somebody who out on the town. And a lot of people don't know that back then newspapers had several editions every day with breaking news because there was no TV.

[@Alan_CFA]

Hell, in the diner scene, one group of reactors asked “who’s Fonzie?”.

[@foljs5858]

"why did he pause for so long?" because he got memories and got emotional.He did have the watch up his ass for 2 years...

[@domingocurbelomorales8635]

Mia snorted the heroin thinking it was cocaine, that´s why she had that overdose (heroin can be snorted as well, but the most common and "safety" way it´s like Vincent did, using a needle). And also Vincent goes a lot to the bath, due to he´s an heroin addict, and that provokes you, sometimes, a kind of incontinence.

[@firegod001]

You have good taste, Ollie. I do mayo on fries once in a while myself. It always amuses me that so many people think it has to be disgusting. Mayo is used in potato salad. Many people have discovered how good it is on baked potatoes. Mayo and potatoes go well together in general, including on fries. Try it, people. Europe usually knows more about food than we do. Ketchup? Eh. It's alright.

[@leannerose6181]

I do this too and I'm not even Canadian 😂

[@rg3388]

The briefcase is also a KISS ME DEADLY reference. I love all the internal rhymes: Two instances of nonstandard breakfast food choices (hamburgers, pie). Butch is on his way to Tennessee and stands in front of a Tennessee license plate in the pawn shop. Butch deals with 2 women who are both brunette, barefoot and have a foreign accent. Martin and Lewis impersonators are seen in the restaurant before Mia orders her Martin-and-Lewis milkshake. “The Pepsi challenge” anticipates the mention of “Coke to Pepsi.” Butch is also in a fight between two guys with the last names of two American presidents.

[@AdamtheGrey02]

I believe they stole the dancing award. They didn't win it. I remember reading that the radio in the window that Bruce Willis snuck by as he went back to his apartment mentioned it. It's tough to hear but apparently it's there in that scene.

[@richardhoehn9922]

Pulp Fiction is tied with Inglorious Basterds as my favorite Quentin Tarantino films. Yeah, I've heard that, lots of people seem to...raise their eyebrows at Tarantino's acting abilities, although I thought he did well enough in From Dusk Till Dawn (D: Robert Rodriguez).

[@derekwhittom1639]

Sick camera move? Isn’t it just a steadycammer following him as he walks through the gap in the fence?

[@Dylan_Platt]

Great reaction. SO many people miss that fact that, under all the crime and INSANE tension, this is absolutely a comedy! It's even funnier on repeat viewings, when much of the tension is eased by knowing where things are going. You (very understandably -- you were connecting the timeline dots, which this movie's structure all but requires) talked over what is arguably the funniest line in the whole thing: "Aw man, I shot Marvin in the face."

[@FrancisXLord]

'Oh hold on, that was a sick camera move. How did they do that?' I can only tell you how I'd do it, probably matches the technique used here. I would pre-cut the fence, allowing both sides of the hole in the fence to be pulled out of the way of the camera the moment the fence leaves the edge of the frame. Well noticed though.

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

Harvey Kye-tell

[@DiogenesDecibel]

Kye like eye-ball. . . and Butch like a butcher, a.k.a. someone who butchers meat. Like Ashton Kutch-er.

[@alexbruce9499]

​@@DiogenesDecibelor like the standard English word 'butch'. Despite what he says to the taxi driver, his name does in fact have meaning.

[@paulamoya7956]

Half the film budget went to creating the fictional Jack Rabbit Slims .. ⭐️Ha! The Diner owner is listed in credits as Coffee Pot. That’s what he calls himself in the movie.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@drchaos2000]

this movie is 30 years old... 5 dollars for a milkshake was obscene... they were like 1.50 at mc donalds

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

Yeah, that’s be like a $15-20 milkshake today.

[@cjpolett2055]

But how have heroin prices changed over the years?

[@Cindrbell]

McDonald's milkshakes aren't real.

[@traverserred]

Maybe the briefcase had Marcelus’s soul in it.

[@iamnotanuggetblackhart5103]

Heh...Colonel Jack O'Neill from Stargate SG-1 would definitely agree with you on Uma. He intentionally answered a crossword puzzle wrong: "The clue for seven down is 'celestial body', and he wrote 'Uma Thurman'!" O'Neill, smiling proudly: "Yes!"

[@lanolinlight]

In the theater in '94, Walken's pauses were filled in by the audience laughing hysterically. It reminded me of the long pauses for laughter in classic screwball comedies. Tarantino and Sally Menke were the height of editorial intelligence. And yes, the kid who got the watch was Bruce Willis's character circa late 60's/early 70's.

[@auntvesuvi3872]

Two dancing Olivers for the price of one!!! 🕺🕺 I saw this one in the cinema... during my training with the Naval Reserve. I loved it and still do! ෴ Yes, indeed, I love mayonnaise, or theses days Vegenaise, on my fries. ෴ The ginger woman in the diner is Amanda Plummer. You might recognize her from SO I MARRIED AN AXE MURDERER (1993)? She also has a great, minor role in THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP (1982), which I hope you'll react to, someday.

[@ncored21]

Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill Volumes 1& 2 are his most famous movies, great reaction as always bro.

[@paulamoya7956]

Even Uma talking about the Pilot she made .. The pilot was a rough draft tiny description of Kill Bill.

[@nathancruz9172]

Don’t forget once upon a time in Hollywood.

[@ross8884]

You're one of my favourite reactors so great to see your response to this movie. I'm (a few) years older. This was the first movie I saw with my new housemates at University! We were quite shocked but loved it. We also had a great time dancing to the theme track album a few months later! :)

[@sarcasticstartrek7719]

It is a comedy, yes.

[@fakecubed]

Reservoir Dogs was an instant sensation among serious film buffs, but for general audiences Pulp Fiction launched Tarantino into a household name.

[@0okamino]

It was nice to finally be able to talk about Tarantino in other households, and not have the problem of nobody knowing who the hell he was anymore. 😄

[@dennydowling2169]

the chronological end of the movie is when Butch rides off with Fabienne on Zed's chopper.

[@maximillianosaben]

I always have to know how people handle the pawn shop scene...

[@0okamino]

My advice is to always be sure to wash up after handling the pawnshop scene.

[@Echo4Bravo]

Mister Wolf Just gave a slight nod , the coffee was good. 🤣👌

[@WolfHreda]

Travolta's dancing prowess should be no surprise. It's basically what started his career (as long as you ignore The Boy in the Plastic Bubble) considering his lead role in both Grease and Saturday Night Fever. If you want an underrated Travolta movie that also happens to star Samuel L. Jackson as well, I recommend Basic (2003). It's a bit of an action movie/thriller/mystery type thing. Lots of fun.

[@deepermind4884]

Travolta 1st became well-known from his character Vinnie Barbarino in the TV show "Welcome Back, Kotter", which ran from '75-'79.

[@philmakris8507]

The most popular theory on the contents of the briefcase is that in contains Marcellus' soul. Thus the band aid on the back of his neck during the bar scene.

[@russellward4624]

29:13 he's not a police officer, he's a security guard

[@torpedoboy4]

Each of our 3 protagonists took 3 lives in the film. They all had an opportunity to take a 4th life, and this crossroad of taking a 4th life is what buys their freedom or seals their doom. Butch and Jules both spare the lives of their 4th victims, and they live beyond the film. However, Vincent decides to try to kill Butch, and it backfires on him.

[@jamesdamiano8894]

I could be wrong but I always took Fabiana saying she wanted a pot belly was her way of telling Butch she wanted to get pregnant and she doesn't want to get punched in the belly. When Jules and Vincent are standing right before the fourth guy comes out and starts shooting, you can see there's already bullet holes in that wall. Just a fun continuity error. You didn't seem to catch the throwbacks to Reservoir Dogs like Vincent has the same last name as Vic, brothers, the junkyard is named Monster Joes. Joe the boss who put the heist together The background song at the beginning you liked was "Misirloy" by Dick Dale. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood is really good IMO. I'm older so I can catch the references and am familiar with the history of the time. The suitcase is called a Mcgufin. It's something that's used several movies. When Vincent is doing the thing with his fingers across the eyes, it was an homage to the originaL Batman does it in a dance scene in an episode and was called the Batusi A GoGo. Check it out it's very campy but cool.

[@dabegmister]

Beginning of this movie is so Golden

[@smittybenzo4693]

27:20 "He's Dead" ✅ "He's not in the movie anymore" ❌

[@firebird7479]

My roommate as we left the theater: What the Hell was that?

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

Same, but I knew that I had been fundamentally changed by it.

[@JohnLittle-i6o]

For those of us who were 14 or 15 when this movie came out, this is for all intents and purposes the only film Quentin Tarantino has made. It was that much of a phenomenon when it was released. I personally like Jackie Brown and Once Upon even more, but there's no question that this movie left a far bigger footprint on the culture.

[@JohnLittle-i6o]

Also, since my name is Paul, I used the "Hey, my name is Paul..." line all throughout high school.

[@SimoExMachina2]

Butch was the one who key's Vincent Vegas' car. It was after Vincent was rude to him in the bar, so Butch got the first payback there. Second one... you know the scene.

[@jeffdicello9242]

Three times in this movie, John Travolta goes into a bathroom, and all three times when he comes out, something very bad happens.

[@salsonny]

Ancient mythology goes, to steal someone's soul you have to remove it from the back of their neck, hence the bandaid on the back of Marcellus neck. His soul is in the brief case.

[@Anthonylokison]

Nope, that is just something a bunch of people say. And if it was his Soul then how did Vincent, Jules and Ringo all know what it was just by looking at it, when was the last time you saw a Soul? No that was a Macguffin, "A MacGuffin is a plot device used in films or books that sets the characters into motion and drives the story. A MacGuffin is an object, idea, person, or goal that the characters are either in pursuit of or which serves as motivation for their actions." Tarantino said in interviews that their is no answer to what was in the Briefcase, he just wants people to have conversations with each other trying to guess what was actually in it.

[@ryanclark6402]

7:35 The briefcase contains one Empire-sought, Alliance-stamped, Indiana-arousing MacGuffin. Handle with care, if you can acquire it.

[@AdamtheGrey02]

Just a quick correction. Harvey Keitel is pronounced "Harvey K-eye-tell".

[@thepodbaydoorshal]

Has any actor ever been given so many iconic lines in one movie as Sam Jackson did in this film? Almost every word is a quotable to be re-used in all manner of situations!

[@deepermind4884]

I know! I've lost count how many times I used the line about being the one on brain detail!! 😏

[@fakecubed]

The Big Lebowski is arguably the film with more iconic lines, although they are spread among a few characters. Hard to say.

[@thepodbaydoorshal]

@@deepermind4884 “Check out the big brain on Brad!” Is one of my favourites.

[@baronvg]

Back when the movie came out $5 for a milkshake was pretty absurd. How sad is it that nowadays, $5 for a shake is NORMAL! 😭

[@skywaymanaz]

This film is being shown tonight at Harkins theaters in the southwest states.

[@MrDeathpilot]

11:08 "Oh no no no...I'm not a big fan of needles." 😂 Wait for it. 😂

[@0okamino]

I haven’t seen a reactor yet who was particularly into that part. Of course, that’s very understandable.

[@HeidiDenoble]

The "little kid" is Butch. That's why it meant so much to him. I think you missed the flashback.

[@moistman5074]

Every time something bad happens Vincent is always on the toilet😂

[@v8matey]

Get your posters laminated. It helps protect them. And stops the edges deteriorating.

[@SimoExMachina2]

I agree! Garlic mayo and ketchup on fries is the food of gods.

[@gluecement]

I was into the mayo and ketchup on fries during my college years.

[@floorticket]

I've been to Amsterdam and they do eat their fries w/ mayo. But it's flavored, like a sauce or aioili. The little shops serve them in a paper cone and squirt the sauce down the middle. Ugh. You can get it on the side, I did.

[@Glacien3]

Vincent was in the bathroom so much because he stopped using heroin. Heroin makes you constipated. Great detail from Quentin Tarantino

[@ZoeDuneCorp]

@RolyPolyOllieReactions: 21:37: If you know anything about being human then you know that the moment Captain Koons hesitates is because he's getting emotional. You projecting at 21:50 that "this kid is probably getting so bored at this point", is YOU getting bored. 49:32: and you still don't remember the name. 50:11: Your highest praise is null and void by the fact that it won an Oscar for Best Screenplay... could be the highest praise in cinema?

[@jonbolton3376]

Great reaction to my favourite movie.

[@MrTbk1701]

I wonder if he knows the hold up girl is Christopher Plummber’s daughter and he was in Star Trek 6 and she will be in Star Trek as well 🖖

[@bmatt2626]

I like Kristof Volst's monologue about the watch.

[@silikon2]

There's a strong implication Butch's girlfriend is pregnant and knows it. She's talking about having a "pot belly" but otherwise normal proportions. Also she has a very voracious appetite with specific cravings.

[@fakecubed]

She's either pregnant or she wants to be.

[@magiclantern66]

I've seen a few Reaction Videos for this. No one seems surprised that Vincent is still in the movie after he's dead. That was a big twist for me when I I first saw it. Also, lots of people describe it as Realistic. I don't think it is. It's theatrical and even melodramatic. Still, love it though.

[@deepermind4884]

That was a bit of a painful watch. All these litttle things you weren't plugging into. But the most painful for me was that you don't seem to have any familiarity with the name 'Butch'. I've never in my 60+ years of life heard anyone rhyme it with 'Dutch'. It hurt my brain so much every time you said it that way! The 'u' is pronounced like in 'bush'. The word 'Butch' actually means 'a tough kid', or a very masculine man or woman, especially a lesbian.

[@flibber123]

At the time this movie was made, Travolta and Willis were both at low points in their careers. Plus Samuel L Jackson wasn't Samuel L Jackson yet, he was a working actor but he wasn't a big name yet. This movie happened at just the right time to make this cast possible.

[@ReymundoCortez]

Since you have seen reservoir dogs you have seen Vincent's brother Vic aka Mr Blonde. And in the movie From Paris With Love John Travolta eats a Royale with Cheese.

[@arturocostantino623]

Ketchup and mayonnaise and relish is i think the special sauce for Big Mac

[@fakecubed]

Yes. But also probably a bunch of other junk in it to preserve it and get the consistency, brix, saltiness, etc. just so while also keeping the cost as low as possible to produce in their factories.

[@Alan_CFA]

The unusual pauses in Christopher Walden’s scene are not in the actual movie. They are technical glitches, likely with your copy or your computer.

[@patrickhurley5604]

I'ma tell you the truth bro 😜 you kids today are used to $5 shakes, but when this movie came out, you could get a shake at McDonald's for $1.75😂 I'm 43 years old, I remember those days 😂

[@Bothorth]

22:00 Did he take it out to wind it? 😂

[@cobrakari]

I’m with you on the Mayo and fries👍🏾

[@nathancruz9172]

8:09 😂

[@codypendragons]

You know, Natural Born Killers, is a good movie.

[@RolyPolyOllieReactions]

Yes! I reacted to it :)

[@greenmachine949]

"Bring out the gimp." Always cracks me up. (ง ͠° ͟ل͜ ͡°)ง

[@SCharlesDennicon]

Yeah, still QT's best film next to Django Unchained, imo. Boy I wish your generation had the equivalent of Pulp Fiction. I was too young to really dig it, but I remember how much people dug it, it was the only game in town - rightfully so. Entertaining reaction. I wonder how you could be SURPRISED that PF is funny since humor is huge in QT's cinema (which Tarantino movie did you watch that wasn't funny?!), but whatever. PS: "Milshake were always so expensive!" he said, born after 9/11...? :) PPS: Papa Tomato most definitely did NOT kill his son. PPPS: it's "Royal Cheese", not a "Royal with cheese". Your welcome.

[@deepermind4884]

Papa Tomato 🍅 smashed the baby tomato & turned him into "catchup". If that isn't killing him, it was at least permanently maiming him. It was said clearly in the dialogue a few times, "Royale with cheese".

[@sparksdrinker5650]

Kill Bill will be great reactions!

[@JakeLoppp]

Heroin not coke

[@torontomame]

French fries dipped in mayonnaise are awesome! 😁👍

[@zegh8578]

Mayo + Ketchup = Thousand island dressing

[@codypendragons]

A Japanese fox should be a karate master or a taekwondo master, but never a kung fu master.

[@itiswhatitis141]

can you review the movie "the room". i want to hear your laugh next to tommy wiseaus laugh lol

[@damianlatimer2290]

Can you watch In The Heat Of The Night 1967?

[@merkitten953]

You ned to watch a little closer, or listen to dialogue closer. Every moment doesnt need a comment and it makes u miss stuff. Its heroin not coke, and they clearly say that in the movie. Sorry but its just frustrating.

[@rickp8938]

Who else always skips to THAT scene? You know the scene 😏

[@SimoExMachina2]

I just spotted an error in the film logic: when Vincent has his little "accident" with Marvin, Vincent and Jules are in the front and Marv in the back, right? Jules is facing forward (away from Marv) because he is driving the car. How are there blood spatters on the front side of Jules' shirt? Makes sense that Vincent has them since he was facing towards Marv, but Jules was not. Tarantino, you did not think this through.

[@elindayana8174]

PLEASE REACT TO "SPIRIT: STALLION OF THE CIMARRON"! It's a story about a strong, beautiful horse with a spirit that can never be broken. I cry every time i watch it! It's a INCREDIBLE film, and the songs are so cool! But it's not a musical and the animals can't talk. 😭💔🔥

[@BigGator5]

He won't react to anything I suggest, what makes you think he'll react to your suggestions? Go with God and Be Safe from Evil. 😎 👍

[@philmakris8507]

Bootch- not Buuttch

[@Eduardo-yj5cd]

The Expendables 2... please.

[@kennethmarrow3131]

You talk too much bro

[@deepermind4884]

I think he thinks he's being paid by the word.