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I actually enjoy this movie more than 'Pulp Fiction'


There are so many tarantino references throughout this movie. But this is everything that Pulp Fiction isn't.

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But this is everything that Pulp Fiction isn't.


Care to elaborate? I enjoy both films (even watched both back-to-back on New Year's Day) but I fail to see how Go is in any way superior to Pulp Fiction.

Anyone here mentions Hotel California dies before the first line clears his lips.

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Hi.
Well first of all Pulp Fiction is good. But 'Go' has content that is more fun to watch. The film contains stuff that Pulp Fiction doesn't do. Though this is a shorter film, I found the conversations more enjoyable to listen to. The soundtrack is great. The film is shorter and the scenes don't drag on. It is also more funnier.

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It sure has Tarantino's scent allover it... except in the cinematography department where QT's long takes and classical precision of composition are all too often replaced by the flashy music video style frenzy. To be sure, it's frequently an irritating picture, all too concerned about being cool and "in with da kids" and the actors aren't really helping to make the best out of it all, either. However, it did manage to be sporadically sort of smart and fun though; the Fichtner character in particular was hilarious. Comparisons to Pulp Fiction... most unwarranted and even less favourable.



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https://www.indiewire.com/2014/05/17-copycat-films-spawned-from-quentin-tarantinos-pulp-fiction-85572/

“Go” (Doug Liman, 1999)

When Roger Ebert reviewed “Go” back in 1999, he used the first paragraph to talk about the lasting legacy of “Pulp Fiction,” including the fact that “sooner or later the statute of limitations has to run out” on comparisons between new movies and Tarantino’s game-changing masterpiece. And the critical consensus was pretty much in agreement: even though, as Ebert said, “the shadow of Q.T. falls on many scenes,” Doug Liman‘s energetic, candy-colored follow-up to “Swingers” was a deeply entertaining ride in its own right. (It was also, with the country’s youth currently under the spell of a dance music renaissance, ahead of its time.) The biggest debt “Go” pays to “Pulp Fiction” is in its shifty, interlocking narrative that follows a trio of threads, all loosely connected back to a Christmas-themed rave in Los Angeles, and in its cooler-than-thou attitude, with snappy, tough-talking drug dealers, kooky cops and a coolly detached view of violence and its real-world repercussions. (It’s also worth noting that Liman was once again latching onto contemporary urban hipster tropes.) The power of “Go,” which unfolds with a nearly hallucinogenic vividness (like “American Graffiti” on ecstasy), is that you aren’t actively attributing this debt to Tarantino as the movie is going on. It’s hilarious and involving and warm on its own terms. “Go” is one of the rare son-of-“Pulp Fiction” movies where it didn’t matter if the influence was obvious; it was that damn good. [B+]


https://ew.com/article/2014/10/14/pulp-fiction-spawn/

https://www.yardbarker.com/entertainment/articles/the_best_and_worst_pulp_fiction_knockoffs/s1__30276242

https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-tarantino-knockoffs/

https://screenrant.com/best-tarantino-homages-seven-psychopaths/

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This movie is WAY better than Pulp Fiction!

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I also enjoy this more than Pulp Fiction, I do like Pulp Fiction, but this movie is just way more fun.

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you mean because of the related, non-chronological story telling?
Pulp Fiction will always be better.

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I wonder what Tarantino thinks of this movie.

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