Pulp Fiction: 30th Anniversary

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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For the 30th Anniversary of Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, we're re-releasing our episode discussing it back from 2019! Paul and Amy boogie through 1994’s Quentin Tarantino indie breakout Pulp Fiction! They revisit the moment Pulp Fiction won at Cannes, ask what this film did right that so many imitators did wrong, and try to figure out what’s in the briefcase. Next week: We're back with an all new episode discussing this year in horror! You can join the Unspooled conversation on Paul’s Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6 Follow Paul and Amy on Letterboxd for more of their movie hot takes! https://letterboxd.com/paulscheer/ https://letterboxd.com/theamynicholson/ Paul’s book Joyful Recollections of Trauma is out now! Find it at https://www.harpercollins.com/products/joyful-recollections-of-trauma-paul-scheer Check out more of Paul's writing on his Substack https://substack.com/@paulscheer Episodic Art by Kim Troxall: https://www.unspooledart.com/ Learn more about the show at Unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and on Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or where you listen to podcasts.

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0:00.0	The year is 1994 and suddenly everybody wants a job as a video store clerk.
0:05.0	The movie, Pulp Fiction. Hello. Hello everyone and welcome to Unspooled. I'm Amy Nicholson and I want to thank you
0:31.6	for bearing with us in this stretch of just bringing classic episodes out of the vault
0:36.4	We've had a couple things going on over here. One of them is that I had an organ removed. I'm totally fine. I'm just spending a couple weeks resting up watching movies
0:45.6	reading the collected works of Jacqueline Suzanne and also this great book called Boomtown
0:50.5	about the OckC Thunder that I have to recommend to anybody out there who's a fellow basketball head.
0:55.4	There will be an episode out next week, a new episode out next week. We're going to be getting into the horror films of this year
1:01.1	and our own Halloween movie marathon watch list. I will say now
1:04.9	actually that Smile Too fantastic. Totally check it out this weekend if you can.
1:10.3	But for now, do you know what they call a birthday in France? An anniversary. And do you know what they call a 30th birthday in France? A Trantium anniversary?
1:21.0	Yes, we are having a French lesson because Pulp Fiction came out 30 years ago this week.
1:26.0	So let's celebrate by resurrecting this show from our very first season
1:30.0	where we talk about whether or not this is the right Quentin Tarantino film to be on the
1:34.3	AFI list. I mean this movie did truly change Hollywood and I cannot be the only person out there
1:39.2	who also thinks that this movie changed their life. Although I also cannot believe that 30 years ago my parents let me watch
1:44.9	Pulp Fiction and buy the script and listen to the soundtrack non-stop. I guess girl I became a woman soon. So without further ado from Unspilled episode 64 released in July of 2019, here's Pulp Fiction.
2:00.0	The year is 1994 and for the first time ever Americans are watching friends
2:04.2	they're using their George Foreman grills and more than half of them are wearing a
2:08.0	Wonder Bra. Lisa Marie marries Michael Jackson only 20 days after her divorce
2:12.2	to Danny Kehoe.
2:13.6	McDonald's has sued for their two hot coffee.
2:15.6	Nancy Kerrigan places second in the Olympics despite getting her knee smashed in by the
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