>>PF is one of the most awesome movies of all time, unless you’re gay, or hate gays, and cannot handle the basement scene. The basement scene ROCKS.<<
The revolving conceit is just that — a conceit. By the time the viewer realizes they are flipping chapters back and forth the damn movie is over.
It was good and interesting as an abstract study in cinema but hardly “great.”
I can see both sides of the argument about PF. My take is that there are really two types of movies, and you have to judge them separately. There are “films”, which try to be serious works of cinema, and aught to be judged on that standard, and then there are “flicks”, which are really just for entertainment, and judging them on artistic merits is just silly.
By that standard, I’d say Pulp Fiction is a great FLICK, but not a great FILM. It’s got some artistry to it, so a lot of people try to judge it like a film, but even the title itself betrays that it is just titillating exploitation entertainment. If you buy a pulp novel, you don’t expect Shakespeare, so when you watch Pulp Fiction you shouldn’t expect high art either.