Pulp Fiction on Spike

Jim Brennan

Jim Brennan

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I was skipping through the channels tonight and saw Pulp Fiction was on. Was it just me, or did they have a really bad copy? It looked like a home movie in some spots.
 
vjbrennan said:
I was skipping through the channels tonight and saw Pulp Fiction was on. Was it just me, or did they have a really bad copy? It looked like a home movie in some spots.
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I'm watching it right now on spike. I see what you're saying, it does look a little eh.
 
Yeah, I surfed through it earlier. To me it looked very washed out, but I just blamed it on my local cable provider...

I was more upset that it was being shown with sanitized dialogue and commercials. Some movies just should not be shown that way. This is one of them.
 
They probably spent more time reworking the dialogue for broadcast TV than they did shooting the film.
 
I've seen it broadcast on television before - it looked like those cheap one-light video transfers we got done in film school. And the edited content really took away from the movie. I'm just glad I have my DVD copy :)
 
I hate it when they show rated R movies on regular TV. Especially something like Pulp Fiction. Did they replace every F word with Fungus? Most of the movie was pretty explict and all that had to be cut out. Mike is right, it really takes you away from the movie.
 
Hmmph, I noticed it looked old and dirty yet the language was cleaned up. That's ALMOST a usable metaphor for Hollywood (well, Los Angeles) in general. The air is dirty, smoggy and polluted but the cars are all reeeeeally clean! lol

By the way, not to turn this into a fan thread or anything but when I think of the beautifully dirty Los Angeles skies and how pollution can be used to great effect in another film other than "Pulp Fiction," I think of the film, "To Live and Die in L.A." It stars the very young: William L. Peterson (of "CSI" fame), Willem Dafoe, John Pankow ("Mad About You"), John Turturro and Dean Stockwell. The LA skies almost deserve a credit, so important are they to establishing mood.

If you like dark, action packed, suspenseful drama you'll like this one.
 
Oh sh*t, here we go off topic, but, "To Live and Die in LA" rocks. If you can check out the new DVD version with lots of extras. The making of doc is very good, as is the commentary by Billy Friedken.
 
picture quality looked like sh#t, bad pan and scan job, and dilogue was choppy with all the swears cut out. i lasted about 3 minutes before had to turn it off.
 
Live and Die in LA is great. It has one of my favorite death scenes in it. But I hate the soundtrack.
 
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