Pulp Fiction Rip-offs: The Good, The Bad And The Boondock Saints

There was so many of them. I got to see a lot of them for free in Los Angeles because in the good 'ol days people would come up to you in the malls or on the street for free screenings.

City of Industry (1997)

Truth Or Consequences N.M. (1997)

Reindeer Games (2000) Charlize again!

Lucky Number Slevin (2006)

American Strays (1996)

and one I actually liked because I was a big Fairuza Balk fan

Things To Do In Denver When You’re Dead (1995)

Boondock Saints has to be, hands down, the worst fucking piece of shit movie ever made

[quote]You got a lot of movies that combined Tarantino and Gen-X Slacker movies.

Those chatty reationship movies with an overlapping cast and maybe some comical gunplay is early Doug Liman territory. Go is not a Pulp Fiction rip off as such, but certainly a close relative.

A lot of directors who got their big breaks in the late 90s and even early 00s made these quirky talky indie crime movies before they got more personal - Paul Thomas Anderson with Hard Eight, Wes Anderson with Bottle Rocket. Those kind of movies were being greenlit like crazy at that time.

The British Pulp Fiction rip offs from Guy Ritchie and Matthew Vaughn weren't bad as such, and obvioulsy drew on the heritage of local gangster movies, but yeah... Gael Garcia Bernal went to drama school in London specifically so he could be classically trained and what was being released was Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels. Suffice to say he was disappointed,

Things To Do In Denver was fucked up. Christopher Walken wants ex-girlfriend to get together with his child molester son in order cure his pedophilia?!!!

At least Boondock Saints gave us eye candy.

Speaking of eye candy, Timothy Oliphant was hot as fuck in GO.

Charlize was also in 2 Days in the Valley

"Those chatty reationship movies with an overlapping cast and maybe some comical gunplay is early Doug Liman territory."

Ahem.

R7 Oops the link in the OP wasn't working and must have skimmed the text. I actually forgot Charlize was in this movie until I thought about it just now.

The only good thing about the original was the Dusty Springfield song they used in it.

What a fucking letdown 2 Days In The Valley is! The much hyped catfight between Charlize Theron and Teri Hatcher was nothing.

I liked Two Days in the Valley.

R1, Balk was the only good thing in Things To Do In Denver When You’re Dead!

I always thought that Boondock Saints was Reservoir Dogs for dumb people who couldn't get the Tarantino pop culture references.

What about that one where Val Vilmer played the gay PI? Kiss Kiss Bang Bang? With RDJ as the loser con

Yeah, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. An avalanche of quirky profanity which is another Pulp Fiction hallmark. I liked that movie. Val Kilmer was hilarious and it's the best Michelle Monghan has ever been.

GO was fabulous.

Any movie with a situation going horribly horribly wrong and douchebro dialogue = Any and all Kevin Smith movies.

Smokin’ Aces anyone?

I hate this jandra!