[Ghoulish Delight]

Does something have to be contentious to be noteworthy? Have I forgotten the history chapter about the Great Bob Newhart/Mary Tyler Moore Race Wars of '73?

To me, the world was different after Pulp Fiction. There's a pretty clear dividing line in my head between "movies before Pulp Fiction" and "movies after pulp fiction", to a degree where someone who has never known a movie landscape without the influence of Pulp Fiction doesn't really know what it was like to watch movies beforehand. It's very possible (if not likely) that it was less that it directly lead to a rise in certain themes and styles in movies, and more that it made me aware of them and prompted me to seek them out. But if so, I feel pretty secure in saying I was not alone, that a LOT of people's perceptions of movies changed in '94.

Similar to me listing the VCR. It's not necessarily about some singular "I remember where I was the moment X happened" event. What often sticks in my mind are the shifts in how we consume our culture, and how our culture communicates to us. The VCR inexorably changed how we interface with media. Pulp Fiction inexorably changed the tone and style of the media we consumed. Controversial or not, it, from where I was sitting in '94, made a huge impact.