10 Classic Movies You Didn't Know Were Slammed By Critics

3. Pulp Fiction

"Because Pulp Fiction is sporadically effective, the temptation to embrace the entire two hours and 29 minutes of Tarantiniana is strong. But in truth this is a noticeably uneven film, both too inward-looking and self-centered in its concerns and too outward-bound in the way it strains to outrage an audience, to be successful across the board." So sayeth Kenneth Turran in his review of Tarantino's genre-defining movie, Pulp Fiction. To say that Turran was way off the money both in terms of the film's broad appeal (anyone who went to university in the late 90s can attest the millions of Pulp Fiction posters adorning students' walls) and its masterful pacing is an understatement, to say the least. Turran went one step further, accusing director Quentin Tarantino of "scrambling for any way to offend sensibilities" with his inclusion of scenes featuring bondage harnesses and homosexual rape. Much to his surprise, presumably, these scenes certainly didn't hurt Tarantino's career.