This tasty burger turns 30 and I still love it.

Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 Oscar-winning classic, and also my favorite movie of all time, has turned 30-years-old this year, and still holds up. The violence, the fast food conversations (In France, a Quarter Pounder is called a “Royale with Cheese” because of the metric system), the soundtrack (with Urge Overkill, Al Green, and Kool & the Gang, etc.), and the comedy that emerges within them. All these qualities are enough to make it a classic. Well, at least a majority of us would think so.

The story is told out of order with a cavalcade of characters, consisting of hitmen Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson), their boss Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames), his wife Mia (Uma Thurman), the boxer Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis), his girlfriend Fabienne (Maria de Medeiros), the fixer known as The Wolf (Harvey Keitel), the diner thieves Pumpkin (Tim Roth) and Honey Bunny (Amanda Plummer), the drug dealer Lance (Eric Stoltz), his woman Jody (Rosanna Arquette), and the POW camp survivor Captain Koons (Christopher Walken).

There are many fascinating and crazy stories, like Vincent and Lance saving an overdosed Mia, or Butch dodging Marsellus after a fixed fight gone wrong, or Vincent accidentally shooting and killing his and Jules’ informer Marvin (Phil LaMarr), or the opening and closing diner robbery, which has a satisfying stand off and conclusion. It’s all out of order, but who cares? This is massively entertaining with how Tarantino directed and how he and Roger Avery wrote the screenplay, which they both won the Oscars for.

I’ve had various conversations about this movie with Giancarlo Eposito, who says it’s his least favorite movie (“To each is own,” he says), Julie Brown (who starred in the parody “Plump Fiction”), and Kari Wahlgren, who loves the iconic moments. And after I asked Jenny Slate a question about voice acting, I’ve said: “Spoken like a true prodigy.” I used to think I didn’t have a favorite movie, but a few years ago, my mind became clear. “Pulp Fiction” is my all-time favorite movie.

Back in 2018, I asked Danny DeVito (who was credited as an executive producer) what it was like working on this movie. Due to technical difficulties, I don’t have the question on tape, but I did catch on to him saying that he would have worked on Tarantino’s first film “Reservoir Dogs” if it wasn’t already finished.

A question that fans have been asking all these years is: What’s in that briefcase that Vincent and Jules had to deliver to their boss? I came across an article called “Seriously, what was in the briefcase in ‘Pulp Fiction’?” on entertainment.ie, which suggested many theories. One would guess that Marsellus sold his soul to the Devil and it may contain it. That theory came from the Chinese culture the soul is removed from the back of the head. Another theory was the diamonds stolen in “Reservoir Dogs” or Elvis’ gold suit in “True Romance” (which Tarantino wrote). Or, and this is for laughs, an Oscar. But whatever the item, it wasn’t what was inside the briefcase, but what kept the movie moving forward. I still don’t know what’s inside, but my guess is something golden.

We’ve had a lot of 30-year-anniversaries for 1994 movies this year, like “Forrest Gump,” “Speed,” or “The Lion King,” and I’m know we have 30-year-anniversaries for other years. So, you’re probably asking me: why should I share my passion for “Pulp Fiction?”

This is a Tarantino opus that has its fans and opposers, its questions, its controversy regarding the racial slurs, and everything that this movie stands for. You can watch it in its non-linear format or watch a fan-made version of it being in order, and yet, it still is a great movie.