When I started this thread, I certainly had no intention of putting down Tarantino. True, I don’t like most of what he’s done, but that has nothing to do with the point I was making, that it’s offensive to see Elmore talked about in the past tense. By anyone.
That said, I disagree re Pulp Fiction. It’s one of my favorite movies, one of only a handful I can and do watch every time I run across it on cable.
(Also on the list—just for fun—would be Heat, Ronin, Goodfellas, Get Shorty, The Spanish Prisoner, State & Main, House of Games, Quiz Show, Full Metal Jacket, Salvador, Rounders...and a few I can’t think of at the moment).