Reply #4: Particularly the violence.

[LostInAnomie]

Sure people may be dispatched in unique ways, but when they are killed the results resemble reality. Blood splatter isn't just blood splatter. It includes brain matter or chunks of flesh. A bullet wound isn't just a bullet wound. Flesh tears, bone is visible, etc. When people are shot, they don't do the cliche "grabbing the wound and falling down". They react as is they were really shot and you see them in anguish. After someone is killed in a shoot out the room falls deathly silent, not the usual "shoot out rock" music playing in the background.

This was particularly true in Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs. Things just looked like they were really happening, despite the improbability.