I agree. Minus Brad Pitt's embarrassment of a performance this is QT's best film (outside of True Romance which he only wrote). All of his ultra-annoying quirks are subtracted and you just get pure cinema. Some of those scenes (opening, bar) are HOF-ers. And as a screenwriter you can tell that he spent ALOT of time with this script to come up with all of those details. Very well written and thought out.