The big labowski?

[achiro]

Maybe I was tired, maybe I was in a bad mood, maybe I am just missing something. I snickered at a couple of parts but I really didn't get it I guess. Can someone bring me up to speed on why this is considered the best movie evar by some folks?


BTW, this was one of only a couple of the Coen flicks I hadn't seen and the No country thread got me thinking I needed to check it out. Based on what I know so far, it's down the list of Coen films I've seen.

[birddog]

it's something that gets funnier the more you watch it. alot of the humor and dialogue is really subtle.

i don't know what else to say.

[royalfan5]

It looks like Achiro is out of his element.

[silverwheels]

Maybe you should have watched The Big Lebowski instead.

[achiro]

Maybe you should have watched The Big Lebowski instead.
DANG IT!!!!!!:mad: :D

[achiro]

It looks like Achiro is out of his element.
You mean like maybe I should have been high when I watched it?

[KC//CRIMSON]

Drink half a dozen white russians and watch it again.

[tommieharris91]

Being high works too.

[yermom]

You mean like maybe I should have been high when I watched it?

you aren't wrong, Achiro, you're just an *******

:D

i'm not really sure how to explain that flick. i really liked it the first time i saw it, and the more i watched it, the more i liked it.

it's easily in my top 10, i think

the dialog, the music, the characters, the story, the cast. it's all top-notch

[birddog]

i'll take another caucasian, gary.

[birddog]

you make one hell of a cuacasian, jackie.

[yermom]

he treats objects like women, man

[royalfan5]

I think this post will really tie the thread together.

[yermom]

you are obviously not a golfer

[birddog]

this aggression will not stand, man.

[yermom]

wait, is The Big Labowski the pr0n version?

[birddog]

hey, hey this is a private residence, man.

[RFH Shakes]

Don't **** with the Jesus!:)

[birddog]

we played a great lebowski drinking game back in the day.

you had 5 seconds to come up with a line and you had to take a shot if'n you couldn't.

[picasso]

if you missed it the first time then there's no hope in going back.

[Lott's Bandana]

it's something that gets funnier the more you watch it. alot of the humor and dialogue is really subtle.

i don't know what else to say.


Exactly.

I thought Napoleon Dynamite was stooooopid the first time I watched it. The middle of the second screening, I completely thought: "in".


Watch it again without expectations on a rainy Tuesday evening.


On a similar note: Take the initial greatness of the first time you saw The Usual Suspects, then pile on how amazing it is each time you watch it again...the things you didn't notice the first few times. Similar reaction. I found it incredible when the director of TUS explained how Kevin Spacey portrayed Verbal in a way that he knew people would watch it again, so his acting was focused on the first timers but also for those that knew what he was about...he played it both ways at once. That was the first time I really understood the concept of acting as an "art".

Sorry for the rant...I just like to celebrate brilliance in a mediocre world.



;)

[SteelClip49]

I'm the Dude

[KC//CRIMSON]

You mark that frame an 8, and you're entering a world of pain.

[King Crimson]

it's a comic reworking of Chandler's The Big Sleep.

[Lott's Bandana]

it's something that gets funnier the more you watch it. alot of the humor and dialogue is really subtle.



One more thing...

I was watching the first season of The Office last night. One of the writers called it Observational Humor. A sitcom without a laughtrack...YOU have to decide what's funny to you.

Fargo
Princess Bride
Spinal Tap
Raising Arizona
Pulp Fiction
Little Miss Sunshine

Brilliant.

The Thin Man movies from the '40s are a perfect example of the early development of this cinematic style...serious plots with subtle, intelligent humor throughout.

Others smarter than me could even go back and point out some of Shakespeare's examples of this...

See...Cohen Brothers to Shakespeare...that's quite a leap!

[Frozen Sooner]

This isn't like Vietnam, achiro. There are rules. It's just like that camel-****er in Iraq. This aggression will not stand.

[Lott's Bandana]

This thread makes me happy in my smiles.

[achiro]

So don't get me wrong, I didn't dislike the movie. Maybe I was looking for a point to the plot instead of just enjoying the one liners(I did laugh out loud when he nailed the board to the floor only to find that the door opened out!)
I still don't know that I liked it better than Fargo, O brother, Millers Crossing, or Raising Arizona.

[tommieharris91]

YOU MUST DRAW A LINE IN THE SAND DUDE!!! ACROSS THIS LINE, YOU DO NOT... ohh, chinaman is not the preffered nomenclature. It's Asian-American, dude.

[Frozen Sooner]

It's absuridism, achiro. The plot isn't linear at all-in fact, it could be argued that there really isn't a plot. It's just a very bizarre few days in a guy's life. The genius of the script is that while everything seems tangentially related, the relations are incidental and don't serve to advance what could be loosely called a plot.

[King Crimson]

It's absuridism, achiro. The plot isn't linear at all-in fact, it could be argued that there really isn't a plot. It's just a very bizarre few days in a guy's life. The genius of the script is that while everything seems tangentially related, the relations are incidental and don't serve to advance what could be loosely called a plot.


see, here's my Chandler comment. there IS a plot. but it's hidden in goofing homage to the film noir/hard-boiled detective genre. the thing with the latter is it featured an "anti-hero". and Jeff L. is as such. the bad guy in social terms is the good guy.

Chinatown is in this tradition, minus to comedic send-up. where the "scummy" guy who makes a living on fringe of morals has to develop a conscience and do what is right by breaking the law/rules.

[Petro-Sooner]

Phones ringing dude........

[yermom]

i guess i need to see Chinatown again

and i really need to see Miller's Crossing

[KC//CRIMSON]

You want a toe? I can get you a toe, believe me. Hell, I can get you a toe by 3 o'clock this afternoon... with nail polish.

[soonerinabilene]

I dabbled in pacifism once myself. Not in Nam, of course.

Where the **ck is my car, walter?
It was parked in a handicapped space. Perhaps they towed it.

I didnt bring it bowling. Im not buying it a beer. I didnt rent it shoes.

My 1000th post gets to be lebowski quotes. I am truly a blessed man.

[tbl]

The Chinaman is not the issue.



WE CUT OFF YOUR JOHNSON!!!!

[Mongo]

Let me tell you something, pendejo. You pull any of your crazy **** with us, you flash a piece out on the lanes, I'll take it away from you, stick it up your *** and pull the ****ing trigger 'til it goes "click."

[Frozen Sooner]

Let me tell you something, pendejo. You pull any of your crazy **** with us, you flash a piece out on the lanes, I'll take it away from you, stick it up your *** and pull the ****ing trigger 'til it goes "click."

Jesus

[oilmud]

This is what happens when you **** a stranger in the ***

[yermom]

Jesus

you said it, mang

[tbl]

Ah hahahahaha! Wonderful woman. We're all, we're all very fond of her. Very free-spirited.
Brandt can't watch, though, or he has to pay a hundred.
Ah haha. That's marvelous.
Uh, I'm just gonna go find a cash machine.

Her life is in your hands.
Don't say that man.

Dude... Duder... El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing.

The bums lost!!!

[tbl]

and I would definitely argue that there IS a plot. A good one too. I never have understood it when people say TBL or ND don't have plots.

[tommieharris91]

Let me tell you something, pendejo. You pull any of your crazy **** with us, you flash a piece out on the lanes, I'll take it away from you, stick it up your *** and pull the ****ing trigger 'til it goes "click."

8-year-olds, dude.

[1stTimeCaller]

It's a show dog, a Pomeranian, it has papers.

[C&CDean]

I'm one of those people that think the Coen brothers flicks - and especially Fargo - are some of the worst movies I've ever seen. Yeah, I get it, but I just don't like it. Guess I'm just not a hipster or something. Fargo ranks right there with that fakey witch movie that came out a few years back. I've never heard faker Sven accents in a flick. Ever.

That being said, TBL is a great flick. Weird as hell, but I like it.

[1stTimeCaller]

THe Captain has us working in shifts.

[birddog]

my dirty undies, dude. the whites.

[soonerinabilene]

Stay away from my ****ing lady friend, man.

[Frozen Sooner]

KC-

See, I just don't agree about the plot or lack thereof. While there is a protagonist, there's no true antagonist. There's no fundamental struggle. At the end, the protagonist is essentially unchanged. He learns nothing and changes nothing about his life. I mean, I guess you could argue that the plot is the Dude attempting to get his life back to some semblance of normalcy while crazy **** happens, but he doesn't even seem to try to do that very hard. He's acted on and never acts himself.

[soonerinabilene]

Were you listening to the dude's story?
No, I was bowling.
Then you have no frame of reference. You are like a child that wanders into the middle of a movie.

[tbl]

Shomer Shabaz!

[Frozen Sooner]

Were you listening to the dude's story?
No, I was bowling.
Then you have no frame of reference. You are like a child that wanders into the middle of a movie.

"I am the Walrus"

[soonerinabilene]

"I am the Walrus"

VI LENIN!! Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov!!!

[silverwheels]

People forget that the brain is the biggest erogenous zone.

[mikeelikee]

The Dude abides!

[KC//CRIMSON]

I'll suck your **** for a thousand dollars.


Something tells me Tara Reid uses that line all the time now.;)

[silverwheels]

I'll suck your **** for a thousand dollars.


Something tells me Tara Reid uses that line all the time now.;)

Now? I'm sure she's been using it for a long time.

[soonerinabilene]

"they were nazis, dude?
"oh, come on Donnie, they were threatening castration. Are we going to split hairs here?

[colleyvillesooner]

he's a nihlist.

Aww, that must be exhausting.

[tommieharris91]

What's a pederass??

SHUT THE **** UP, DONNIE!!!

[StoopTroup]

If you have never really known anyone like Jeff Bridges and John Goodman's Character in TBL...I guess you might not get it.

I've only watched it a few times because it brings back memories for me that I have locked away. ;)