"New stuff has come to light, man!" 'THE BIG LEBOWSKI' (1 Viewer)

[Inspector Hammer!]

It's no stretch at all. I don't know why I think that, maybe it was when he pulled a gun on a guy for illegaly marking his frame during bowling.

 

[dpippel]

One of my all-time favorite movies as well. Sheer cinematic genius, every fu$king bit of it. I'd *LOVE* to see this film get a re-release with a new transfer (the current release is pretty bad) and a real SE treatment.

By the way, for anyone interested in The Big Lebowski:

LebowskiFest.com

"Hey, this is a private residence man..."

 

[Henry Gale]

Smokey: "Yeah but I wasn't over."


Last year I ended a four year relationship with a rather exciting young woman who, among other things was too eccentric and troubled for me to continue a life with. One bellwether that I should not have ignored was her characterization of The Big Lebowski as, “Just a bunch of cussing.”
The other day I was fantasizing a bumper sticker that would read, “If she doesn’t like Lebowski, drop her”


Maude Lebowski: "What do you do for recreation?"
The Dude: "Oh, the usual. I bowl. Drive around. The occasional acid flashback."

 

[JeremyErwin]

Milius later went on to direct "Red Dawn," which explores these themes.

 

[Vince Maskeeper]

This sounds like my experience too. I saw it for the first time in a mostly empty theater and was absolutely pissing my pants. In the scene where Jesus goes door to door, and they cut right before he starts talking: holy shit- I started laughing and missed the next minute of movie because i just couldn't stop.

I swear the two middle-aged ladies in the row behind me spent more time looking at me in bewildering disgust than they did watching the actual film: I assume they figured I was high or something.

But, I honestly think I was the only one laughing-- with in retrospect seems kind of surprising. Especially considering what a following this movie has now.

-V

PS: While everyone has fun quoting lebowski, i find it more interesting to mention moments I didn't catch the first time around. My favorite is when Lebowski pitches his change on the counter for his coffee (when storming out of the family restaurant)- mixed in with his change is a joint which he quickly notices, fishes out of the change without mentioning it and shoves it back into his pocket before leaving.

 

[JeremyErwin]

"I was one of the authors of the Port Huron Statement. The original Port Huron Statement, not the compromise second draft."

 

[dpippel]

MAUDE: Do you like sex, Mr. Lebowski?

THE DUDE: Excuse me?

MAUDE: Sex. The physical act of love. Coitus. Do you like it?

THE DUDE: I was talking about my rug.

MAUDE: You're not interested in sex?

THE DUDE: You mean coitus?

 

[Paul_D]

"Yeah, well, that's just, like, her opinion, man."



My Big Lebowski DVD Fantasy (MERGED SE THREAD)

Some of the funniest stuff I've ever read on this forum. "I'll give you a special edition for $1,000."

 

[David Wilkins]

Hey...the fan base for Labowski is a great deal broader than "4 million college kids". I'm 48, and it's one of my all-time favorite comedies.

I'm continually baffled by the huge percentage of people in this country, who lead lives of such a bland, "moralistic" and unquestioning nature, that such entertainment is held at arm's length with nostrils tightly pinched...and written off as "weird" or "immoral". It's as if their entire life on this earth is equiped with a pair of blinders, worn not simply willingly, but with enthusiasm.

I understand that any particular film will be liked or disliked by a wide variety of people...that's simply the nature of the medium, or that of any particular art form. What I'm referring to is a much more specific, core reaction, from a fairly predictable range of people in our society.

I suspect that people of such mindset pooled their resources and energies, went to the poles in great numbers, and re-elected our current political dysfunction.

Long live The Dude, and his ilk.

Okay, I'm braced for it. Go ahead and hit me.

 

[Inspector Hammer!]

Well, David, seeing as how I don't want my thread closed, i'm not hitting you with anything, man.

"Mark it fuckin zero!!"

 

[David Wilkins]

Geez...it's buried somewhere deep in my gene structure. Once in a while, I just gotta throw a rock.

Though, if analyzed, you won't find reference to specifics; there's more flammable gas, than flammable material.

 

[Brook K]

I took my kids bowling yesterday. When my son fouled I had to resist the urge to scream OVER THE LINE


PRIVATE DICK: It's great to meet a brother shamus

THE DUDE: What is that? An Irish monk?

 

[Haggai]

If only you had, Brook, and then gotten "Daddy, you're out of your element!!" thrown back at you.

 

[Henry Gale]

As am I David. I agree with your statement and I'm a decade older.
Yesterday I started a thread on Vera Drake that said none of the things I wanted to say about the movie. It's not really about abortion, it's about a family coping the best they can and genuinely caring about each other. Boogie Nights might be about the 1970s porn scene in Los Angeles, but I actually feel like it's about some of the nicest, kindest folks I've ever seen portrayed on film.
Some people would never allow for that possibility.

These smiles are for John (next post) who thinks I'm too serious.

 

[Inspector Hammer!]

Come on, guy's, this thread is supposed to be fun, not some serious debate. It's only a movie afterall. I mean I can't recall a sngle instance when I saw a man walking around the supermarket in his bath robe.

Light-hearted film, light-hearted thread.

 

[Bryan Tuck]

I saw this for the first time in Aug. of '98, just after it had come out on video. I was a fan of the Coens already and had meant to see it when it was in theaters, but I hadn't gotten around to it. I was a junior in college, and several of us from the dorm watched it in our lobby.

We were almost out of breath by the end of the thing. I literally fell off the couch into the floor at the line, "It increases the chances of conception."

The funniest thing was that we really weren't supposed to watch R-rated movies in the lobby. I know, I know, but it was just a lobby rule, because they had all manner of people including young kids at times, come through there. And it was a private Baptist college, a somewhat liberal one, but still pretty conservative as colleges go. We broke that R-rated rule quite a few times, but this time, during the last 30 minutes or so of Lebowski, everyone was coming to the lobby for the start-of-the-year meeting. And suddenly, you hear:

"HEY!!!!!!!!! What's this day-of-rest shit?!!! What's this bullshit?!!!!!! I don't fuckin' care!!!!!! It don't matter to Jesus!!!!! But you not fooling me, man. You might fool the fucks in the league office, but you don't fool Je-SUS. Is bush league psyche-out stuff. Laughable, man!!! HAAAA-HAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!! I woulda fucked you in the ass Saturday. I fuck you in the ass next Wednesday instead. WHOOOOOOOO!!!!! You got a date Wednesday, baby."

...among other things. Anyway, apparently, the people that mattered didn't notice, because we got to finish the movie. But it was still pretty funny.

 

[Lev-S]

DIETER: Hello. Nein dizbatcher says zere iss problem mit deine kable.
DUDE: Shit, I know that guy. He's a nihilist.
MAUDE: And you recognize her, of course.
DIETER: Za, okay, I bring mein toolz.
BUNNY: This is my friend Shari. She just came over to use
the shower.
MAUDE: The story is ludicrous.
DIETER: Mein nommen iss Karl. Is hard to verk in zese clozes--
MAUDE: Lord. You can imagine where it goes from here.
DUDE: He fixes the cable?

 

[John Spencer]

Come to Memphis. We'll go to the Wal-Mart Supercenter at midnight. Then you'll have to recant.

 

[Chris Dias]

That rug really tied the room together.

 

[Brad E]

I've never seen it before. Guess I'll have to now.