The Big Lebowski (Widescreen Collector's Edition)
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Movie Reviews of The Big Lebowski (Widescreen Collector's Edition)
Movie Review: I'm the DUDE, MAN!
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this movie, and to see it in High-Def is a true treat!
I would love to see a "I'm the Dude, Man" sequel! True classic, even though it failed to gross allot at the theater.
Jeff Bridges & John Goodman are amazing in this movie!
Hat's off!
Movie Review: Not my brand of humor
Summary: 2 Stars
I suspect that there is a sub-culture that would find it hilarious, but too many of the jokes went over my head.
Movie Review: Stop him from doing whatever
Summary: 4 Stars
I liked this movie. I just don't like this dude guy. It seems he has no plans and that really bothers me. Hollywood should not be taking people like these lightly. People whose plan, if you can call it that, is to do whatever they like. Simply because these people do not fit into the plan that society has set out for them by their age, race, sex or whatever.Movie Review: Yeah, it was as great as everyone said...
Summary: 5 Stars
Surrealistic music video scenes featuring the wildest plays of imagination... real-life character sketches of the extreme and irreverent... slacker anti-hero philosophy.... SoCal stereotypes portrayed oh-so-well... and, surprisingly, plot twists that will keep you guessing and wowing the whole time... The Big Lebowski has all this, and more... Oh, and did I mention some touching human moments? Nicely done entertainment for the mind.... The dude abides To Cook is Divine, Italian, Filipino, and Southern-style Vegetarian Recipes from Outside the BoxMovie Review: "That rug really tied the room together, did it not?"
Summary: 5 Stars
For anyone familiar with the whacky ways of Coen brothers ("Raising Arizona," "Barton Fink," "Fargo"), The Big Lebowski represents the sibling filmmaking duo at their whacky best! They do here what they have done in all their best films: take a familiar genre (the gangster genre in "Miller's Crossing," for instance) and insert their own odd-ball comic spin, always with an eye for the irony and absurdity of the genre. This film is essentially a spin off of the noir/detective film where the hero gets caught up in a complex web of seedy characters and situations -- usually involving money, the femme fatale, and a murder or two. Of course, when it's the Coen brothers, it can never be as serious as all that. In this case, the noir detective -- as it were -- is in fact not the suave, Bogart type at all. He is the Dude; a lazy, overweight, pothead who is content just spending his days at the bowling lane. A plot is put in motion, however, when two toughs, mistaking the Dude for a millionare named Jeff Lebowski (which is of course the Dude's name), come looking for money owed by the Big Lebowski's -- the millionare's -- reckless young wife. This leads the Dude on a quest to replace a rug that was, well, soiled; a rug that really tied the room together. When the millionare's wife is kidnapped, the Dude is caught up in the noir plot involving a ransom and some suspicious Russian nihilists.
If this all seems a little silly, than the film is a success. And this is only straching the surface of the lunacy; for in this web of characters we have a crazed Vietnam vet, a Latino transvestite who likes to fondle little boys, a feminist artist who likes to swing nude -- except for paint -- onto a large canvas, an adult video mogul, a wandering cowboy, a ninth grader who may or may not have stolen a million dollars, a severed toe, a camera inside a bowling ball, and -- oh yeah -- a brief cameo by Sadam Hussein (not played by himself). All of these ingredients, mixed a healthy dose of vodka and Kahlua (the Dude's favorite drink), makes for a nonstop riot fest. And, in case that weren't enough, there is a fantasy sequence involving nude women on trampolines, magic carpets, vikings dancing with bowling balls, a guy with an enormous pair of scissors, and endless pairs of ugly bowling shoes. The film is great fun, even for non-bowlers, non-pot smokers, and non-White Russian drinkers; the classic quotes are endless. Here are just a few:
"Your name's Lebowski, Lebowski."
"Were you listening to the Dude's story, Donnie?"
"Shut the f--k up, Donnie." (Repeated on numerous occasions)
"I'm not Mr. Lebowski. You're Mr. Lebowski. I'm the Dude; so that's what you call me. That or Duder, His Dudeness, El Duderino."
"Who's got your underwear, Walter?"
"Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man."
"F--k it, dude. Let's go bowling."
"You want a toe? I can get you a toe. There are ways, Dude. You don't even want to know."
"You see what happens, Larry? You see what happens? Do you see what happens, Larry, when you f--k a stranger in the a--?"
"You're being very undude."
"Well I guess we can close the file on that one!"
And so on.... The funniest moment, for me, is when the Chief of Police of Malibu wings a coffee mug at the Dude's head. I just lose it every time I see that. I don't know what it is; the timing or what. It just comes out of no where, a total curveball response in that situation. Classic Coen brothers all the way. Can't wait to see their newest: No Country For Old Men. "The Dude abides." Cheers!