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Lebowski Fest:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/942079.asp?0bl=-0

― Sean Thomas (sgthomas), Friday, 25 July 2003 03:37 (twenty-two years ago)

So is the movie deserving of "Fest" status? Is it too good for Trekification? Not good enough? Is being eminently watchable reason enough?

(Not that there's a wrong reason to drink White Russians while bowling, mind you.)

― Sean Thomas (sgthomas), Friday, 25 July 2003 03:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I will so be there next year that it's not even funny.

― Neudonym, Friday, 25 July 2003 03:45 (twenty-two years ago)

The Big Lebowski is by far my least-favorite Coen Bros. film. I just don't get its popularity.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 25 July 2003 03:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd be tempted too, Neudonym. My big question, though: Louisville?

Perhaps this should be a touring festival...

― Sean Thomas (sgthomas), Friday, 25 July 2003 03:48 (twenty-two years ago)

The bot they must use to put ads on this site ironically put one next to this article - "The Jesus debates - top scholars discuss his words and deeds".

Don't mess with the Jesus.

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Friday, 25 July 2003 03:54 (twenty-two years ago)

There are so many wonderful things in this movie, first of all Jeff Bridge's performance. I heart Jeff Bridges.

I don't like the other Coen Brothers films so much, and I wouldn't make any great claims for this one, but it is awfully funny. My favorite moment is when The Dude, stealthily edges across the room to make a rubbing of the note the Ben Gazzara character made while he was on the phone, only to discover that it was just a ridiculous pornographic doodle. Which sort of neatly captures the whole feeling of the movie.

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 25 July 2003 03:54 (twenty-two years ago)

not ONLY is Louisville u+k, but it's close to Lexington, so you KNOW nickalicious will show up and be all like "These...are my people." They would treat him like he's some kind of god. Which, of course, he is.

― Neudonym, Friday, 25 July 2003 03:56 (twenty-two years ago)

and I, uncool guy that I am, really like all the Coen brothers movies, including the fucked-up ones that nobody gets, like this one and The Hudsucker Proxy. Julianne Moore as a nude performance artist, Tara Reid wanting to suck cock for money...what the hell is there not to love here?

― Neudonym, Friday, 25 July 2003 03:58 (twenty-two years ago)

This is one of those movies that has a casual feel to it that seems like its less of a big calculated production than just a bunch of friends hanging out having a goof and getting it on film. Somehow movies like that I can watch over and over again.

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Friday, 25 July 2003 03:59 (twenty-two years ago)

fuck its all about the absurdity of the dude's militiafied buddy and his world of pain.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 25 July 2003 04:00 (twenty-two years ago)

i have to be up to get to the airport in 4 hours, otherwise, it'd be quote city.

bad aspect of this movie is that it kind of ruins bridges in everything else. every time he raises his voice somewhere else, I'm all "walter, you're not WRONG, you're just an ASSHOLE."

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Friday, 25 July 2003 04:01 (twenty-two years ago)

fave little details:

the j that flips out of the dude's pocket onto the counter of the 'nice little family restaurant' when walter gets them kicked out.

flea's throwaway line after the nihilists drop the marmot in the tub and threaten to chop of his chonson: "ja, unt ve'll stomp on it and smoosh it."

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Friday, 25 July 2003 04:04 (twenty-two years ago)

"Darkness warshed over the Dude..."

― Sean Thomas (sgthomas), Friday, 25 July 2003 04:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Amateurist that scene is the funniest in the movie.

I don't love it through and through though. there's a lot of stuff (like German nihilists & crazy Vietnam vets) that was pretty stale.

and Jeff Bridges is amazing amazing.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 25 July 2003 04:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Best narration ever -- it may be Bridges's career best, but has Sam Elliott even been close to this good before?

― Sean Thomas (sgthomas), Friday, 25 July 2003 04:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Sam Elliot is great!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 25 July 2003 04:09 (twenty-two years ago)

(as a rule)

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 25 July 2003 04:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Really? Other than Mask (and that was a fine performance), I'm drawing a total blank. I mean, car commercials he's got down to a science, but what else?

― Sean Thomas (sgthomas), Friday, 25 July 2003 04:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah the jokes surrounding the Walter character begin to get tiresome .... The repartee b/t Walter and The Dude isn't all it could be sometimes. And the German nihilist stuff seems to be put in so 13 year olds can repeat it to each other at the playground.

The Cowboy, however, is classic. He should go on the road with the Cowboy from Mulholland Dr..

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 25 July 2003 04:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Sam Elliot was in You Know My Name, one of my favourite movies that I've never seen. He was in Tombstone, he was really the only thing I liked about that We Were Soldiers, and he's America's last cowboy!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 25 July 2003 04:27 (twenty-two years ago)

[quote]America's last cowboy[/quote]
Don't forget Tom Selleck.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 25 July 2003 04:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Damned EZCode.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 25 July 2003 04:40 (twenty-two years ago)

We had a Big Lebowski party once - it was grebt!

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 25 July 2003 07:50 (twenty-two years ago)

It inspired a wave (in fact several) of drinking white russians among my friends. One of which was the undertow that first flung me out into the ocean of Drunk.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 25 July 2003 08:45 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

I saw this film the other day again, and fuck it's good.. it has got to be one of my favourites. That porno sketch thing! yes! and Jeff Bridges just dancing around, unbelievably grebt. I lovvvvve John Goodman, some of his scenes were just excruciating, but after he does Donny's sermon at the end, it was great.
so good
really good.

― Nellie (nellskies), Saturday, 22 January 2005 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

ethe guy reminds me of me. i am reilly fucked up.

― John (jdahlem), Saturday, 22 January 2005 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I find myself saying "It really tied the room together" whenever I mean that something, even an event, made everything work. I love this movie and can still remember falling off my seat when I first saw it (it was an old cinema and my seat was tilted, but still!)
I want to have a Big Lebowski party too!

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Saturday, 22 January 2005 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

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