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I can't believe there's no thread devoted to 'The Big Lebowski'!!!!! It's kind of a cult I belong to in that I fkn love the film, and have seen it a gazillion times, but I could never be a cultist. And yet:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayreview/story/0,12102,1476976,00.html

http://www.dudeabides.co.uk/

― N_RQ, Friday, 6 May 2005 09:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes as much as I really really love this movie I don't think I could become this fanatical.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 6 May 2005 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Does this count as cosplay?

― A homunculus of Darby Crash, .... created for the purposes of *EVIL* (ex machina, Friday, 6 May 2005 10:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I had a Lebowski party once! White russians, bowling, hippie CD, etc etc. It probably was cosplay :(

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 6 May 2005 10:15 (twenty-one years ago)

what is 'cosplay'? in 1999, i was editing the arts section of a student newspaper. in the last issue of michelmas, i devoted a page to 'big lebowski -- film of the millennium'. 'vertigo' came in second. i was ordering white russians before i was legally allowed to (and i think they have become more popular as a direct result of the film? back then i had to explain to barmen what a white russian was.) oh, student days.

― N_RQ, Friday, 6 May 2005 10:18 (twenty-one years ago)

my mate big allan drinks white russians because of the big lebowski. me: i got fat, grew my hair and took up bowling.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 6 May 2005 10:39 (twenty-one years ago)

back then i had to explain to barmen what a white russian was.

WTF!

― A homunculus of Darby Crash, .... created for the purposes of *EVIL* (ex machina, Friday, 6 May 2005 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

we don't know a lot of the freedoms you are used to.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 6 May 2005 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

well, probably i was unlucky and just had dim barstaff. this was in provincial england.

― N_Rq, Friday, 6 May 2005 12:01 (twenty-one years ago)

henry, myself and our mutual friend Mr B have been loosely planning a lebowski party for ages but ultimately decided it would be quite an un-dude kind of thing to do. Plus we both hate bowling.

― Pete W (peterw), Friday, 6 May 2005 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

mr b almost wrote a book about it, yeah? i spent about three years *almost* going bowling by way of tribute at uni, but we never quite got it together -- which is quite dude.

― N_RQ, Friday, 6 May 2005 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

the book might still happen but there's a lotta ins, lotta outs, lotta what-have-yous.

― Pete W (peterw), Friday, 6 May 2005 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha, there always are.

― N_RQ, Friday, 6 May 2005 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

this weekend a local movie theater is airing the film on a portable screen in a bowling alley parking lot. Ticket price includes bowling and white russians. sweet.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 6 May 2005 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

can someone explain the plot of the big labowski to me as * shock horror* ive never seen it....

― md2020 (pixie), Friday, 6 May 2005 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

There's this dude, see...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 May 2005 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

yup im listening all ears theres this dude.....

― md2020 (pixie), Friday, 6 May 2005 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

and the dude abides.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 6 May 2005 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

The Big Lebowski is a tribute to CCR and the ridiculousness of nihilism.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 6 May 2005 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

uh huh ......

come on faster you have 6 mins to gimme the plot cause ive just realised i gotta fly and i know what youre thinking lack of organisation on my part does not constitute and emergency plot giving on your part, but seriously i need to know before i go....

― md2020 (pixie), Friday, 6 May 2005 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

obviously you're not a golfer.

― N_RQ, Friday, 6 May 2005 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Sometimes, there's a man.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 6 May 2005 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

she kidnapped herself, man.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 6 May 2005 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

You want a toe? I can get a toe.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 6 May 2005 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

3000 years of beautiful tradition from moses to sandy koufax, you're goddamn right i'm living in the past

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 6 May 2005 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Say what you like about the tenets of national socialism, dude, at least it's an ethos!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 6 May 2005 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

No Donny, these men are nihilists, they're nothing to be afraid of.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 6 May 2005 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

this is our concern, dude

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 6 May 2005 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

this isn't a guy who built the railroads here.

― N_RQ, Friday, 6 May 2005 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

They peed on your fucking rug.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 6 May 2005 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

...she was banging jackie treehorn, to use the parlance of our times...

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 6 May 2005 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Strong men also cry...strong men also cry.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 6 May 2005 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

this is a really funny movie, but i'm not sure i ever need to see it again...

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 6 May 2005 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

They peed on my fucking rug.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 6 May 2005 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Maude: You can imagine where it goes from here.
Dude: He fixes the cable?

― Dave M. (rotten03), Friday, 6 May 2005 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

It tied the whole room together.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 6 May 2005 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

can someone explain this to me? i saw this movie and thought it was ok but i can comprehend the hype around it. EXPLAIN.

― katharine (katharine), Friday, 6 May 2005 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't need to see it again only because i know every friggin frame of the thing.

― N_RQ, Friday, 6 May 2005 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

There are many facets to this thread, you know, lots of interested parties.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 6 May 2005 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

(N_RQ on the money, more or less)

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 6 May 2005 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

i got the dvd the other day for $10. now i can watch it every single day if i want to.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 6 May 2005 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I have always held off buying the DVD because I seem to encounter it on TV so often and it's always such a treat when I do. Nothing beats flicking on the telly and seeing the Jesus unexpectedly.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 6 May 2005 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

well see, here in america they censor it on tv. tho that is funny too:

"this is what happens when you meet a stranger in the alps!"

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 6 May 2005 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Doo doo doo, lookin out my back door...SHIT!

― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 6 May 2005 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it explains American politics pretty well. fuck it, dude.

Your "revolution" is over, Mr. Lebowski! Condolences! The bums lost!

― daria g (daria g), Friday, 6 May 2005 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha, Stencil! I almost made that post in that exact place but I couldn't figure out how to explain it.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 6 May 2005 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

hey! this is a private residence!

― g e o f f (gcannon), Friday, 6 May 2005 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I've seen a lot of spinals in my time. This guy can walk. I've never been more certain of anything in my life.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 6 May 2005 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)

SHOMER FUCKIN' SHABBAS!

― box of socks, Friday, 6 May 2005 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

It's going to be years before I can watch it again.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 6 May 2005 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

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man who wasn't there is pretty great - feels too obvious to state but 1.) the way it plays with genre tropes and 2.) the minimalism of billy bob thornton's performance

― dayo, Thursday, 5 April 2012 02:11 (fourteen years ago)

I still haven't seen NCFOM because I wanted to read the book first. Which I didn't do because I wanted to finish the Border Trilogy first. Which I failed to do by about a hundred pages. Story of my life, writ small.

― 1 of paper = 4 of coin (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 5 April 2012 02:13 (fourteen years ago)

dude you don't need to read the border trilogy to read NCFOM. And honestly NCFOM is a pretty fast read once you get past the whole no quotations for dialog thing.

and then read the Border Trilogy.

AND THEN READ BLOOD MERIDIAN BECAUSE IT'S THE BEST EVER

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 April 2012 02:26 (fourteen years ago)

When I say there's no comparison between the two books, it is implied that I meant between LiA and what I know about No Country from the movie; only McCarthy I've read all the way through is Outer Dark

― Year of the RMDE (loves laboured breathing), Thursday, 5 April 2012 02:27 (fourteen years ago)

this may be heresy, but I don't think it would be that much of a transgression to see NCFOM before reading the book. They're ridiculously close afaic, and I think having those characters in your mind when you read the book wouldn't hurt your experience at all.

kinda like the joy for someone who saw their True Grit version, to go back and read Portis' novel. It only adds to the flavor of the book, rather than the usual book-to-movie experience of detracting from it.

imo

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 April 2012 02:29 (fourteen years ago)

You're kind of the xhuxk of ILE.

Now there's a topic.

― clemenza, Thursday, 5 April 2012 02:30 (fourteen years ago)

dude you don't need to read the border trilogy to read NCFOM.

Yeah, I know I don't have to, outside of the very specific rules that I set for myself regarding things like this inside of my own defective brain. It's all a moot point, anyway, until I get my books out of storage or procure a library card, so...

― 1 of paper = 4 of coin (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 5 April 2012 02:31 (fourteen years ago)

tl;dr, EXCUSES EXCUSES EXCUSES

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 April 2012 02:32 (fourteen years ago)

tl;dr? Your attention span might be worse than mine!

― 1 of paper = 4 of coin (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 5 April 2012 02:33 (fourteen years ago)

(BRB, reading Beloved before I watch the movie I've put off seeing for 14 years.)

― 1 of paper = 4 of coin (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 5 April 2012 02:34 (fourteen years ago)

ugh that movie

I know you're joking but please don't see that movie

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 April 2012 02:36 (fourteen years ago)

I probably won't actually see that movie. But at least 67% of why I haven't seen that movie thus far is the reason I stated above.

― 1 of paper = 4 of coin (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 5 April 2012 02:37 (fourteen years ago)

(I really only apply this rule to books that I am reasonably sure will be good. Like, I didn't think seeing The Help was going to ruin the experience of reading the book...that I have pretty much no intention of ever reading.)

― 1 of paper = 4 of coin (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 5 April 2012 02:39 (fourteen years ago)

guys stop being so mean to xhuxk, he's not even here

― ferrante's inferranteno (some dude), Thursday, 5 April 2012 02:40 (fourteen years ago)

Didn't mean that as a knock on xhuxk, just that it'd be an interesting comparison. I see some similarities and many huge differences. And not in a million years would I start posting about them here.

― clemenza, Thursday, 5 April 2012 02:48 (fourteen years ago)

I didn't read it as mean. xhuxk always pulls out random albums that you wouldn't figure him as a fan of...I think D was just saying Morbs occasionally does that too, where you think he's all silent movies and BOOM here's Bulworth

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 April 2012 02:50 (fourteen years ago)

I am all good movies

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 April 2012 02:52 (fourteen years ago)

Yeah, VG got it. T'weren't meant as a knock on nobody, just an observation about their respective critical inscrutabilities.

― 1 of paper = 4 of coin (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 5 April 2012 03:11 (fourteen years ago)

I have followed the path of "Watch No Country - Do not read the book"

― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 5 April 2012 09:38 (fourteen years ago)

I can't say enough how much I loved A Serious Man

Yeah, me too! I keep thinking back to this. Must rewatch soon.

I'm interested in that long-winded political analysis of TBL if anyone finds it...

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 5 April 2012 15:48 (fourteen years ago)

read NCFOM, try to keep pace with the book, imo

― j'en ai cache (darraghmac), Thursday, 5 April 2012 16:58 (fourteen years ago)

four years pass...

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tCJyFMcR2Kg/TiNuWMc2HvI/AAAAAAAAAK8/HFqMQJ_S9Vo/s1600/BigLebowski_123Pyxurz.jpg

RIP man

― j., Friday, 5 August 2016 03:05 (nine years ago)

awful lot of very intense sweater action going on in this flick

― j., Friday, 5 August 2016 03:05 (nine years ago)

RIP man(s)

― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 5 August 2016 03:30 (nine years ago)

totally forgot about the perfect obit pull quote

"Strong men, also cry. Strong men. Also cry."

― j., Friday, 5 August 2016 18:00 (nine years ago)

Your Revolution is Over, Lebowski! Condolences! The Bums Lost!

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 5 August 2016 19:17 (nine years ago)

Cowards! Men who have never achieved on a level field of play.

― The Rest Is A Cellarful of Noise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 5 August 2016 19:19 (nine years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1-TrAvp_xs

― jmm, Friday, 5 August 2016 19:22 (nine years ago)

uh oh

Siddhant Adlakha hears that John Turturro has written and is currently directing “a Big Lebowski spin-off centered around Turturro’s Jesus Quintana character.” Going Places “takes its plot from the 1974 comedy Les Valseuses: two petty thieves, Turturro’s Jesus and [Bobby] Cannavale’s Petey, compete to give a woman [Audrey Tautou] her first orgasm after she’s roped into their hijinks. [Susan] Sarandon also ends up in their company, playing a criminal who just got out after a long stint in prison.”

http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2016/08/17/jesus-returns-in-going-places-a-spin-off-to-the-big-lebowski

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 August 2016 20:31 (nine years ago)

since you have FAILED to achieve -- even in the modest task that was your charge --

― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 18 August 2016 20:34 (nine years ago)

Your Revolution is Over, Lebowski! Condolences! The Bums Lost!

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, August 5, 2016 2:17 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was really tempted to yell this at some douchebag with a confederate flag sticker on his truck a couple weeks ago. Instead I just giggled a lot about it.

― mh, Thursday, 18 August 2016 20:36 (nine years ago)

is there a reason why Turturro doing a cartoonish Latino accent would not be considered contemptible minstrelsy in the current culture? or do i not know all the rules?

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 August 2016 20:38 (nine years ago)

As one of the board's more easily offended latinos, I've gotta say that the character doesn't strike as milking laffs from accent/ethnicity as much as general weirdness. I find the character a bit too broad and unfunny for other reasons, but I hardly feel implicated by stereotype. (Which is, essentially, my filter for offense-taking.)

― remy bean, Thursday, 18 August 2016 20:47 (nine years ago)

that sounds terrible and seems like there's no reason to reprise the jesus character for the scenario. of all the ppl in the movie why is the sex offender the one getting another look.

― goole, Thursday, 18 August 2016 20:48 (nine years ago)

between this and that idiotic-sounding gigolo movie i'm wondering about turturro a little

― goole, Thursday, 18 August 2016 20:49 (nine years ago)

maybe i'm wrong, but the things that make the jesus character memorable aren't, except perhaps for the exaggerated accent, really congruent with prevailing stereotypes of latinos. he's a caricature but i'm not certain it's a caricature of any idea of latino-ness. i might be wrong about this!

the coens certainly aren't immune from having regressive stereotypes and plot lines in their films. seen in that context i can understand someone being offended.

― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 18 August 2016 20:50 (nine years ago)

x-posts

― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 18 August 2016 20:50 (nine years ago)

worse yet it's ALSO a remake of a perfectly fine Bertrand Blier film

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 August 2016 20:53 (nine years ago)

from when Gerard Depardieu was both good and attractive

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 August 2016 20:53 (nine years ago)

when?

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/09/17/1410940524885_wps_54_Gerard_Depardieu_French_a.jpg

― remy bean, Thursday, 18 August 2016 20:56 (nine years ago)

(but nevertheless, the Jesus character is pointedly Latin : his name is Jesus Quintana, and his introduction is set to a mariachi tunes, if I remember. He's a sexual predator in a hair-net, and he tongues his bowling ball. He's got odd jewelry and a painted fingernail. But I remember the salient bits of his characterization as leaning more on outmoded homophobic/effeminization tropes than Latin ones.

― remy bean, Thursday, 18 August 2016 20:58 (nine years ago)

then

https://uncouthreflections.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/valseuses.png

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 August 2016 21:01 (nine years ago)

thx for your take, remy; i thought maybe Pacino had just given his "wor'less piece o' chit" Free Pass to Turturro.

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 August 2016 21:04 (nine years ago)

Soooooo...will it be Turturro or Cannavale that takes the bullet to the scrotum?

― a full playlist of presidential sex jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 18 August 2016 21:08 (nine years ago)

six years pass...

One of the inspirations for the character of Walter is the Coen Brothers' friend, writer-director John Milius, an infamously bombastic right-winger with an obsession with all things militaristic and an enthusiasm for guns. His girth, beard, hair style, and shades are also all reflected in Walter's physical appearance.

OMFG yes. I see it now. My thinking about the case had become so uptight.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 3 November 2022 22:06 (three years ago)

lol

― budo jeru, Thursday, 3 November 2022 22:46 (three years ago)

love it!

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 November 2022 23:58 (three years ago)

This is my all-time favorite film. It's given me and my grown kids a shared language that brings us endless joy. One of my favorite aspects is that it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to set it anywhere other than Los Angeles.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 4 November 2022 00:07 (three years ago)

three years pass...

Sioux City sarsaparilla?

― budo jeru, Wednesday, 28 January 2026 20:53 (three months ago)

that’s a good one

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 29 January 2026 21:36 (three months ago)

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