Posted on 03/06/2018 2:16:39 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
On March 6, 1998, a little movie called The Big Lebowski opened in half-empty theaters across the country, and anyone expecting the Coen brothers to get serious for their follow-up to the Oscar-winning Fargo was in for a very chill surprise. A dopey but profound slacker noir about a guy a conscientious objector to all human conflict whose quest to avenge a soiled rug unravels into a wild goose chase involving all sorts of inherent vice, The Big Lebowski may not have been much of a hit at the box office, but it took on a life of its own after that.
See the tag line...
I think you had to have lived it.
In this scene, in which Labowski dreamed he was a rolling bowling ball, Jeff Bridges' wife, who was on the set that day, had the extras stuff their garments with abundant extruding fake hair as a practical joke.
Yes, pinky toe. : )
That's how I feel about BASEketball. It's a dumb movie, but it makes me laugh out loud.
Just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in.....
Haven’t even seen that much.
But I love "Napoleon Dynamite." I hated "Lebowski" and still do. I don't know why. But hey, that's just ... like ... my opinion.
I’ve started watching it at least once, maybe twice, got a few minutes in, said this is dumb, and moved on. Do like the Coens tho! Twisted!
You’re obviously not a golfer.
My favorite moves of all time:
Big Trouble in Little China
Army of Darkness
Repo Man
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eight Dimension.
One of the two or three funniest movies I have ever seen.
I guess I’ll mix up a White Russian......a fella could do worse.
Donny (repeatedly): “I am the walrus.”
Walter (exasperated): Lenin! V.I. Lenin! Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov!
Walter: I’m shomer Shabbos! I don’t roll on Shabbos!
Jesus: “What’s this day of rest $h@t?!”
The movie is an offbeat classic.
But it's really wrong when the rest of us grok it without missing a beat.
I concur, I can think of any number of scenes in that movie and just start laughing.
Probably my favorite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iApz08Bh53w
In the US it may have been too popular the first time around to really become a cult film.
To become a cult favorite it's not enough that you love the movie, other people outside the cult have to hate it or not love it or not care.
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