Christ on a proverbial unicorn made of sandwiches. I've never seen a film require such a strange and fascinating fandom over the years . You look at most fandoms and they're based around franchises like Star Trek Doctor Who Sonic the Hedgehog Star Wars even but all these things have multiple films Comics books and other paraphernalia. The Big Lebowski really didn't. The only reason to has anything extra today is because of the fandom itself.
It's got good humor, it's camera working set designer are fantastic and it certainly has rewatchability. I've seen this movie more times then just about anything else. But there are people out there that talk about this movie as if it's the second coming of Christ. They made countless books about it, long essays. There's even a a religion based around the the phenomenon that is ''The dude''. I myself was part of that little fad for a while. I guess I'm still technically part of it. No reason not to be. Although the whole Dudeism religion I believe is finally started to fade out, In the end it was just California Buddhism* with a bowling undertone.
Well I'd be remiss if I didn't bring up the beginning. Right after ''The Man'' gives his speech about the dude we see him gets his head smashed into a toilet and that is bowling ball went smacked into the side of his door. Then one of the punks drops bowling ball on to his tile floor but realistically was the biggest amount of damage that be found him in the initial attack. I mean the other guy pissed on his rug but that probably wasn't a very valuable rug at the time anyways. Heck this is what gets the ball rolling and what starts the Dude on a Mary journey through pain, misery and some pleasure.
I never realized how hard it was to do a review for this movie. There's so many tiny little details and on little sub stories that don't go anywhere. Like The Big Lebowski his wife and her missing toe. Or what the hell happened to that woman that dude slept with. I mean none of it really matters, it's more about the Dude's experience. Now if he was smart he would have just counted as losses and moved on. A guy peeing on your rug sucks but there's dry cleaning, hell there's a hose if you're that desperate.
God damn it if David Huddleston isn't a fantastic acts in this movie. His betrayal of The Big Lebowski as the supposedly millionaire with all the connections, all the banquet's, all the respect. Shouting out the Dude for being a no-good bum only to discover later on that he himself is no better than the Dude. All his money comes from his daughter.
He himself is a no-good bum and a liar and a cheat. We don't even have to wait for the revelation that it gets his money from his daughter, you can tell something's up with the guy just from his ''wife'' and the strange nihilist man is passed out in his pool.
You know who got a ruff deal in this movie besides the Dude and his friend Donny . The character Smokey, he was accused of his foot being over the line in a bowling game and that he wanted to mark the paper 8 as opposed to zero which is what Walter wanted. He gets a freking gun aimed at his face. I looked over the scene and paused it myself. I don't think his foot was over the line. I think he was perfectly within league rules.
Speaking of someone shoes being on the lane have you ever seen those people that try to walk on the lane. I hate these people putting all types of dirt and grime under the bowling alley Lanes makes it a pain in the ass to clean later. Even worse you get the people who don't wear properly designed bowling shoes and they streak up the entire allie. I used to work at a bowling alley it's a real pain keeping those things clean and the slightest bit of dirt can screw up those machines in the back too. Still nothing bad as the guy that throws a freakin beer bottle down the lane. I swear working in a bowling alley kills your interest in the game. Not because you get bored or mad at bowling but you get annoyed at the people who constantly screw it up.
Listening to a mixtape of a bowling competition from 87 seem like a fun thing to do. I suspect he was on many drugs at the time.
I'll tell you the Big Lebowski fandom is gone some strange places over the years. Leaving pumped up on that My Little Pony show. Somebody literally drew the main characters as Horses they even put the Jesus in there. Which raises a horrifying conclusion. In the world of little rainbow marshmallow horses there is a confirmed petafile. Think about that next time you look at Children's wholesome programming.
8 year olds dude, 8 year olds. I mean it's and never officially stated that he is a pedophile we only get the words from Walters mouth that guy lies about a million different things. But the fact remains that you have to stare at a children's show and say to yourself is that guy a child doodler ? it's just wrong man.
He himself is a no-good bum and a liar and a cheat. We don't even have to wait for the revelation that it gets his money from his daughter, you can tell something's up with the guy just from his ''wife'' and the strange nihilist man is passed out in his pool.
You know who got a ruff deal in this movie besides the Dude and his friend Donny . The character Smokey, he was accused of his foot being over the line in a bowling game and that he wanted to mark the paper 8 as opposed to zero which is what Walter wanted. He gets a freking gun aimed at his face. I looked over the scene and paused it myself. I don't think his foot was over the line. I think he was perfectly within league rules.
Speaking of someone shoes being on the lane have you ever seen those people that try to walk on the lane. I hate these people putting all types of dirt and grime under the bowling alley Lanes makes it a pain in the ass to clean later. Even worse you get the people who don't wear properly designed bowling shoes and they streak up the entire allie. I used to work at a bowling alley it's a real pain keeping those things clean and the slightest bit of dirt can screw up those machines in the back too. Still nothing bad as the guy that throws a freakin beer bottle down the lane. I swear working in a bowling alley kills your interest in the game. Not because you get bored or mad at bowling but you get annoyed at the people who constantly screw it up.
Listening to a mixtape of a bowling competition from 87 seem like a fun thing to do. I suspect he was on many drugs at the time.
I'll tell you the Big Lebowski fandom is gone some strange places over the years. Leaving pumped up on that My Little Pony show. Somebody literally drew the main characters as Horses they even put the Jesus in there. Which raises a horrifying conclusion. In the world of little rainbow marshmallow horses there is a confirmed petafile. Think about that next time you look at Children's wholesome programming.
8 year olds dude, 8 year olds. I mean it's and never officially stated that he is a pedophile we only get the words from Walters mouth that guy lies about a million different things. But the fact remains that you have to stare at a children's show and say to yourself is that guy a child doodler ? it's just wrong man.
*California Buddhism is what I call the surfer, hippie outlook on the Buddhist ideal. It doesn't really a ahold to any tradition. There's no sacred text, no proper meditation. In fact there's no work or Theological thought. It's just a group of people that Proclaim their spiritual and then never really go anywhere with it . Hence I call it a lazy Buddhism or California Buddhism.
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