Big Lebowski

Pros: Twisted, amusing story for the jaded.
Cons: Very twisted, ugly little tale on scamming and lies.

After the sleeper hit Fargo the agile minded Coen brothers turned to their own home turf of Los Angeles, and came up with a story of an Everyman. He's not the sort of person that you would think of as us, but scratch the surface enough, and quite s ...

Pros: Great characters, great performances
Cons: Plot's a little stupid - but it really doesn't matter

Some movies are about something. You know, they have a dramatic tension, a moral focus, a story to tell. Other movies are about something. Sure, they have a story and all – be it delightful or disastrous, yet that story isn’t real ...

Pros: the acting, the humor
Cons: huh?

I've been a fan of the Coen Brothers for some time now. They have made some very quirky but highly entertaining films like Fargo, Barton Fink and Intolerable Cruelty. One of my favorites from their filmography is The ...

Pros: Direction/Script, Cinematography, Look, Editing, Music, Cast, & White Russians.
Cons: None, This Movie Rocks says the Dude!

Throughout the history of cinema, there comes a time when a movie would change the face of movies for the next several years. Some of those movies are remembered for those changes like Gone with the Wind, Citizen Kane, A Bout de ...

Pros: Pretty deep comedy writing. Casting. Direction. Ideas.
Cons: Dream sequences, sorta predictable humor.

The Big Lebowski sucks. Not because of the actual movie, however. It's just that no matter what the viewer's opinion of the work actually is, he or she will constantly have the notion that it might be much better than anybody could possibly ...

Pros: Hoffman, funny at times
Cons: very crude and pretty pointless

The other night, I went to see < b>No Country For Old Men with my dad and brother Nathan and was blown away. When we got home from the theater, it was after midnight, but Nathan suggested we make it marathon by ...

Pros: Without a doubt, the characters are the strong point, especially The Dude and Walter.
Cons: One or two draggy parts, but forgivable.

Jeff Bridges masterfully portrays Jeffrey Lebowski, more commonly referred to as The Dude, Your Dudeness, El Duderino. He's an aging longhaired, sloppy hippie type (even makes trips to the grocery store in his bathrobe) with no means of gainful ...

Pros: Dialogue, special effects and cast
Cons: Dialogue (language) and we never see Dude bowl!

Offshoot of Raising Arizona with detours into Fargo, you'll feel strongly one way or another about Big Lebowski and Dude. This seems to happen a lot with the strangely appealing works of the brothers Coen, (Fargo, Raising Arizona, et al).
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Pros: hilarious, while maintaining integrity and intelligence
Cons: not your typical comedy, takes a couple viewings to fully understand

Let me just say, first of all, to get it out into the open, that I don't watch a lot of movies. I find that many of the movies I watched in the past were paper thin and completely shallow - almost like the way music works these days. I prefer to stay...

Pros: Funny as Hell!
Cons: Arguably Pointless!

The Big Lebowski is a movie about a man and his rug.

It's not just any man, mind you, and it certainly isn't just any rug. You see, the man is a laid back stoner who loves to bowl. He brings a new meaning to the words...

Pros: The cast, script and direction make it freakin' hilarious.
Cons: Very minor.

Ahhh. The Coens. Wether or nor you like them, their name is a sure-fire sign that you’re about to witness something different. Here’s a brief summary of what they’ve done (in chronological order): Bizarre noir, hilarious comedy, Irish mob movie,...

Pros: If you get it, you'll love it.
Cons: If you don't, you'll hate it.

The over-the-top movies that work for me despite their excesses are the ones with what I call the "I know you, Rider" feeling. Nowadays they call it "been there, done that." But back when I sowed my real wild oats, its use was less...

Pros: Everything
Cons: plot may seem a bit cumbersome under optimal viewing conditions

An exceptional, surreal mystery woven around the one true pasttime: bowling. The Coen brothers finally succeeded where ABC and ESPN 2 have failed, they've made bowling truly look good. Of course, the bowling alone is not the strong point of this movie;...

Pros: The funniest movie ever made. And it gets funnier each time you watch it!
Cons: The Germans are always the bad guys!

If the Gods created us for their entertainment (as Greek mythology seems to suggest) because they could not come up with TV, then the Gods have slowly changed their taste from tragedy to comedy. They seem to be tired of creating those heroic stories like ...

Pros: Oddball fun. Production number is nifty-cool.
Cons: Jesus. Swearing. Breasts, Rather too baroque for it's own good sometimes.

Somewhere out west, in a place they call the City of Angels, abides The Dude. The Dude's parents gave him the name "Jeffery Lebowski", same as the big millionaire on the other side of town, they aren't related, but everyone who knows him calls him ...