#54 The Big Lebowski - I have some homework still to do

1998. dir. Joel Coen, starring Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, David Huddleston, Peter Stormare.

Seen it before? Yes, well, kind of

I shall be coming back to this one because I have to re-watch it still...

It is now March 14, 2010 and on Friday the 12th I finally made it through the entire movie...As I told Sam, I remembered the beginning 30 minutes. I remembered the last 10 minutes and had a very vague recollection of the middle - I remembered John Goodman going ape on the red sports car...Maude for instance and the crazy nihilists wielding comically large scissors to cut of his "johnson" - those parts I totally forgot...

Tara Reid is creepy...but so is the girlfriend who lets her toe get chopped off in hopes of getting $1 million...Julianne Moore is just so freaking crazy sexy...I'm glad she's good with her body being naked so often in these films...and what a body it is...yes, yes, "The Dude: Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man." well it should be EVERYONE'S opinion because Moore is HOT!!!

I haven't seen Jeff Bridges movies because he rubs me the wrong way...not like Christopher Walken or anything, but because I think he played the title role in this movie SO well that I can't imagine he'd be different in real life or in his other films...Whoops...

John Goodman is BRILLIANT! I love that everything is tied to Vietnam (even if it isn't) and that he is a dutiful ex-husband to an ex-wife who is clearly taking advantage of him and whose religion he totally kept so that he could get away with not doing things on the Jewish sabbath...

Would I see it again? Yes, but catch me when I'm not exhausted so I will stay awake through all of it in one sitting
Own it? We already do
Favorite line? There are too many...it truly is a VERY quotable movie!

#54 The Big Lebowski: Uh, I'm just gonna go find a cash machine...

1998. dir. Joel Coen, starring Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, David Huddleston, Peter Stormare.

Seen it before? Many times.

Way out west there was this fella. Fella I wanna tell you about. Jeff Lebowski, aka the Dude (Jeff bridges) is a slacker living in L.A. I won't say he's a hero, cause, what's a hero? Two thugs break into his house and micturate on his rug - turns out they were looking for money from a different Jeff Lebowski (David Huddleston). At the urging of The Dude's foul-mouthed Vietnam veteran friend Walter (John Goodman), he goes to visit Lebowski to ask for compensation, but is rudely rebuffed. Later he gets involved in a kidnapping scheme involving Lebowski's trophy wife (Tara Reid). The plot defies description... there's some weird dream sequences, and lots of bowling. It all totally makes sense if you think about it (everything The Dude says to Lebowski in their last scene together is correct).

This is one of the funniest movies ever made. It takes at least two or three viewings to really get all of it. I like IMDB's Memorable Quotes page for this movie. I estimate that it contains 80% of the screenplay. I find myself quoting it quite a lot. This one is particularly handy at work:

The Dude: "That's a great plan, Walter. That's fuckin' ingenious, if I understand it correctly. It's a Swiss fuckin' watch."

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