Ẃhich one do you prefer? The Big Lebowski or Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas?

Ẃhich one do you prefer? The Big Lebowski or Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas?

I have only ever seen the former. But I have seen that one twice. So I guess... the second time I watched the Big Lebowski is my favourite. What about you OP

It's a good day when someone asks you to choose between two good movies, as opposed to two bad ones.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Though both movies are absurd (in a good way), the bizarre absurdity of Fear and Loathing makes it really enjoyable to watch.

The Big Lebowski.

Fear and Loathing feels EXTREMELY over rated to me. But I've heard people say the same thing about Big Lebowski. So I guess it comes down to personal taste. Fear and Loathing really just feels wacky and edgy for the sake of it with no real structure or purpose. Just the perfect movie for a 15 year old who just discovered weed and wants to "get trippy bro"

Fear and Loathing. Mainly because I'm s journalist myself and Hunter Thompson is something of a personal hero.

Fear and Loathing no question

the big lebowski insists on itself

First hour of Fear and Loathing is great. After that it gets too much up its own ass (a common problem with Gilliam).

The Big Lebowski gets greater every time you watch it.

Easy choice.

>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas?

I've always wondered why we call this movie "Las Vegas parano" in France

granted, loathing is hard to pronounce but still

The Big Lebowski easily.

the big lebowski was absolute shit

but fear and loathing in las vegas was literally just woooah man drugs man wooah tripping aligators

but still better than dude man bowling drugs man dude

15 years old and already so contrarian
how did you do it?

Terry just isn't that great of a director. Sure, he has some creative ideas but all of his movies turn to unstructured bullshit eventually. Too much drugs I guess.

What didn't you like about it?

Fear and Loathing but you're comparing apples and oranges so its all subjective.

The Big Lebowski is comfy and simple but its overrated by reddit memes. I preferred Kingpin which felt more coherent and fun.

Fear and Loathing focuses on a specific moment of American cultural decay that teenagers enjoy without really understanding. The whole scene where a guy catches him sniffing off a dudes jacket is a perfect example of drug thought and the regret of missing out when you're not high. Its a deeper movie that you only scratch the surface off after a few viewings due to how anarchic it is.

>I have only ever seen the former

Fuck off summerfag

woah looks like I upset "the dude"

dunno can't remember, only watched it once and didn't really get into it

barely remember fear either but I know I preferred it

they are both fairly forgettable movies that aren't deserving of second viewings

i always notice new things when watching Fear and Loathing. so much to take in you need to watch it more than once

what a ridiculous comparison of two vastly different movies

why do you discuss movies you haven't even watched? or watched only once

Lebowski by a country mile, though I have seen it at least twenty times, and F&L just twice.

Lebowski epitomises the Coen talent for popular cinema. It has so many textual and meta textual layers that it becomes impossible to isolate them into the tedious comfort of a broad critical consensus on its meanings or even its qualities. The most ardent and intelligent viewer can only really be sure that it is funny.

It wasn't universally well regarded by critics on its release, but no other film developed such a devoted and fevered cult following, as cinema lovers and ordinary joes flocked to it.

For me The Big Lebowski symbolises The Big Nothing, the humour is pointedly cosmic. The characters all skittering crazily across a perfectly chosen, very arch microcosm of drama and comedy, all of them gradually disappearing to various degrees.

All except The Dude.

The Dude abides.

I would unironically rank Lebowski alongside 2001 A Space Odyssey, and (perhaps a more instructive comparison) Hitchcock's Vertigo.

It may be their best film.

I need to watch F&L again though. Was disappointed on first viewing. Loved it second time round.

no country for old men is the Coen brothers best. they will never surpass it. unless they make a Anton Siguhr spin off

I missed seeing Hail Ceasar in the cinema, should pick it up at some time.

Fear and Loathing.

The Big Lebowski can't make up it's mind if it wants to be a comedy or a crime thriller and tries to solve it's problem by inserting a charismatic lead role and hope that nobody will notice the illogical script. Fortunately for them the film's audience is stupid or stoned enough for it to work.

>unless they make a Anton Siguhr spin off

r u fucking even shaving yet?

Fear and Loathing was commenting on a broken, unattainable dream. Not to mention the wave speech is one of Hunter's best moments as a writer.

Inherent Vice

The Big Lebowski.

Maybe I can't get into it because I've never done drugs and Fear and Loathing appeals to a part of me that just doesn't exist.

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Fear and Loathing

Big Lebowski was the stupidest fucking movie I've ever seen and don't know why people suck its dick so much.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is literally pure shit

he got away at the end. the movie could be about his life. the possibilities are really endless.

who killed your imagination?

fear and loathing. Although I haven't seen any of them in a while

I like both for different reasons as they are wildly different films.

Agreed. Fear and Loathing is edgy for the sake of it, Big Lebowski is genuinely good in its own right, you don't have to be a bowling stoner to enjoy it, unlike Fear and Loathing which requires you to have used hard drugs to 'get it'

Order us some golf shoes, otherwise we'll never get out of this place alive.

Anton works within the theme of the movie as apart of the narrative told by the sheriff. He is the personification of death which cannot be stopped.

His "life" outside of the context of the story aren't relevant or interesting in anyway to warrant some sort of cash in sequel/prequel

I haven't done hard drugs and I wrote

F&L is one of those classics that also manages to be true enough to the source material to be a good enough adaption. It's stylistic and unique and highly entertaining the first time I watched it.

Never done drugs and I got it. Druggies are fucking delusional morons that add nothing to the world but vague sophistry justifying their existence.

I've never seen the Big Lebowski

I get the feeling it'll be overrated and I'm not missing anything

this. this guy i went to school with has a huge hunter s thompson tattoo. all he does is smoke weed all day in his girlfriend's mom's basement.

Fear and Loathing and it's not even close.

It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era — the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run... but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant...

There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning...

And that, I think, was the handle — that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply PREVAIL. There was no point in fighting — on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave...

So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high water mark — that place where the wave finally broke, and rolled back.

You're over-simplifying the movie a bit, it wasn't specifically about missing out if you're not high. I mean Hunter had a trunk full of drugs, so how could have possibly have been the theme of the movie? He literally spent the entire movie fucked on drugs.

Hunter is an example of an anachronistic persona, he felt his life peaked in the sixties with the counter-establishment movement, and yes he liked getting high, but what he mainly missed was the energy and youth of rebellion. He is deeply nostalgic for it in the movie, he describes it as the crest of a great wave that rose and broke, the tide crawling back to sea. I'm paraphrasing but he says something like "and on a clear day, if you look at the sky, you can almost see the line where the wave finally broke" while peering at the new dawn sky.

It's a beautiful albeit bittersweet moment and fantastically poetic, rising the movie about just "edgy teenager fare" in my estimation.

The Big Lebowski is a modern masterpiece.

Fear And Loathing is abomination of an adaptation of a great book.

One is a hard 10/10, the other a 3/10 AT BEST.

Nice hivemind. Thanks for finding the correct quote. I was too lazy.

What the fuck is with Terry Gilliam and his dutch angles?

Fear And Loathing is utter fucking garbage. There's a reason it was hated upon release. Because it's a fucking terrible film and an awful adaptation that ruined the source material.

It's a cult thing now, so people pretend like it isn't shit. Probably because they first saw it at 12, and thought DUDE DRUGS LMAO, and now that they're 15 they still use this as a reference for their imaginary drug experiences.

F&L is a p cool movie
TBL is a GOAT-tier masterpiece

Watch it

He's a shitty filmmaker who appeals to suburban kids who want to be a little edgy, but not too edgy to do anything edgy themselves.

Fear and Loathing by a fair margin.

I do think it is overrated quite a bit, but it's still well worth watching.

If a poster answers with Fear And Loathing, could a mod please prohibit him from posting on Sup Forums ever again and banish him back to Sup Forums?

How is this even a question, FnL is just a good movie.
Not even close to The Big Lebowski

says the retyard who spams nigger porn
kys faggot

Both are fantastic and some of the funniest movies ever made in my opinion.

I guess Fear and Loathing has a bit of a dark side to it, while the despair of reality is present in the Big Lebowski it never bothers with it, which is what makes it so charming.

Can't choose a favorite.

>He thinks anonymous is a user name

Holy fuck. First day?

shut the fuck up
Sup Forums basically is Sup Forums at this point
stop fucking pretending it has a seperate culture from the garbage that gets posted on Sup Forums
stupid faggot

Fear and loathing easily. The Big Lebowski Is purposefully whimsical, the Cohen's formula is add another quirky, out of nowhere moment.
>not only are the Germans crazy, they're nihilists, AND they have a marmot! Lingonberry Pancakes.

Fucking garbage.

>at this point

Oh shit, you've been here for a month!

Tell me, oh wise one, what did LGL get arrested for?

Both are good. Like previously said Fear and Loathing is a wild ride, an extravaganca with a lot of subtext about USA. Plebs perceive it's outlandish scenarios as edgy because they are too numb to sense the serious ambition behind them.
Lebowski is comfy and conservative. It's basically a family movie, but a really well made one.
They have very different attitudes but I enjoy them equally.

>sniffing off a dude's jacket

he's licking it bro

the big lebowski is fun, somehow deep and marked its time. fear and loathing is just shit.

>le oldfag cred
if you've been here for longer than a year, it's time to kill yourself you faggot wash out

I love them both but I have a preference for Fear and Loathing. I can't really call it edgy just for edgy's sake when Thompson really did all that stuff. He's a weird character that manages to have some good things to say during his few moments of clarity.

the fans demand it!

im glad there are people like you. so i can know im onto something great by having the exact opposite opinion.

same reason i feel all of the music on the radio is horrible.

Wow, what a clever retort to your initial accusation of me being a newer resident to Sup Forums than you!

I haven't seen that one before!

>I like really shitty movie adaptations of good books because I'm too fucking retarded to read and am a pleb

>I listen to the radio

Jesus fuck.

>being literate
Get a load of this NEEEEEEEERD!

Me fail English? That's unpossible