Let me put this straight, this is the most overrated movie of all time.
Two thirds of this movie could have been replaced or even discarded and you would still have gotten a short movie about a guy thrown into a kidnapping/blackmail/whatever deal gone south.
I get the whole 'go with the flow' thing and how it struck the viewers during the 90s, but why the fuck did it hold on for so long? What kept it going on into becoming a pseudo-philosophical cult movie with millions of ardent adorers?
I don't know what is Sup Forums's opinion about this flick so I just hope this thread generates enough discussion to settle the matter.
Jace Torres
Is "The Big Lebowski is overrated" one of the most overdone comments of all time? Or is this straight up a pasta? I haven't kept up
Grayson Watson
Calling any cult movie overrated is pretty stupid honestly
Isaiah Johnson
I think it's pretty funny and has good acting, but I also don't get the cult following. Maybe meta stuff was less overdone in the 90s
Brandon Stewart
That's what I like about the movie. Everyone more or less is a self absorbed idiot and no one really understands what's going on. It's a funny movie.
You can say it sucks or that it's pseudo-philsophical (I don't think it is) and well, you know that's just like your opinion, man.
Cooper Flores
It is a masterpiece and has a religion dedicated to it. You thinking that you'll outweight decades of praise with your hot opinions is laughable.
John Edwards
Citizen Kane is a cult movie and I loved it so much. The Room is a cult movie and I "loved" it so much. Frozen is a cult animation movie and yes I loved it.
It's not about The Big Lebowski being a cult movie, it's about how it got that status.
Daniel Torres
>Frozen is a cult movie
Luke Anderson
>Frozen is a cult animation movie and yes I loved it. Ok you're either trolling or you somehow don't understand what a cult following is.
Brayden Campbell
This is a very funny movie, I love it quite a lot.
Colton Jackson
>that's just like your opinion, man.
This is my favorite line from the movie.
Oliver Howard
The point of the movie is that it's a noir mystery film with a protagonist who is totally out of his element in the genre. Jeff Bridges's character is lazy and unambitious, but not apathetic, so he's very endearing. It's got a lot of fun characters, is perfectly casted, has great settings and dialogue, and is just plain well made.
Eli Green
Shit movie for weak retards.
Landon Jones
OP is Irish drug snorting vampire...
Ethan Barnes
>Jeff Bridges's character is lazy and unambitious, but not apathetic, so he's very endearing This, more or less everyone is very stupid and selfish.
>Maude The smartest person is a feminist who can't stop thinking about her vagina. Wrapped up in nearly as much Ego as her father. >Jeffrey Lebowski A pathetic douchebag >Bunny A whore >Walter A well intentioned jerkoff who can't move from the past >The Nihilists Just a bunch of losers
And then you have The Dude who just wants to bowl and smoke pot.
It's a great movie because all the characters have really believable motives and yet they're all so insane except for The Dude.
Caleb Ward
No. Why did you assume this though?
Luis White
The Big Lebowski is a character study in a new type of character. A new type of man where all the old archetypes have failed.
The entire movie is this an endless parade of failing men and then the dude. Its funny and doesn't try to be more then it is. Its actually a great and original movie.
This board is filled with contrarians that hate literally everything.
If you come to a board about movies to bitch about revered cult classics like tBL than you are smuggest of contrarian fedoralords.
Jace Torres
>contrarians >bitch about >fedoralords 2 many.
Michael Cruz
Has there ever been a more well-informed reply on this board before? Bravo sir, have an upvote
Easton Jackson
It's okay, I like it alright. Not really the kind of movie I fall in love with. Never really duh the director's style, just feels like theyre trying just teeensy bit too hard to do the dramatic/funny at the same time dark humor thing.
Evan Johnson
the dance numbers of stuff kind of ruin it for me.
And a lot of people watch it and then quote it the next time they go bowling (the one time each year they go).
William Adams
>I get the whole 'go with the flow' thing and how it struck the viewers during the 90s
Millennial detected. The Big Lebowski didn't really gain much popularity until after the 90's were over.
Anthony Johnson
At the very least it is probably John Goodman's greatest role.
Blake Barnes
Goodman carries this movie. I don't think I would have enjoyed it nearly as much without him.
Christian Walker
Genuinely curious: is it the same fucking idiot that has to flood this board bitching about the latest old movie they just watched or is bitching on Sup Forums just the average poster's reaction to having just watched a film? This is the second Lebowski thread today and that can't be a coincidence.
Jayden Watson
Both, Sup Forums always bitches about it because of the weed and the fact that Reddit likes it.
Noah Mitchell
Big Lebowski is 10/10
maybe you aint a 90s kid OP
only 90s kids would understand
Jeremiah Parker
This aggression... w...will not stand... MAN!
Julian James
You don't understand the term cult movie.
Jaxson Mitchell
Shut the fuck up, Donnie
Lincoln Watson
Damn, looks like not only plebs visit this board, if only there was more discussion like this...
Hunter Perez
Objectively yes it is overrated. It is talked about more than it has any right to be. However for what the movie sets up to be it entirely fulfills its aim perfectly.
Kayden Hughes
First thought I had Jesus Christ
Evan Brown
>The point of the movie is that it's a noir mystery film with a protagonist who is totally out of his element in the genre
What makes it even more fun is that he is totally willing to play ball and solve the mystery, and goes through all the moves a regular noir protag would, but nothing ever goes the way it should. Nothing is really resolved, the femme fatale just fucks him, there's no moral downfall for anyone because they're all shitty people to begin with. He doesn't even get the typical tragic downbeat ending, fucking Donny get it
Easton Flores
>That overhead shot of the dude laying down on his newly acquired rug, listening to the sounds of a bowling alley in his headphones
Fantastic attention to detail.
Bentley Phillips
To expand on this more. The movie is entirely original. As someone already pointed out it was a deconstruction of the noir mystery genre with memorable characters and memorable and hilarious dialogue. Its pace, plot and inward structure and logic is made to be absurd to point out the absurdness of the genre in itself and the absurdness cleanly cut out stories in presented in movies when life is more messy and less focused generally. It is very well acted, filmed, written and thought out. It entirely hits all the marks it sets out to.
However the box it puts itself in limits it. Its plot being aimless as the point doesn't solve the issue of the lackluster plot which drags. The fact it is meant to be aimless will inevitably lead to the movie wondering with no where to go and no plot development at times when it could use some. The fact that is made to be a facade means it lacks certain depth emotionally. You are never meant to care about The Dude or Donny or anyone. The fact that you are not meant to does not change the fact you don't where that would add gravitas.
Lets take another movie. Groundhog Day. That movie is one of the truly great comedies of all time. It is funny but also you deeply care about the characters. It is able to be original but not at the expense of failing to hit proven traditional marks that while known are never the less tricky to hit and incredibly satisfying when done well.
