Review:
The thing about cult films is that most of those movies are not all that great, just managed for some unexplainable reason to garner a huge following. The Big Lebowski is one of those movies. While certainly not bad, the story of The Dude and his friends is a little too confused and outlandish to really work. Sure, the movie is often funny, it may even qualify as a satire, but movies like that are a dime a dozen. The Dude is the classical loser and his entanglement with the criminal element because they mistake him for a businessman with the same name leads him to some strange places. But of course (almost) everything eventually comes to a satisfying solution.
Random Observations:
Here’s your homework, Lebowski cultists: Watch the movie again and in all scenes with Steve Buscemi, just pay attention to him.
The film has too many “one-stop characters” for my liking - what the hell is the point of Sam Elliott’s character?
Maybe I’m making too much of this. The movie is definitely extremely funny. Maybe that is everything that counts.
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