The Big Lebowski (VHS, 1998, Closed Captioned)

Didn't get it [humor]. Funniest part was when John Goodman was smashing the glass out of the wrong car. I knew that was coming before he did it. The " F " word was used about three thousand times. I read reviews on this movie so I bought it. The only plus I can give it is that the plot had a twist or two as to who actually stole the money. Again way too much swearing . Its as if the word [f...] was just discovered by a pack of third grade boys. Cohen boys humor I cant relate. I might try "Fargo" to try it[there humor] again. Disapointed.

After a long delay I received this order. The case of The Big Lebowski
was in excellent condition; the vhs inside looked ok also. Unfortunately,
it was The Usual Suspects rather than The Big Lebowski.

I had never watched this movie until after i got it. The reason for buying it was because my husband was told that it was a really funny movie and it is really hard to find older movies round here unless you get lucky and find it at a yard sale or flea market. So i looked it up and since i found it on here my husband told me to go ahead and get it. so i did. And we really like that we found it on vhs since all movies have gone to dvd.

This movie was recommended to me by a friend. Since I had never seen it I bought a copy. I would call this a man's movie, an action comedy. I wish I could say more about this movie but since I have only watched it once, so far, I will just say that if you liked Pulp Fiction, Sin City or Dumb and Dumber you will most likely enjoy this.

OK. 1 question; do you like anything the Coen brother's have done? If you don't, do yourself a favor and keep on moving because this is a truly Coen film; dark, loathing, sarcastic (and those are the good points).

Seriously, the Coen's, Joel and Ethan, are a strange pair. I, for one, love their movies, some more than others, but all are entertaining at the least.

This one is truly bizarre. Jeff Bridges IS "the dude". He has a name, but that doesn't matter, because he just wants to be "the dude". Unfortunately, he shares a name with a very wealthy man and gets caught up in a kidnapping, extortion, fraud, baby-making (just watch!), catch-the-guy-that-peed-on-my-carpet (yeah, just watch!), adventure.

All "the dude" does is bowl. His team consists of an overzealous, ex-military (but should still be in the military) Polish born Catholic who converted to Judaism (just watch!) played brilliantly by John Goodman, and a guy that suffers from, well, deafness, stupidity or amnesia (acted well by Steve Buscemi). They have a big match against a team led by a guy that calls himself Jesus, who talks about himself in the first person and I quote, "Don't f... with the Jesus", who is Hispanic but wants his name pronounced like the biblical GEE-zus (John Turturro manages to stand out in this role with only 2 or 3 scenes).

Unfortunately, when "the dude" is mistaken for a rich guy (you'd think the empty apartment would be a tip-off) someone pees on his carpet and he wants to be paid for the damages. It's all downhill from there.

Here, I'll sum it up: Saddam Hussein (obviously pre-GW Bush) works at the shoe counter in a bowling alley in a dream sequence, backdropped by The First Edition's classic "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)"; it's like a bad acid-trip gone terribly RIGHT, somewhat disturbing and utterly hilarious.

One very serious caveat, the movie is rated R for many reasons. There are probably more 4 letter words than other words in this film, somehow a porno director gets involved in the plot with ubiquitous porn-stars, and, let's just say that "the dude" got to be "the dude" by smoking some stuff that ain't legal and drinking more than any one man should; white russians, which he prefers to call "caucasians", political correctness after all that, WOW!!!

Anyway, if you like the Coen's, I would say particularly, "The Hudsucker Proxy" (1 of my top 5 all time movies) or "Raising Arizona", this is probably right up your alley; sorry, bad pun.