(09-20-2017, 11:43 AM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: One of these days I've gotta watch that movie...
It is one of the Cohen Brothers movies that I enjoy. Not all of them are enjoyable, to my tastes, but "The Big Lebowski" resonates much in the same way that "Big Trouble in Little China" does. The Dude and his buddies are presented as the main characters in a detective story, but they're not; they're just bit players. They think they know what's going on, by following various detective film tropes, and they fall flat on their faces every time. Even when they try to exercise a little genre savviness, they fail, because they're not detectives; they're losers who have small roles in the grand story about Lebowski. But, like Jack Burton, they're fun to watch. And since they're characters in a Cohen Bros. film, they have some fun lines and some quirky personalities.