The Big Lebowski

**Meejoir** · 10-01-2002, 07:00 AM

Is the Big Lebowski the funniest film of all time?

It certainly is up there, although I don't claim to be an expert on run of the mill comedies, Lebowski is hilarious. Coen brothers are Gods.

"Hey man! I've got a beverage here!"

**JustaFied** · 10-01-2002, 06:17 PM

I vote it the funniest movie of all time, at least by the criteria of having the most hilarious memorable lines. It even beats out "Fletch" and "Caddyshack", and that says something.

"Yeah, I got a rash, man".

**Johann** · 10-05-2002, 12:31 AM

The dude is my hero. Homer Simpson used to be, but the duderino, (or his dudeness) is king.

Some of those lines.... fall out of your seat funny.

**Russ** · 10-05-2002, 06:33 AM

I think you're all gunna reckon I'm a killjoy - but I don't think "Big Lebowski" was even a particularly good Coen Bros film - by their high standards that is.

Raising Arizona is easily their funniest and one of the funniest films ever made. Lines like

"I'll be takin' these huggies and all the cash you got"
"Why are all your men in the one house in the whole of Arizona where we know my boy ain't at?"
"Not unless you think rounds funny"

I would have thought "The Party" and "Take the Money and Run" were some of the funniest ever made - but that's probably just me.

**JustaFied** · 10-06-2002, 09:20 AM

Well, I'm not sure I would place "Lebowski" at the top of my Coen Brothers favorites list, because it's so different from their other movies. It's really a different type of movie than "Raising Arizona"; it's lighter with less intended meaning, I believe. "Raising Arizona" is about middle-class Americana trying to achieve happiness in their "salad years". "Lebowski", on the other hand, isn't really intended to be much more than a really funny story about a stoner and the wacky people he encounters. My suggestion is to just take it at that, nothing more. Just sit back and laugh.

"When there was no crawdads, we ate dirt". "You ate dirt?" - Raising Arizona

algon · 10-08-2002, 06:08 PM

Not the most, I hate the music numbers, they are neverending!!
If you cut them it is a really really funny movie, but being serious there are many movies that are more or at least as funny as this.
All the screwball comedies for example.
But in any case this is my favorite Coen brothers film, and one of
few films that I love in this bad epoch for the cinema.

**SinjinSB** · 10-13-2002, 10:54 PM

Dude, glad to see so many fans of the movie. I was beginning to think I was the only one. Dude!

Gregster · 10-30-2002, 04:01 AM

'Hey man not on the rug!!'

Good Coen flick, funny and dark. I hav to say that their best comic wok has to be Raising Arizona!!

**Prince Lazy I** · 11-05-2002, 01:53 PM

"I Am The Walrus! I Am The Walrus, dude!"

"(Sigh...) Vladimir Ilyich, Donnie..."

Whenever I want to be cheered up, this is the one I reach for in the video pile. Hysterically funny from beginning to end - every line a cherishable quote.

Indiana John · 11-11-2002, 12:58 AM

"I'm a fucking veteran!"

"I could get you toe by three o'clock this afternoon, dude."

This movie changed my life, I've been drinking White Russians ever since!

Indiana John Hill

**Prince Lazy I** · 11-13-2002, 05:03 AM

"We know which Lebowski you are, Lebowski..."

Very rarely when watching movies do you get a genuine shock of recognition, a sense that these are your people up there on the screen... I got it from "Withnail & I", and I got it from "The Big Lebowski", in spades. Love it like the imaginary friend I never had: watch it at the drop of a hat. Dude!

"Awww, not the fucking Eagles, man..."

del_bake · 06-12-2003, 10:52 PM

By the far the funniest coen bros. Raising arizona, although classic, is a tad outdated these days. Fargo, brilliantly dark and alot of japes to boot. But Lebowski wins hands down.

"Where's your car dude"......."Your phones ringing dude"

"They're gonna kill that poooor woman"

"I had buddies die face down in the dirt just so we could enjoy this family restaurant"

"Eight year olds dude"

**Prince Lazy I** · 06-13-2003, 05:01 AM

"Uhhh... nice marmot..."

"Yeah... I got a rash, man..."

I'll take the Dude over Raising Arizona any day, tho' I've nothing whatsoever against the latter. It's a belly-laugh thing, simple as that. And for whoever said The Big Lebowski wasn't really a Coen Brothers movie:

"Obviously you're not a golfer."

del_bake · 06-13-2003, 05:26 AM

Who the hell said that. Blasphemy. Don't mind a bit of Barton Fink action either.

"I'm throwin' in the ringer dude"

"and pull the trigger till the gun goes click"

"Yeah, well, thats just like your opinion man"