This is a fart sniffers movie where nothing actually happens. No wonder Xers and boomers can't get enough of this pretentious shit.
What is the appeal of it?

>>212481828 (OP)
Boomer comedy.

>>212481828 (OP)
>every movie has to have something heckin HAPPENING and big explosions and car chases and maymays and things for me to clap at!
>uh yeah, I'm 13 years old why do you ask?

>>212481828 (OP)
Hey OP. I'll let you suck my cock for a thousand dollars.

>>212481828 (OP)
It was boring as fuck.
>t.97 Zylennial

>>212481828 (OP)
Its a pretty complicated film anon a lot of ins and outs, moving parts and such

>>212482130
>he doesn't enjoy the funny charisma between all the actors and the situational comedy
its the Coen Brothers film with literally the most soul besides Fargo and it's just a weird opinion to have to call it "boring".

>>212482227
What is the story again? Outside of the memes there is nothing going for it. It is in the same vein as Pulp Fiction.

>>212482099
That's not what I'm saying at all and you know it.
It's pretentious reddit bullshit from start to finish. You should have realized this from the second le heckin German nihilists came on the scene.
Movies don't need explosions and action but some consistancy and closure would have been nice. But no, we got to see John Goodman wreck a car in an autistic chimpout and that's about it. Also some half baked detective undertones than don't even follow the Knox rule - just comes across as incoherent.

>>212482306
>t. retard
its an Odyssey involving an idiot burnout who stumbled into a criminal conspiracy.
>he didn't understand what Pulp Fiction was about
I truly want to measure your IQ.

>>212482361
>movie came out in the 90s
>calling it reddit
shut the fuck up newfaggot

>>212482363
stop worshiping 90s slop bro

>>212482361
Did you even watch the fucking movie? Everything about the "kidnapping" and Treehorn is resolved at the end. Every plot point is resolved, unironically.

>>212482386
Reddit in spirit, not in fact. You know exactly what I mean, so stop playing the retard.

>>212482361
>just comes across as incoherent.
what did you think of Inherent Vice?

I watched Big Lebowski in 1999. I came away wondering just what in the fuck I watched.
Watched it later in 2004....thought it was brilliant and is one of my favorite movies.
You have to buy into Jeff Bridges being a complete piece of shit, self-important waste of space. You probably missed the generational dynamic of Walter (Boomer) - Lebowski (Millennial) - Donny (Zoomer)
SHUT THE FUCK UP, ZOOMIE

>>212482426
Only newfags talk like this, reddit hasn't been relevant in over a decade

>>212482417
They literally finish the movie with Sam Elliot in a cowboy hat (this is what I mean by reddit in spirit) explaining what is going to happen. What the fuck even is that?

>>212482426
name one thing that's reddit about it

>>212482497
>explain to this zoomer the omniscient narrator spaghetti western trope
holy summer batman...

>>212482503
Its just giving off heckin reddit, it's reddit coded, on God! Real Ohio energy, big sloplebowski! No cap!

>>212482503
John Goodman literally starts quoting Vladimir Lenin for one thing. Also any scene involving the German Nihilists.

>>212482553
You realize the nihilists are meant to be made FUN of, right? Are you unironically retarded?

>>212481828 (OP)
I have yet to meet a single person who uses the word 'pretentious' and yet his opinion is worth a dime. This thread is no exception.

>>212482553
>NOOO DONT QUOTE LENIN! AHHH NOOO /POL/ SAID I CAN'T LISTEN TO HIM LALALALA I'M NOT LISTENING AHHHH IM GOING INSANE

>>212482553
>quoting Vladimir Lenin
not reddit
>the German Nihilists
a little reddit but they have like 5 seconds on screen who cares

Why did the Dude hate the Eagles so much? Joe Walsh is fantastic.

>>212481828 (OP)
it's about the characters and the quirky situations/dialogue. so basically it's like a Wes Anderson movie, only good.

>>212481828 (OP)
It’s driven by the characters, what do you want?

>>212482682
>Joe Walsh is fantastic.
garbage

movie about a retard that the stakes rise on every turn
> zoomies can't cope without quip humor deflating all story points that hold gravity

>>212482659
>muh boogeyboard
It's not /pol/brained to suggest the quote was put there for fart-sniffer reasons. Same with the nihilists.

>>212481828 (OP)
Blows my mind that they also directed Fargo, which is actually good. I can't stand the Big Lebowski, fucking retarded movie.

>>212483035
>the quote was put there
missed the entire ethos diatribe of Walter's verbal thinking

>>212482306
>Bunny didn't actually kidnap herself
>old man Lebowski used the situation to steal from the foundation and give himself the million dollars
>foundation is run by Mauve who suspects give Bunny's proclivities, that's it's probably involving Treehorn in some way (specifically the guys who broke in Lebowskis home)
>Treehorn hires thugs to strongarm old man Lebowski because he owes because Bunny has been spending money all over town
>implied that Treehorn has been shadow funding the foundation through Bunny and uses Bunny to extort Mauve

>>212483035
So you just didn't understand the point of what Walter was getting at?

>>212483162
>Bunny has been spending money all over town
TO KNOWN PORNOGRAPHERS

Lmao that guy got filtered by 90s Cheech and Chong, the state of zoomer lmao

>>212481828 (OP)
I enjoyed it more my 2nd viewing because I knew not to expect anything.

I was waiting for the plot with bunny to unfold into something but in the end it's like "yeah whatever haha" and it's nothing. 2nd viewing I enjoyed the meandering nature of it way more.

Imagine crashing out about the big lebowski holy shit get a life

>>212482659
You have to go back

Jackie Treehorn treats objects like women, man

To really understand this movie you'd have to actually have lived the 90's and how everything was pretty much inconsequential : the USSR had fallen and 9-11 was unimaginable, the Gulf War was a walk in the park (against what was supposed to be a top5 army) and Pax Americana was going strong.
People weren't thinking too much about the end of oil, the permadeath of the oceans and the temperature rising. The only fear were pandas going extinct and the hole in the ozone layer which was above Australia so who cared lol.
It was the pre internet era, we had it good and thought it would be eternal. The Big Lebowski was all of that.

Ohnonon retard got btfo in this thread so he made another one
>>212483430

>>212481828 (OP)
Yeah, well, thats just like, your opinion, man.

what is the appeal of making the same thread over and over again OP? do you giggle like a retard whenever you get a reply to your boring thread?

>>212483570
>g-go back, hehe did I say it right?

>>212483648
Fucking this, it was a different world. If you explained pre-9/11 America to people it's like a different universe to them.

>>212482553
I am the walrus.

>>212482614
this. People who don't know what they're talking about go "hurr durr pretentious" or "hurr durr that's leddit" the same way that MAGA trash snivel "waaaaah woke". It is utterly, totally meaningless lazy-at-best criticism.

>>212483812
I'm utterly disappointed that I had to scroll down this far for this.

>>212483648
>>212484390
based.

>>212484613
>I'm utterly disappointed that I had to scroll down this far for this.
same.
/tv/ has changed.

>>212481828 (OP)
>What's the appeal of it?
it's comfy. One of the comfiest late-90s movies.

>>212481828 (OP)
I'm convinced the people who hate this movie are unironically low iq.

>Coens have their previous movies over analyzed
>"Hey, let's just make a comedy with no deeper meaning, it'll be funny when people try to over analyze it"
And now the dumb faggot OP is screeching because he tried to analyze it and upset there's no deeper meaning

>>212484613
DONNY YOU ARE OUT OF YOUR ELEMENT

>>212483812
/thread

>>212481828 (OP)
What's with all the pajeets trying to trash awesome movies like the Big Lebowski and Pulp Fiction. Did they just discover 1990s movies and realize that Bollywood will always be shit?

>>212484836
They are mad about the early Superman reviews and lashing out

>>212483648
>>212484390
it's interesting to note that the events of the Big Lewboski start exactly 10 years before 9/11

>>212484698
Apparently it's loosely based on Homer's The Odyssey which the Cohens have never even read

>>212483490
In the absence of good movies to discuss /tv/ seems to have descended into utter madness and the most fuckwitted contrarianism I've ever laid eyes on

>>212485664
>here I'll make up some shit and then snivel about the Cohen [sic] brothers

so what the fuck happened anyway? her dad set this into motion so she'd go home to the farm and stop being a whore?

>>212486089
Watch the fucking movie and put your phone down.

>>212485664
>n Homer's The Odyssey which the Cohens have never even read
funny they made O BROTHER WHERE U AT?, too

>>212486089
>so what the fuck happened anyway? her dad set this into motion so she'd go home to the farm and stop being a whore?
totally lifted from the JESSIE ROGERS bio

>>212485724
Wrong board

>>212486186
Who is this goddess?

>>212487122
Same woman

>>212482426
>Reddit in spirit
Never before has a more faggier term been coined.
Go the fuck back there.

>>212487257
Lol that's not Tara faceblindanon

>>212487510
*the original photo I meant

>>212487122
Jessie Rogers. This Anon >>212487257 accidently posted the current state of one of the Ninja turtles costumes from the early 90s films.

>>212481828 (OP)
This may be the least pretentious movie of all time.

>>212481828 (OP)
its a very straightforward film
you fucking dork

>>212482361
>Also some half baked detective undertones than don't even follow the Knox rule
What is the Knox rule?

>>212486395
Imagine being this illiterate

>>212482426
>Reddit in spirit
That's the best way to let people know you are incapable of forming an actual opinion and that your opinion should not be taken seriously. Well done.

What was that quote about how americans can't into films that haven't a clear ending/purpose/outcome?
They want every film to be the Sting, that's why Licorice Pizza fucking filtered them , that's why Nolan is seen as high art there and why they flood this website with threads about the ending of the Thing.

>>212489562
>babe in the woods routine
Everyone knows what you are trying to say polfaggot, get a grip.

>>212488276

THE TEN KNOX COMMANDMENTS

1. The killer must be someone introduced early on.
If the murderer pops outta nowhere on page 297 like a DLC character, that's a war crime.


2. No supernatural baloney.
Ghosts? Telepathy? Time-traveling serial killer cats? Hard pass. This is Clue, not Doctor Strange.


3. No more than one secret passageway.
This ain’t Hogwarts. Your mystery mansion doesn’t need a damn Narnia closet in every room.


4. No use of undiscovered poisons.
You can’t kill someone with "mystery flower juice from Atlantis" and expect people to clap. This isn’t Elden Ring lore.


5. No random foreigner as the fall guy.
Don't pull the "mysterious Turk with a dagger" card unless he’s got real plot presence. Lazy and racist is not a plot twist.


6. No sleuth sleuthin’ with vibes only.
The detective must use logic, not “I just felt it was the butler.” Leave the astrology to Tumblr.


7. Only one secret twin allowed.
Secret twins are like jalapeños—fine in moderation, catastrophic if overused.


8. No sudden spiritual reveals.
If the detective's like “Oh I dreamed the killer’s name in Sanskrit,” then I’m flipping the book into the sun.


9. The sidekick must spill all the tea.
Watson can’t hide the fact that the gardener was acting sussy for 200 pages and then go “oh btw…”


10. The killer must not be the detective.
Plot twist? Sure. But if your Sherlock is also the murderer, then congrats, you just nuked the genre from orbit.
---

TL;DR:
Knox basically said: “No BS. No psychic bunnies. No surprise ninjas in the pantry. Give the reader a fair shot at solving the mystery. If you break these rules, you're just gaslighting your audience harder than a Netflix true crime doc.”

So yeah, next time you’re crafting a murder mystery and you’re tempted to pull a “BUT THE VICTIM WAS ACTUALLY A ROBOT,” just remember: **Ronald Knox is watching.

>>212489807
Tbf The Thing (both the original and Carpenter's remake) are two of the greatest films ever made.

>>212489925
The Big Lebowski isn't a detective drama retard. The "detective" part is literally just a joke.

>>212489912
You clearly don't know what (sic) means, especially in that context.
Also you sound pedantic

>>212489807
Philip Seymour Hoffman didn’t pass his acting chops to his kid, the film simps for an ugly bitch, and most of the jokes don’t land. Being an ameritard has many downsides but protects you from arthouse Jedi mind tricks, so rich kids fucking around with studio/government money and expecting to be worshipped as profound comes off as retarded as it actually is.

>>212489941
Didn't pretend otherwise but somehiw the ending is buttfrustrating a lot of folks 'round here

>>212490105
It's a mood film you dung, do you remember the plot in the Long Goodbye?

>>212490151
Idk why it does, it's very obvious the alien isn't dead.

>>212490104
Explain it to me then

>>212482306
pulp fiction is insanely easy to understand. it's practically cinefag 101. how did you even get here?

>muh pretentious
It's literally the less pretentious movie ever made

>>212490570
One uses (sic) when quoting someone and not correcting a typo or spelling mistake in the original quote, usually with the intention to denigrate the quotee by highlighting his lack of knowledge in the matter discussed.
In this case using the name Cohen instead of Coen.
Funny reaction you had then

>born 1984
>saw this movie once it became available for rent
>didn't care for it, thought it was a lot of stupidity and style over substance
>recently decided to give it another watch
>didn't care for it, thought it was a lot of stupidity and style over substance
Much like A Nightmare Before Christmas, it's one of those 90's movies that was far more hype than material. Half-Baked was superior in just about all aspects, in terms of characters, dialogue, humor, plot, etc. Hell, the Hudsucker Proxy was superior, and that movie wasn't that good.

>>212481828 (OP)
kys plotfag

>>212482361
>comedy about a pothead boomer getting accidentally wrapped up in a convoluted detective plot
>complains its incoherent

>>212481828 (OP)
It's a noir.

>>212482682
Are you like 90 years old

>>212489925
>he doesn't know
Lel get filtered pleb

>>212481828 (OP)
Well, that's just like...your opinion, man.

>>212481828 (OP)
What are you talking about? Did you even watch it? A lot happens.

You must have an awful attention span.

>Much like A Nightmare Before Christmas, it's one of those 90's movies that was far more hype than material
A film with banger after banger which all sound better than zoomer music?
https://youtu.be/fW4XLxeBjtw
>Half-Baked was superior in just about all aspects, in terms of characters, dialogue, humor, plot, etc
Ah yes, Dave chapelle as his original non-threatening black guy character and Jim Breuer. And they have to get their friend out of prison for feeding a police horse! Quite the plot, retard

>>212489925
You type like an unmitigated faggot. I hope this is copy pasta from Reddit. No changes made here to the original 1929 rules improve it in any way.
And #5 is "No Chinaman must figure into the story." And as those of us who actually watched the movie all know, the Chinaman is not the issue here.

>>212481828 (OP)
>What is the appeal of it?
It's fun with wacky characters.

>>212481828 (OP) This is a movie about The Dude, but you can't have an IQ too low, or you'll be unable to realize it.

>>212481828 (OP)
it's boring and unfunny

>>212482306
>What is the story again?
what? it's a regular LA Noire story, how did you just not understand that?

>>212481828 (OP)
The movie has constant jokes and is massively popular with normies. Are you an actual brown 12 year old?

>>212482227
O Brother has the most soul

>>212493036
Also, Chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.

>>212482553
John Goodman doesn't quote Lenin. The dude starts quoting Lenin but doesn't remember the whole quote.

>>212481828 (OP)
>simple stoner comedy about a loser bowler
>pretentious
You must be unprecedented levels of white trash if this is the kind of movie you think of as pretentious.

>>212493793
Anon, half of this fucking site is Indian at this point. Obviously he's beneath even the trashiest of whites.

>>212483648
>>212485033
the movie is set in 1990, it's post-dated check. Bush has his Iraq-Kuwait war speech on August 5th 1990 (Sept. 11 1990 is his New World Order speech)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzkOlNlb7KI
The operation in Kuwait was done by February 1991

>Mr. Gookmoot draws a lot of water in this board. You don't draw shit, OP. Now we got a nice, quiet little television and film community here, and I aim to keep it nice and quiet. So let me make something plain. I don't like you fucking and sucking around, bothering our jannies, OP. I don't like your jerk-off posts. I don't like your jerk-off memes. I don't like your jerk-off behavior, and I don't like you, jerk-off. Do I make myself clear?

>>212493995
tl;dr

>>212482553
Remember the walrus

I just hate the fucking eagles man

>>212494077

>>212489807
This happened when Disco Elysium came out. Basically filtered 90% of mutt retards. They saw "police game" and flipped out when it lacked pewpew and had subtext.

>>212494077
>not saying "I'm sorry I wasn't listening"
anon, I am disappoint

>>212494195
Three days!? Jannist!

>>212494317
Don't be fatuous, anon.
Well you see, the other guy wrote the scene as if it was taking place on 4chan. I responded with "tl;dr" which is the internet version of "I'm sorry, I wasn't listening."

>>212489941
The problem is that people are retarded and argue that Childs is The Thing because "dude you can't see his breath!" or "dude there's totally gasoline in that bottle and he drank it without noticing!". Utterly stupid reasons to believe Childs is the thing, when the real reason he's the thing is because his story doesn't make sense with how he acted earlier in the movie, he's wearing different clothes from when we last saw him and the last time we see him the camera pans down to the door behind him leading to the basement where we know there was a thing hiding. People are too stupid to pay attention during the movie and remember those things and so instead you get a million threads with people arguing whether the thing knows how to copy people's breathing or not when we've fucking seen it do it over and over.

>>212494371
I understand. Could you slide your shorts down, please?

>>212494614
You don't understand, man. He only banned me from the one board.

>>212489925
excellent bait made me reply
how do I derive an algorithm that determines the genre of the movie I am watching help me AI

>>212494742
I understand. Could you slide your shorts down please?

>>212482361
>>212488276
>>212489925
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Detective_Fiction

The only half-baked detective bit is Delfino, "The Brother Shamus". and it's hilarious.

>>212494935
and I don't even see how that breaks any of the rules

>>212493984
LOL so he post-dated that check by a year, that makes it even funnier.