THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION 

When Walter tried to commit Donnie's ashes to the water, the wind blew them into the air. Even in death, Donnie was out of his element.

"Smokie, this is not Nam, this is bowling, there are rules." LOL

5:39 "Let me explain something to you. Um, I am not Mr. Lebowski. You’re Mr. Lebowski. I’m the Dude. So that’s what you call me. You know, uh, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or uh, El Duderino if you’re not into the whole brevity thing.”

That rug really pulled the room together

Donny thought they were talking about John Lennon (“I am the walrus”), but they were talking about Lenin, the Russian leader.

The Dude is the hero of a story he doesn't even want to be in

I completely forgot how perfect the narration and narrator were in this film until that opening line. Strikes the perfect balance for the movie; it's just got the right energy and cadence along with great writing. This film aged like a fine wine.

The very begining had the song "Tumbling along like a tumbling tumbleweed" which laid down the essential idea the Dude was just floating along in his life with wherever the tide took him.

This movie get funnier every time you watch it. Another good one by the Coen Brothers is 'Raising Arizona' with a very young Nicolas Cage.

This has to be one of the greatest comedy screenplays EVER written. For me, damn near every line, inflection, and scene is so expertly and specifically written by the Coen Brothers, that it's like the actors are ACTUALLY the characters, and they just so happened to be caught on film doing their daily business. "Do you SEE what happens, Larry, when you F*CK. A STRANGER. IN THE A**!" Eternally hilarious 😂

Perfect wrap-up : .....it doesn't need to make sense..... Thanks for watching one of my favorite comedies ❤❤❤

The guy who "Came to fix the cable" (and yes, he was also one of the 3 nihilists) also played the crazy killer in "Fargo."

The dude abides

I love how much this film recalls FARGO: Both films have a million-dollar ransom for a wife. In both films, Steve Buscemi says, “in and out,” and later dies. Peter Stormare wants pancakes in both films. The Dude is eager to give 4 dollars because Carl is reluctant to give 4 dollars. In Malibu, The Dude gets the Shep Proudfoot treatment (beaten on the floor). Bunny Lebowski is originally from Moorhead, Minnesota, the city next to . . . Fargo.

This is my favorite favorite movie!!! It's dry witty humor.. I hope you enjoy it!!

A White Russian is coffee liquor, vodka and half and half. Never had a rum cream, but probably very similar. Great, insightful reaction, ladies. Glad you enjoyed

I wasn’t a big fan of this movie when I first watched but it has really grown on me. I really like dark comedies and movies about things going wrong and a couple more you ladies should watch are Burn After Reading ( another Coen Brothers movie), After Hours, Into The Night and Something Wild. It’s nice to see Jyn enjoy a movie again since she was so stressed about the hurricane.

The story is ludicrous, even when new shit comes to light.

The directors are masters of writing side characters. The main characters, and the main plot, are almost written just so they can build a world of interesting supporting characters, like Jesus, or the boy who didn't say a single word.

I'm just going to say it. The rug really did tie the room together

I was assigned to see this movie in the theater for a college Film class. Best homework ever! I know this movie has you scratching your heads the first time, but keep watching it. It just gets funnier and funnier every time. One of my top favorite comedies of all time.

You’re out of your element Donny✌️

23:40 "It's that guy. I came to fix the cable." -Ryl

22:37 "How do you forget about the toe?" -Jyn 😆

"Oooh, noooo he hazz health problamz" 😅

The Coen Brothers made this movie and like their other films ("Fargo" "No Country For Old Men") they explore the theme of extraordinary things happening to ordinary people and how money is not only the greatest corrupting influence but usually the force behind chaos. Their movies usually don't follow a linear narrative and yet still draw their audiences in by giving them relatable characters playing out grand themes yet often unable to control the world around them. For my money, they are the best film makers in the world right now.

I'm impressed that y'all understood the movie's vibe so well on your first viewing. That's actually pretty uncommon from what I've seen

This took me 3/4 attempts to watch back in the day but once i did i’ve seen it so many times and it just gets better & better each time. Like Napoleon Dynamite the more i see it the more endearing and enjoyable it becomes.

20:05 JELLIES!!

I love this movie so much. And Walter is my favorite character. Dude cracks me up.

No real message just a humorous take on a film noir detective mystery.

You might recognize the Older Jeffrey Lebowski as one of the townspeople in Blazing Saddles.

47:29 The whole thing happened for no reason. LOL! Perfect!

You both understood the movie, not everyone does. It’s absurd in ways you will only see on repeat viewings. Well done!

Dude Abides!

"Well, now you know for sure." Great comment after Walter dropped Mr Lebowski. Lmao.

You might call this a meme movie. Its impressively well constructed but about yes... nothing or rather a story looking for a protagonist and it finds the Dude. The Cohen Brothers are some of my favorites and they love this repetitive but intense humor. Beautiful review and glad you liked it.

28:17 that was his landlord. Remember earlier in the movie, he asked the Dude to stop by and critique his performance

Oh man. That rug really pulled the room together.

Love this movie, everyone in this is hilarious

Love this movie and I'm glad to see you girls enjoyed it. Some people do not get the humor.

Every time I watch this I think, "how the f*ck was Walter the guy who survived Nam?" He's got the instincts of an engdangered species, the intuition of a magic 8 ball and the self control of a toddler. How? HOW? HOW?!

Glad you ladies are alright 😊❤

My favorite part is when Walter is sorry at the end. It's sweet

The guy who plays Jesus (John Turturro) is also in another Coen brothers film with the guy who played Walter (John Goodman) called "O Brother Where Art Thou", which is just as good, and funny as The Big Lebowski. Highly recommend.

This one of my favs .. the lesson is to be like dude. The dude abides. 😂

i think the important lesson learned here is not so much what the characters learn, but the lesson we can learn from the dude and his friends. like the dude doesn't really learn a lesson, he's just being the dude. and walter is just being walter, donnie is just being donnie, etc. but the lesson we can all learn here is that that rug really did tie the room together.

Oh! So cool! The Dude AND! Fried Green Tomatoes! Great reaction 😊 A White Russian is Vodka, Kailua and cream.

A white Russian is 1/3 vodka, 1/3 kahlua, and 1/3 cream or milk... over ice... they really are good.. they taste like those cold Starbuck vanilla coffee things.... ❤

Absolute classic! You ladies should check out Magnolia by P T Anderson, another great film from that time but with more serious themes.

Loved this film since I saw it in the theater in 1998. Still amazing, still my favorite Cohen Brothers film.

one of the best all time comdies.... so many great quotes

"It's a movie about nothing." The perfect description for this movie lol. I'm excited to see you guys watch Fried Green Tomatoes next. One of my favorite movies. You guys are gonna love it.

The director said this movie was a like a complex detective novel dropped in the lap of the man least capable of solving it.

The Dude abides.

This was fun. It's a running Hollywood joke that Steve Buscemi (Donnie) gets killed in almost every movie he's in. Buscemi is a former NYPD firefighter before he became an actor, and reported to his department during 9/11 to assist. Sam Elliott has one of the more distinct voices in Hollywood. if you've ever seen any classic Coors commercials, it's his voice in them.

This movie is a deconstruction of a 1940s film noir mystery called The Big Sleep. That movie see a private investiagotr unravel a very complicated plot involving a wealthy man and his two daughters, one of which is capricious like Bunny they other is more wised-up like Maude.

Thanks for another perfect reaction. Just remember, "The dude abides."

26:57 It just struck me right now. The guy laughing is Mr. Varga from Fargo season 3. David Thewlis apparently. I didn't watch The Big Lebowski for years, and watched Fargo not so long ago ^^

8:54 The poster in the background is of Richard Nixon. He had a regulation bowling lane built in the bowels of the White House. Nixon was an avid bowler.

Loosely based of the famous detective novel the BIG SLEEP by Raymond Chandler. THE BIG SLEEP has been adapted many times over the years into several movie versions, radio programs and TV series.

This movie pairs well with Kingpin. A bowling comedy starring Woody Harrelson and Bill Murray.

Fried Green Tomatoes and The Big Lebowski are two of my favorite movies... 😊

"you want a toe? I'll get you a toe by 3 o'clock...amateurs" hahaha, masterpiece

4:37 All fair points, but that rug really tied the room together. 33:43 A classic scene, and a classic tune: "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)" by Kenny Rogers and The First Edition. Kenny was one of the biggest Country Stars of the 70's and 80's, but he started out in Rock N' Roll. 36:58 I'm with Ryl here, Julianne Moore is all kinds of Nifty. 😻

6:15 The synchronized vocal output was fantastic. I think Jyn said "wow", while Ryl went with a "well" ? Nice to recognize that in the edit. Fire! 😍🔥🔥

One of my top ten movies ever..lovelovelove ❤️✌🏻🌷

This film is so easy to just get lost in. By the time it ends it's like.."sorry, I wasn't paying attention". Only after watching people react to it did I start actually wondering how the pieces fit together at the end. haha

Yes, bowling is a lot of fun. 😃👍🏽

one of my favorite films

"Let's go bowling"

This movie is fun because it feels like a movie is desperately trying to happen TO the main character and he's just trying to exist and ignore the absurdity. The main "nihilist" bad guy (the guy who came to fix the cable) is the scary villain of Fargo. Steve Buscemi (Donny) is the "funny-looking guy" you recognized who was his partner. This movie is by Coen Brothers, same as Fargo, you mentioned the tone felt similar in the discussion. Just about all of their films are great

I happen to kwon there's a little lebowski on the way

Love this movie. The White Russian that The Dude drinks is basically alcoholic Iced Coffee (Australian style Iced Coffee). It is typically 1 measure (45ml) of Kahlua (coffee liqueur) and 1 measure of Vodka, then topped up with milk and served with ice. What makes The Dudes White Russian so special, besides the extra drugs from Jackie Treehorn, is that when he makes them himself, he uses a splash of Kahlua, a bit of MILK POWDER, then tops it up with Vodka! That's a very strong drink.

20:44 What is up with all the strange visions in the dude's dream? The dream features Maude wearing a weird armor and a silly viking helmet. This is a reference to the great opera by Wagner, "the Valkyrie" (part of the "Niebelungen" suite) in wich the protagonist is a warrior princess, a valkyrie, from viking mythology. One of the most famous musical pieces from that opera is "Ride of the Valkyries" wich features prominently in the vietnam movie "apocalypse now". This movie was written by screenwriter John Milius, a real person, wich the character Walther is based on (both the way he looks and his crazy manners) On a tangent, the phrase "it aint over 'til the fat lady sings" is also a reference to this very opera, because it is over four hours long, and ends with an aria by the opera singer playing "Brünhilde", the valkyrie. It is an extremely challenging part and it requires a singer of some girth to carry the singing through the whole thing, hence "the fat lady". The Dude himself is wearing the same outfit as the "cable repair man" in Bunny's dirty movie. The three Nihilists wearing red spandex suits and chasing the Dude with huge scissors. This is a reference to one of Maude's paintings wich you can see in the back of her studio, when she's talking about her art being "vaginal" and making men uncomfortable. This is a a reference to the concept of "castration anxiety" as theorized by the psychoanalysist Sigmund Freud. It also references the album cover where the nihilists are all wearing red shirts. This is a parody of the German electronic music group "Kraftwerk" and their album "the man machine" from 1978 (wich has almost nothing to do with the plot) The bowling alley clerk who gives the Dude his golden bowling shoes looks just like the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, with his characteristic black beret and moustache and the name "Saddam" embrodiered on his bowling shirt. In the opening scene in the supermarket, on the TV you see George Bush sr. talking about going to war with Iraq saying "this agression will not stand" (a phrase later repeated by the Dude himself, regarding his assault) Btw, the same saddam-like actor is actually playing the clerk in the bowling alley, seen in the title sequence, spraying shoe-freshener in the bowling shoes. I bet there are more of these references to discover if you really dig in to it. I don't know if you could make the case for "the big Lebowski" being the Cohen Brothers' take on Wagner's opera but I would certainly love to see someone try to make it.

This is a comfort movie for me lol

Great reaction video :) fun fact: Julianne Moore made a brief appearance in 'The Fugitive' you reacted to a couple weeks ago.

Cohen brothers are one of my favorite directors…you should try their other movies (Burn after Reading!) is a good one

I really enjoyed this reaction. You two had such a good time watching the movie! With all the stuff that happened to The Dude, he never once spilled a drop of one of his White Russians. BTW, did you notice that at one point he made a White Russian with non-dairy creamer?

Dude was a man for his time. He fit right in there. He wouldn't get depressed. 😅 The narrator was a man for his time as well, back in the mid 19th century western US. Glad you all found this movie funny.

In the same genre I recommend “Mystery train” (1989) directed by Jim Jarmush. With Joe Strummer (of the Clash) and Screamin' Jay Hawkins starring in the film.

“I’m finishing my coffee.” ☕️

I don't think there's a single Walter line that doesn't crack me up

The narrorator was Sam Elliot who also played Virgil in Tombstone.

Yay, finally!

Classic movie

I think Jyn and Ryl speak english as a second language, so I like very much that they seem to get every joke in this movie. This is the best comedy of all time.

When Maude made clear she wanted a child, she could have offered visiting rights to the tune of 10% of the year.

Philip Seymour Hoffman as Brandt is my favorite part of this movie.

You guys gotta check out more cohen brothers movies! Blood simple, Fargo, and Burn after reading, and raising Arizona are a couple of my favorites.

"Oh Brother Where Art Thou" is the Coen Brothers film y'all need to see next. Based on Homer's epic, The Odyssey. Freaking hilarious.

Virtual hug. ❤️

The Big Lewbowski for me tells you a lot about the range of quality films in the 1990s, I remember showing this film to my roommates at University in the UK. They thought at the beginning that it was a rubbish film but at the end they wanted to REWATCH.. and we did@ Check out Kingpin that was a excellent film too....

Oh you guys are great with this. I'm only 7 min in and you've cracked me up a few times. I love The Dude. And dark comedy takes a cool sense of humor. Absurdity is hilarious. 😊

You two might like the two movies "the whole nine yards" and "the whole ten yards".

They don't say for sure, but I think Maude would make good on her promise. The Dude found the money. She would have given him the 100k.

En mi top 10 de películas favoritas, gran reacción.

“Not the johnson.”😂

Good one, Ladies! It's fun watching these Coen Brothers movies with you. My personal favorites are O Brother Where Art Thou and Miller's Crossing, but they're all pretty good. Thanks for sharing this one. 🙂 Oh, and the white russians are made with half & half and a coffee liqueur called Kalua..

lol, I love this movie. Great review ladies.