Am I the only one?
14Who had never seen The Big Lebowski?
I finally set aside some time and watched it today.
I have seen the memes and heard the jokes before of course. A few years back my brother the bowler kept talking about how “the rug really ties the room together” with my other brother and they’d laugh and laugh. lol Good times.
Of course, me being the little brother just laughed like I knew the joke.
Anyway, I really enjoyed this quirky little Cohen Bros film.
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Nope, now I’m the only one.
@mossygreen Nope, me too neither.
@mossygreen @OldCatLady hey, me neither
@mossygreen I have to admit to having tried to see it once, but finding it banal and uninteresting.
I have really liked most of the other movies they were involved in.
@djslack @mossygreen @OldCatLady Me too. Should I go buy the steel case dvd and watch it?
@djslack @OldCatLady @sammydog01 I’m starting to think someone should rent a theater.
@PhysAssist
@mossygreen @PhysAssist
/giphy that’s just like your opinion, man
I thought you were joking about spoilers.
@RiotDemon I was, kinda. It’s a 20 year old movie now I think. I knew it was about The Dude, and something about a rug. And some of the memes, like the one for “am I the only one?”
But you guys did good, everybody didn’t die. : )
I am innocent of this film, tho I love the the memes.
/giphy Lebowski
I’ve seen Big Lebowski, but not E.T.
I’ve not seen Big Lewbowski or ET.
Or Sixteen Candles. Or the Breakfast Club.
This confession nearly got me kicked off a pontoon party last summer.
@JnKL I’ve not attended a pontoon party.
Also, if you watch only one of those films, I would suggest Breakfast Club.
@gregormehndel @JnKL I’ve seen E.T. but not the others. I feel a little less alone, thanks
@gregormehndel @JnKL @llangley
Are pontoons hard to keep lit?
@gregormehndel @JnKL
I agree. Sixteen Candles is practically a shot-for-shot remake of the Breakfast Club.
@gregormehndel @JnKL @medz I always thought Molly Ringworm was a bit overrated. (But then I was a little older than the target audience when those movies were released.)
@macromeh Same. The girl with dandruff was way hotter.
@macromeh @medz SPOILER ALERT!*
Ally Sheedy was more attractive before the makeover scene.
@Limewater yup
@JnKL have you been living in a monastery?
@robson close.
Small town Iowa. Never had cable until ‘91.
One horse town didn’t get a second horse until ‘95.
Still don’t have a stoplight in town, just at the highway.
We DO have 6 taverns and 3 tattoo parlors (one has a piercing side business)
@JnKL @robson Do you know where I could find some meth?
@JnKL @robson @therealjrn
You don’t at least try to patronize your local meth-producing community first???!!!
/giphy meth
@robson @therealjrn it is my understanding that you can find meth in every state and probably every county in every state.
But the @f00l is right, you should buy local if at all possible.
@f00l @JnKL @robson Yeah, my bad. I should support my local small businesses more.
@JnKL @therealjrn try and find Blue Sky, I hear it’s the best
I’ve never seen it. I’ve seen quite a few movies… but there are a lot more movies I haven’t seen.
I even received the DVD as a gift and has never watched it (despite telling my benefactor how much I enjoyed the gift).
@ruouttaurmind
I watched it. Didn’t get the hype.
Same thing happened with Goonies.
They were so over hyped that I was disappointed when I watched it. Granted I was 15 when I watched the Goonies for the first time and the people that told me about it had seen it when they were children.
@RiotDemon You hit the nail on the head there. Goonies will lose a lot of it’s wonder and adventure if viewed through the eyes of a near adult. Without that nostalgic feeling, I can see why you were meh on it. I mostly enjoy it for the childhood chills I get during certain scenes.
Sorry dood, you kind’ve missed out.
@RiotDemon I watched Heathers after a couple of years of people saying OH YOU’D LOVE HEATHERS!!! And I was like, eh, it’s… fine. I also dislike Beyond the Valley of the Dolls mostly because I saw it when I was 24 and not 16. I know perfectly well that if I’d seen it 4-8 years earlier I’d be obsessed with it to this day, as I am with Phantom of the Paradise and Videodrome (although both of those benefited from being 1) smart, well-directed films and 2) randomly watched on broadcast tv with no prior knowledge).
i’ve never seen dances with wolves or titanic. it’s too late to watch either of them now. i did see avatar, but i wish i hadn’t.
@carl669 TBH, I thought both of those pretty well sucked too.
Well, I prolly would’ve liked DWW better, if all the major characters didn’t die…
…And there WAS room for two on that door…
That’s interesting, man.
Log jammin. . . Donnie . . . Philip Seymour Hoffman’s nervous laugh. . Really liked it, but I’m not into the Dude worship some seem to have.
The Big Lebowski is like Napoleon Dynamite. Er, ok. I watched it. What’s the big deal? Let some time pass and then re-watch it. That’s when it’ll click. You’ll catch subtle things you missed before, and it all comes together. You become part of the hive.
It’s a bit like this very short film my sister once made me watch, and now because of it, we have one more secret code/phrase we use. Natalie & Tara in “Panic Button”
@LaVikinga That was great.
@mossygreen ClickClick!
Who wants to have fun tonight?
@hisgrossness Nice.
Even great movies don’t speak to all of us. That doesn’t make them less great.
Here, watch it again and see if you’ve changed your mind.
And speaking of one-word masterpieces… (nsfw)