'The Big Lebowski' has been dubbed a 'cult' movie and with reason. It is a movie for a very specific clientele and one that is likely to disappoint a more mainstream audience.
First of all, it is not THAT funny. It definitely has its good moments thank to the script and the more than able cast. But don't be fooled: those moments are the exception and not the norm.
The movie seems to be too pleased with itself and it certainly falls short of the comic brilliance of 'Fargo'. The storyline is never plausible and after a while one fails to be even mildly interested with all the twists and turns of its kinky plot.
It is perhaps the quality acting that saves the whole enterprise in spite of its very obvious ... Read More:
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This has got to be the worst film i have ever watched! In fact i couldnt watch it all the way through. I wasted an hour of my sunday afternoon watching this rubbish! What the hell is it about?
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Chris Klein has intimate relations and falls in love with the most beautiful girl in town and finds out something rather shocking about her and has to leave town.This whole film is shocking and if their is something that most people don't like being discussed or made fun of, then that happens.Not recommended if you are under 15 years of age.
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Ashley Judd is the queen of interesting high concept stories that are rendered bland and toothless. Double Jeopardy should have been one of the greatest movies ever made, but it was a boring dud because it shied away from the moral darkness of the story. The same thing has happened to this film in my opinion.
The movie starts pretty poorly. It feels fake and contrived. I just got the feeling that it wasn't clicking, wasn't working.
Then the plot kicks in and it was quite interesting. It was more of a psychological drama than I expected as the lead character keeps blacking out, to then have to investigate murders the next day of men she had recently slept with. Is she a serial killer? ... Read More:
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The Number 23 starts off very promisingly - another in the long line of psychological thrillers like Memento and The Machinist, it's one of Jim Carrey's 'serious' films - what humour there is is coincidental and purely deadpan. The set up - Carrey accidentally finding a book about a writer's obsession with The Number 23 ruling and destroying their life - is strong; the performances from the cast are great and the film looks very stylish too. The cut aways to passages from the book, narrated by Carrey, look particularly great.
But as the twist in the story is set up, the film moves quickly from great, to average and finally leaves you feeling disappointed. There could have been a great shock ending to the film, even with the film's twist kept intact; ... Read More:
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The Number 23 starts off very promisingly - another in the long line of psychological thrillers like Memento and The Machinist, it's one of Jim Carrey's 'serious' films - what humour there is is coincidental and purely deadpan. The set up - Carrey accidentally finding a book about a writer's obsession with The Number 23 ruling and destroying their life - is strong; the performances from the cast are great and the film looks very stylish too. The cut aways to passages from the book, narrated by Carrey, look particularly great.
But as the twist in the story is set up, the film moves quickly from great, to average and finally leaves you feeling disappointed. There could have been a great shock ending to the film, even with the film's twist kept intact; ... Read More:
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'The Big Lebowski' has been dubbed a 'cult' movie and with reason. It is a movie for a very specific clientele and one that is likely to disappoint a more mainstream audience.
First of all, it is not THAT funny. It definitely has its good moments thank to the script and the more than able cast. But don't be fooled: those moments are the exception and not the norm.
The movie seems to be too pleased with itself and it certainly falls short of the comic brilliance of 'Fargo'. The storyline is never plausible and after a while one fails to be even mildly interested with all the twists and turns of its kinky plot.
It is perhaps the quality acting that saves the whole enterprise in spite of its very obvious shortcomings. All in all, ... Read More:
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'The Big Lebowski' has been dubbed a 'cult' movie and with reason. It is a movie for a very specific clientele and one that is likely to disappoint a more mainstream audience.
First of all, it is not THAT funny. It definitely has its good moments thank to the script and the more than able cast. But don't be fooled: those moments are the exception and not the norm.
The movie seems to be too pleased with itself and it certainly falls short of the comic brilliance of 'Fargo'. The storyline is never plausible and after a while one fails to be even mildly interested with all the twists and turns of its kinky plot.
It is perhaps the quality acting that saves the whole enterprise in spite of its very obvious shortcomings. All in all, an interesting ... Read More:
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