Enjoying The Dude

[Carvill John]

Agree absolutely. The Big Lebowski makes you feel warmly towards its creators. Pulp Fiction can be enjoyed, but does tend to leave you with a bit of a bad taste in the mouth. Tarantino is not a very pleasant-seeming person, wildly overrated, and unlikely ever to produce anything worthwhile again. 


Plus the Coens have made several other very good films, and even their 'bad' films have very good parts: eg. Jennifer Jason Leigh's channeling of 'His Girl Friday' in 'The Hudsucker Proxy'.


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> From: torerye at hotmail.com
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: RE: Enjoying The Dude
> Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 15:54:58 +0200
>
>
> John Carvill:
>
>> well, I loved The Big Lebowski when I first saw it, have seen it
>> dozens of times since, and love it still. [...]
>> There *are* criticisms you can lob at the Coens, but in the same was
>> as, say, 'Pulp Fiction' is hugely enjoyable *on its own terms*, Lebowski
>> is a very good film.
>
> I've always thought that a good alternate title for The Big Lebowski
> would have been "Mindless Pleasures." There's absolutely nothing hidden
> under the surface in the movie, no deep truths, but boy, that surface is
> enjoyable and bears endless rewatching. "Pulp Fiction" is in some ways a
> similar film, as John points out: nothing beneath the surface in that film
> either. But I consider The Big Lebowski a much better film than Tarantino's.
> To use a phrase recently bandied about on this list in another connection:
> The Big Lebowski has a heart, Pulp Fiction doesn't. Pulp Fiction is busy
> looking cool, The Big Lebowski isn't. The Coens love their audience, Tarantino
> is busy looking in the mirror, fondling himself.
>
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