Most bone-headed Movie Review of All Time?

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I saw The Big Lebowski on opening weekend, at a Friday afternoon matinee. I 
laughed and laughed and laughed til I had trouble catching my breath -- the 
three dozen or so other people in the audience sat in silence the whole 
time; a couple walked out early. They just didn't get it, and neither did 
most of the reviewers at the time.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: "John Carvill" <johncarvill at gmail.com>
Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 1:32 PM
Subject: Re: Most bone-headed Movie Review of All Time?


> If I remember at all vaguely corectly, there was a lot of nay-saying about
> The Big Lebowski when new.......1) too comically subversive to easily get 
> by many?   2) that common phenomenon of dissing the NEXT work after a 
> unanimously praised, overpraised now?, previous film.
>
> I won't confess my first reponse to it.
>
> --- On Sat, 8/29/09, John Carvill <johncarvill at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: John Carvill <johncarvill at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: Most bone-headed Movie Review of All Time?
>> To: "rich" <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
>> Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Date: Saturday, August 29, 2009, 12:57 PM
>> > i really hated Fargo--sometimes
>> the Coens condescension gets the better of them
>> >
>> > rich
>>
>> Fargo was fun. But Lebowski is in a different league. It's
>> by far
>> their best film, yet that idiot of a reviewer hated it.
>> Weird.
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