The Big Lebowski 1998

Reviews (16)

1. G

   Grooveman 8 月 24, 2026

   “Mr. Treehorn treats objects like women, man.”

   7,602 4
2. A

   adambolt 8 月 24, 2026

   shut the fuck up donnie

   4,369
3. R

   Richard T 8 月 24, 2026

   Walter Sobchak: Is this your homework, Larry? Is this your homework, Larry? The Dude: Look, man… Walter Sobchak: Dude, please? Is this your homework, Larry? The Dude: Just ask him about the car. Walter Sobchak: Is this yours, Larry? Is this your homework, Larry? The Dude: Is that your car out front? Walter Sobchak: Is this your homework, Larry? The Dude: We know it’s his fucking homework! Where’s the fucking money, you little brat? Walter Sobchak: Look, Larry. Have you ever heard of Vietnam? The Dude: Oh, for Christ’s sake, Walter… Walter Sobchak: You’re entering a world of pain, son. We know that this is your homework. We know that you stole a car. The Dude: And the fucking money.…

   3,354 21
4. B

   Brody 8 月 24, 2026

   “No, Donny, these men are nihilists, there’s nothing to be afraid of” is one of the funniest lines of dialogue ever put to screen.

   5,659 8
5. J

   Jizzmonkey 8 月 24, 2026

   The best advertisement for the White Russian yet.

   4,323 2
6. C

   ciara 8 月 24, 2026

   why is the poster for this so ugly? it put me off watching this for YEARS and it was actually funny as fuck? fuck this poster

   3,812 22
7. L

   Lucy 8 月 24, 2026

   yeah… well… you know… that’s just like uh… your opinion man

   10,707 7
8. D

   dumbsville 8 月 24, 2026

   Scott Pilgrim for 40 year old white men

   10,053 41
9. L

   Lochlan Ashton 8 月 24, 2026

   All my boy wanted was a rug.

   3,457 4
10. M

    maria 8 月 24, 2026

    they peed on his fucking rug man. it really tied the room together man

    15,530 14
11. B

    Ben Daniels 8 月 24, 2026

    It’s taken me a long time to figure out why The Big Lebowski is such a cult movie and isn’t more popular. The Coen Brothers have made some huge films, so why don’t more people know this? Especially since this film stars Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, Julianne Moore and others. Surely people would know this movie? Well. No. The simple reason I think this is a cult movie is because it is a character movie. A lot of people, mostly an audience not dedicated to loving film, go to a comedy movie for lots of gags. The Big Lebowski isn’t funny because of it’s gags. It can be, but only once or twice. This film is funny because…

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12. V

    Vinny Simms 8 月 24, 2026

    comedies giving a fuck about good cinematography is my heroin

    3,296 5
13. M

    misubisu 6 月 29, 2026

    **Score: 20/10 A Perfect, Unassailable, and Utterly Timeless Masterpiece**

    Some films are good. Some films are great. And then there is *The Big Lebowski* a film that transcends criticism, defies genre, and somehow gets better with every single viewing. It is, quite simply, one of the best movies ever made. Watching it 28 years after it was made, and it has lost nothing. Not a single frame, not a single line, not a single moment of Jeff Bridges’ magnificent, bathrobe clad bewilderment. It remains as fresh, as funny, and as profoundly *itself* as the day it was released.

    **The Plot (Such as It Is):**

    The Dude (Jeff Bridges) is a man who abides. He is a slacker, a bowler, a lover of White Russians, and a man whose rug really tied the room together. When a case of mistaken identity leads a pair of thugs to urinate on his rug, he seeks restitution from the wealthy, wheelchair bound Big Lebowski (David Huddleston). This sets in motion a labyrinthine plot involving a kidnapped trophy wife (Tara Reid), a nihilistic German pornographer (Peter Stormare), a cowboy narrator (Sam Elliott), and a series of increasingly absurd encounters that somehow feel both random and inevitable.

    To describe the plot is to miss the point entirely. *The Big Lebowski* is not about what happens; it is about the world it creates and the characters who inhabit it. It is a hangout movie, a stoner noir, a comedy of errors, and a profound meditation on nothing and everything all at once.

    **The One Liners: The Greatest Collection in Movie History**

    This is where the film achieves its true immortality. *The Big Lebowski* has the best collection of one liners in movie history. It is not even close. The dialogue, written by the Coen Brothers, is a treasure trove of quotable, endlessly applicable gems:

    “Phone’s ringing Dude.”
    “The Dude abides.”
    “That rug really tied the room together.”
    “Obviously you’re not a golfer.”
    “This aggression will not stand, man.”
    “Calmer than you are.”
    “He thinks the carpet pissers did this?”
    “I’m the Dude. So that’s what you call me.”
    “Careful… the Dude has a beverage.”
    “I am the walrus”
    “Shut the fuc% up Donnie.”

    These lines have embedded themselves in the cultural lexicon to the point where they have become their own form of communication. You can say “The Dude abides” to a fellow fan and know that an entire universe of meaning has been exchanged. This is not just good writing; it is the kind of writing that becomes a language of its own.

    **The Characters: Perfect, Unforgettable, and Utterly Realised**

    Every single character in *The Big Lebowski* is a masterpiece of casting and writing.

    **The Dude (Jeff Bridges):** Bridges gives the performance of his career. He is laid back, confused, principled in his own shambolic way, and utterly magnetic. You cannot imagine anyone else in this role. He is the human embodiment of a shrug and that is his superpower.
    **Walter Sobchak (John Goodman):** Goodman is a force of nature as the Dude’s volatile, Vietnam obsessed bowling partner. He is loud, aggressive, and hilariously wrong about almost everything. Yet there is a strange, twisted loyalty beneath the bluster that makes him oddly endearing. His rants are legendary.
    **Donny (Steve Buscemi):** Buscemi plays the sweet, simple, perpetually confused third member of the bowling team. His lines are few, his interjections are invariably ignored, and his fate is one of the film’s most unexpectedly poignant moments. He is the quiet soul of the trio.
    **Maude Lebowski (Julianne Moore):** Moore’s performance is a revelation. As the avant garde artist daughter of the Big Lebowski, she is imperious, sexually aggressive, and utterly captivating. Her scenes with the Dude are some of the film’s best a collision of two completely different worlds.
    **Jesus Quintana (John Turturro):** Turturro steals every scene he is in as a flamboyant, perverse bowler with a terrifying intensity. He

14. C

    CinemaSerf 3 月 13, 2025

    The “Dude” (Jeff Bridges) just wants to go through life drinking and bowling so is a bit narked when two thugs break into his apartment demanding cash! They’ve got the wrong “Lebowski” but only discover that after they’ve micturated on his rug! Determined to get some recompense, he goes to the correct one (David Huddleston) where he is given short shrift but decides to help himself to one of the many rugs that dot the man’s mansion and he also takes a bit of a shine to his young trophy wife! Days later, he is summoned back by the butler “Brandt” (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and told that she has been kidnapped and that he is to help them deliver $1,000,000 to the felons. He reckons she’s probably behind the crime herself, but agrees – for a fee, and recruits his loud mouthed mate “Walter” (John Goodman) to help out. That’s not all, though! It turns out that there’s yet another “Lebowski” and she’s his daughter “Maude” (Julianne Moore). She’s an energetically enigmatic, quite ruthless, woman who points out that the cash they are proposing to use is actually not her dad’s – and she needs it back. With the scene now set, the capers quickly escalate and no rug is safe! Bridges leads this ensemble cast really well here as the story lurches from one disastrous escapade to another, marrying some witty dialogue with some borderline slapstick and all held together via White Russians and the bowling alley. Moore is also on good form as is the less-is-more performance from an underused but amiable Steve Buscemi as the third wheel on their wagon “Donny”. The plot itself doesn’t really matter, it’s largely incidental to the engaging efforts of all except, maybe, for a Goodman whose constant expletives lose their potency quite quickly as his character becomes a bit too boorish. It is laugh out loud funny at times and as a semi-satirical look at layabout life, wealth and drug crime it’s well worth a look.

15. R

    r96sk 6 月 24, 2023

    ‘The Big Lebowski’ is entertaining.

    Jeff Bridges and John Goodman are a fun duo, I even would’ve enjoyed this 1998 flick more if it was just those two for the whole near 2 hours. Everyone else on the cast is good too, amusing seeing Peter Stormare in a role like this – as opposed to one like John Abruzzi. Speaking of ‘Prison Break’, Jonathan Krantz is also in this!

    The film starts like a house on the fire, I did find the rest of it – particularly the middle portion – a little (emphasis on ‘little’) less as the story is stretched out a tad, though all in all it gave me a good time and I’d happily rewatch it no doubt.

16. F

    Film.Viewer.999 4 月 7, 2021

    Fun, clever and engaging. Joel & Eitan Cohen’s most iconic creation