The Dude Abides

Non-Phish General
#1

Well, I did a search and was surprised to find, although there was talk of making one, there was no official Big Lebowski thread…

So here it is!

I think this movie comes up every Halloween when people are thinking of what costume to wear…and rightfully so.

You’ve probably all seen it a bunch of times, as have I, but I’m always up for watching it again. In fact

[*begin reminiscing]

I was in a frat in college (not a real frat…we were the ‘stoner’ frat…as the following story will confirm) and upon realizing that pretty much everone in our frat really liked this movie, we started watching it every tuesday night. We called it Tuesday Night Lebowski (TNL). It started innocently enough as a friendly gathering, shortly after moving into our dorms for a new semester. My buddy and I started watching it in my room, and as people walked past and heard what we were watching, one by one they filtered in and had a seat.

Then the next tuesday we thought ‘that was fun, let’s do it again’ and this pattern continued for some time, escalating in scale. At its peak we had two floors of dorms watching the movie synchronized on about 6-7 tellies, with loads of caucasians and smoke being enjoyed by all. Hardly anyone could remember the end of the film, but everyone was full of quotes at the beginning. Of course after a couple months of weekly TNL, we pulled it back to a monthly event, and then it faded to special occasions (we also switched it to thursdays [maintaining the TNL nomenclature] as people were more likely to take part closer to the weekend). I can only hope the tradition has lived on in one form or another…

[*/end reminiscing]

So I’m sure you’ve all got some favorite quotes, here’s one of my favorite scenes, right before Maude shows the Dude ‘Logjammin’

                                 MAUDE
                     Do you like sex, Mr. Lebowski?

                                 DUDE
                     Excuse me?

                                 MAUDE
                     Sex.  The physical act of love.  
                     Coitus.  Do you like it?

                                 DUDE
                     I was talking about my rug.

                                 MAUDE
                     You're not interested in sex?

                                 DUDE
                     You mean coitus?
#2

MAUDE
You can imagine where it goes from here.

DUDE
He fixes the cable?

I watched it again the other day and pinpointed my favorite Walter moment. While watching the dance quintet at Crane Jackson’s Fountain Street Theater, he’s already told Donny to shut the fuck up once. When he’s telling Donny to shut the fuck up the second time he realizes how loud he is and catches himself halfway through. Hilarious.

By the way nice use of the word “nomenclature”.

WALTER
Asian-American. Please.

#3

TNL!!! Hahaha, that’s the best/funniest thing I’ve heard for a while regarding a film! I know what you mean, The Big Lebowski is a genius creation. I quite often sit down and watch it and it’s still interesting even after countless times.

Don’t fuck with the Jesus!

http://www.discharges.org/h/705/

#4

The new special edition came out!
It’s like a box set or something. Anybody know what extras are in this new edition?

Maude Lebowski: What do you do for recreation?

The Dude: Oh, the usual. I bowl. Drive around. The occasional acid flashback.

#5

Shit really?!?! I have no idea what the extras are but I’m excited!

#6

Here is some info:

http://www.twitchfilm.net/archives/003629.html

Walter Sobchak: This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass!

#7

my junior year of college I didn’t have a lot of homework, but all my friends did. So when i would just chill around, I would get high and watch the Big Lebowski a good amount of times. Thats one of my favorite past times with myself, occassionally someone would come over and watch it with me, but mostly i was on my own because i barely had any work to do on weeknights. Lebowski is my favorite movie of all time.

THEY"RE GONNA KILLLLL THAT POOOOOR WOMANNNN!!!

#8

I know what Santa’s bringin me for xmas this year!

That’s a sweet perpetual motion thingy cleetus…gotta love the jesus

‘What’s a peterass, Walter?’

#9

“i can get you a toe.”

“at least im house trained.”

“that rug really tied the room together.”

#10

“Hey, careful, man, there’s a beverage here!”

“Eight-year-olds, Dude.”

“It’s uh… uh… it’s down there somewhere, let me take another look.”

#11

When I went to Windsor over winter break, my two friends and I got back to our hotel really late after drinking for close to 12 hours straight (obviously we weren’t constantly drinking, but bar hopping and eating) and it was on TV. So much fun watching it whilst effed up and eating from a big bag of chips I bought from a carry-out.

#12

#13

“Saturday? I told that fuck down at the league office…”

“Who’s in charge of scheduling?”

Donny- “Um…Berkhalter”

Walter- “I told that fucking kraut a thousand times I don’t role on Shabbos!”

#14

There was a definite Lebowski reference on Law & Order SVU the other night.

The cops went to interview a guy who owned a huge multi-national security firm and his last name was Sobchak. For those who aren’t huge Lebowski-heads, the last name of John Goodman’s character Walter, is Sobchak.

AND while it’s not really discussed much in the film, Walter owns a security firm. Only his is some rat-ass operation in an LA stripmall. I think the producers of SVU did this on purpose.

#15

“nothing is fucked here dude”

#16

“Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, your opinion, man”

#17

“That’s a bummer man.”

AAAAAAHAHAHA! :smiley:

#18

In HS I took a film class and for our final prject we had to do a project on a director. I did it on the Coen brothers and then I should the clip of the Ringer scene. It was awesome.

#19

“Calmer than you are, Dude”

“I’ll suck you c@*k for a thousand dollars. Brad can’t watch or he has to pay a hundered”
“Is there an ATM around here?”

#20

Yes Yes the little Lobowski urban achievers and proud we are of all of them