TIDQ
feb 2004 se unió
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From the infamous Coen brothers, comes a movie so fresh and original that one must wonder what they were thinking when the concept for this film sparked.
The Big Lebowski revolves around the simple-looking yet wonderfully-acted character of "The Dude" Jeff Lebowski (Jeff Bridges), and due to a case of mistaken identity with another Jeffrey Lebowski, he becomes swept up in the story of family deception.
The story if the movie seems to be about extortion and conspiracy and kidnapping, but the reality of the movie exists on two different levels. There is the overly dramatic suspense story, and then there is the story of a deadbeat who just wants his rug back and to remove himself from all the confusion. The brilliance is that the movie treats the Dude's plight as the more important story, in the same process making a parody of the big story within the movie and a parody of dramatic plots in general. Everyone, even the Dude's best friend Wally, starts moving on this upper wavelength, and the Dude is the only one who brings the viewer back down to Earth.
The Dude himself is merely a complete loser, albeit one whose charisma has earned him a crown of respect among his own lower tier. He is swept up in the flow of this big conspiracy against his will and gets taken for a brutal ride, he gets beaten up, attacked by a marmet, has his rug peed on, and receives repeated abuses to his car, along with other things. The kidnapping plot becomes confusing and hard to follow, but it's not necessary to understand totally. The real treasure of the movie is watching the Dude's reactions to all the convoluted things happening around him.
The juxtaposition of the over-the-top drama of most of the characters and the simple-mindedness of a man who spends the entire movie in his pajamas and with a White Russian in his hand provides for countless memorable scenes and quotable dialogue. The movie is at its roots, always a comedy, but a smart one. Its downfall is that it has more "highly amusing" moments than it does "laugh out loud" moments.
Still, what it lacks in cheap laughs, it makes up for in beautiful cinematography. The musical score, the camera angles in the bowling alley especially, and most of all, the dream sequences that have to be seen for words cannot do them justice.
Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore, and John Goodman all give fantastic performances. The characters are fun and memorable, and there's not much I can do else to describe the movie. Everyone owes it to themselves to see this movie at least once just to experience its unique taste.
The Big Lebowski revolves around the simple-looking yet wonderfully-acted character of "The Dude" Jeff Lebowski (Jeff Bridges), and due to a case of mistaken identity with another Jeffrey Lebowski, he becomes swept up in the story of family deception.
The story if the movie seems to be about extortion and conspiracy and kidnapping, but the reality of the movie exists on two different levels. There is the overly dramatic suspense story, and then there is the story of a deadbeat who just wants his rug back and to remove himself from all the confusion. The brilliance is that the movie treats the Dude's plight as the more important story, in the same process making a parody of the big story within the movie and a parody of dramatic plots in general. Everyone, even the Dude's best friend Wally, starts moving on this upper wavelength, and the Dude is the only one who brings the viewer back down to Earth.
The Dude himself is merely a complete loser, albeit one whose charisma has earned him a crown of respect among his own lower tier. He is swept up in the flow of this big conspiracy against his will and gets taken for a brutal ride, he gets beaten up, attacked by a marmet, has his rug peed on, and receives repeated abuses to his car, along with other things. The kidnapping plot becomes confusing and hard to follow, but it's not necessary to understand totally. The real treasure of the movie is watching the Dude's reactions to all the convoluted things happening around him.
The juxtaposition of the over-the-top drama of most of the characters and the simple-mindedness of a man who spends the entire movie in his pajamas and with a White Russian in his hand provides for countless memorable scenes and quotable dialogue. The movie is at its roots, always a comedy, but a smart one. Its downfall is that it has more "highly amusing" moments than it does "laugh out loud" moments.
Still, what it lacks in cheap laughs, it makes up for in beautiful cinematography. The musical score, the camera angles in the bowling alley especially, and most of all, the dream sequences that have to be seen for words cannot do them justice.
Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore, and John Goodman all give fantastic performances. The characters are fun and memorable, and there's not much I can do else to describe the movie. Everyone owes it to themselves to see this movie at least once just to experience its unique taste.
It should be noted first and foremost that I have not seen Escape from New York, the predecessor to Escape from L.A.
If movies were graded solely on their concept, Escape from L.A. would be an absolutely fantastic movie. The city of Los Angeles has finally been hit with "the big one" and fallen away from California. The anarchy escalating from the '89 riots has made it the haven of moral degrady and thus becomes forcibly ceded from the United States by the new theocratic dictatorship government. It creates a beautiful scene. A post-apocalyptic setting before the apocalypse even happens.
Indeed, the scenery throughout the movie is gorgeous, and though a desolate ruin, everything in the movie reiterates the distinct "This is L.A." feeling, from the car-graveyard highways, to the plastic surgery patients turned organ-hungered freak shows. Aside from the now-outdated computer effects in some scenes, it's an extremely appealing movie, visually.
The problem in the movie is the execution. The plot, the acting, the general meat of most good movies. While there isn't any downright "bad" acting, Kurt Russell as Snake Plisskin is essentially a typical action hero. He can't talk in any tone other than the gruffest, most manly voice that humans are scarcely capable of. He also is incapable of talking in anything other than catchy one-liners. This probably would have annoyed me, had I felt the movie took itself seriously.
One CAN'T take the movie seriously, because there's just WAY too much belief to suspend. Then there would be many questions the movie can't answer. Why would any country willingly give up all its civil rights and liberties so easily? Why is it that Snake can barely walk with a bullet in his leg, but he can surf perfectly on that same leg? When apparently ten or so aftershocks happen everyday in Los Angeles, why is it that the one that occurs when Snake is in the sewer causes a cave-in, when the last 200 didn't?
Steve Buscemi does his usual great work as the wormy map peddler, and he was the most interesting person on the screen anytime he had a scene. I noticed Bruce Campbell's name in the opening credits too, whom I'm a fan of, but I didn't even recognize him through his makeup when he appeared. His voice was unmistakable though. It's a shame he had such a small part, though.
Good ideas, good production values, nice vision, the laughs are well-paced, but typically subpar action movie execution. Worth a watch though.
If movies were graded solely on their concept, Escape from L.A. would be an absolutely fantastic movie. The city of Los Angeles has finally been hit with "the big one" and fallen away from California. The anarchy escalating from the '89 riots has made it the haven of moral degrady and thus becomes forcibly ceded from the United States by the new theocratic dictatorship government. It creates a beautiful scene. A post-apocalyptic setting before the apocalypse even happens.
Indeed, the scenery throughout the movie is gorgeous, and though a desolate ruin, everything in the movie reiterates the distinct "This is L.A." feeling, from the car-graveyard highways, to the plastic surgery patients turned organ-hungered freak shows. Aside from the now-outdated computer effects in some scenes, it's an extremely appealing movie, visually.
The problem in the movie is the execution. The plot, the acting, the general meat of most good movies. While there isn't any downright "bad" acting, Kurt Russell as Snake Plisskin is essentially a typical action hero. He can't talk in any tone other than the gruffest, most manly voice that humans are scarcely capable of. He also is incapable of talking in anything other than catchy one-liners. This probably would have annoyed me, had I felt the movie took itself seriously.
One CAN'T take the movie seriously, because there's just WAY too much belief to suspend. Then there would be many questions the movie can't answer. Why would any country willingly give up all its civil rights and liberties so easily? Why is it that Snake can barely walk with a bullet in his leg, but he can surf perfectly on that same leg? When apparently ten or so aftershocks happen everyday in Los Angeles, why is it that the one that occurs when Snake is in the sewer causes a cave-in, when the last 200 didn't?
Steve Buscemi does his usual great work as the wormy map peddler, and he was the most interesting person on the screen anytime he had a scene. I noticed Bruce Campbell's name in the opening credits too, whom I'm a fan of, but I didn't even recognize him through his makeup when he appeared. His voice was unmistakable though. It's a shame he had such a small part, though.
Good ideas, good production values, nice vision, the laughs are well-paced, but typically subpar action movie execution. Worth a watch though.
Every once in a long while, a movie comes along with decent mainstream attention and yet speaks mostly to the punk and anti-establishment individuals.
With nothing left to live for, a California senator attempts to drive his campaign into the ground by bluntly slamming politics, the government, the media, lobbyists, big corporations, and other things activist kids in college love to trash. Senator Bulworth's plan backfires though and his refreshing take on politics gains him popularity.
His new connection with the quieted and abused minorities of America gives him new reason to live, and so a large part of the plot involves Bulworth tries to call of the hit he put on himself when he was suicidal. The plot is just an excuse to fill time between political commentary though, which is clearly the meat of the movie.
It's a good premise too. It speaks against modern-day oppression and promotes truth in politics, as a radical notion. The way Bulworth makes fools of the "rich, white majority" empowers the viewer's sense of justice that truth prevails.
Let it never be said though that a good premise means a perfect movie. Perhaps some might try to justify the rest of the movie in the name of a good message, but the movie has plenty of flaws.
First off, although it's a satire, it still requires the viewer to suspend a lot of belief to buy some of ridiculous things along the way. For example how one man can do so many nonchalant things like smoke pot in public or making out with a woman who isn't your wife in front of reporters and not have his opponents pick up on it immediately and trash his record, or why his plans for the future are completely inconsistent with his actions in the past six years. Instead, all anyone ever asks is, "What's with the new campaign style?"
The movie presents its side of the story as the ideal setup without any of the realistic repercussions or even the other side of the story. In fact, if it weren't for the fact that the movie is a comedy, it would be nothing more than a propaganda film. As it stands though, it is a comedy, and so one can't take *everything* seriously. It does provide some funny moments, such as any time Warren Beatty raps.
Overall, it's a nice message. The audience it specifically caters for will eat the movie up like candy. The execution is decent but flawed. Worth a watch.
With nothing left to live for, a California senator attempts to drive his campaign into the ground by bluntly slamming politics, the government, the media, lobbyists, big corporations, and other things activist kids in college love to trash. Senator Bulworth's plan backfires though and his refreshing take on politics gains him popularity.
His new connection with the quieted and abused minorities of America gives him new reason to live, and so a large part of the plot involves Bulworth tries to call of the hit he put on himself when he was suicidal. The plot is just an excuse to fill time between political commentary though, which is clearly the meat of the movie.
It's a good premise too. It speaks against modern-day oppression and promotes truth in politics, as a radical notion. The way Bulworth makes fools of the "rich, white majority" empowers the viewer's sense of justice that truth prevails.
Let it never be said though that a good premise means a perfect movie. Perhaps some might try to justify the rest of the movie in the name of a good message, but the movie has plenty of flaws.
First off, although it's a satire, it still requires the viewer to suspend a lot of belief to buy some of ridiculous things along the way. For example how one man can do so many nonchalant things like smoke pot in public or making out with a woman who isn't your wife in front of reporters and not have his opponents pick up on it immediately and trash his record, or why his plans for the future are completely inconsistent with his actions in the past six years. Instead, all anyone ever asks is, "What's with the new campaign style?"
The movie presents its side of the story as the ideal setup without any of the realistic repercussions or even the other side of the story. In fact, if it weren't for the fact that the movie is a comedy, it would be nothing more than a propaganda film. As it stands though, it is a comedy, and so one can't take *everything* seriously. It does provide some funny moments, such as any time Warren Beatty raps.
Overall, it's a nice message. The audience it specifically caters for will eat the movie up like candy. The execution is decent but flawed. Worth a watch.