Gets Better Each Time You See It

Rating: Null/10 (21 November 2000)

Like many other reviewers here, I'll confirm that "The Big Lebowski" achieves higher planes of brilliance with each viewing. There is not a single detail of this film that is not intentionally placed and you'll never catch them all the first time, yet alone the third time. Repeat viewings are like peeling away the layers of a magnificent onion.
After at least ten viewings over a two year period, I finally saw the True Light: this is an off-kilter remake of "The Big Sleep."
Rent the classic Bogart/Hawks/Chandler film "The Big Sleep" and then watch "The Big Lebowski" again. They both have a twisted plot, a rich man in Pasadena in a wheelchair, dangerous daughters, a rich and dangerous playboy/entrepreneur, nitwit thugs... instead of Philip Marlowe, we get The Dude, a bachelor, a bowler, and quite possibly the laziest man in Los Angeles County, which would put him in the running for laziest worldwide.
I agree with all the other great reviews of this masterpiece.
Laughable!!! Ha Ha!!!