That's a bummer man......

Rating: Null/10 (30 April 2003)

If you've just seen Fargo then take a break before you watch this film, it is very different and as amazing in its own right. The first time I saw it I wasn't so impressed and thought the dream sequences out of sync now I can't watch it enough, and I would recommend reading the W.W. Norton book and then watching the film again and again to see a completely new side to the whole "Lebowski" thing.
The book "really ties" the experience together.
I can't pin point one specific thing that makes this movie so enjoyable, it's just the summer/kinda California retro look, specifically the lighting, which has a story in its own right. Sam Elliot's character gives use a frame of reference and makes me feel envious of The Dude, a freeloader who writes bad checks for a quart of half and half and just seems to bounce here and there thru life without a worry in the world; just being the "Dude". Far out man......