I thought the movie stunk.

Rating: 1/10 (13 September 1998)

I thought the movie was pure crap. It wasn't worth the dollar I paid to rent it.
I am a Vietnam vet, and have many friends that are the same, and I don't know anyone like the Goodman character. John Goodman plays a major screw-up , totally unbelievable that someone could be THAT stupid.
The character played by Sam Elliot should be ashamed calling "Dude" a hero, a "man for our times". In the times we live in where the world is "going to hell in a handbasket", we need not immortalize a character who is a dope smoking, booze swilling, careless, jobless, wreck as a hero. The Coen brothers need to get out of their Hollywierd environment and get a grip on what's real in our society.
The fantasy scenes with Dude flying through the air and the bowling sequence are interesting, and point out the best thing you can say about this movie - someone must have been on drugs who created it.