The Big Lebowski vs. Dumb and Dumber
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Topic: The Big Lebowski vs. Dumb and Dumber
Posted By: Shadowyzard
Subject: The Big Lebowski vs. Dumb and Dumber
Date Posted: July 01 2020 at 12:31
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2 of the most popular comedy movies of the 90s. Choose your favourite or one of the other options. In fact, The Big Lebowski is my favourite movie irregardless of the genre(s). But I'll again go with the "both" option as Dumb and Dumber has no match regarding sheer hilariousness. I think its sequel is also quite good, displaying the merits of being a deserving continuation. Anyway, The Dude abides. 
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Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: July 01 2020 at 13:05
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: July 01 2020 at 13:20
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I love The Big Lebowski. Dumb and Dumber is, well, not nearly at the same level, even if I did enjoy it. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: July 01 2020 at 13:26
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Dumb ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: July 01 2020 at 15:20
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"Dumb and Dumber" has exactly the kind of "humour" that I absolutely hate. I don't find it funny at all. Not that I don't like screwball comedies; I love comedies like
"Bringing up Baby", "Arsenic and Old Lace" or "Some Like it Hot". But I
hate comedies that are based on the idiocies of people. I want my humour to be intelligent. "The Big Lebowski" is on a completely different level, so my vote goes there.
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Posted By: Machinemessiah
Date Posted: July 01 2020 at 16:32
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Dumb and Dumber. Absolutely adore it.. though definitely not a fan of Jim Carrey.. (but in this one.. 'Lloyd Christmas', oh come on!) ...nor this type of movie… but this one makes me laugh.. and I love what I find to be this 'idiocy', but that deep inside has much to do with 'innocence'.. (IMO) and that is perfectly portrayed in the movie and the performances. Like the soundtrack and all.. Big Lebowsky yeah.. good.. 'Walter' kills me laughing.. but somehow I find it looses focus on the plot with the nihilist thing. |
Posted By: Shadowyzard
Date Posted: July 01 2020 at 16:36
| I think Dumb and Dumber has a kind of "fortune favours the innocent dumb" vibe, and thus I see no real humiliation there. Otherwise I would hate it, I presume. It hurts me when I witness a real humiliation, even sometimes in the movies. |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: July 01 2020 at 16:41
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The Dude. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: March 01 2021 at 00:30
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Neither ------------- Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake." Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: March 01 2021 at 01:33
This. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
BaldFriede wrote:Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: March 01 2021 at 01:51
The Big Lebowski, even though it wasn't that funny, although that's probably more to do with American humour not translating so well in England, especially in the case of Seinfeld - "the show about nothing" 
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: March 01 2021 at 06:55
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^^^ I thought TBL was very good, and very funny. It's a different kind of funny. I take baseline American humour to be more in the Dumb & Dumber vein; stupid people doing stupid things etc... But Seinfeld was really well written IMO, as is Curb your Enthusiasm, which is classic situation comedy. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: March 01 2021 at 06:57
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Lebowski easily, I despise Dumb & Dumber. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: March 01 2021 at 07:07
I like Curb Your Enthusiasm, where Larry David often liked to remind people he was the writer of the Seinfeld show, especially when he was booking a table at a restaurant.
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Posted By: rogerthat
Date Posted: March 01 2021 at 07:26
| Lebowski made Jeff Bridges. Dumb and Dumber is a waste of Jeff Daniels. Lebowski easily. |
Posted By: JD
Date Posted: March 01 2021 at 07:35
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Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: March 01 2021 at 07:44
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The Dude, easily. The mastery of the Coen brothers is behind it: script, direction, cinematography... are all on a much higher level than Dumb and Dumber
 Bridges was already "made" in the early 70s; think of The Last Picture Show (1971), Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) and many other great films since that you might have forgotten...------------- The razamataz is a pain in the bum |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: March 01 2021 at 07:56
I recall Jeff Bridges starred with brother Beau Bridges in The Fabulous Baker Boys and he was also a distant cousin of Cantilever Bridges. 
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: March 01 2021 at 09:08
 ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: WilloStardust
Date Posted: March 01 2021 at 11:54
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Bruh... you can not compare any movie to Lebowski.... f**kin captain beefheart is also in the soundtrack... love love ------------- ~A tired mind become a shapeshifter Everybody need a mood lifter Everybody need reverse polarity Everybody got mixed feelings About the function and the form Everybody gotta deviate From the norm~RUSH |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 01 2021 at 12:59
 I know what you mean, and I haven't actually seen The Jesus Rolls yet and have read that The Big Lebowski is actually not the biggest influence on it, but is instead Going Places from 1974. I doubt that I would like it near as much as The Big Lebowski, which I love. I listened to a podcast in 2019 comparing The Big Lebowski to Pulp Fiction (even if not that comparable, more so than TBL and D&D -- Dumb and Dumber, not Dungeons and Dragons). https://www.verybadwizards.com/167" rel="nofollow - https://www.verybadwizards.com/167 https://www.verybadwizards.com/168" rel="nofollow - https://www.verybadwizards.com/168 I love plenty of the Coen Bros films (and Tarantino films for the matter, who I was comparing the other day with someone I know). In regards to Jim Carrey films, I hugely preferred Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Truman Show and Man on the Moon to Dumb and Dumber. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Archisorcerus
Date Posted: June 20 2022 at 07:39
John Goodman, Walter Sobchak of TBL, is 70 now! HBD sir!
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Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: June 20 2022 at 10:34
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The Big Lebowski. I saw Dumb and Dumber on the big screen and laughed out loud once or twice (I was also slightly surprised that Red Right Hand was included in the soundtrack), but it really doesn't stand up to repeated viewing. I don't remember laughing out loud at The Big Lebowski, but I enjoyed every minute of it and I might watch it again this week as it's been a while since I revisited The Dude. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: June 20 2022 at 11:58
| Is there really any doubt, dude? |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: June 20 2022 at 12:00
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Not sure how it's this close, Dude very easily ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: June 20 2022 at 12:34
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the humor of movies like "Dumb and Dumber" completely fails to entertain me. I couldn't watch the movie for more than 20 minutes -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |