The Big Lebowski Made Me LAUGH Until I Broke (no, for real) - First Time Watching Movie Reaction

[@Polyphemus89]

“It’s just a bunch of things that happened… but I enjoyed it so much.” The Coen Brothers entire career has been trying to explain through film that that’s the best quote anybody can hope for on their tombstone.

[@andrewparfrement8583]

Yeah, well that’s your opinion man.

[@TylerD288]

Great reaction. Imo this is the best comedy, and one of the most unique, films to appear since the '80's. So glad Amanda liked it. Some people don't quite get it the first time through. I've never seen anyone cry during this movie, but the ending is kind of bitter-sweet, and that last song "Dead Flowers" by the Stones, but played by Townes Van Zandt, is one of my favorites. I learned it and use to sing and play it at open mics and paying gigs. Amanda, the soundtrack is awesome if you're ever interested. Merry Christmas to everyone! ❤🎄🤍

[@JohnnyJohnny-f5o]

"Are you surprised at my tears, sir?" "Oh, fuckin' A" Always cracks me up lol

[@Quasarcool]

This is definitely a movie that gets better on a second or third viewing.

[@Aggiebrettman]

Or seventeenth. Or thirty-fifth.

[@s1mplex1ty]

44:11 Donny doesn't hit a Strike for the first time in the movie, and he checks his hand, discomfort in the hand is one of the early symptoms of a heart attack. I love that you saw he didn't leave the fight, Donny is the friend we should all be lucky to have, great reaction as usual. "What the Fa" (while smiling) was perfect in the end ❤

[@robertsanssouci2093]

Do I own the Pendleton sweater he wears? Yes I do.

[@TheEstev]

24:04 “there’s a beverage here!” Is one of my favorite lines in the history of cinema😂 it’s just so Dude!

[@TylerD288]

Love that line too! The Dude has his priorities in order.

[@Im_The_Dude]

This reaction really ties the channel together

[@norwegianblue2017]

Love seeing the reaction to one of my favorite comedies from my favorite KZbin oddball. So glad you are going to watch it again. It takes at least three viewings before you can really start to appreciate all the little details and it just gets funnier every time.

[@richardedgerton1852]

I love your featuring Hoffman's faces and stances, his performance in this is a delight.

[@EastBayJ-72]

Merry Christmas 🎄

[@realBkay]

Merry Christmas Amanda.

[@csako2668]

"Just a bunch of things that happened"

[@WhatAboutZoidberg]

This is such a perfect Cohen brothers movie, so many quotable lines and memorable scenes. The best way to describe their movies is what if you have a really important or dangerous event and then had the most unqualified and incompetent people try to succeed. There is a few easter eggs in the original Powerpuff girls for this movie, including recreating the entire fireside scene with the ransom note.

[@jcr9520]

So glad to see someone appreciate the subtlety of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s body language throughout this movie. It’s so good. I also love how Brandt always called him “Dude”. Even as a supporting character, PSH was brilliant. RIP. FYI, The cult following for this movie is epic. There have been Lebowski festivals every year across the US and possibly elsewhere. If The Quotable Lebowski isn’t a book you could buy somewhere, it should be.

[@TylerD288]

She caught on to the subtleties in her first watch. Impressive!

[@therewasacrookedman5892]

His embarrassed laugh/grin at Bunny’s proposition and his head bow when the Dude comes back to see the big Lebowski are my two favorite reactions.

[@christophergreen6595]

"So thats what quotations sound like." Omg you nailed it. Like a hard comma on both sides of a word.

[@richiecabral3602]

As a veteran myself, but not of the Vietnam War, I don't know that you can explain Walter just by blaming it on trauma from being in Vietnam. I think the point is that he's just kind of an asshole. That's pretty normal. Sometimes the people that end up being part of our lives, just end up being part of our lives through circumstance, and they can be a mixture of good, bad, and everything in between. That doesn't mean that we don't still love them. Obviously it's also for comedic effect, but guys like that are a thing in the US. Maybe even more now than then, and now most of them were never even in Vietnam or anything. They're just like that. I'm not going to do a sociological analysis as to why, but it is a thing that some of us can relate to. A lot of us have met, know, are related to, or are even friends with people like that.

[@SaintJermania]

Yeah, Philip Seymour Hoffman quietly acting his ass off in the background is one of the best things in this movie.

[@TylerD288]

IKR?!

[@petercofrancesco9812]

your shirt tied the video together

[@AW11-e4h]

You’re out of your element Donnie ✌️

[@scipioafricanus5871]

AW11-e4h, please!

[@Zifferox]

"What the F--K" at the end... you're not alone 😂

[@woeshaling6421]

There are tons of quotes and trivia, that the characters are from different decades and ideologies. My favorite quote is "You're not wrong Walter, you're just an asshole" So applicable in so many situations

[@magicbrownie1357]

I always forget The Gypsy Kings did Hotel California in this. Throwback for me to the 90's. Living in Spain and really getting into Flamenco. Great country to visit.

[@camannwordsmith]

The best description I've heard about this movie is "A plot keeps desperately trying to form around The Dude, but he refuses to allow it."

[@ernsthaft4331]

Welcome to the club of complete humans - you cannot be one if you haven't seen the Big Lebowski.

[@TylerD288]

💯

[@FreedomAtRisk]

I've been subscribed to you for awhile. But this is my favorite movie. Love to you. Love yourself.

[@commieRob]

One look at the ransom note. "She kidnapped herself." Amazing!

[@jrepka01]

This is one of the things that the Coens do well (and simultaneously why their movies are so diverse in story, tone, and genre): In this one they take on the film noir, inhabit the world with ridiculous characters who are real world people but not of the noir/detective genre, and see what happens. Lebowski is their follow-up to Fargo, which was critically acclaimed and earned two Oscars (Best Actor in a Female Role for Francis McDormand and best screenplay). Critics didn't much care for it and it was considered unsuccessful but today it is their most impactful film, having generated massive fandom in video and digital release. Jeff Bridges was an incredibly successful actor before and after, but The Dude is still the character most people identify him as. And Sam Elliott (again, a very accomplished and well-known actor) the narrator was genius, leading to a significant secondary voice-over career for him. The Coen's then followed up with O Brother Where Art Thou? in 2000, making the late 90s one of their most successful periods of movie making until the late 00s and teens which brought us No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading, A Serious Man, True Grit, Inside Llewyn Davis, and Hail, Caesar!

[@frodofraggins]

"Could things get worse?" Well actually, yeah. Yeah it can.

[@FunBobbyNI]

I'm so happy you found this film. Share the Dude with everyone you know n the world will be a better place xx

[@AceMoonshot]

There are a lot of neo-noir films that have deconstructed the genre. Some are really good, too. But none have deconstructed the genre as wonderfully as The Big Lebowski. Wonderful reaction.

[@harrynewman6988]

The Coen Brothers were coming off their previous big hit, the comedy “Raising Arizona” when they made this movie with outsized American personalities including those they knew in Hollywood. The Walter character was influenced by the Coen brothers knowing John Milius, a pro-military screenwriter well known for writing the basics of war classic Apocalypse Now (1979) and the original Red Dawn (1984) along with similar projects since. The Dude was based on a film professor they knew who lived in an old apartment, but the professor was a Vietnam War vet, whereas the Dude character was a protester from the period. Theres a “Dude” movement in America, while there’s an awful lot of Walters ...

[@TylerD288]

You may have seen it, but there's a great documentary on Milius. I think i saw it for free on KZbin.

[@PolferiferusII]

I liked a lot of what you said a lot, and want to mostly add to it some of my own thoughts (without the presumption that you'll agree or not), but also quibble with one thing. Don't forget Miller's Crossing (1990), Barton Fink (1991), Hudsucker Proxy (1994), and Fargo (1996). Those first three didn't do well in theaters, but they're all exceptional films. Fargo was their next runaway hit just before TBL. It's probably just me, but aside from BF, the others are on par with this one (great 4-star films). What's different about this one, I guess, making it more popular by far than those others, is people both like and identify with the Dude, whereas I don't think many people identify much with at all with the protagonists in HP, MC, and especially BF. Their first big hit, which you mentioned (Raising Arizona) also had as the protagonist a sympathetic and likeable character who people could identify with, but also one that didn't like himself so much. Compare HI McDunnough with the Dude, the latter's opinion of himself may not be on a pedestal, but he's not ashamed of who he is either, and stands up for himself, gets up when he's knocked down, and has the ability to let things roll off his back. HI is more reluctant to speak up for himself and defers to his wife. HI and the Dude are also underdogs. In both movies, the protagonists have enough of the qualities people want to side with to make them favorites for millions of people, especially TBL. I think the others inbetween were of equal quality in terms of writing, great plot-lines, casting, editing, care put into making them appear authentic, particularly in terms of period, great music and sound, amazing cinematography, and even in having a deeper message/theme which keeps you thinking about them. What they didn't consistantly have were universally likeable protagonists who most of the audience could see themselves in. They weren't characters you cared about so much. This is all just my opinions. Feel free to respectfully disagree, agree, or have other thoughts. If you're of a mind, I'd be interested, regardless. If not, I wish you to have a happy Christmas and new year!

[@LordVolkov]

"Wait a minute... his johnson!!! They took his johnson!" 🤣🤣🤣 What does he need that for Amanda?

[@GodlessScummer]

The Dude abides

[@deepermind4884]

00:04 No they didn't, au contraire, we're basking in your charm, querida. 💖

[@amandamiquilena]

😊💜💜💜

[@louismarzullo1190]

​​​​@@amandamiquilenaFishing for a compliment, there? Okay then, here goes: You are a sheer delight, one of my favorite reactors. And this is going to sound really corny & trite but what the hell, it fits: You're beautiful inside & out! If you posted 2-3 times a week, you'd have 100K subs, easy. 🥰 Feliz Navidad!🎄

[@bigw725]

omg i’ve been coming back to check if this reaction dropped for like 2 weeks now. look at you!! almost up to 30k subscribers! i haven’t been here since like season 2 of rick and morty but i’m so happy for you!

[@Wizardjudge]

I can tell you firsthand the cops in Malibu are portrayed with incredible accuracy.

[@matthewyoung2519]

0:02 at least this isn't awkward ... haha come on you know we're here for it 😉

[@jonathanross149]

This film is an homage to the old "film noir" detective stories from the 40's and 50's. The Big Sleep is an example.

[@JW666]

Exactly, except the main character in this movie is a hippie and not a hard boiled detective.

[@chrisby30]

As always, a great reaction

[@bretbret8293]

Omg, watch Burn After Reading. You'll love it. Same writer/directors

[@gardenlover9663]

I never realized how much alike they look. I had a crush on Kurt when I was young. He was in Disney movies when he was a teenager. I watched a few in the 70s.

[@timboxall8936]

Costume trivia: a significant amount of The Dudes wardrobe (robe, jellies, cardigan, etc) was were Jeff Bridges own clothes. The signature cardigan is a Pendleton Westerley - it had been out of production for years, but due to popular request Pendleton started making it again solely due to this movie. I have this exact one myself, and it's easily the most comfortable item of clothing I own! 😂

[@TylerD288]

I never realized it was made by Pendleton. I used to have several of their blankets.

[@FunBobbyNI]

My 1st time watching your channel n so happy it was Big Lebowski. Please watch it 10 more times as everyol time you'll see or hear or feel something else. I could spend ages telling you but way more fun to find it all. Love all the actors n performances

[@nodak81]

The Big Lebowski and The Road to Wellville are my top two comedies of the 90's.

[@innercircle341]

Too smart, too funny and too adorable Feliz Navidad ❤❤❤

[@Patriiiiick]

I think my favourite kinds of films are the ones where a bunch of things just happen.

[@sdaniels160]

The Dude is Jesus.

[@jontastic]

The accent of Jesus sounds like second generation Latin American in the USA. Not perfect, but close.

[@botheringthewildlife9641]

Next to no one ever objects to the treatment of the ferret.

[@nochannel1q2321]

Lebowski's character didn't really have much in terms of costume. Virtually everything the Dude wears is just stuff Jeff Bridges wore in real life.

[@seansersmylie]

Dude abides.

[@therewasacrookedman5892]

I just now realized little Larry probably wasn’t even involved in anything. The big Lebowski may have used paraphernalia from his “Little Lebowski Urban Achievers” club that could have included student papers from their classes. The joyriders that stole the Dude’s car probably open the briefcase and rifled through the papers hoping to find anything of value. Little Larry’s graded paper just got stuck in the back seat, that’s all.

[@samwallaceart288]

Walter Sobchek is still John Goodman's greatest role; while his other roles he tends to play similar characters, with Walter he just _disappears_ into it. The layers to his psychology are a masterclass.

[@danielconley7042]

People from Texas and the western U.S. sometimes say "bar" instead of "bear". Sometimes the bear eats you...etc.

[@80s_kid]

I wish there were more people like the Dude, the world would be a cooler place.😁

[@troubleondemand7703]

The Big Lebowski is basically a film noire, but instead of a handsome private detective like character as the protagonist, we have a zen stoner hippy.

[@SilkenShame]

"This is going to go horribly", man, you have no idea

[@cbretschneider]

Hi Amanda! Love the shirt. Have a Merry Christmas 🎄

[@env0x]

this is one of my favorite movies ever i need a patreon for this

[@frodofraggins]

The brothers who made this made a lot of great films. My favorite being Fargo.

[@Tijuanabill]

It's like a movie is trying to happen, but nobody in it can be bothered.

[@Flesharrower]

"It's just a bunch of things that happened..." but then, isn't everything? lol

[@UncleCharlie111x2]

Great job Amanda!

[@rijlqanturis625]

Basically the best way I've seen it put, this is a movie where a story is desperately trying to form around the Dude and he's having none of it.

[@lolmao500]

This movie is fantastic. Ive seen it like 30 times in the last 20 years, its amazing.

[@amandamiquilena]

Listen, I've watched this movie 3 more times during editing and it still makes me laugh. Especially the scene inside the limo with Big Lebowski, Brandt and the Dude lolololol

[@harryrabbit2870]

Loved your reaction. Especially fun to watch you laugh. A lot of the Coen Brothers movies are about common people in uncommon situations and the tragedy that usually comes with the greedy pursuit of money. Can't remember if you watched other Coen Brothers movies like "Fargo" or "No Country For Old Men" but they echo the same themes.

[@ArmandoTheWanderer]

so glad you liked this one it is a work of art imo ♥

[@maurer3d]

37:49 "He kind of looks like Saddam Hussein" he is supposed to... The actor (Jerry Haleva) is famous for portraying Saddam, in fact he has only 6 IMDb credits and all of them are for him playing Saddam, most notably this movie and "Hot Shots!" (the "Top Gun" parody staring Charlie Sheen) and it's sequel.

[@chocolate-teapot]

You're right about Jeff and Kurt, all actors are clones, just in case one malfunctions

[@eikthesheik]

💯 on the timing!!!! I just bought everything I need for a white russian today. This will be perfect 😄

[@eikthesheik]

Great reaction, really enjoyed it :) :) I watch this movie 3 or 4 times a year at least!

[@janne9502]

Good to have you back

[@pistonburner6448]

What I like most is you give yourself subtitles

[@amandamiquilena]

Cause sometimes when i'm editing and re-watching the footage, i can't tell what i'm saying 😂

[@pistonburner6448]

@@amandamiquilena 🤣

[@TylerD288]

@@amandamiquilena 👍I like the subtitles too. It gives a personal touch to the video.

[@EllisThings]

🎳 Let's roll it! 🎳 One of my favourite movies, one of my favourite reactors, superb stuff. Glad you enjoyed it so much and particularly that you loved Brandt! So much great character work and genius writing - it absolutely rewards many multiple rewatches

[@xdecroix]

I melt everytime you air a new video.

[@clutchpedalreturnsprg7710]

Hello, the " Cattleman " is Sam Elliott. I recommend these movies & TV mini-series: " Conagher ", " The Quick and the Dead (1987)", " Once an Eagle (1978 mini-series) " , " " The Sacketts (1979 mini-series) " , " The Rough Riders (1997 mini-series) " , "Tombstone (1993) " , " They Were Soldiers Once ... And Young (2002). A nice Jeff Bridges movie is " Thunderbolt & Lightfoot (1974) ".

[@MadcapMatt]

Perfect timing. I got a notification from the channel How Ridiculous for Bowling Ball vs World's Bounciest Trampoline right as Walter threw the bowling ball at him. 🤣🤣🤣

[@JW666]

I've meet Uli/Karl Hungus the Nihilist techno artist and p*rn actor himself Peter Stormare (who is actually Swedish. Most Swedish actors at that time usually got to play either German or Russian characters in American movies). Nice guy and a very down to earth person =) When I went up to him I was star-strucked and nervous, I think he could tell that I was so out of nowhere he gave me a hug! It was such an awesome moment that I will never forget! =) Not Adam Driver, but that's John Turturro and I believe you've seen The Batman with Robert Pattinson? He played Carmine Falcone. Turturro has been in other Coen Brothers movies such as Barton Fink, Miller's Crossing and Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? The drink is called White Russian and it's a really good drink. Been years since I had one myself.

[@UncleCharlie111x2]

So glad you didn't edit the cussing out Amanda!

[@bpora01]

Le grande Bowski

[@EdmundKempersDartboard]

John Turturro is always the right casting choice.

[@MadcapMatt]

This is a movie that desperately tries to get The Dude involved with the plot but he refuses to. It just kinda keeps happening around him.

[@ronaldalagia9211]

the dude is drinking white russians.

[@notmyproblem88]

I'm so excited for this. One of the tightest scripts ever written and firmly in the top ten American films of all time

[@windsaw151]

Today, they make tons and tons of movies for hundreds of millions of dollar where you look back at it and wonder what it was about and you come to the conclusion that it was "just a bunch of things that happened". And yet, there was this one movie where such writing and acting was actually enjoyable!

[@paulalexandredumasseauvan2357]

they are THE SAME PERSON?! 🤣 you are SO BEAUTIFULLY UNIQUE and CUTE! 😍 that is not only a FOLGERS COFFEE can, some people say folgers is THE WORST coffee sold in america! 🤣i have EVEN MORE RESPECT for you because you like this movie, LOVED your reaction! 👍☺

[@PrinceofPain-wv1lo]

No S.i.m.p.i.n. allowed

[@danielhollenbach539]

This is another great Coen brothers film. You should watch more of their films I think you will really enjoy them. I recommend Fargo, Miller's Crossing, Raising Arizona, No Country for Old Men, Inside Llewyn Davis, O Brother Where Art Thou?

[@jamesgardner2101]

All that, and you never see the Dude bowl.

[@danmesnard8761]

Lebowski drinks White Russians! Great movie! Thnks for the vid. You're hilarious. Merry Christmas Amanda!!

[@Lethgar_Smith]

You should now watch Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep It's essentially the same story only told as a straight-up detective thriller. And there's no bowling.

[@Felix-misc]

The more you watch it, the funnier it gets 😅

[@richiecabral3602]

The drink is called a White Russian. A White Russian has Vodka, Kahlua, and cream or milk over ice. Kahlua is a thicker black Mexican liqueur that kind of tastes coffee flavored. A Black Russian would be just the Vodka and Kahlua without cream/milk. Or you could just drink the Kahlua and milk, which I guess would just be called Kalhua and milk, which tastes a little bit like chocolate milk. In this movie though, the Dude sometimes will call it a Caucasian, so after this movie, it became kind of a thing that people would jokingly call this drink a Caucasian. If you're not already familiar, at least in the US, Caucasian is used to refer to white people in general. I don't really know why. It's a good drink though. I guess unless you're not a fan of milk. I'm guessing that bartenders in France probably know it. You should go try one. Or if you can find Kahlua in France, make some for you and mom at home. You probably can. It's pretty popular internationally, I think?

[@puremachinery]

The Caucasus is a mountainous region covering parts of Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey, and Iran. So a "White Russian" is a "Caucasian" even in this stricter geographically accurate sense, not just the "all white people are Caucasian on some HR forms now" sense.

[@richiecabral3602]

@@puremachinery I hear you, but in the US, the phrase Caucasian being used to refer to white people in general, and not just people from the Caucasus, has been a thing for as long as I can remember, and I'd guess goes back at least as far as the 70s.

[@puremachinery]

@@richiecabral3602 yes, I know that is the common usage, that's why I said "all white people are Caucasian on some HR forms now." I still think it's cool that the Dude's name for the drink is accurate in the less commonly known sense of the word.

[@TylerD288]

I used to love this drink, sometimes adding a Buttershot, a butterscotch-flavored liqueur, isn't bad either. I tried a Black Russian once - not so tasty imo.

[@hanng1242]

For something similar but with half the alcohol content, make it with soju. Then it is a White Korean. Like the villain in "Die Another Day."

[@gingerbaker_toad696]

You would love 'Inherent Vice' :) great little PTA movie with Joaquin Phoenix and a packed cast in general, a weird hazy story and great music. It's like a cross between Big Lebowski and Chinatown (with Jack Nicholsen)

[@UncleCharlie111x2]

This will be fun!!

[@scottyballgame1]

Another great reaction. Very quotable movie.

[@jimj9040]

I get have always gotten Jeff Russell and Curt Bridges confused and I don’t think there’s a cure for it.

[@SighDontWantAHandle]

The Cohen Brothers write great dialog and are amazing with actors. You should check out some of their other movies. Fargo and No Country for Old Men are the most famous, but they are dark murder movies. If you want more with this sort of tone try out O'Brother Where Art Thou and The Hudsucker Proxy. O'Brother Where Art Thou is the newer movie and made around the time of The Big Lebowski. Has the same funny tone and amazing acting and writing. Stars George Clooney in my personal favorite of all of Clooney's performances. It's hilarious.

[@mcgee227]

This movie is actually based on Buddhist and Taoist philosophy.

[@dougoneill7266]

The Coen brothers, together or on their own produced some great movies.

[@mattjames7386]

You are just ❤😍