1. The widespread failure of critics to appreciate the Big Lebowski is really part of a more general tendency not to appreciate off-kilter comedy.https://twitter.com/notjessewalker/status/971576839352344576 …
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6. Yeah, Paul Thomas Anderson is in same camp as Kurbrick/Coen -- although PTA does get his share of critical love.https://twitter.com/dcherring/status/971589779723726848 …
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7. Back to Kubrick: I was recently re-reading a lot of Pauline Kael recently and noticed that she hated every Kubrick movie after Dr. Strangelove. That's amazing!
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8. I mean you can dispute the relative merits of Clockwork Orange or The Shinning, but to consistently dislike all of Kubrick's major post-Strangelove works suggests a critical blindspot.
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9. I think Kael wasn't able to appreciate most of Kubrick because she mistook his high artifice (a deliberate choice of modes) as a failure of naturalism & sign of lack of feelings.
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10. But, ultimately, good film criticism isn't about being right or wrong so much as it's about explaining your reaction convincingly. So Kael or Kubrick or the Lebowski pans don't bother me.
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11. In fact, my favorite movie podcasters (
@williamfleitch &@TimGrierson) still don't like the Big Lebowski! But they explain their lack of enthusiasm well here:https://soundcloud.com/grierson-leitch/a-fantastic-woman-winchester …Show this thread
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How does Raising Arizona get forgotten in all these discussions of the Coen Brothers?
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The script is almost like a massive fugue, nothing is wasted. Even the smallest visual gags get resolved at some later point
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Oddly, Lebowski is the one Coen movie I “got” the first time (it’s also my favorite of theirs). Some of their best I hated the first time, but came to appreciate (Fargo, No Country)
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Big point that requires several rewatches: the Big Lebowski is a big moocher, like the titular Lebowski.
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