Please, Please, make the sequel to the Big Lebowski! This is the best movie that you two have ever made and it is a masterpiece and I miss the characters and want to see them again.
The characters are 12 years older, and maybe none the wiser. The Dude and Maude have joint custody of the kid, Walter is Walter and have Billy Bob Thornton (maybe Walter’s co-worker) as the third wheel (replacing Buscemi). Buscemi would have a part, maybe as an angel, taking over the role of the stranger, or have them both in action. add in some other characters or make new ones and BAM! a sequel!
I have seen so many crap movies made in sequels, can we do this one? “Intolerable cruelty” was OK, but you guys are slipping. And, no more Catherine Zeta Jones!
No. That said, every time I haven’t watched TBL for awhile, as is the case with most of my favorite movies, I start to miss the characters. Me and my friend Alek are known for liberally sprinkling TBL quotes, especially “Me and Liam, we gonna fuck you up!”
No. Sequels made just to bring characters back always blow.
Why would you want a crap sequel made of a movie you like???
I loved The Big Lebowski and I feel the same way about the characters. But it worked for the story to end so unresolved. Adding resolutions would suck. “It’s twelve years later… Walter and the Dude were about to win the bowling tournament, but Jesus sabotaged the pins on the last frame. Now, it’s payback time.”
What’s next, Raising Arizona Two: Arizona Rising? Is there a vomit smiley somewhere?
I liked Oh Brother a lot, ditto Intolerable Cruelty. Haven’t seen The Man Who Wasn’t There, but I want to. When filmmakers revive old stories unnecessarily, it’s usually a VERY bad sign. So here’s hoping it doesn’t ever even come close to happening.
Intolerable Cruelty was relatively well received critically (75% tomatometer) and I liked it a great deal. The movies before that (Man Who wasn’t there, O Brother Where Art Though) were all very good so I’d hardly call them slipping.
On to The Big Lebowski 2. I would have to agree 100% with Marley23. If they make this, their careers are in a bit of trouble.
Also, I don’t know who owns the rights to the original, but you can’t even guarantee the Coen brothers would be behind the sequel (See Dumb and Dumberer) and that would be horrible.
Worst. idea. ever. Sorry but sequels to films of this quality will never live up to the original. I personally hate the way filmakers make sequels in order to cash in on the original. A sequel to TBL is tottaly unnecessary and would almost certainley sully the good name of the original. Unless a sequel is part of the film and intended from the beginning it is almost always a bad idea. I’m still reeling from the last two Matrix films…
I agree that a sequel would be a terrible idea. I’d rather the Coens keep making original movies. There aren’t enough of those out there anymore: everything’s a sequel or a remake or an adaptation.
That said, I’ve always thought a TV show could be pretty cool.
Think about it: the Dude decides that he was pretty good at figuring out that, you know, mystery stuff and shit, and thinks, “Hey, why not start a detective agency? That fat bald guy in the Volkswagon thought I was a pretty good dick… uh, detective, and I wasn’t even, you know, trying.”
I see it as a combination of The Rockford Files and Columbo, with the criminals always underestimating the Dude because he seems like such a clueless stoner. And when he gets in trouble, Walter shows up to give people lessons on what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass.
It’d never be as good as the movie, obviously, but it could still be good TV. As I said above, the Coens should to stick to the big screen, where they’re needed most. Still, in the right hands, it might work. Plus, maybe we could get the Coens to guest direct the occasional episode.
But Maude chose the Dude because she didn’t want the father to be involved. It would go against the nature of the Dude and Maude for this to happen. At least one of them would get pissed off in the process.
Maybe the Dude runs into the kid somewhere… That might work… They could focus on the kid, (who could maybe go by “The Kid”) he would be a pretty weird cat if he was raised by Maude. Mostly new characters, and a cameo or two by the Dude.
