See post 19.
Here’s a short interview with Turturro on how he developed the character: Playing Jesus in the Big Lebowski - John Turturro - YouTube
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I’m sure you’ll all want this for your garden: http://www.militaryissue.com/Over-The-Line-Garden-Gnome/productinfo/M602110/
Bumped.
The Coen Bros. masterpiece turned 20 on March 6! So The Washington Post went back to movie critics who hated it when it first came out: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2018/03/06/the-big-lebowski-is-20-we-reached-out-to-the-critics-who-panned-it-to-see-what-they-think-now/?utm_term=.559252ece4af
Bumped again.
Well, the movie’s now out and the reviews aren’t great. I’ll probably still see it, though, *TBL *fan than I am.
Once I saw the reviews start coming at Rotten Tomatoes, I knew it was going to be bad. Currently at 23%.
Was in 4 theaters in the US for one week. A purely nominal release. $18,169 gross. Bad even for such a limited release.
4.3/10 at IMDb
[Dean Wormer]
The Jesus Rolls … has no CinemaScore.
[/Dean Wormer]
It’s on my “when I get around to it” list. Which means probably never.
The Mrs. and I watched it on cable this week past, and both enjoyed it. It’s quirky as hell, and not in a particularly Coenesque way, but it didn’t matter to us. Two messages came through in the film: Don’t fuck with the Jesus, and the Jesus rolls, so for us it was good enough.
This has the potential to be the worst sequel since that one for Bad Santa.
Have you seen it?
I’m not a huge fan of French cinema, but for whatever reason I’ve seen the original film on at least three occasions. It’s morally reprehensible, to be sure, but in a cheerfully existential French sort of way (not to mention peak Depardieu). I can’t imagine how it could ever work in any other language or culture, let alone in 2020.
I can not think of a movie premise, based on a movie that I love, that I would be less interested in seeing than this. It’s Pat would be Oscar nominee in comparison.
Sorry for those who saw it and liked it.
There is a lot going on. For film buffs, fans of noir and The Big Sleep it’s deep. If you don’t care for it that’s cool, but even in the seeming silly parts the Coen Brothers are creating clever powerful cinema.
To those rendering their opinions on the movie without having seen it, I offer up a quote attributed to Herbert Spencer:
There is a school of thought that says one must see every single movie that comes out. Fuck that! Who has the time? What normal people do is find one or two reviewers with similar taste to one’s own. Which is why I was so fond of Ebert, our tastes matched.
I’ll not be seeing this movie, and no amount of bullying can make me.
I think you might be discussing a different film.
I’ve got it down on our to-be-watched list.
*The Jesus Rolls *is a remake of Les Valseuses (Going Places), 1974, starring Gérard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere and Miou-Miou - which is the film I was discussing.
So many films I like were directed by actors, whether it’s Paul Newman, Ronit Elkabetz, Jean-Louis Trintignant, or Nadine Labaki. They’re trained to find ways to convey truths and are better at working together with other actors, so I understand why their projects are always strongly discouraged. If writers and actors get a bigger say in crafting films, that could be dangerous.
The Bertrand Blier original is still my favourite of these two, but I appreciated the balls…errr…irreverence of Turturro and am grateful for him not taking his audience for idiots like the films critics have to hype. I hope Turturro gets to make more films, certainly finding talent won’t be any impediment.
And thanks for reminding me about this project, it was a long time coming, haha.