The Dudeism Forum

If The Dude crossed balls with Roy Munson, who would win?  (...and if this has been covered before, my apologies...) It seems to me that Roy is likely a much more technically adept bowler, even though we have not, of course, actually seen The Dude bowl.  But if, in fact, he'd leave Lebowski in the gutter, how would this reflect on the reputation of the Coens?  Would their brotherhood status suffer in comparison?  Or are Dudes above such comparative analyses?

i like these kinds of threads, man, but i dont knowq what in gods name your blathering about? what do i need to know and i'll rent whatever flick it is.
and since we see neither the dude, nor walter bowl as you say, but we see donny is pretty darn good and the boys did make it to the finals.....whelp, i'd reckon WHOEVER you put up against the dudes team will be going down.
as to what any of this has to do with the coens i am totally uncertain whatcha mean.
regarding the coen brothers i do often wonder what if we had ethan OR joel but not both? what if one had not been born or made it to adulthood? would we still have a single amazing writer/director/producer/editer/what have you, which movies might have never been made, all of them? those boys are pure magic together, it amazes me to think of them, such connective kinetic creative force split in two.

Oh hannahdude, your world will soon be complete!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingpin_(film)

(hmm, can't get that last bracket to turn into linkage, so you'll have to click into the correction it gives you)

The comparisons beg to be made here.  Perhaps a sister movement is in order, maybe with a more Confucian bent:  Boorgism?

god, that randy quid thing? really? ok, but i've HEARD that the real deal is a film called 'withnail and i'.....
in fact im going tos tart a thread about it, see whose seen it.

...ya, jread a reference to that one in the dudespaper, curious about it myself...

... no go on Kingpin?  Come on, give it another throw... 

forgot to finish my thought there actually, once i thought about 'withnail and i' but i WAS going to add i never saw it, but i will if you saw i should.
didnt it come out the same year as tbl?

two years before... It's a road movie, so a bit different in that respect.  Great movie, though.  Some classic Bill Murray.  And more explicit coverage of bowling per se.  Woody Harrelson struggles to regain his dudeliness, to be sure... Guaranteed hoot.

As far as the Coen's 'vs' Farrelly's....
The Farrellys are guilty pleasure. The Coens are just pleasure.

Coens are the Beatles.
Farrellys are Def Lepard.
Coens are Mary Shelly.
Farrellys are  Dean Koontz
Coens are Lenny Bruce.
Farrelly are The Three Stooges.

Spot on, BikerDude!  ...and as it would happen, the Farrelly's next film IS "The Three Stooges"...  April 12, 2012 (just missing Fool's Day)



Coens are The Bohm (David, that is)
Farrellys are Bill Nye
Coens are Cousteau
Farrellys are Lloyd Bridges (hey, Sea Hunt was great!)
Coens are Marylin
Farrellys are Ginger

For purposes of comparison:


Farrellys

1994 Dumb and Dumber
1996 Kingpin (directed only)
1998 There's Something About Mary
1999 Outside Providence (screenplay and produced only)
2000 Me, Myself & Irene
2001 Say It Isn't So (produced only)
2001 Osmosis Jones (directed live-action sequences only)
2001 Shallow Hal
2003 Stuck on You
2005 Fever Pitch (directed only)
2005 The Ringer (produced only)
2007 The Heartbreak Kid
2011 Hall Pass 
2012 The Three Stooges (directed and produced)


Coens

1984   Blood Simple                  
1985.    Crime Wave
1987   Raising Arizona                  
1990   Miller's Crossing                  
1991   Barton Fink   
1994   The Hudsucker Proxy                  
1996   Fargo
1998   The Big Lebowski                  
2000   O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2001   The Man Who Wasn't There
2003   Intolerable Cruelty
2003. Bad Santa                  
2004   The Ladykillers
2006 Romance and Cigarettes                  
2007   No Country for Old Men   
2008   Burn After Reading
2009   A Serious Man
2010   True Grit
2012.   Suburbicon