I just finished reading the great article in
Rolling Stone about the making of The Big Lebowski and it put me in the mood to watch it again...the article references that the movie
was trashed in the episode of Siskel & Ebert with Siskel famously saying that
Kingpin was a better movie about bowling. Ebert half-heatedly endorses the movie but I don't really think either of them knew what they had in front of them.