The Jesus Rolls

Pretty pointless to be honest. It's not the worst film in the world but it fails to justify its existence.

I'm pretty convinced this was a ploy from John Turturro to put his dick in Audrey Tautou's mouth. Serious contender for worst movie of all time, tone, acting, purpose, everything is out of place and disgusting in this movie. Which might be volontary because it's based on an out of place and disgusting character from TBLebowski. I can only think it attempted to replicacted french classical movie "Going Places" https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Valseuses.
But why ?
The purpose of the original movie was that those characters were free, ideals and romantics. Is Turturro trying to judge them by reincarnating them as pedophiles and assholes? I just don't fucking know why. Why is Tautou in this ? I would have thought she'd be in support of french romantic culture from the 70's, considering that's probably a decent part of her upbringing.
It might be a critique of it. Closing the page on this era. But who needed to close that fucking page ? It seems like a pretentious attempt by Turturro to make a genre defining genre movie (no typing error here).

Consequently, here we have the most depressing and disgusting movie I have ever seen. It kind of disgusted me of sex for a while. Of life actually. It's unbearably awful, and this awfulness might have been the goal of it. But fuck me, why pick the rapist from The Big Lebowski for this ?

The Jesus Rolls gutters in this remake of a ‘70s French film (NOT a spinoff of The Big Lebowski). When Jesus Quintana is released from prison he takes off with an ex-con friend named Petty on a road trip boosting cars, breaking into houses, and having lurid sex. Featuring John Turturro, Bobby Cannavale, Jon Hamm, and Christopher Walken, the film has a pretty good cast. But Tutturro is no Cohan, the characters are bland and one-dimensional, and the script is lazy and full of contrivances. Still, some of the comedy works, though a lot of it is rather crass. Incredibly disappointing, The Jesus Rolls is a pointless and meandering film that tries to steal some reflected glory from the Cohan brothers’ classic.

Oof

Not Coen Bros.
Same character but if feels like they didn't know what to do with him. I liked the continued prison backstory from the original, and honestly wish it were mostly that. Like it could've been a prequel ending with how that went down. Or parallel with scenes and backstory from Lebowski, but this just seemed like a cash great from character recognition.

Great actors. Forgettable moments mixed with unforgettable moments that go on WAY to long.


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Why was this movie even made? Besides a cast it has no qualities that would categorize it in any form of entertainment. Jesus was a funny and well thought out, but limited, role in The Big Lebowski. Here it is a complete mess looking to ride the coat-tails of a great movie.

I had to see this because The Big Lebowski is my favorite movie but this was painfully bad.

John Turturro is incredible in The Big Lebowski, so I had high expectations for this film, but it was a complete disappointment.
A wasted opportunity.