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― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 November 2003 06:45 (twenty-two years ago)

that crazy fellini hippy documentary thing on disc 2 of 8 1/2!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Thursday, 20 November 2003 07:48 (twenty-two years ago)

GET SOME SLEEP!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 November 2003 07:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Lucio Fulci-"Una lucertola con la pelle di donna" sorry don't know how they called it in English, translated: "A lizard with woman's skin"....

― francesco, Thursday, 20 November 2003 11:15 (twenty-two years ago)

that was a S!

― francesco, Thursday, 20 November 2003 11:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Wouldn't Easy Rider be the great grandfather of stoner movies?

― Anthony (Anthony F), Thursday, 20 November 2003 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

End of the Road - you'll never see James Earl Jones like this again. (And Stacy Keach's second best performance ever, running just behind Fat City.)

― Girolamo Savonarola, Thursday, 20 November 2003 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll say it again-if Jon Malkovich's performance in Rounders lasted over 90 minutes, it would be the best stoner movie of all time. Or a really neat little play.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 November 2003 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

"John"

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 November 2003 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Mega Force.

― PVC (peeveecee), Friday, 21 November 2003 00:47 (twenty-two years ago)

What differentiates a stoner movie from any other movie? You can't say that it has to do with a movie being better while high, because that's most or all comedic or unusually visual movies. Does it have to referrence being stoned, either explicitly or subtly?

Either way I vote for the Transformers movie.

Panda! Go Panda! and 2001 very close behind.

― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Friday, 21 November 2003 03:31 (twenty-two years ago)

"Stoner appeal" is a very difficult thing to pin down, but silliness of the intentional or unintentional kind, is key.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 November 2003 03:43 (twenty-two years ago)

the Transformers movie is so weird! seriously i think that movie may have been the first thing to introduce me to the idea of real death. seeing Optimus Prime die TORE ME UP!

it's such a disturbing and melancholy movie at points. plus dinobots.

― ryan (ryan), Friday, 21 November 2003 04:10 (twenty-two years ago)

plus it's orson welles's swan song

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 21 November 2003 06:08 (twenty-two years ago)

what a way to go, though. as a massive planet-eating planet. if nothing else this proves welles had a sense of humor about himself.

― rgeary (rgeary), Friday, 21 November 2003 07:06 (twenty-two years ago)

a massive planet-eating planet

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I clearly have no memnory of this minor masterpiece, and must re-watch immediately! Is there a DVD release?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 November 2003 07:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Fuck it, I'm starting an ILE thread about it!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 November 2003 07:23 (twenty-two years ago)

i think it's out on dvd. the music is un-fucking-real

― rgeary (rgeary), Friday, 21 November 2003 08:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Dazed and Confused gets lumped into this category, but it shouldn't.

Waking Life should be adopted as a stoner movie.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 07:21 (twenty-two years ago)

why shouldn't it be? it's like the greatest stoner movie of all time!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 17:37 (twenty-two years ago)

It's a terrible stoner movie. Relatively complicated, the pacing is so moderate, it's not a jokes-a-minute deal. There's nothing about it that gets better/no experience is heightened by being stoned.

Stoner movies:
Half-Baked
Cheech & Chong, etc.
Maxx cartoons

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 23:24 (twenty-two years ago)

why must stoner movies be frenetic? I like 'em nice and slow (and really how complicated is dazed & confused? I mean it is, but it's not in a hard-to-understand way)

plus the soundtrack
plus it all takes place over a day
plus they're smoking pot all the time

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 06:14 (twenty-two years ago)

A book came out several years ago dedicated to the best movies to watch stoned. It was called Baked Potatoes

― PVC (peeveecee), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

A good stoner movie is simply a good movie that plays well under the influence of LSD. As a reformed acidhead, here are some movies I first saw tripping and thought were great....

Excalibur
The Meaning of Life
ReAnimator
Brazil
Apocalypse Now

... and upon sober review was unsurprised to find they were good movies (although I didn't die laughing at the "Find the Fish" scene in Meaning of Life as I did tripping). On the other hand, I first saw these movies on acid...

Pink Floyd's The Wall
Heavy Metal

...movies you would assume were Designed for acidheads that utterly failed to win me over, even with acid saturating my brain. Also...

Cheech & Chong
Half Baked
Friday
Dazed and Confused

... movies that blatantly pander to Potheads, which is unfortunately their only selling point, but if it's lame it's lame (flying dog ?!)

In summation: The best stoner movies are your good movies. I'd rather watch Patton after smoking a joint than Nice Dreams, believe me.

― Dave Gilbert, Monday, 19 January 2004 03:31 (twenty-two years ago)

2001: A Space Odyssey

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 19 January 2004 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)

What about Disney's "Fantasia"? I heard that it was rereleased in the sixties because it was thought to appeal to the stoner market... Anyways, the first segment of that film is a good example of early psychedelia.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 12:37 (twenty-two years ago)

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