it's a stoner movie for thinkers. i haven't smoked in about six years due to a stint on probation followed by serving our country but if i take it up again this is the first movie i'm watching.
shareDude, being high makes EVERY movie seem great...
Thank you for your service, btw.
Sacred cows make the best hamburgers. — Mark Twain
"A stoner movie for thinkers". Haha! Well put!! Could be the film's tagline!
shareI couldn't agree more!
"Pai Mei taught you the five point palm-exploding heart technique?" -Bill
Or a thinker movie for stoners. But yes most movies are improved with weed, but some are a marriage made in stoner heaven, including this one.
If I have to tell you again, we're gonna take it outside and I'm gonna show you what it's like!
haha. yeah, so i'm totally smoking and watching this right now. good call.
"Ah, hon, ya got Arby's all over me." Marge Gunderson
AGREED, I don't smoke anymore but if I did, this would be the movie to do it too! This movie is great on so many levels.
shareYeah man I've watched this film countless times stonned, its amazing. Totally agree with 'its a stoner film for thinkers', yeah man im right on that.
Hey anyone else know any 'stonner films for thinkers?'
great film btw
WOW!! Finally found a board where everyone's happy, in agreement, no arguements, and....cool! : >)
So many other movie boards attract people who love to dispute, and i'm guilty of that too, i must admit. it can be fun to chew out stupid people sometimes (anonymously too). but it's so much nicer when everyone can agree & enjoy things together. Perhaps it's got something to do with pot? in my youth, pot was a tool for making friends, something illegal yet wonderful that we all had in common, and thru which we bonded. almost a religious ritual.
There's almost NO movies that deal with the reality of how many educated professionals love to get high like this movie does. In the end, however, he gives it up, like myself... but looks back on it with fondness, like myself.
Tripp was a very creative person & believed that getting high helped him in his artistic endeavors. He was a funny & likeable guy, and typical of so many of our teachers. this is why it seems so real & believable to all those of us who've smoked. & there's lots of us out there i'm sure!
The movie shows how enjoyable(& funny!) getting high can be! & not as just a low-life deviate behavior as it's usually portrayed in so many other films. (I am a big Cheech & Chong fan however.) (< : I was also a George Carlin fan. He had lots to say on this subject, but that's besides the pt....
Anyway, I read somewhere a long time ago that 85% of the boomer generation has, at least tried, smoking at some point in their lives. but we rarely see in film it being a part of a lifestyle, as this one shows.
But there is a lesson to learn here!!! & it's taught in such a positive way.
Maybe that's why it's such a unique movie. it's definately one of my all-time favorites. : >) : >
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Holy sh*t, if you got a MAJOR point of the movie, it was how DIS-functional Grady was when he was smoking!
For those of you that smoke, can you actually do things like: change the oil on your car? Play chess? Read a story to your young or infantile daughter/son --- when you are stoned?
Be honest!
Yes.
shareGreat! Let's play chess?
What do you do, what is your career?
I haven't smoked since 2002 and I'm an EMT-I, US Navy Sailor, and student filmmaker. I think you are right he was dysfunctional but the smoking was his coping mechanism for his anxiety over whether or not he cold live up to his last success. Had he not been smoking the dysfunction would still exist. Oh and I don't play chess, sorry I'm not that bright. ;b
shareThat's just what i said, that there's a lesson to be learned from the film. But he had written a good novel under the influence : >). but it wasn't working for him with the 2nd book.
And i don't think that pot was the center of his existance, like it can be for lots of people. It was a tool to get to a certain place in his mind. In the end, he finally learns that he doesn't need it to get there. : >) : > so that's the lesson..
Yes, you are right, and I was being to harsh in my all to quick to click answer.
I should have thought better about your earlier statement!
Michael Chabon is a wonderful writer!
Oh, and I was stoned when I wrote that answer………. No,
I wasn’t. Just kidding with you!
And now, I’ve got someone to get me there!