S&D: Drug Movies

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s: requiem for a dream
d: easy rider

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 13 March 2003 17:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

Drugstore Cowboy

― Skottie, Thursday, 13 March 2003 17:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

is an "S"

― Skottie, Thursday, 13 March 2003 17:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

C: Vanishing Point

― tigerclawskank, Thursday, 13 March 2003 17:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

D: Vanishing Point - 1997 remake with Vigo Mortenson - they even give him a "proper" reason to be driving across country (he's pregnant wife is about to pop) instead of existential angst.

― tigerclawskank, Thursday, 13 March 2003 17:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

S: the video game scene in "bully", the trippy party in "midnight cowboy", "the last movie"

D: "basketball diaries"

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 13 March 2003 17:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

S:Dazed & Confused, Trainspotting
D:Less Than Zero (cause they changed it all up from the book)

― Charles McCain, Thursday, 13 March 2003 17:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) - Terry Gilliam

― Jan Geerinck (jahsonic), Thursday, 13 March 2003 18:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

Search: The opening sequence in Broken Lizard's Super Troopers, the OD scene in Pulp Fiction...

Destroy: The part in Perry Farrell's The Gift with the Frusciante song playing and the ants crawling on everything. Ew.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 March 2003 18:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

D "the last movie".
S "infinite jest". oh wait, that's a novel.

― j fail (cenotaph), Thursday, 13 March 2003 18:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

nickalicious, you're right about 'Super Troopers'. It was very difficult to watch the rest of that movie with my stomach hurting so much from laughing. I wasn't even stoned when I saw it. I might've died if I was. I think lots of people have had to turn it off at that point becuase they were missing the rest of the movie.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 13 March 2003 18:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

S: the visiting the dealer scene in "Boogie Nights", "High Art", that HBO movie about the model Gia w/ Angelina Jolie.
D: "Blow"

― Arthur (Arthur), Thursday, 13 March 2003 18:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

The visiting-the-dealer scene was pretty damn amazing.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 13 March 2003 18:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

can i take back easy rider as a dud? i must've been high when i wrote that. seriously, worth it for the phil spector bit alone.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 13 March 2003 18:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

requiem needs a capital D, I'm afraid.

― g.cannon (gcannon), Thursday, 13 March 2003 18:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

That's just what I was about to say.

― slutsky (slutsky), Thursday, 13 March 2003 19:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

best good drug movie: jesus' son

best bad drug movie with young jack nicholson, dean stockwell, bruce dern, and henry jaglom(!): psych-out

― dan (dan), Thursday, 13 March 2003 19:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

wow, i thought requiem was good, though it kinda went over the top at the end. i really liked the mom's hallucinations. what did you guys hate about it?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 13 March 2003 19:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

Search then destroy:Fritz the Cat

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 13 March 2003 19:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

Search:Up in Smoke, Nice Dreams (if only for the Pee Wee scenes)
Destroy: all other C&C movies

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 13 March 2003 19:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

Someone has to S: How High. I mean, I would, but I haven't seen the damn thing.

I believe the Dirty Vicar has generally positive things to say about Dude, Where's My Car?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 13 March 2003 19:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

I second Boogie Nights.

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Thursday, 13 March 2003 19:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Redman/Meth commentary track on How High is why DVDs exist in the first place. One of the funniest things EVAH.

And for real 'bout the Boogie Nights...

That part in Boogie Nights where all the different scenes are juxtaposed against each other and there's that absurdly minimalist soundtrack and Don Cheadle's character is getting fucked up (not in the drug sense though) = powerful shit mang.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 March 2003 19:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

Half Baked!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 13 March 2003 19:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yeah, Half Baked!

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Thursday, 13 March 2003 19:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

requiem's "point:" "drugs are BAD, hmmkay?" It just seemed like such a joyless, hateful slog of a movie only to be a rehash of Reefer Madness. I don't even give DA enough credit to have thought about what he was saying beyond "cool angle here wikkid d00d."

(at least in the Traffic daughter's one-week trajectory from smoking a little chronic to getting fucked by crips...no that was stupid too.)

though to quote dave q "Then again if I was going to press anyone into lesbo sex slavery w/ double-headed dildos Jennifer Connelly would definitely be my #1 choice, she's HAWT!!!"

― g.cannon (gcannon), Thursday, 13 March 2003 19:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

S: The Trip, Easy Rider, The Exterminating Angel

D: The Wall, 2001 (as a 'drug movie')

― Joe (Joe), Thursday, 13 March 2003 19:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

The only thing that makes Half Baked watchable is Dave Chappelle. I heart him.
("Doctor says I need a backiotomy")

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 13 March 2003 19:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

Am I the only person who didn't view Requiem as having such a simplified "drugs are bad, mmkay" message? I thought the way it delved into how all those people got into such a deep turmoil was more like an exploration on addictions of all kinds, drugs or not. But I have a habit of reading too much into some things and not enough into others.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 March 2003 19:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

Exterminating Angel? I don't follow you there.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 13 March 2003 20:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

yeah I see he wanted there to be "whoa, TV IS A DRUG TOO" thing going on but everyone in the movie was so uniformly stupid I just couldn't take any of it seriously.

― g.cannon (gcannon), Thursday, 13 March 2003 20:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

I dunno, Nick. I read it more as "the American Dream/belief that you are in control of your own destiny/etc is load of crap" than as anything about addiction at all. But then, I tend to read too much into things too. Especially when I really really want the things that I like to be in sync with my own views.

Also: Destroy, destroy, destroy all stoner comedies.

― -M, Thursday, 13 March 2003 20:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

BUt Half Baked has Jon Stewart! And Snoop Dogg! And a flying dog!

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Thursday, 13 March 2003 20:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hah! Forgot about the Snoop part, that was funny.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 13 March 2003 20:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

S: Permanent Midnight, More, Traffik (the UK original), The Days Of Wine And Roses, The Lost Weekend, Vanishing Point (which isn't really a drug movie per se, but classic nevertheless)
D: 28 Days, Clean And Sober

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Thursday, 13 March 2003 20:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

destroy all of them. yawn yawn bloody yawn.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 13 March 2003 22:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Hah! Forgot about the Snoop part, that was funny."
Don't forget Willie Nelson!
"Man, back in my day, a dimebag cost A DIME!"

― Charles McCain, Thursday, 13 March 2003 22:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

I guess I was too stoned while watching to remember that movie

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 13 March 2003 22:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

I don't count Requiem as a drug movie, it's about the gap between an idealised version of reality and actual events and the nightmare caused by unrealised dreams (see how Leto's character does the pier walk at the end and how his mother gets her dream but from inside a cocoon of mental illness - the only thing that lets this down is the other characters ending, but that was down to the oedipus stuff not being played up enough in the rest of the film).

For a classic "drug" movie seek out Panic in Needle Park.

As a destroy I have to say "Blow". I don't see why that movie was made at all.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Thursday, 13 March 2003 22:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

Search: Easy Rider! Folks see a free man, makes 'em scared. But not runnin' scared. Makes 'em dangerous. GOD DAMN THE PUSHER MAN etc.
Also search: Fear + Loathing in Las Vegas, Trainspotting, Beat Girl, Reefer Madness, Strange Days, Mysteries Of The Organism, Yellow Submarine.

Destroy: Human traffic. Destroy it until it is but dust upon the plains of leng.

― Al_Ewing, Friday, 14 March 2003 00:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

has anyone who hasn't taken acid seen and enjoyed fear and loathing?
its seems to be completely aimed at people who have...

― robin (robin), Friday, 14 March 2003 00:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

I've never taken acid.

― Al Ewing (Al Ewing), Friday, 14 March 2003 00:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

S: _Fear And Loathing, _Bongwater_ (worst cover ever,
looks like utter crap, but it's good, trust me)
D: _Requiem For A Dream_, incoherent, pretentious,
just plain sucked.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Friday, 14 March 2003 03:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

S: Friday
D: Next Friday

― Kris (aqueduct), Friday, 14 March 2003 04:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

I assumed Fear & Loathing was aimed at people would rather watch movies about taking acid than actually doing it (note: I have not taken acid).

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 14 March 2003 10:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Friday movies count? Ok. Friday then. (Haven't seen Next Friday)

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Friday, 14 March 2003 14:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

Terry Gilliam has yet to make a movie that wasn't appropriate on acid.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 14 March 2003 15:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

Search:25th Hour

― oops (Oops), Friday, 14 March 2003 15:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

I hadn't thought of Strange Days as a drug movie, but that's actually very appropriate.

I just watched Strange Days for the first time since it was released yesterday, I didn't realize how seriously POWERFUL it was. Angela Bassett is an astonishing actress.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 14 March 2003 15:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

grim drug movies:
the man with the golden arm
midnight express
bird

and a less grim one:
head
(which shares an actress with easy rider. anyone, anyone?)

andy

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 14 March 2003 15:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ooh Ooh I know!

― imdb (Oops), Friday, 14 March 2003 15:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

(actually there is one actress, two actors and two other people in common, according to imdb)

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 14 March 2003 15:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

ten years pass...

I suspect this will get heaps of ILXor eyeballs/scorn, eventually:

Film Forum is pleased to present the US theatrical premiere of Brooklyn writer-director Shaka King’s debut feature, a romantic comedy of New Yorkers, NEWLYWEEDS, beginning Wednesday, September 18. The story of a hip young couple trying to keep their lives and relationship together while sharing a voracious appetite for cannabis, the film feels like no other stoner comedy. Set in Bed-Stuy, it follows Lyle (Amari Cheatom) as he spends days reclaiming property for Manny’s Rent-to-Own, and nights with the lovely, exotically-attired Nina (Trae Harris), a tour guide for the Brooklyn Children’s Museum. Their grass habit stokes an hallucinatory safe zone for them to dream of grander lives, but also provokes a series of wacky mishaps and questionable choices. Neither an endorsement nor a condemnation of marijuana, NEWLYWEEDS plays like a Spike Lee and “Louie” mashup — a subtle, nuanced and often endearingly funny depiction of struggling urban coupledom.

― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 August 2013 19:47 (ten years ago) link

Can't find mention of the following: Cisco Pike (more about dealing than taking), Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues (ditto), Born to Win (saw it long ago--pretty good? can't remember), Clean (good Nick Nolte performance). Also, I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can. Never seen it.

― clemenza, Sunday, 18 August 2013 00:49 (ten years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-ul8aDzh8o

― Josefa, Sunday, 18 August 2013 07:10 (ten years ago) link

two months pass...

not title-specific as meant, but the best thread to put this in -- J Hoberman writes the ultimate ILX film column.

http://www.thenation.com/article/176924/cineastes-guide-watching-movies-while-stoned#

Redeemed by the last sentence.

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 November 2013 15:22 (ten years ago) link

I assumed Fear & Loathing was aimed at people would rather watch movies about taking acid than actually doing it (note: I have not taken acid).

― Jordan (Jordan)

Neither has Terry Gilliam FWIW.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Friday, 8 November 2013 17:10 (ten years ago) link

one year passes...

safdie bros nyc gutterscum junkie movie

http://www.vulture.com/2015/05/arielle-holmes-heaven-knows-what.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgtkLImwS7U

― johnny crunch, Friday, 22 May 2015 12:43 (eight years ago) link

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