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Title: Film Poll 420
Post by: stePH on March 27, 2008, 01:00:55 PM
Best stoner movie?
Title: Re: Film Poll 420
Post by: Talia on March 27, 2008, 02:22:19 PM
You know, I haven't seen a single one of those movies, and I'm not sad.
Title: Re: Film Poll 420
Post by: birdless on March 27, 2008, 02:49:44 PM
Bill and Ted... it was Keanu Reeve's best work.
Title: Re: Film Poll 420
Post by: DKT on March 27, 2008, 05:00:43 PM
What?!?!  No Dazed and Confused.  Matthew McConahey's best work.  (Some might argue Ben Affleck's best, too.)  No Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas?!?!  Fat Benicio Del Toro, bald Johnny Depp!  Outrage. 

(I'm totally kidding, of course)

I'll go with Bill and Ted's.  Haven't seen the others, although I wouldn't mind seeing Harold and Kumar. 
Title: Re: Film Poll 420
Post by: Ocicat on March 27, 2008, 05:27:41 PM
Fear and Loathing. Hands down. Or hands turning into a pile of goo.  Or something.
Title: Re: Film Poll 420
Post by: Russell Nash on March 27, 2008, 05:52:09 PM
Fast Times at Ridgemont High!!

Showing my age a bit.
Title: Re: Film Poll 420
Post by: Bdoomed on March 27, 2008, 07:01:52 PM
oh come on guys... Half Baked is by FAR the best here!
Title: Re: Film Poll 420
Post by: Darwinist on March 27, 2008, 07:02:55 PM
I've only seen Bill and Ted.  I would've gone with Fast Times if had been up there, but I guess I'm old.   Mr Hand: "What are you, people?  On dope?"  
Title: Re: Film Poll 420
Post by: birdless on March 27, 2008, 07:07:27 PM
Hey, the original post was edited after I posted... I posted to "." (it was just a period dot ???). I can't claim to be a stoner movie aficionado, but wouldn't any given Cheech and Chong movie qualify?
Title: Re: Film Poll 420
Post by: DKT on March 27, 2008, 08:32:20 PM
I can't claim to be a stoner movie aficionado, but wouldn't any given Cheech and Chong movie qualify?

Very true.  Actually, I think they wrote the book on the stoner movie genre.
Title: Re: Film Poll 420
Post by: stePH on March 27, 2008, 09:37:03 PM
What?!?!  No Dazed and Confused.  Matthew McConahey's best work.  (Some might argue Ben Affleck's best, too.)  No Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas?!?!  Fat Benicio Del Toro, bald Johnny Depp!  Outrage. 
Sorry; posted off the top of my head in a hurry.  I just wanted to be sure B&T was on there.

[edit]
Who voted for Smiley Face?  That movie was awful.
Title: Re: Film Poll 420
Post by: CammoBlammo on March 27, 2008, 10:20:36 PM
I had to vote for Dude, where's my car? because (as usual) it's the only one of the list I can remember seeing.

I did see the Wayne's World movies. I remember watching Dude and thinking, 'What is it with kids these days? They're just running round after girls and pot, and ending up in completely ludicrous situations. Not like the stoner movies when I was young.'

It was at that moment I realised I am now officially Old.
Title: Re: Film Poll 420
Post by: DKT on March 27, 2008, 10:56:11 PM

Who voted for Smiley Face?  That movie was awful.

You know, that's the one movie on this list I've never heard of...
Title: Re: Film Poll 420
Post by: oddpod on March 27, 2008, 11:19:00 PM
thay are all bad, realy realy bad
Title: Re: Film Poll 420
Post by: FamilyGuy on March 27, 2008, 11:25:03 PM
I had to vote for Dude, where's my car? because (as usual) it's the only one of the list I can remember seeing.

It's like Woodstock, if you can remember it, then you weren't there.
Title: Re: Film Poll 420
Post by: birdless on March 28, 2008, 12:11:30 AM
thay are all bad, realy realy bad
Rocky V, Batman and Robin, The Piano, Jaws: The Revenge, Howard the Duck, Blue Chips... those are examples of really, really bad movies.
Title: Re: Film Poll 420
Post by: stePH on March 28, 2008, 12:29:57 AM
Hey, the original post was edited after I posted... I posted to "." (it was just a period dot ???). I can't claim to be a stoner movie aficionado, but wouldn't any given Cheech and Chong movie qualify?

The first three would (Up in Smoke, Cheech & Chong's Next Movie, and Nice Dreams).  They started to really suck with Things are Tough All Over, but even Nice Dreams wasn't up to the standard of the first two.  Anyway, there wasn't much doper content in them after the third.

Oh, and I thought the "420" plus the list itself would kind of telegraph that the subject was stoner movies.
Title: Re: Film Poll 420
Post by: Planish on March 28, 2008, 05:50:41 AM
What about Koyaanisqatsi, Naked Lunch, Eraserhead, The History of Kelloggs' Corn Flakes ...

Oh. Sorry dude.
I thought you meant movies for stoners to watch.

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Title: Re: Film Poll 420
Post by: stePH on March 28, 2008, 12:55:03 PM
What about Koyaanisqatsi, Naked Lunch, Eraserhead, The History of Kelloggs' Corn Flakes ...
Haven't seen or even heard of that last one.  Of the rest I only liked Naked Lunch.

I thought you meant movies for stoners to watch.
No, more like, movies about stoners.
Title: Re: Film Poll 420
Post by: birdless on March 28, 2008, 02:09:08 PM
Oh, and I thought the "420" plus the list itself would kind of telegraph that the subject was stoner movies.
Oh. I'm reeeaaally not fluent in drug use/slang/references. I'm stereotypically suburban in that aspect.
Title: Re: Film Poll 420
Post by: Planish on March 28, 2008, 04:23:00 PM
What about Koyaanisqatsi, Naked Lunch, Eraserhead, The History of Kelloggs' Corn Flakes ...
Haven't seen or even heard of that last one.  Of the rest I only liked Naked Lunch.
That's because I made it up.

Oh, and I thought the "420" plus the list itself would kind of telegraph that the subject was stoner movies.
Oh. I'm reeeaaally not fluent in drug use/slang/references. I'm stereotypically suburban in that aspect.
??? I didn't get the "420" thing either. I had to look it up (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(cannabis_culture)).
Title: Re: Film Poll 420
Post by: Bdoomed on March 28, 2008, 04:35:30 PM
this topic shoulda been posted on 4/20
Title: Re: Film Poll 420
Post by: Russell Nash on March 29, 2008, 07:19:18 PM
thay are all bad, realy realy bad
Rocky V, Batman and Robin, The Piano, Jaws: The Revenge, Howard the Duck, Blue Chips... those are examples of really, really bad movies.


We already did the worst movie film poll series.
Title: Re: Film Poll 420
Post by: stePH on March 29, 2008, 07:38:01 PM
We already did the worst movie film poll series.

Were Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy, Napoleon Dynamite and Smiley Face on it?
Title: Re: Film Poll 420
Post by: oddpod on March 29, 2008, 08:29:50 PM
dont dis barbarela!
 that fillm fulled my adolecant fantasys like no other!
Title: Re: Film Poll 420
Post by: stePH on March 29, 2008, 09:02:35 PM
dont dis barbarela!
 that fillm fulled my adolecant fantasys like no other!

Sorry, but it's in my bottom five and may actually occupy the lowest slot.  Very few films have insulted my intelligence and my sense of taste like that one has (and considering that my taste in movies is about as lowbrow as my taste in music is pretentious, that's really saying something.)
Title: Re: Film Poll 420
Post by: Russell Nash on March 30, 2008, 05:42:20 PM
We already did the worst movie film poll series.

Were Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy, Napoleon Dynamite and Smiley Face on it?

We had open nominations for about two weeks and then went from there.  Look them up to see what was in them . I don't remember.
Title: Re: Film Poll 420
Post by: oddpod on March 30, 2008, 06:33:32 PM
dont dis barbarela!
 that fillm fulled my adolecant fantasys like no other!

Sorry, but it's in my bottom five and may actually occupy the lowest slot.  Very few films have insulted my intelligence and my sense of taste like that one has (and considering that my taste in movies is about as lowbrow as my taste in music is pretentious, that's really saying something.)

lol, i havent sean it since it in 20 years so maby thares  a nostalgick glow :)
just piked it up fom ebay for 99 p so will give you my "grown up" opinion when i have sean it agane
Title: Re: Film Poll 420
Post by: stePH on March 30, 2008, 07:02:36 PM
dont dis barbarela!
 that fillm fulled my adolecant fantasys like no other!

Sorry, but it's in my bottom five and may actually occupy the lowest slot.  Very few films have insulted my intelligence and my sense of taste like that one has (and considering that my taste in movies is about as lowbrow as my taste in music is pretentious, that's really saying something.)

lol, i havent sean it since it in 20 years so maby thares  a nostalgick glow :)
just piked it up fom ebay for 99 p so will give you my "grown up" opinion when i have sean it agane

Don't waste your time.   The best part is Jane Fonda naked during the opening credits, and it rapidly goes downhill from there.
Title: Re: Film Poll 420
Post by: williamjamesw on March 31, 2008, 12:44:29 AM
If any of the older Cheech & Chong movies had been on the list they would have gotten my vote.  But, B&T ended up getting it instead.  I'm not sure why, but the more modern movies of this type usually just seem overly stupid and insulting to the viewer's intellect.  The really good ones are mostly older than I am.
Title: Re: Film Poll 420
Post by: Ocicat on March 31, 2008, 04:56:17 AM
Fear.

And.

Loathing.