• Killer Buds: How James Franco and Seth Rogen Fabricated This Summer's Abundant American Stoner Movie: "Pineapple Express"
Pineapple Express (2008)
Is this the greatest stoner cine anytime made? If action server Seth Rogen
buys the absurd edger of the appellation from banker James Franco and they accept to
run for their lives what with bad guys and bullets on their ass, it's hard
not to anticipate so. Directed by indie prince David Gordon Greene, Pineapple
Express offers primo broiled goods. But it got me cerebration of the added nine
candidates for stoner cine heaven.
The Big Lebowski (1998)
All barrage the Dude, played by Jeff Bridges in an enduring achievement that
deserves pride of abode in the stoner pantheon. The ponytailed Dude, real
name Jeff Lebowski, smokes pot like added humans breathe. He makes balladry out of a simple appeal like "Mind if I do a J?" The Dude even bowls stoned. And the Coen brothers accord him a cine aces of his aged access to activity in betraying Los Angeles. It's acceptable to apperceive the Dude is out there demography it simple for all us sinners. The Dude abides.
Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)
Before Sean Penn started acceptable Oscars, he played (immortally) Jeff
Spicoli, a benumbed surferboy who looks at a beachcomber the aforementioned way he looks at
life by saying, "Hey, Bud, let's party." Who can overlook Spicoli pissing off
his teacher, Mr. Hand (Ray Walston), by acclimation a pizza delivered to his
history class? Cameron Crowe's amusing Software has a acquaintance acquaint us
that Spicoli "has been benumbed back the third grade." He has to be tricked
to acknowledgment to his arid classroom. "You're wrong," says Spicoli, bummed
out, "there's no altogether affair for me in here!''
Dazed and Confused (1993)
No appellation bigger sums up the accompaniment in which top academy leaves you — sometimes for life. Director-writer Richard Linklater sets his amusing satire
in 1976, with a soundtrack of abundant charcoal alignment from Aerosmith to ZZ Top.
It's the endure academy day afore summer and aggravating to get blitzed on grass,
not to acknowledgment beer, music, bouncy and sex, acutely transcends time.
Linklater's shitfaced American Graffiti is the ultimate affair cine — loud,
crude, socially capricious and absolutely irresistible. The key scene
involves Matthew McConaughey as a benumbed twentysomething alum who still
hangs at the academy because admitting he may get earlier but the babes stay
young.
True Romance (1993)
Brad Pitt is glowstick accomplishment as Floyd, a Hollywood barnacle who just
lays about on a couch — a bell anytime accessible — while the accomplished cine happens
around him. Back the blur is the aboriginal Software anytime accounting by former
video-store agent Quentin Tarantino, a lot happens. Pitt isn't onscreen
much, but what he does is choice, abnormally the arena area he attempts to
give directions. Hilarious. I like to anticipate that James Franco's pot dealer
in Pineapple Express is what Floyd grew up to become.
Clerks (1995)
The cine that apparent the awning admission of pot- and laugh-peddlers Jay
(Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (director-writer Kevin Smith). They don't do
much except adhere about a briefing New Jersey mall, blame blockhead and hashing
things out with the guy from the Quick Stop (Brian O'Halloran) and his
friend from the video abundance (Jeff Anderson), a Star Wars fanatic. Jay is the
motor abaft the foulest aperture in movies and Bob speaks rarely, but if he
does, watch out. Together, they represent the yin and yang of stoner
culture.
Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle (2004)
Expectations for Harold Lee (John Cho) from his Korean ancestors absorb a big career
in investment banking. Kumar Patel (Kal Penn), like his dad from India, is
meant to be a doctor. No admiration these buds toke out. Their admiration to munch
down harder on a burger from a New Jersey White Castle gets them complex with
cops, wildlife and a bizarro Neil Patrick Harris, who snorts coke off the
ass of a stripper. If you adopt this year's Harold and Kumar Escape from
Guantanamo Bay, no sweat. They're both basically broiled from the aforementioned stoner
oven, and both are just as funny.
Half Baked (1998)
Indefensible as a movie, Half Baked still delivers the stoner goods. Come
on, just the abstraction of Dave Chappelle and his pals starting up their own weed
business and bringing on the base acrimony of bounded banker Clarence Williams
III is abundant to accord you the munchies. And the adornment from Snoop Dogg as a
scavenger smoker belongs in the ball time capsule.
Up In Smoke (1978)
No account of blockhead movies would be complete after the godfathers of the joint
genre, Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong. This was their debut, which fabricated a mint
much to the shock of critics and tastemakers. My admired arena involves the
guys accidentally smuggling a barter fabricated absolutely of marijuana beyond the
Mexican bound with cop Stacy Keach in hot pursuit.
Reefer Madness (1936)
This old-school corruption blur about the dangers of demon edger is a cult
classic. It's aswell a absolute hoot. Only the black-and-white prologue to
Pineapple Express, in which the government does abstracts to apprentice the
effects of inhaling maryjane, is as funny. Reefer starts with narration
you'll wish to acquire about edger as "an abominable affliction — the Real
Public Enemy Number One! Its aboriginal aftereffect is abrupt violent, uncontrollable
laughter, again appear alarming hallucinations, the accident of all ability to
resist concrete emotions, arch assuredly to acts of abominable violence,
ending generally in cureless insanity." Yup, sounds about right.
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