Stoner movies: your favorites and why?

He had a serious job with the Obama administration, Associate Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs.

 

I know.

 

Yeah that's right. I wouldn't like it if it was actually dumb. I also like its odyssey format, like The Warriors and similar.

 

Lebowski. He's the little Lebowski and he knows it.

 

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982). Why? Jeff Spicoli. Sean Penn nails the look and wonderment of the harmless surfer stoner.

No Fast Times, No Dazed & Confused. No Spicoli, No Lebowski.

 

Flirting With Disaster. Lily Tomlin and Alan Alda as a 60s dropout couple, and Richard Jenkins as a gay FBI agent tripping, what's not to like.

 

The musicians in Blake Edward's film with Peter Sellers "The Party"

 

"Ohh I have wasps in my brain!"-- Ruth Buggs (Kristen Wiig), after partaking in the campfire scene.

"My weed!"-- Tara Walton (Blythe Danner), looking out the back window of the RV and seeing her house explode.

Not quite what the OP had in mind, but Koyaanisqatsi is definitely a movie for stoners.

 

What am I thinking. One of my all-tim favs: FRIDAY.

 

No, a 1964 Impala. Think "Low Rider"

 

Let's not forget Altered States (1980). Director Ken Russell directed plenty of trippy flicks.

 

There's a good joint smoking scene in How to Make an American Quilt. Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Nelligan and Alfre Woodard.

 

The Holy Mountain OMG

 

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My hero! "You guys are supposed to be doctors, not a couple of college kids freaking out on Mexican mushroom!"

 

Can we count movies where the lead actors are stoned the whole time?

 

I love You Alice B Toklas was all about getting high.

 

I thought those Ralph Bakshi Tolkien movies were pretty trippy.


Hell, Yellow .... er, I said NOTHING!

 

Absolutely. Falls under the "intellectual stoner movies I saw in college" category. Also included:

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).
Clockwork Orange (1971). Heck, most every Kubrick movie has stoner elements.
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976).
Eraserhead (1977). This one damaged me.

 

Jan Svankmajer's Alice (1988)

 

Along with those gems, I'd include Terry Gilliam's Brazil.

 

Were they buzzing? Yes.

 

I love “Paul”, “Up in Smoke. There are films that aren’t stoner films per se but folks went to stoned like “2001”, etc.

 

“Let me explain something to you. Um, I am not Mr. Lebowski. You’re Mr. Lebowski. I’m the Dude. So that’s what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you’re not into the whole brevity thing.”

 

"This is The End"

 

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