Barfly: Barfly (film) - Wikipedia Comedy-drama? Don't know about the comedy part. Call it depressing... Some people really live like this.
Oh, they were raging alcoholics and did get up to all kinds of stuff in their 20s but they were strict anti drug anti pot people. It made for funny and ironic conversations when the topic came up. Up in Smoke was on their satellite feed and they watched it numerous times. I had more fun watching them laugh at it.
I forgot to say why I liked it: reminds me how much I have in life. Never want to go where Bukowski is.
I know it's not the same thing that you're talking about; still, it reminds me how often people use the phrase, "Alcohol and Drugs," which is really the same thing as saying, "Drugs and Drugs," as if alcohol isn't one of the biggest drugs there is (maybe the biggest drug, outside of sugar, caffeine, and nicotine?)
As someone who's never used any illegal drugs or marijuana, and all the alcoholic drinks that I've drunk in my life wouldn't fill up a single bucket... I would absolutely prefer to be a passenger in a car with someone stoned than with anyone who is drunk any quantity of alcohol.
I do recall seeing/hearing a few times in movies and music where 'stoned' meant 'drunk' on liquor. The 1976 country hit STRANGER by Johnny Duncan and Janie Fricke starts with these lines: Maybe she was smilin' in the mirror Maybe I was too, 'cause I was stoned
I recently watched HEAD again while super stoned and, in that state, it all makes perfect sense and seems like a normal movie. I’d always liked the film, but THC really clicked with the whole thing.
Yes, and before "drugs" were mainstream, a lot of them were legal in cough syrup etc, some people were mixing. The stoner badge sort of morphed with a wider culture.
The 1971 film "IF FOOTMEN TIRE YOU, WHAT WILL HORSES DO?" is, uh, something to behold. Those dirty Commies are coming to take over 'Murica! Director RON ORMOND collaborated with Rev. Eustis Pirkle to warn everyday Americans what a moral sewer our country is and, thus, is ripe for the pickings and a takeover by a Buncha Damned Heathen! It's only 52 minutes long, btw. BLOOD FREAK (1972) is another movie best watched mentally 'out there'. Terrible movie, but if you're in the right mood . . .
Is anyone familiar with the 1961 Canadian film The Mask? Perhaps best known for being the cover subject for the ReSearch book Incredibly Strange Films and released as part of Elvira's Midnight Madness collection, it has sequences filmed in 3D that are among the most effective I've seen. Basically it's about a guy who finds a strange mask and when he puts it on (there's this disembodied voice that urges "Put the Mask on now!" which is the cue for the audience to put on their 3D glasses) he sees all these surreal and disturbing images that slowly start to drive him murderously insane.
I chuckled a lot watching it. Recently watched Factotum with Matt Dillon playing Henry Chinaski. A different take. Apocalypse Now! and Dazed and Confused (Linklater's) are my two favorites.
