Yet ALICE'S RESTAURANT doesn't have a happy ending. I like the movie, btw. But the ending is not a happy one.
I caught this movie one night somewhere in the middle and I was a bit stoned but it totally had me spellbound. I remember having the Research CD with that image on the cover and one day I just had to find out what the title of the movie was (it wasn't credited on the CD) and it took awhile but I finally figured it out.
People timed hallucinogenics to hit when it changed from b/w to color (with varying degrees of success).
I saw where a couple people mentioned Apocalypse Now. There is another Vietnam War movie that could be considered one too in Platoon. Half the platoon were stoners (lead by Willem Dafoe's character) and half were not stoners (led by Tom Berenger's character.) There was a scene in that movie that was very psychedelic when Charlie Sheen's character walks in the den/barracks of Dafoe's group in which they are all stoned out of their minds and Dafoe blows his pot smoke in the face of another to get him high. And of course, like Apocalypse Now, the music soundtrack helped with the setting of that scene....I can't remember what song for certain, but if I'm not mistaken, it was Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" that was playing during that scene.
Dazed and Confused , is the first movie that came to mind '' let's go smoke a joint on the 50 yard line'' what a great movie
Dafoe doesn't blow smoke in the guy's face. He blows the smoke down the length of a rifle barrel. But you're right about 'White Rabbit'. And later in the scene when they're all high as kites they sing along and dance to ' The Tracks Of My Tears'
Now, DRUNK MOVIES are a new category! Lol. BTW, I love both those film. You have to realize the whole thing is a game to Chinaski and he's head and shoulders above the rest in brains and he's there for the color and the stories. Of course, Bukowski doesn't pull the punches on how f*(*ked up Henry is, or how awful life is. But he's our faithful narrator who we trust as being our guru to the gutter.
I like More quite a bit and own it on blu-ray. I think it qualifies, although in the end, it's a big downer of a film. Barbet Schroeder's La Vallee is also quite dreamlike and has a stoner vibe about it.
Also, Tom Berenger's character walks in on the party, drunk on whiskey, and takes a token hit of the weed himself, to show all the stoners that he can handle their hippie drugs. Platoon isn't a stoner movie, per se. But it's the movie that tracks most accurately to the recollections I've heard from 11-Bravos and Marines who were there.
Good example of a movie that manages to capture the spirit of the book... Another good one is Gilliam's Fear and Loathing, which is also a good drug movie...
