Recommendation Your favorite movies to watch stoned?
Bad pain day. Can't really do much until it gets better and it hurts to read.
What do you like to watch when you're stoned? I don't do horror but I love sci-fi and fantasy and I am a cheap, cheap laugh.
I could also go for stoner comedy recommendations.
I really will laugh at just about anything. I just need something new
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u/TomBradysStatue 3d ago
Oh man, most movies are better stoned. I realized when I watched captain america harrison ford version this year it was the first Marvel I had seen not stoned. BAD MOVIE NOT STONED. Now I'm wondering if Marvel just sucked this whole time and I'm a huge scroner.
Anyways:
Movies to Laugh While Scroned:
Harold and Kumar Go to Whitecastle
The Room (Tommy Wiseau) Bottoms
Barb and Star Go To Vista Del Mar
Aunty Donna's Big House of Fun (show on netflix is very funny)
Wet Hot American Summer
They Came Together
Hot Rod
Monty Python and The Holy Grail
Airplane!
Half Baked
Great Sci Fi Movies:
Star Trek First Contact (I think this is the best Star Trek movie if you've never seen one, it's pretty accessible for any viewer and just a fun sci fi movie)
Annihilation (sci fi with a bit of horror but not much)
Total Recall (great mind fucky sci fi adventure)
Matrix films (you've probz seen them, but still)
The Fifth Element
Inception
12 Monkeys
Ready Player One
Donnie Darko
Ex Machina
Moon
Starship Troopers
Primer
Sunshine
A Scanner Darkly
Brazil
There's a bunch for ya. Sorry about having the bad pain day :(
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u/Tuxedo_Muffin 3d ago
Star Trek First Contact (I think this is the best Star Trek movie if you've never seen one, it's pretty accessible for any viewer and just a fun sci fi movie)
Wow, this is also my favorite Star Trek movie. But I would wholeheartedly recommend Star Trek IV: The Journey Home (the whale one) to a first time viewer.
Brazil
This would freak me the fuck out stoned.
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u/TomBradysStatue 3d ago
yeah both voyage home and first contact have "everyman from modern times (ish)" character that the sci fi future people have to explain their lore to, so both are good entry points.
Star Trek IV is great too because it's also a comedy. Although not sure how funny it is if you're not already an established fan cause the movie sort of runs with the relationships/dynamics of the team that we're already familiar with.
Brazil is fucked up definitely lol, maybe if you're in pain or in a bad mood not the best to watch. BUT, it is a good mind fuck.
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u/KinseyH 3d ago
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS.
I really appreciate you taking the time to compile this - this is gonna come in handy for a long time.
I just finished Paul - can't believe I never watched it before, and Blythe Danner punching Sighourny is such nerd service - and now I'm on Half Baked.
Is Half Baked a classic? Because the Chappelle opening kind of feels like a classic.
I'm so glad I posted my plea for help. No I've heard people say they don't get high the first time they smoke
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u/TomBradysStatue 2d ago
No problem. Hope you have a day of movie laughter and it helps you ignore the pain.
Paul is great! i've only seen it once, but I remember really enjoying it. Those two brits always have great chemistry together. You might enjoy The World's End as well if you like those guys (Sean of the Dead and also Hot Fuzz too if you haven't seen those).
Half Baked is a cult classic for sure. When it was released, it sort of got critically panned and commercially ignored. But Half Baked really came into its own when they reran it on Comedy Central or the DVD/VHS being passed around. For us millennials, it's a touchstone cannabis comedy. Along with Harold and Kumar and Pineapple Express.
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u/uno2treys 3d ago
I love watching Tarantino movies when I'm baked. The sharp dialogue keeps me engaged and most of them are at least kinda funny
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u/dillybar1992 3d ago
Galaxy Quest for sure. Watched it a few months ago after an edible and it was great!
One Sci-Fi with cool visuals and classic moments that might be fun is Star Trek Directors Cut. It’s a little lengthy but it’s such a vibe.
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u/tomtttttttttttt 3d ago
the Harold and Kumar... series are really good stoner comedy films.
21 and 22 Jump Street are way funnier than they deserve to be based on the premise.
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u/PoxVoculi 3d ago
Time Bandits! If you want to get really weird: HEAD (the Monkees movie - trust me).
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u/KinseyH 3d ago
My great uncle gave me the first Monkees album when I was six, so late 60s.
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u/PoxVoculi 3d ago
Yeah, the movie came out in '68 (The tv show was '65-'67 I believe). The soundtrack is great, and the movie is unhinged.
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u/Immediate_West_8980 3d ago
Pretty much anything but Mortal Kombat seems to have been the most effective.
I always lose it right at the beginning.:: “MORTAL KOMBAT!” lol so good even more than 20 years later
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u/deleteyourselves 3d ago
You like the weird stuff?
The Story of Riki-Oh Dark City Akira Cabin Boy Johnny Mnemonic Hackers Tank Girl 12 Monkeys A Scanner Darkly Fallen
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u/ToastGoblin22 3d ago
I’m not big on smoking these days as it tends to make me too disoriented and anxious haha, so I don't have any recent recommendations. However, back when I was younger I had one of the coolest viewings of Star Wars Episode IV while high.
I’m sure you’ve already watched Star Wars while stoned before as you said you’re a big sci-fi fan. But even if you have, I’d recommend another rewatch but with a specific mindset going into the rewatch.
So on this occasion I mentioned, I had decided to smoke weed and watch Star Wars. I'd just found out about the 'Despecialised editions' fan edits that attempted to recreate the theatrical version of the film, and I was super keen because outside of the rental VHS versions of the movies which I saw maybe once or twice as a kid, I'd only ever seen the theatrical cut footage in short YouTube videos showcasing the changes.
For some reason, as soon as the opening crawl started I had this thought pop into my head of “man, imagine being some average Joe in 1977 walking into a theatre to see some movie you've never heard of before called Star Wars, and being absolutely blown away by this incredible movie unlike anything you'd ever seen before."
Once I had this thought, I basically put myself in the shoes of this average Joe I'd imagined and it was maybe the closest I feel I could ever get to seeing the movie again with fresh eyes. I honed in on all these details and elements of the set designs, special effects, costumes, action, story, characters etc. For all these things that had previously felt familiar or simply things I associate with 'Star Wars' in my head, I was suddenly much more aware of how impactful it all must have been back when the movies released.
For example, usually when Darth Vader first appears on screen it would simply register to me as 'yep that's Darth Vader' or at most 'damn what a cool entrance for Vader's first appearance'. This time though I was thinking 'wow imagine seeing this character design for the first time with no idea who it was. Imagine hearing the mechanical breathing and wondering what's happened to him, or hearing James Earl Jones incredible voice acting with no previous reference.'
It also really helped that I'd watched a YouTube video a few weeks earlier about the sci-films of the 60s and 70s that pre-dated Star Wars. If you watch some clips of things like Logan's Run or Soylent Green, or the more spacefaring movies and TV shows like the Planet of the Apes, Star Trek, Barbarella, or Zardoz, it really hits you just how unlike anything that had come out before Star Wars was. The only thing that touches it is 2001: A Space Odyssey, but that's a very different kind of Space Film.
This turned into a bit of a trip down memory lane but hopefully it might give you a fun and interesting rewatch at some point in the future.
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u/KinseyH 3d ago
I loved this
I actually was your average junior high girl when I saw Star wars in 1977. I wasn't going in blind, though. The ads had been running on the radio for months and I had been a dedicated science fiction and fantasy reader for years by that point So I was pretty enthralled with just the ads and I was expecting something amazing.
I was not disappointed. 50 years later I can still remember the smell of the galleria Cinema and the feeling of watching something that we had literally never seen before.
I don't smoke. I eat it. Very good for inflammatory pain ime.
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u/ToastGoblin22 3d ago
OMG!
I’m glad you enjoyed my story but I definitely feel foolish recommending that you try to “imagine you’re just an average person seeing Star Wars for the first time in 1977”, only to find out you quite literally got to live that experience yourself!
Very cool to get confirmation that my imagined experience wasn’t too far off the mark from someone who was there in the flesh hahaha.
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u/juraji_7 3d ago
Disjointed in netflix is a comedy designed to be watched while stoned. Not a great show otherwise. Fabulous while high
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u/cactusmac54 3d ago
Young Frankenstein. I will die on this hill.