Best of Cannabis Culture ~ Films
A lot of people who use medical marijuana say they enjoy it's psychoactive effects. Along with alleviating pain, increasing one's appetite, and calming anxiety, marijuana can result in changes in perception, mood, and consciousness. Because of this, one of the activities most loved by marijuana patients is to watch films. Thus, we have compiled a list of films medical marijuana patients may enjoy watching after smoking or ingesting their medicine.
Many medical marijuana activists criticize the negative stereotypes in some of these films, Cheech & Chong, and Half-Baked being prime examples. However, we included them in the list because of their comedic value, and it is our sincere hope that people break away from these negative stereotypes in order to see marijuana for it's phenomenal medicinal value.
Comedies
The Big Lebowski
Dazed & Confused
Pineapple Express
Half-Baked
Monty Python Films
Cheech & Chong Films
Super Troopers
Anchorman
Airplane!
Back to the Future
Thought-Provoking/Dramas
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
Contact
A Clockwork Orange
Donnie Darko
Waking Life
I Heart Huckabees
2001: A Space Odyssey
Pulp Fiction
Dark City
Memento
The Fifth Element
Magnolia
The Matrix
Requiem for a Dream
El Laberinto del Fauno (Pan's Labyrinth)
Sin City
Avatar
District 9
V for Vendetta
Twelve Monkeys
The Truman Show
Animations & Children's Films
The Wizard of Oz
Wall-E
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
The Lion King
Alice in Wonderland
Nightmare Before Christmas
Yellow Submarine
La Planète Sauvage (Fantastic Planet)
Finding Nemo
If there are any you would like to add to the list, please feel free to leave them in the comments!
Try Antichrist...warning, it really if an "off" film, kind of clockwork orange-ish, but with some nice purps, it's a really intense movie. Also, The squid and the whale, The Darjeeling Limited, Rushmore, Life Aquatic, I heart Huckabees, What's eating Gilbert Grape (so sorry everyone, but this is totally my favorite comedy of all time) yeah yeah, it's a drama, but it isn't...and anyone that watches it like a drama should just stop.
Mirror Mask (jim henson company)
the wall (pink floyd)
Lost Highway (david lynch)
Stealth (blew me away)
SEE SUBJECT
Don't know how we missed that one...
Man From Earth - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756683/
The Gods Must be Crazy.
Add Heavy Metal!
I definitely think The Hobbit should be added to animation/childrens' movies, it's absolutely incredible.
For Animation, you must include The Dark Crystal, Jim Henson's dark and superbly visual story of the struggle between good and evil in a mythical world of Gelfling's & Skekses, entirely done with puppets....
Please don't forget Wallace and Gromit's "Curse of the Wererabbit"
We really appreciate all the suggestions, everyone! We haven't seen a lot of the movies you've talked about here, but we will definitely add them to our list..
-The BMM Team
Cannibal! The Musical. It's Trey Parker's (of South Park fame) senior project when he was a student at CU. It's a musical about the first man in America ever convicted of cannibalism, Alfred Packer. He wrote, produced, directed, and starred in it. Matt Stone (co-creator of South Park) also has a major supporting role in the film as do a few other people you may recognize from other movies the two have done.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think he failed college and had to drop out because he spent all of his time and money making the movie.
Do NOT watch it unless green is on hand and on board first, it's not even remotely the same movie otherwise. My ribs and face hurt for literally days afterward from the laughter.
Filmed in Colorado, about Colorado history, by the creators of South Park, and titled Cannibal! The Musical. How could it possibly be anything but awesome? Let me tell you, it can't.
I think a "graphics/aesthetics" category definitely needs to be added. I watch movies while on THC for their visually stimulating value. Avatar, Pan's Labyrinth, Inception, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, are a few films that I believe should fall under this category.
Furthermore, I recommend Pi (Darren Arnofsky) be added to the "Thought-provoking" category, and Fantasia (the original) be added to the Animations & Children's Films category.
ferngully, i love that movie, my hippie art teacher used to let us watch it in high school.
I'm glad you put avatar on there. As a stoner it did connect with me. It showed how I don't want to be a part of modernization. And in 3D everything felt so real.
You simply must check out Yellow Submarine.
I really like watching Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs because what's better than being stoned and having food fall from the sky?
ADD BLOW TO THIS LIST! I watched it yesterday (high as hell).... AMAZING!
i like watching them without pot too. but doesnt marijuana just make it a million times greater? i think so
Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical.
THOUGHT PROVOKING/DRAMA
The Prestige
Shawshank Redemption
Taxi Driver
The Sixth Sense
Inside Man
JACOB'S LADDER
K-Pax
Fight Club
Se7en
Zodiac
American Beauty
Almost Famous
Field of Dreams
The Usual Suspects
JACOB'S LADDER
Dead Poets Society
Leon
Reservoir Dogs
Big Fish
Unbreakable
ANIMATED
Princess Mononoke
Spirited Away
Comedy:
Balls Out Gary Houseman Story, How High, The Stoned Age, Worlds Greatest Dad, Bongwater, Extract, The Goods, Kentucky Fried Movie, Teenagers From Uranus, Visioneers
Thought Provoking:
Blueberry, Southland Tales, Harsh Times, Blade Runner, A Serious Man, Trainspotting, El Topo, Masked & Anonymous, Schizopolis, The Fountain, Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Time Crimes
Animation:
Akira & The Dark Crystal
spirited out will trip you out for sure...
spirited away will trip you out for sure
fight club, american beauty, secret window & trainspottinh
The Ani-matrix, some of it is trippy as hell
That film takes on amazing dimensions when stoned.
A great film to watch is "Spirited Away." Its a Naruto i think, im not sure about the grouping of those films, but it is truly a mind f**k.
I thought the movie the fountain was a great thought provoking drama when i was blazed.
Being John Malkovich, and popular anime like Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle are a few that come to mind :)
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. This is an excellent movie too, but it was way under-publicized.
Dogville, The Hours, and Koyaanisqatsi
How can a scanner darkly not be on this list? the storyline is incredibly deep and thought provoking by itself, not to mention a star studded cast. Then take into consideration the way the film is made....rotoscoping full on the whole film. The animation is incredibly fresh and just amazing and will really blow your mind.
naked lunch is another good movie
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is not thought provoking. It's meaningless drug use and violence.
Speed Racer (The movie, not the series) is the shittt for all you marijuana patients.
I had to watch a clock work orange for my psychology class, and seriously you have to be medicated to watch it!! Before I smoked I couldnt even understand what they were saying they were talking so fast and so confusing. But after a bowl it seemed to slow to a normal pace and I could understand and actually get into it.. kinda. Lol!
To me, the greatest animations to watch stoned (and sober) are the works of Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli. This includes Spirited Away (2001), Howl's Moving Castle (2004), Princess Mononoke (1997) as well as older ones such as Porco Rosso or Laputa: Castle in the Sky. I prefer subbed but while stoned the dubbed versions are just fine. Way better than anything disney has EVER produced. (Pixar is NOT disney).
Peace X
smiley face lmao! and grindhouse. watched that movie, ate my own damn hat.
Coraline- animation film
SPACE JAM
quarantine is one of my fav movies to watched blazed as shit
try and find somethin call the princess and the tiger short film crazy as fuck
James and the Giant Peach is one of my top favorites
I really enjoyed going through this list, as a lot of these films have had a big impact on me in one way or another. I knew it was going to be good when the first on the list was "The Big Lebowski."
I had a couple of personal disagreements. First, Pan's Labyrinth. The first time I saw this film, I was higher than I had been in a VERY long time (I just got out of the military), and I had no idea what that movie was going to be like. So yeah, when the farmer got his face beaten in by the general guy, I was a little shocked. From then on, I dislike the film. Sat through it a couple times since then, still don't like it.
Second, Wall-E. Yeah, it's cute. Yeah, it's got a message, a lot of which is true today. But I become very critical to movies, books, TV, music, etc. when I'm high, and I don't tolerate shoddy work very well. My problem, outside of it being the typical formulaic Disney film (which I have no problem looking past, no matter mt state of mind), is that it lays it on SOOO THICK. Yeah, we're f*ckin' sh*t up. Yeah, we're f*ckin lazy asses. But come ON! REALLY?!? Prolly just me.
But, as Walter would say, "F*ck it Dude, let's go bowling."
i will forever remember watching wall-E while high, i had only been smoking for like..3 months at the time...and i have never laughed so hard in my life, its an awesome memory, even if it was with my asshole ex. ^_^
i will forever remember watching wall-E while high, i had only been smoking for like..3 months at the time...and i have never laughed so hard in my life, its an awesome memory, even if it was with my asshole ex. ^_^
probably my favorite movie to watch when i'm lifted is A Scanner Darkly. Its portrayal of a not-so-distant future and its views of drug use are thought provoking, and not to mention the entire movie is visually AMAZING!
Spirited Away
That will blow your mind.
Another good existential movie other than Waking Life is What the Bleep Do We Know. Its all about quantum mechanics which is really hard to follow unless you are good a math. But once under the influence of wacky-tobaccy, it all makes sense in a super cool way.