Stoner Movies

Cannabis is smoked by people in all sorts and sizes with all their differences, but when it comes to visual entertainment they somehow always like the same stuff.

What should have seen every 420 minded person at least twice? Here are the ones you can’t miss!:

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Cheech and Chong

Year: 1978 - 1985, various movies
Director: Tommy Chong
Starring: Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong

Which part? All of them... Cheech and Chong are real cult figurs in 420-country.
Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong were a comedy duo who found a wide audience in the 1970s and 1980s for their stand-up routines, which were based upon the era's hippie, free love and especially drug culture movements. Cheech played a cholo from Los Angeles, while Chong was a burned-out "druggie" whose entire life revolved around getting high.

Reefer Madness

Year: 1936
Director: Louis Gasnier
Starring: Unknown actors

Reefer Madness is a 1936 drama film revolving around the tragic events that follow when high school students are lured by pushers to try "marihuana": a hit and run accident, manslaughter, suicide, rape, and descent into madness all ensue. It was financed by a church group and made under the title 'Tell Your Children'.

This one is definitely one of the classics. But has there really been somebody back then who actually believed in this unbelievable piece of crap propaganda?


Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Year: 1998
Director: Terry Gilliam
Starring: Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Tobey Maguire, Harry Dean Stanton, Gilliam regular Katherine Helmond, Flea, Cameron Diaz, Ellen Barkin, Christina Ricci, Gary Busey, Lyle Lovett

This movie is a wacky, drug-laden story backed by fist-pumping rock & roll soundtracks. Journalist Raoul Duke (Johnny Depp) heads to Las Vegas to cover a motorcycle race, bringing along his Samoan lawyer, Dr. Gonzo (Benicio Del Toro). It is 1971, and Duke and Gonzo are on their way to Sin City with a frightened hitchhiker and a trunkful of drugs, which they ingest nonstop. Depp is terrific as Duke, Thompson's alter ego, and Del Toro is a riot as the crazy lawyer. Director Terry Gilliam, a master of complex, bizarre visual imagery, has a field day interpreting the drug-hazed world in which Duke and Gonzo reside.

Scarface

Year: 1983
Director: Brian de Palma
Starring: Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia, Miriam Colon, F. Murray Abraham

The biggest gangstermovie of them all! A remake of the 1932 gangster film from Howard Hawks. A fictional Cuban refugee who comes to Florida in 1980 as a result of the Mariel Boatlift. Tony Montana becomes a gangster against the backdrop of the 1980s cocaine boom. The film chronicles his rise to the top of Miami's criminal underworld and subsequent downfall.

Scarface held the record for the movie containing the most uses of the word "Fuck". According to the "Platinum Edition" DVD, the word "Fuck" and its variants are uttered in the movie 223 times.

The Big Lebowski

Year: 1998
Director: Joel and Ethan Coen
Starring: John Goodman, Jeff Bridges, Steve Buscemi, David Huddleston, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman

This movie chronicles a few days in the life of an unemployed California slacker and recreational bowler (The Dude) after he is mistaken for a millionaire with the same name. The film, known for its characters, surreal dream sequences, dialogue, and eclectic soundtrack, has become a cult classic.


Reservoir Dogs

Year: 1992
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi, Michael Madsen, Quentin Tarantino

The debute of Quentin Tarantino! A gang of thieves carry out an armed robbery on a Diamond warehouse. The police are after them so quickly that they suspect they have a rat in their company. This film starts right after the robbery, with flashbacks to before the robbery, and to the planning of the crime. We are also introduced to the main characters in flashback mode. Plenty of fast action, and plenty of blood and gore.


Easy Rider

Year: 1969
Director: Dennis Hopper
Starring: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper

Easy Rider is the late 1960s "road film" tale of a search for freedom (or the illusion of freedom) in a conformist and corrupt America, in the midst of paranoia, bigotry and violence. The tone of this 'alternative' film is remarkably downbeat and bleak, reflecting the collapse of the idealistic 60s. Easy Rider, one of the first films of its kind, was a ritualistic experience and viewed (often repeatedly) by youthful audiences in the late 1960s as a reflection of their hopes of liberation and fears of the Establishment.

A Clockwork Orange

Year: 1971
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke, John Clive (II)

Based on Anthony Burgess's disturbing novel about England in the totalitarian future. The movie portrays Alex, a Beethoven-loving, head-bashing punk who leads his gang of "droogs" on ultra-violent assaults, until he is captured by authorities and subjected to nasty behavior-modification therapy.

One of the most horrific, but gripping films ever made. Kubrick injects enough sardonic humor and grisly menace to make a viewer go in five different directions by the film's end. Kubrick at its best.

Dazed and Confused

Year: 1993
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Jason London, Matthew McConaughey, Ben Affleck, Milla Jovovich, Rory Cochrane, Parker Posey, Cole Hauser, Joey Lauren Adams

The movie tells the stories of the last day of school in May 1976. The camera dips in and out of the lives of a bunch of high school seniors having a big bash. Good-natured football star Randall "Pink" Floyd navigates effortlessly between the warring worlds of jocks, stoners, wannabes, and rockers with girlfriend and new-freshman buddy in tow.

Dazed and Confused asks the eternal, overwhelming, adolescent question, "What happens next?" It’s an excellent film all around with a well written script by director Linklater, a superb cast and one of the finest compilations of classic rock ever. In recent years this movie has achieved a cult film status. Quentin Tarantino included it on his list of the twelve greatest films of all time.


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