1. How High (starring Method Man and Redman): "How did I fail women's studies? I love bitches!"
2. Half Baked (starring Dave Chappelle): When I was 17 it was hysterical to watch Bob Saget talk about sucking dick for crack. Plus, have you ever watched Jon Stewart? Yeah, but have you ever watched Jon Stewart on weed, man?
3. Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle and/or Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay(starring Kal Penn and John Cho): 3 Words- Neil Patrick Harris.
4. 9 to 5 (starring Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton and Lily Tomlin): Remember when Violet's son gave her a "marijuana cigarette" for her birthday? Good stuff.
Honorable Mention- Pineapple Express (starring James Franco and Seth Rogen): James Franco is so cute. I just want to pinch his cheeks! But, overall, this movie is too violent to make my "Best of" list.
WORST
1. Puff, Puff, Pass (starring Danny Masterson and Mekhi Phifer): This movie contains a running joke about the movie "The Shawshank Redemption" that's kind of funny. But, at the end of the day, anal rape just isn't funny. Not one bit.
2. Bong Water (starring Luke Wilson and Brittany Murphy): the most boring, whiny stoner movie ever made.
Honorable Mention-Smiley Face (starring Anna Faris): I really like Anna Faris and this is a Gregg Araki film and I think he's OK. But the main character is flakey and irresponsible in a way that isn't cute or endearing at all and even a cameo by Jane Lynch didn't help me like this movie.
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I have been waiting to see this exact post on NTC, and I almost used Lydia's last post as an excuse to make a stupid "Franco was easily the best thing about Pineapple Express, hurf durf" comment.
I like your choices; personally though I'd switch PE and Smiley Face. The best stoner movies are essentially picaresques: They are serial, the heroes try to accomplish one simple goal, but are thwarted in several self-contained misadventures. There's a purity of goal and purpose (replace the pot cake; get to White Castle; find my car dude) that carries the whole movie through its shenanigans. Smiley Face I thought did this well, with the added bonus of sometimes sharp gender observations (like how all the dudes who try to help are only looking to sex her up) and the recognition that big stoners are not really that endearing.
Pineapple Express didn't even feel like a stoner comedy, but an action comedy that happened to be about weed. Plus with Apatow and Rogan at probably their least inclined to listed to feedback and their most indulgent, it kinda becomes a character study of unappealing characters (and one great character, Franco). I guess to me a stoner movie shouldn't be about a quest for self-knowledge, but about a quest for, like, donuts.
Also, 9 to 5, nice.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't remember liking the second Harold and Kumar. Or rather, I don't remember being entertained by it. Come to think of it, I don't actually remember watching any of these movies.
Abba zabba, you my only friend.
Well, this isn't Anna Shambleceno's list of Best and Worst Stoner movies. It's MINE. And, hello? Neil Patrick Harris on a unicorn? All the best movies have Neil Patrick Harris on a unicorn.
1. I need that NPH poster on my bedroom wall.
2. James Franco is dreamy. Remember when he was in Freaks & Geeks? He was so tough and sullen and stoned. But then, he made that omelet for MJ and proved he could also be sensitive!
3. I have not seen Pineapple Express, and for some reason I am full of apprehension about it. Maybe because I used to love Seth Rogen so much and I like him less with every movie I see him in (Freaks & Geeks > Undeclared > 40 Year Old Virgin > Superbad > Knocked Up. Surely this downward direction will continue through PE to Zack & Miri Make a Porno, which I have also not seen). And maybe because I have liked and defended David Gordon Green's early movies (both George Washington and All the Real Girls are small, relationshippy indy movies I should not like, but I do). I don't know what my point is. But I just looked up DGG and he's listed as "writer" on a remake of Suspiria that's supposed to come out in 2010. Dear Movie People: Please stop remaking everything! Love, Lydia.
I know I'm entering the fray late, but is that the actual poster of Harold and Kumar 2? If I'd seen that poster I'd have seen the movie.
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