Resurrecting this thread for that new, new stoner film. The classics have been covered, if you were to get high, which current movies hit all the right spots. I may have taken something and given these three a whirl, here is how they fared.
Mickey 17-(Hbomax)
Went into this movie blind, it's sci-fi and has that former vampire guy as the lead and is directed by the kat that directed "Parasite". Recipe for weirdness, sure. But, I had no idea.
It's set twenty plus years in the future so has the "Children of Men" almost too close to reality feel, which works. Mickey and his friend make some bad money decisions and are trying to escape a sadistic mob boss, that money is no longer the principal, torture is the payment/pleasure and the boss takes liberties. So they jump on the first spaceship that will have them, the catch is Mickey becomes an "expendables class", your job is to die, so science can advance even further. In essence they have the tech to reproduce you after you die but, the science was too advanced for the planet, ethically, so "expendables" only can exist in space. I can see why this movie was so hard to market, because it's a lot. Like there is no 30 second trailer to convey what is happening in this movie, it was, wow!
Then, when they get to space, things get weirder, and I am here for it. Aliens, betrayal, genetic cleansing of "indigenous beings", cruel indifference, love, hard drugs and a(i sh*t you not) red hatted cult-which also worked (no trigger warnings). It had me guessing the whole time(well high me anyway), visually it's got that dark Blade Runner aesthetic and I cannot believe how much I liked it.
May watch again, not high, just to confirm what I saw the first time.
A Complete Unknown (hulu)
Bob Dylan biopic. Upside: Tons of songs. Downside: If you don't know his history, the events lack significance. Basically a guy with two girlfriends, uses them both to advance his career. One woman is a folk singer, having her moment and the other is a recent college grad plugged into the counterculture scene.
The movie is visually interesting and has more songs than a musical and at a certain point, it's just Chalamet doing a funny voice while you wait for him to play "Leopard-skin pill-box hat", "Tangled up in Blue" or "Wagon Wheel". Not sure if any of those songs were played because I kind of got lost in my head about, is Chalamet attractive(?) because I'm kind of not seeing it, then that thought circled for a while then mercifully collapsed in on itself. Drugs? Whatcha gonna do?
The Dark Knight- (hbomax)
Holy gawd. Had no idea drugs could make comic book movies this freaking awesome. Everything worked. Jesus.
A man with severe mental health issues gets fixated on a "nice guy" and ethically taunts him with toxic destructive results.
Do other people know about this? Is this why comic book movies are the only movies that make money? Dude, I get it. Whoa.
I hate myself, so, so much right now.