Coffee Talk #420: What’s Your Favorite Stoner Movie?

Considering that I recently attended the premiere of A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas and it’s Coffee Talk #420, I thought that it would be a good time to discuss your favorite stoner movies. Since the the groundbreaking Cheech & Chong’s Up in Smoke…

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Considering that I recently attended the premiere of A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas and it’s Coffee Talk #420, I thought that it would be a good time to discuss your favorite stoner movies. Since the the groundbreaking Cheech & Chong’s Up in Smoke, the stoner genre has become a Hollywood moneymaker. Just look at movies like Dazed and Confused, Harold & Kumar, Half Baked, etc. Several characters found in Kevin Smith movies and most of the characters Seth Rogen plays owe a lot to the the stoner genre. It’s here to stay!

Out of all the stoner movies out there, what’s your favorite? Do you love the Cheech & Chong classics? Are you more of a Dazed and Confused guy? Are Jay & Silent Bob your role models? Were you floored by the 3D marijuana smoke in A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas? Kindly share your stoner movie picks in the comments section!

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32 thoughts on “Coffee Talk #420: What’s Your Favorite Stoner Movie?”

  1. My favorite stoner movie is Half Baked, that movie has so many great lines to quote plus Rachel True was a hottie when that came out. Cheech and Chong Up in Smoke was the first stoner movie I saw at age 8 it wasn't until much later when I got high when I really enjoyed it. Harold & Kumar was pretty fun too: the 3D one made it for the 2nd one.

  3. Not a fan of the stoner flicks. Not my lifestyle and as such the jokes kind of fly over my head. I like Harold and Kumar because the humor is disgusting haha.

      1. With me, I was into music at a very early age. I was the kid who was at the record store every day that every employee knew by name and they even knew where I lived and what my parents sounded like on the phone. Yes, I would actually get phone calls at record stores (Before cell phones and pagers).

        So, when I turned about 14, drugs made themselves available to me and I was curious to say the least. I wanted to try heroin mainly because Lou Reed did (not a good idea). I did, and found it wasn't for me.

        As for pot, it was always there. When I started playing in bands myself around the same time, it was everywhere and everyone I knew was doing it. I wouldn't buy it, but when it was around I definitely partook. But it was like… what ever.

        Once high school came around, I started selling it as a means of extra income. It became apparent to me very fast that there really isn't much money in selling weed. So I then only sold it to have some to smoke out girls with and made money by other means.

        Then I cut out all other drugs except pot (including alcohol) because I did some homework and found out the real differences. Cocaine is the one I have to set myself aside from and hopefully stay away from in case I fall into temptation. That shit can ruin me in no time. I like it way too much which is why I have to get physical with myself to not do coke.

        When I moved out to Cali… I quit smoking pot right before I came out… but after a few months, I saw that it was legal here (with a recommendation). I met a guy at one of my shows and we got along very well. A few months after that, he eventually told me that he ran a medicinal garden and dispensary. I was just like "that's cool" and just stayed friends. A month or so after that, I got laid off and it was right before Christmas. My friend offered me a job working with him so I took it.

        Within a year and a half, I became the Director of Operations because I nailed the job. It was during this time that I met all of you commenting on G4. So in a sense, I get to thank pot for getting me to all of you guys. I probably never would of ever commented on G4 if I never had that job at that desk.

        4 years of that, and my friend and boss screwed up and lost not only our capitol, but a huge crop at the same time. Also around the same time, I realized that I was now only smoking pot pretty much out of habit, so I wanted to stop. I left the industry and explored other (far more boring) ventures.

        2 years later (which ends up being earlier this year) I found that the industry was still calling me. Here we are in a recession, I'm sitting at home trying to act as much like a hermit as I can, and lucrative offers in this industry keep breaking down my door. That's the first sign for me. The second sign, was a very good friend of mine was living in a trailer with 3 kids and had a plan to get them into a house and could really use my help… that's when I caved, and got back in the industry.

        So I guess you could say I've been an activist for the past 6 years. Now… I'm afloat… but in a rough patch with the current Federal involvement. The community is shaken and divided. This is no way to fight a battle. It should blow over by January… but that sucks for me.

      3. Medicinal use… good question (although you really didn't ask).

        I wasn't even totally convinced until a year or so after working for my friend. I knew that someone going through chemo could use it to regain appetite and stuff like that, but that's all I saw.

        We had a delivery going to a guy who had no idea where he was. It's very hard to deliver to someone when they can't tell you where they are. He said "I'm up on Big Bear Lake. I don't know the name of the street, but it's on the south… west… north side of the lake".

        Well, I looked and couldn't find him. He called back later that night and had an address. I told him I'd see him in the morning.

        When I get there in the morning, I knock on the door, he says "Come In". It was a little one room bungalow right on the lake. This guy was in his bed sitting extremely still. Turns out, he had been fighting MS for 20 years. A sentence I wouldn't wish on anyone. The guy is still because he can't move. He lives in this one room bungalow so that he can get to the bathroom in under an hour.

        He asked me if I could help him medicate, so I stick around and hold his pipe for him while talking to him. He showed me his pills that the doctors give him. He pulled out a MASSIVE pill bottle with multiple medications in it including morphine, oxys, darvaset, and all kinds of other really nasty stuff. He said that the doctor told him "When it get's bad, take a handful and pray".

        After an hour or so, I had to go. As I was saying goodbye, he said "Yeah, thank you so much, I feel much better now. In Fact, I think I'm gonna take a swim".

        As I'm pulling out of the parking lot, I see him swimming in the lake behind his pad. Trust me, this dude was not faking and had no reason to. It was seriously a miraculous treatment I witnessed myself.

        As for a cold… can't help you… maybe Zycan. But for headaches, I know the strain where one hit will knock any headache you have out of you. My wife suffers from chronic migraines and the dotor gave her 3 different pills for them. I started buying this strain for her, and she threw the pills away. She uses about a gram ($20) every 3 weeks and has no headaches anymore.

        All of this is 100% true.

      4. Whoa. That's just… wow.

        You're one of those people that if they wrote a book about your life, nobody would believe it was true.

        By the way, you (and others like you- preferably lawyers) may want to look into the 10th amendment to help your case. In this vein, I think you would like to read the book "Nullification" by Tom Woods. I had the chance to meet the guy and he is just all levels of awesome. He's one of the most intelligent people I've ever met and has the creds to back it up. "Meltdown" is another book of his that I would recommend (but that's not really relevant to your present fight). Anyway, it's a fight you can win, but you just need the right people. The book will give you valuable ammunition.

        -M

      5. It's a fight we will win, just not in the next 10 years.

        It was up for legalization in the state last year and lost by a fairly slim portion (it wasn't a blowout, but it was a clear decision). That's because old world prohibitionists are dying every day and 18 year olds who were exposed to it every day they went to public school are registering to vote. The times they are a changin'.

        Think about it… the hippie generation has been in Congress for some time now. Then the 70's Generation… and now the Gen X'ers. I'm 32 and of the 90's/Cypress Hill generation. and I'm eligible for some offices. It's destined to change soon, just not right now.

        The reason I voted against legalization is because I think that it should only happen if all drugs are made legal and regulated. Because I started smoking pot in school. Mainly because it was so much easier to get than beer. The dude 2 lockers down had weed and I had to jump through hoops for alcohol so pot one. If pot is made legal, I'd assume it would be as hard for kids to get as alcohol was for me. I fear what would replace pot in schools.

        This is the important part: Kids shouldn't do drugs for any reason. It's not worth it in the long run, I speak from experience. But if they are going to misbehave which is next to inevitable, I'd much rather my kids do pot than anything else. Which is why I think everything should be available legally only regulated to stamp out the black market… like Portugal had enormous success doing.

        Prohibition didn't work for alcohol because more people were dying due to it being illegal. Since there have been far less direct deaths from cannabis (0 overdoses and stomach pumps)… it's pretty fair to say cannabis should be legal for the same constitutional reasons.

  4. I liked Half Baked, but the couple Cheech and Chong movies I've seen were funny too. Dazed and Confused is a good movie too, but I do think that Harold and Kumar go to White Castle is one of my favorites. The over the top everything is what makes it great. That and I love White Castle.

  5. I liked How High alot. There's also The Beach.

    Out of all the stoner movies I can think of, I have to say Revenge of the Nerds. Booger (Curtis Armstrong) blazes out that whole party with tampon looking joints. Does that count?

    If not, I'll go with Chasing Amy.

  6. Pineapple Express comes to mind. I don't think Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is a stoner movie as much as a Hollywood satire movie, but if it is, then that's one of my favorites, too. Out of the two Harold and Kumar movies that I've seen, the first one had it's moments, but the second one sucked.

    Any chance we can get a not-a-review of Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, Mr. Padilla?

    Happy birthday, Bsukenyan.

    -M

  7. I might have to do that. It might be saved til closer to Christmas as a holiday movie though, I'm not sure yet.

  10. I love the classics such as Cheech and Chong, Dazed and Confused, and Half Baked. Out of the newer stuff like Pineapple Express, Your Highness, and Harold and Kumar I think the H&K series are by far the best stoner movies ever.

    I like that H&K aren't one dimensional, with each film they take on new challenges and responsibilities that come along with growing up and most stoner movies aren't like that. Nor can they be because none of them are good enough to produce a true sequel.

    The smoke in 3D was sick!

    1. Chech and Chong didn't do "true" sequels because at the time, sequels were generally looked down on. But they pretty much did do true sequels save for one or 2.

      There is a movie called Totally Baked, but I haven't seen it. It doesn't have Dave Chappelle, but they probably couldn't afford him.

      I haven't seen the Christmas H&K, but I didn't like the second one and I feel confident I won't like the third. I wish they would have done the original script idea instead. It was supposed to be "Harold and Kumar and the Legeng of Eazy E's Stash"… but getting the right's to Eazy's estate was more than they asked for, so we got a Christmas movie .

  11. @ray

    do you have any updates at all on skyrim?

    some of us are desperate for details here!!

    1. Let's see…the party was fun, but I liked the setup of the Rage party much better. John Cho is a bad dancer. The "exclusive" after party was a bit smelly. Jane's Addiction put on a good show. Perry Farrell and Dave Navarro look the same as they did 10 years ago…and I'm pretty sure it's because of heroin.

      Also, the Skyrim embargo lifts tomorrow.

      1. Yeah, I kinda feel the same way. I've never been a big DC guy though. I recently started reading some of the Bat-books through comiXology since the DC reboot, and that's one of the ones I've been reading.

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