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Funny Movie But It Has Serious Issues

posted 18 years ago by Rayvyn
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I liked the movie but it has some major problems.

Note to the director or producer, we get it. You like the song "Don't Fear The
Reaper". Yea it's a cool song for the first ten times we hear it in the movie. I was in high school at the time and I don't rememher anyone playing that music much. We were just getting into the Rap craze, the white kid stoners were listening to Black Sabbath, Jemi Hendrix and Metal Bands.

Ths kids in this movie act more like college kids than high school kids. Very few people in my school got stoned all the time. The ones that did were made fun of. The vast majority of kids were into video games, cartoons and comic books.

One thing that kinda pisses me off about this movie. The kids in this movie stay stoned and drunk and chase women. Those are the kids that are causing all the problems these days. They're the ones haning on street corners selling dope and acting stupid. Thank goodness there never really was a stoned age.

Rayvyn

[–] JR541 18 years ago

I grew up on Long Island and graduated High School in 1980. There were many stoners and heard Don't Fear The Reaper many times back then.

He's taking the knife out of the Cheese!
Do you think he wants some cheese?

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[–] dibbs22 18 years ago

Why are you reviewing this movie for a second time?

I saw that you also wrote a post about this movie back in 2002. WE GET IT! YOU DON'T LIKE STONERS! YOU DON'T LIKE GUYS CRUISING FOR CHICKS! YOU DON'T LIKE THE SONG "Fear The Reaper"!

Leave this movie alone!!!

[–] objectcode 18 years ago

"Yea it's a cool song for the first ten times we hear it in the movie"

too bad it was only played like 3 times, and the first time he had to turn it off

[–] dlriz 17 years ago

Video games did not exist in the early seventies. So no you werent in high scool at this time. so quit lying about it. the only video game that existed back then was pong. Neither were metal bands, they came out around 82 with the NWBHM that is the new wave of british heavy metal. the music was HARD ROCK or ACID ROCK in the early seventies.

[–] lincolnhawkott 17 years ago

Yeah, but this movie takes place in the (very) early 80s.

[–] shabdo 8 years ago

I would say '79.

[–] niplips 17 years ago

DUDE.. YOU THINK METAL BANDS WEREN'T AROUND IN THE 70'S??? BLACK SABBATH'S "BLACK SABBATH" ALBUM WAS RELEASED FRIDAY THE 13TH OF FEBRUARY 1970. PARANOID CAME A FEW MONTHS LATER. AND NO, THEY DIDN'T REFER TO THEMSELVES AS HARD ROCK OR ACID ROCK. IT WAS HEAVY METAL. I KNOW. I WAS DEE-JAYING THEN. SABBATH, LED ZEPPELIN, DEEP PURPLE - ALL WERE REFERRED TO AS HEAVY METAL IN 70 & 71, A TERM BORROWED FROM STEPPENWOLF'S "BORN TO BE WILD" (HEAVY METAL THUNDER).

[–] UrukTheRed 15 years ago

There were plenty of metal bands and hard rock bands that people referred to as metal bands. Besides, this was supposed to have happened during the NWOBHM, and there were a few insider teenagers who knew about the movement. By this time, young rock/metal fans were using the term "metal" - there was already Sabbath, Pentagram/Macabre from Virginia, Deep Purple/Rainbow, Judas Priest, Scorpions, Budgie, Montrose... S***, UFO had just done "Lights Out"!

Though I would like to point out the fact that BOC'S "Burnin' For You" was released in 1981 and was used in this film which was set in around 1978. And the other guy has it wrong, though Sabbath were metal, they considered themselves a hard rock band, not a metal band. That term was alien to them for a while. Personally, I just think they were being modest, just like Metallica were 13 years later saying "we're not a thrash band".

[–] Puritan77 17 years ago

Rayvyn, your ignorance intrigues me. First off, that song was only played one time all the ay through, and 1 other time partly through, which tells me that you've watched it more than once. I think you have serious issues, if you watch it that much man, just admit you like it. Just because you were an outcast in high school or "un-cool" doesn't give you the right to make such a feeble attempt to knock a movie that, deep down, you love.

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[–] Dankhank-1 17 years ago

Did I miss something?

I don't remember ANY smokin' save the "skank" on the 'beer-can cannabis delivery device,' and of course the inevitable nicotine.

This movie shoulda been called "The Drunk Age."

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[–] pmdawn 16 years ago

I agree. Joe is the only true stoner in the movie. Everyone else passes on the 'skank weed' but he ain't wasting it.

[–] Lokirth 17 years ago

Man...

I'm in high school now and I'm one of those guys that's always smoking or drinking and chasing women.

Don't say it didn't happen, because it sure as hell is happening now, and my dad's told me some pretty crazy stories of growing up in the seventies, so I know stuff like that went on back then.

I mean, come on.

And I don't get made fun of for being a pothead.

So your logic is either flawed, or you grew up in a really lame town.

There was TOTALLY a Stoned Age.

[–] rf926 17 years ago

u musta been in h.s in the early 80's, cuz in the mid 70's no one made fun of stoners, we made fun of u if ya didnt get high, plus there was no, NO rap in the 70's (least not on the radio, it was still disco destruction) there was a period right after disco where music was in a limbo, not quite rock, punk was still just gettin to the u.s., rap was being born, etc

[–] nsanestoryteller 17 years ago

Um, the movie takes place in the 70's.

In fact, if you listen to the DVD commentary it is mentioned that the creators intended it to be around 1978 or so I believe.

And citing personal experience is never a reason to discredit a movie's basis of reality. The movie is a satire of stoners. I laugh when I hear "my experience with ____ wasn't like that.

I have an aunt, she doesn't act like the aunt in this movie. I had a bike growing up, it wasn't stolen off the street corner. I never met someone who used Heroin, it doesn't exist!

I knew a lot of people who acted this way at 16/17... but regardless the movie isn't meant to be realistic... it's a comedy...

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[–] shabdo 15 years ago

I would say it took place in '79,
because the Dukes of Hazzard (which premiered in January of '79) is mentioned.