when you get past people either whining about or praising the animation, the people who liked or disliked the movie are usually divided neatly between people who have been around junkies and those who haven't.
shareso which way around is it?
i didnt like it and i havnt been around junkies. does this work with your theory?
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's what he meant. I've been around my share of them and I liked the movie. It was pretty powerful.
But then again............Who knows what he meant..............
who knows.
Ive been around more junkies than anyone could even want to fathom, i appreciated the animation and story, but didnt enjoy it that much and thought it could have had way more potential. Plus the animation gave me a headache.
For the effort and what i did enjoy about it i gave it a 6 out of 10
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I liked it. Haven't been around junkies, never done drugs, don't even drink.
shareI've never been around junkies and thought it was terrific.
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Not necessarily. I've never met a junky in my life, and I love the movie and the book.
shareI've got a dick shin.
Depends on what you mean by "junkie". I've been around stoners, occasional coke and ecstasy users but nothing harder than that.. loved the movie though, not for drug content but for the social themes it satires.
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Loved the movie, the animation worked in this setting, and the side characters* were fascinating and quirky and somehow more real[istic] than the majority of secondary characters in countless other "serious" films.
And I'm a 39 year old male, never once toked up or anything.
OP's theory: BUSTED.
*Ernie played by WoodyH: http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0012046/quotes
James played by RDjr: http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0012044/quotes
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Darren Dirt.
Thats true about almost every drug-related movie. nothing new.
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I thought it was good, not great. An interesting plot that sometimes lacked focus though came together reasonably satisfactorily in the end. 7/10.
As a teen and in my earlier 20's I did a fair amount of drugs and many of my former friends are now full blown addicts and total losers. Where do I fit into your black & white world?
Formerly AD655321 I'm just a bloody normal bloke, a normal bloke who likes a bit of torture.
That was one of the most boring movies I've ever seen in my life.
shareSome people answering this post really don't get the point of the post? I reckon they do but they don't want to admit it.
The point is that people who take drugs regularly enter an alternative world where they mostly live in a world apart from non drugs people.
If people who take drugs really don't recognise themselves as the people in this film then they must be really out of it.
I have taken drugs in the past and know people who have taken drugs seriously for years and I love the book and the film.
I would like to win the lottery and give copies of the book to everybody in Britain,it is a savage satire of the so cool druggies who are actually losers.
I am sure people appreciate your good intentions, but, for people who never took drugs, this book will be very boring. And those who do take drugs, will they ever be sober enough to read a book?
shareI know what you mean,in any case lots of people never read books,but I expect you get my point,the book is a satire of the drugs sub culture.
shareaareal, you seem like an ignorant, naïve fool. How could you not enjoy those performances? It was so funny yet so moving. Frankly, if you couldn't enjoy the film, I imagine you have an IQ under 90 and more then likely, you have a stick up your butt.
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And those who do take drugs, will they ever be sober enough to read a book?
There is none. A drug user is either a deluded drug abuser or a deluded beginner drug abuser.
shareA drug user is either a deluded drug abuser or a deluded beginner drug abuser.
There is no thing as a moderation in using drugs, because every drug you use interfers with your ability to function. And what does wine have to do with it? Or me being on these boards? Or did you hint that I must ask your permission to be here? People come here to discuss movies, not to wonder what I drink or why I am on these boards. To condecend and answer your question - it's NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS.
You are obviously using drugs yourself, and are trying to speak for other durg users, pretending to be "defending" them in general. Go get some help, because, judging by your reply, drugs already interfered with your ability to think and function.
Wow, what a frustrated little virgin you must be.
I've smoked weed quite heavily and stopped suddenly without any repercussions whatsoever, am I an addict too? Tell me Dr. Phil, please guide me through life!
The man very clearly said "you know alcohol is a drug too, right?" and you still have no clue what he was talking about with <the wine>. So have you or have you not used ANY drugs that interfered with your ability to function? Please get off your high horse and down to earth where the normal people live, and just comment the damn film...don't moralize people without seeing the beam in your own eye.
kthxbye.
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No, those traits are just due to my star sign. You on the other hand are a self-righteous narrow-minded little troll, I'd wager hardcore christian as well, that can't stand being proven wrong. So you jump to insults when that happens. I'm surprised you haven't pulled the god card yet.
Now go watch Reefer Madness, it's right up your alley.
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Oh, someone disliked Christian, and so assume that everyone who did not like his druggie self is a "self-righteous Christian". There are many people who would point out to you that your brain is damaged irreprovably by being a gruggo, and all that without being any Christians. Why, they might be zoroastrians, or agnostics, of buddists.
shareI've read all of your replies and here's some food for thought. There are college professors, doctors, scientists, writers, musicians (you get the point) that are probably a trillion times smarter than you that smoke pot... according to your theory, their brains are damaged?! What does that make your puny brain?
shareYou seem to know a lot about my brain. Where did you get this info? From smoking pot?
shareI just felt it necessary to be an extra person telling you that if there was one person who could be called deluded it would be you.
YOU need to know that when a bunch of complete strangers tell you the same thing, there must be some truth in what they are saying.
You can deny it all you like but that would put you in denial. I am aware that this may seem hypocritical but my argument is instantiated and yours is completely unfounded. Putting a clear difference between my argument and yours. You are the only one spurting off such nonsense. take a deep breath and think about that for a moment.
You drink alcohol, correct? Have had at least one drink in your entire life? by your logic you are an alcoholic and abuser. If this is an inaccurate statement, please explain!
Also before you "try" and use foreign words check their spelling. delusions of grandeur from the French root word "grand" meaning big and "grandeur" meaning impressive or awesome.
I don't feel like conversing with you so I will finish up my message, I just needed to send another message your way pointing out that if anyone is deluded it is clearly you.
You have received enough messages to suggest exactly that.
Stop pretending you know everything and realise that not one single person will ever know everything, we will all have something to teach and something to learn. We can all have an opinion but by no means does that make it correct... You can think drug users are losers but define the word loser first.
To me a loser is someone who is too small minded to accept that every single living being on this planet has their OWN reality and that reality is theirs and theirs only.
If that reality involves getting high and growing tomatoes that's fine, If that reality is working in a fortune 500 and making lots of money, that's also fine. Point being that you have no valid reason to judge one reality over another, as you only have one reality and that is your own. If you choose to live in a reality where judging is part of your daily life then I simply feel sorry for you.
One thing I struggle to live with in my own reality is someone clearly talking out of their butt without being challenged.
good day, and hope you learn to see the world with less all knowing eyes.
You are obviously using drugs yourself, and are trying to speak for other durg users, pretending to be "defending" them in general. Go get some help, because, judging by your reply, drugs already interfered with your ability to think and function.
@ aareal: Everything that everyone has said about you on here is RIGHT! YOU are in fact the LOSER here!!! I feel sorry for your narrow minded little backside!!!
shareEveryone? I didn't notice everyone visiting my post and saying anything about me, let alone the same thing. If you noticed such a thing, you must get of drugs, fast. Several users/losers did, but of course, what else is left for those like you to do but to abuse people who are doing better than you?
shareIf your going to respond, please try to structure a coherent sentence. Also, You seem to be obsessing on drugs quite a bit. I'd be willing to bet YOU are the one with the drug problem little buddy. Now run along and go back to playing with your crayons lol :)
shareI am not your buddy, addict, you must be deluded. It's so sad to see all these useless addicts, trolling the Internet for virtual buddies and projecting their own useless empty existence on others. There are people who are being killed in the war zones, starving to death children, and these lazy good for nothing drug addicts, running around, begging for attention and pretending to be something special. Go do something useful for others once in your sorry, empty existence. Go work the fields or something, useless piece of genetic garbage.
shareApparently anyone who disagrees with you is a "drug addict" You are a weak minded fool. Clearly you are the TROLL lol. BTW... the whole buddy thing is implied sarcasm. Something which you obviously are ignorant of lmfao! Now stumble into your uni-bomber style shack, apply some more lipstick and change those panties 👙
shareWhy would someone who is not a drug addict agree with a drug addict? You have no argument whatsoever and just abuse people who speak against your uselessness and continual drug use, so it speaks for itself.
shareI think the animation helps us identify with the characters in a sympathetic way but also keeps us at a distance. The drama is all subtext and I think it was brilliant.
shareI just saw the movie last night and liked it. I haven't been around any junkies but I know people who have taken drugs in their past. To me this seemed like an anti-drug movie and if Ur hooked this is what Ur life is like, am I right. I liked the way it was done by animating it, pretty cool. I'm not insincere; but did anyone else find some humorous parts in the movie?
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The author of the book was a heavy user of amphetamines. He wrote the book as he was coming off drugs and what not.
In the afterword, he states that the novel is about some people who were punished entirely too much for what they did.
Yeah, I agree . . . animated characters just "feel" VERY different to an audience . . . almost unreal/surreal (I know, but it's hard to explain - you know what I mean). Very few living, breathing people could get away with what comes out of the mouths of Beavis & Butthead, Cartman, Family Dad, Lisa Simpson, etc.). They can get away with MUCH more than living, functioning human beings without "offending" people - or at least, not nearly as many people. So, to soften the blow of the "drug histrionics" as I read one person put it, they "cartoonized" actors/characters.
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