Eco-terroism is terrorism with the purpose of saving the planet. I admire the folks who have the balls to take on logging companies, chemical companies and the like in the name of saving our ravaged mother nature. They want to defend something beautiful that ultimately cannot protect itself from the destructive forces of "progress." Edward Abbey has been a great inspiration to many of these eco-warriors with his penning of the modern classic The Monkeywrench Gang. It's hard not to side with people trying to harm the industries which are trying to harm our planet for profit. I heard somewhere we only get one earth, at least until we have the technology to leave this place.
So what can you do to help? Well, you can become more of an activist for the environment or raise a kid who will figure out a way to build a FTL drive for space ships to transport us off the rock our planet may one day become or you can do what I do and smoke weed, watch movies and rage online. Yet, someone went one better and made The East for the sake of entertainment, art and possibly to make a point while raising some awareness. Revenge is also a great premise for a plot regardless. I'm looking forward to this.
I was only able to make it through about half of Quentin Dupieux's Rubber before I shut it off. I've made it through about two thirds of Wrong and I'm on a two week break (so far) before I try to finish it up. Mr. Dupieux is a film surrealist who isn't beyond derailing his plot lines multiple times before getting back to it in his own roundabout way. I have yet to figure out if I am a lazy viewer or he is a poor storyteller.
Both Rubber (currently on Netflix Streaming) and Wrong are worthy of a good extra high viewing so spare no weed as you prep to see these. If you plan to do a double feature, I suggest going right to hash, but maybe this is why I couldn't get through these in the first place.
I've been told the 90s are back so it felt right to watch Hackers. Roller blades, Fisher Stevens, phreaking, come up here to the front of the room please.
Hollywood tried to make the hacker sexy by casting Angelina Jolie. The Internet also gets a make over by looking more like a video game than just boring old coding and command prompts clicked out on a keyboard. This movie prompted in a few other similarly poorly plotted movies all based around that crazy thing called World Wide Web.
Oi! I should have seen this film years ago. Aliens, panthers, midgets, killer toys, and so much more. Put this one at the top of your weed watch list and be sure to see the extras on the DVD. There is an very inspiring interview with writer & director Harry Bromley Davenport. This is a man who couldn't hate his art more, but went back for more and more. A true inspiration!
The creator hates his creation enough to not protect it. The whole movie is posted below.
Good luck to all those who deserved (and didn't deserve) to be nominated for an Oscar. Please be magnanimous in your win or a graceful loser if it goes the other way.
Do to not really caring, I'll likely not be watching, but if I do, I will smoke a joint to celebrate a community which supplies me with ever flowing content and entertainment. I salute you!
I originally wanted to do a monthly get together with some good friends, good weed, good food and a great movie. I was excited to play projectionist at home & turning people on to some amazing films. So what happened? It all started to sound like a hassle. All those people at my place. My dope all smoked up. It was so perfect in my mind, it was bound to get ruined. But the name was too good to let go of, so I thought, why not a blog? Welcome to Marijuana Movie Night.
