Thanks for coming to or coming back to Marijuana Movie Night over the past couple of years. We appreciate the attention. Remember to keep your films close, but your weed closer.
Update: It's been less then two years since I've had this blog going, so lets chalk it up to bad stoner math skills and move along.
Before he was Bruce Wayne / Batman, caped crusader & gravel voiced vigilante gone berserk, Christian Bale played Patrick Bates / Bad man, pop music lover & yuppie scum gone berserk. Put on your Frankie Says Relax t-shirt and soak up the bloodshed.
Not all films are good with marrying the fun with the mundane (Fundane?), but this one happens to do it. Limitless is an amusing drug movie with as little sense as your neighborhood junkie panhandling for change outside the liquor store (but perhaps with a little less irony).
Bradley Cooper is a struggling writer with a drinking problem. On the street one day, he runs into his ex-brother-in-law who use to be a drug dealer, but now works for a big pharmaceutical company. Because he is a ex-drug dealer with a heart of gold, he gives down-and-out Bradley a clear pill for free, but doesn't tell him what it does. Bradley takes it a little later to find this pill is able to give him access to 100% of his brain power. For the next 12 hours or so, he is able to accomplish everything the rest of us poor schlubs could only dream of getting done, but then it wears off. Through some not very well explained twists and turns, Bradley gets his hands on a pile of these clear pills and we are off and running. By the way, at some point in the plot, Robert De Niro shows up as the heavy (Do I sound like I'm 80 using this expression?) to pick up a paycheck and do a tiny bit of acting too.
So watch it for the drug trips (which are well done), but don't pay attention to the acting or plot too much or it will ruin the movie for you. By the way, I am planning on getting around to writing a screenplay called Limited. It's about a guy who smokes too much weed and just ends up watching a lot of movies at home. One day, one day.
By the way, just watch the trailer and you've pretty much seen the entire movie.
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You want this Warriors shirt (which some have deemed the ugliest, coolest shirt on the West Coast)? Well, help a brother out, fire up the PayPal or find that plastic and get one.
One of my favorite death-by-sweets films made besides this one.
Thank you Gabe from the Hoover crew for reminding me of this grade A+ choice MMN film to see again. I will be re-watching it this week and serving all white food to whoever will eat it with me.
Between Bellflower and The FP, I want to say yes, but maybe these are just two sexy trailers which are actually crappy films? I hope I am wrong. I've been wrong before, but I've also been right too. We'll see.
Update: I saw this film @ Cinefamily a few days ago & it is awesome. The preview does the entire movie justice. The folks at Drafthouse Films are doing great things. You may even believe moon boots have never looked hotter on the dance floor.
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.
Thanks for coming to or coming back to Marijuana Movie Night over the past couple of years. We appreciate the attention. Remember to keep your films close, but your weed closer.
Before he was Bruce Wayne / Batman, caped crusader & gravel voiced vigilante gone berserk, Christian Bale played Patrick Bates / Bad man, pop music lover & yuppie scum gone berserk. Put on your Frankie Says Relax t-shirt and soak up the bloodshed.
Not all films are good with marrying the fun with the mundane (Fundane?), but this one happens to do it. Limitless is an amusing drug movie with as little sense as your neighborhood junkie panhandling for change outside the liquor store (but perhaps with a little less irony).
Support Paracinema so they can continue to do their thing. Who are they? They are a film magazine for people who love genre movies. I like them.
One of my favorite death-by-sweets films made besides this one.
Between Bellflower and The FP, I want to say yes, but maybe these are just two sexy trailers which are actually crappy films? I hope I am wrong. I've been wrong before, but I've also been right too. We'll see.
Hey Hollywood! While you are remaking all these comic book superhero movies, why don't you give this one a shot? I dare you.
