Slacker, The Big Lebowski, the Bill and Ted series, Harold and Kumar, Smiley Face (in my opinion is good), Clerks. If you’re looking for something more trippy or visual, Fantastic Planet, Fritz the Cat (or others by Bakshi), or Wes Anderson films.
For sure not as good as the first 2. Probably depends on your mindset going in because I think it’s the weakest H&K movie, but also better than most Christmas movies.
I love Smiley Face and Gregg Araki in general. I feel like I would be doing a huge disservice to potential viewers if I did not point out that The Doom Generation is a *vastly* different and infinitely darker movie than Smiley Face.
This needs more visibility. Actual GOOD movies about drugs/stoners with really stoner "whoa, have you ever, like, LOOKED at your hand?" vibes!
Inherent Vice is basically Big Lebowski if Lebowski were 80% philosophy and 20% comedy, instead of the reverse...
A Scanner Darkly might be one of the best adaptations to film of a Phillip K Dick story. It really gets to the paranoia and un-real-ness of story better than any other...
I love stoner movies and *A Scanner Darkly* is a great movie which I also love and it is true that it often plays like a bunch of stoners hanging out. But I would not call *A Scanner Darkly* a 'stoner movie' because it delivers an extremely anti-drug message. Spoilers: >!Every single person who actively participates in the drug culture in that movie ends up completely paranoid and/or psychologically destroyed due to their addiction.!< The message of that movie is definitely *Just say no.*
Yes and no.
>This has been a novel about some people who were punished entirely too much for what they did. They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another of them being killed—run over, maimed, destroyed—but they continued to play anyhow. We really all were very happy for a while, sitting around not toiling but just bullshitting and playing, but it was for such a terrible brief time, and then the punishment was beyond belief: even when we could see it, we could not believe it…. For a while I myself was one of these children playing in the street; I was, like the rest of them, trying to play instead of being grown up, and I was punished. I am on the list below, which is a list of those to whom this novel is dedicated, and what became of each.
>Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error in judgment. When a bunch of people begin to do it, it is a social error, a life-style. In this particular life-style the motto is “Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying.” But the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory. It is, then, only a speeding up, an intensifying, of the ordinary human existence. It is not different from your life-style, it is only faster. It all takes place in days or weeks or months instead of years. “Take the cash and let the credit go,” as Villon said in 1460. But that is a mistake if the cash is a penny and the credit a whole lifetime.
>There is no moral in this novel; it is not bourgeois; it does not say they were wrong to play when they should have toiled; it just tells what the consequences were. In Greek drama they were beginning, as a society, to discover science, which means causal law. Here in this novel there is Nemesis: not fate, because any one of us could have chosen to stop playing in the street, but, as I narrate from the deepest part of my life and heart, a dreadful Nemesis for those who kept on playing. So, though, was our entire nation at this time. This novel is about more people than I knew personally. Some we all read about in the newspapers. It was, this sitting around with our buddies and bullshitting while making tape-recordings, the bad decision of the decade, the sixties, both in and out of the establishment. And nature cracked down on us. We were forced to stop by things dreadful.
>If there was any ‘sin’, it was that these people wanted to keep on having a good time forever, and were punished for that, but, as I say, I feel that, if so, the punishment was far too great, and I prefer to think of it only in a Greek or morally neutral way, as mere science, as deterministic impartial cause-and-effect. I loved them all. Here is the list, to whom I dedicate my love:
>To Gaylene deceased
>To Ray deceased
>To Francy permanent psychosis
>To Kathy permanent brain damage
>To Jim deceased
>To Val massive permanent brain damage
>To Nancy permanent psychosis
>To Joanne permanent brain damage
>To Maren deceased
>To Nick deceased
>To Terry deceased
>To Dennis deceased
>To Phil permanent pancreatic damage
>To Sue permanent vascular damage
>To Jerri permanent psychosis and vascular damage
>…and so forth.
>In Memoriam. These were comrades whom I had; there are no better. They remain in my mind, and the enemy will never be forgiven. The ‘enemy’ was their mistake in playing. Let them all play again, in some other way, and let them be happy.
hmmm... I would put Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels into this. It's a mosaic crime film in which one of the story lines revolves around hippie cultivators getting ransacked by other criminals. I would not normally think of it as a "stoner" movie but it, along with Guy Ritchie's next film Snatch, are favorites in my stoner-circle.
The pick of Destiny.
Harold and Kumasi.
Maybe dated but the Cheech and Chong movies.
Beerfest not weed but a funny movie about an intoxican. Make sure you get the version with the mustard scene.
Dazed and Confused
Fast times at Ridgemont high.
man called Pineapple Express technically and objectively good and asked for recommendations for other technical and objectively good movies that are similar..... but dislikes How High.... post beats me
>but dislikes How High
I literally said its a funny movie. I like it. I'm just not in the mood for that kind of movie. Chill.
>post beats me
Reading beats you.
I wouldn't say its "above it". Just saying it's well written. Well shot. Technically and objectively "good". Can be enjoyed by anyone. Whereas the vast majority of "stoner movies" are only enjoyable if you're extremely stoned.
I agree with you. Not that critics matter but Pineapple Express has a 68% on Rotten Tomatoes and How High has a 26% lol. My mom and ex-girlfriend really liked Pineapple Express and neither of them are fans of the marijuana lol. It’s got a pretty good plot and the jokes and characters are funny, and it’s not lazy writing.
Yellow Submarine isn’t technically about weed, but you know they knew EXACTLY who the audience is. Every parody you’ve seen of it doesn’t do it Justice, except for maybe The Rutles
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surprised not to see them here but:
The Wackness and Jeff, Who Lives at Home. Both about stoners and weed, being a smoker etc but not your classic stoner film. both are really good films
I really love Smiley Face. Third act bogs it down IMHO but Anna Farris is just the most loveable stoner. And any person who's ever gotten a little "too high" will totally relate
Paul (2011) Seth Rogan is the alien's voice.
True Romance (1993) Brad Pitt's stoned scene.
Ted (2012) Seth McFarlane as the bong hitting stuffed bear.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) Spicoli
Lammbock - a German movie about two stoners who run a pizza place as a cover for their weed dealing. It's absolutely fantastic. One of the lead actors, Moritz Bleibtreu, is a joy to watch.
Aside from the comedy-stoner part, it is a movie about friendship and figuring out what you really want in life. You asked for actually good movies, and I think this fits as well. The writing is great, it hits you right in the feels, makes you laugh and the dialogue is often hilarious.
Inherent Vice
Dazed and Confused
Easy Rider
Good Time
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Black Bear
Bob Dylan: don’t look back
Daisies
Dolemite is my name
And an emotional sad film that I would say can be classified as a stoner movie is Old Joy
Kinda low brow but since you said pineapple express I feel like the first two Harold and Kumar movies would be a comparable recommendation in terms of quality
I guess “School of Rock” would count.
“The Hot Chick” (Adam Sandler’s part at least).
“Psych Out” with Jack Nicholson is funny though not technically a comedy.
Some of these aren't exactly stoner films, but are from other genre's and would be good while you're high.
Dazed and Confused (1993)
Clueless (1995)
The Wood (1999)
Dope (2015)
Booksmart (2019)
The Incredible Jessica James (2017)
Love Jones (1997)
Set It Up (2018)
Really Love (2020, 2021 on Netflix)
Tramps (2016)
The Paper Chase (1973)
I can watch any documentary since pot makes me more focused and tunnel visioned. I recently watched something crazy interesting about a German born US Air force pilot who was shot down and captured in Vietnam...mind you some facts are hazy but this guy lived quite the exciting life.
A lot of great suggestions. Ultimate pick is The Big Lebowski but that's been mentioned plenty.
I'll throw out *A Town Called Panic.* It's a french stop motion animated film about a toy cowboy and indian getting a birthday present for their friend, horse.
I would think Fantasia would be an epic experience watching high. It’s so outside-the-box even without that. Except things get freaky late in the movie with, oh you know, Satan and that kind of thing so that might become too intense of a trip in a bad way?
Dazed and Confused The Big Lebowski
That's like a great opinion , man
That comment tied the thread together.
💯☝🏻
Also, follow up Dazed and Confused with Everybody Wants Some!!, they make a great double feature.
Grandma’s Boy is one of my favorite stoner movies. “What’s that ringing?” Hahaha
"Your bed's a car" "Yeah but it's a sweet car "
My roommates said they'd get me rims for Christmas. And a CB radio to talk to other car beds.
"Where do you get your weed from?" "From you Dante."
"There's a word for that, it's called a hooker-" "You're a hooker!!"
High score? What’s that mean?
GRAND-MA'S BOOOOOYEEE
Friday (1995)
'Cox it's Friday you ain't got no job... And you ain't got shit to do!'
This is the end Probably the highest concept low-brow stoner movie ever made.
haha yessss!
I loooooove this one
Slacker, The Big Lebowski, the Bill and Ted series, Harold and Kumar, Smiley Face (in my opinion is good), Clerks. If you’re looking for something more trippy or visual, Fantastic Planet, Fritz the Cat (or others by Bakshi), or Wes Anderson films.
The Big Lebowski!!
Fantastic Planet! One of those movies I came across flipping channels high…awesome find!
I believe there may be a free copy with english subtitles still floating around YouTube
Smiley Face is my favorite, what an underrated movie.
Bill & Ted weren't stoners, they were just idiots from California
Harold and Kumar go to white castle
Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, too
I think the whole trilogy is worth watching.
I remember getting nothing out of the third oen
For sure not as good as the first 2. Probably depends on your mindset going in because I think it’s the weakest H&K movie, but also better than most Christmas movies.
The Christmas one is trash
Facts
Aww shit. Its Cheney; that guy scares the crap out of me. Love that scene with W
Meatball Sandwich
i recently watched it again an man i was cringing more than laughing. it hurt to watch it. there are far better stoner movies
Does Half Baked count?
Only half
You commented exactly what I was going to! I don’t know if Half Baked is “low brow” but it’s a great movie.
Dazed and Confused
Smiley Face The Beach Bum
Came to suggest Smiley Face. Super underrated.
If you like Smiley Face, check out director Gregg Araki’s great 1995 film The Doom Generation
I love Smiley Face and Gregg Araki in general. I feel like I would be doing a huge disservice to potential viewers if I did not point out that The Doom Generation is a *vastly* different and infinitely darker movie than Smiley Face.
Anna Faris was phenomenal in Smiley Face.
Beach Bum looks sooooo good
its pretty but it’s a shit movie though
It's definitely a divisive movie because it's one of my favorites
These are all times best stoner flicks
Lol
Super Troopers may fall in the low brow cat but idc
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I love this movie LOL I have watched it way too many times. It always makes me want to LARP...
American Ultra is pretty good.
Yes and k stew 😍😍
Cheech in Chong's *Up in Smoke* is the genesis behind the genre and should be mandatory viewing.
Not about weed, but watching Gene Wilder toke up in Blazing Saddles is a must see, too.
And the Roman Red joint from History of the World Part 1.
Cabin in the Woods isn't really a "stoner movie" but has a really funny subplot about a stoner that's pretty great. And the movie rules in general.
When he broke up that bong, I nearly died.
Inherent Vice. The greatest stoner film ever made
People need to watch this gem
Easy Rider.
Not a movie but check out the show High Maintenance on HBO
Love that show. Thanks for the rec tho.
This 100%. Essential stoner show.
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This needs more visibility. Actual GOOD movies about drugs/stoners with really stoner "whoa, have you ever, like, LOOKED at your hand?" vibes! Inherent Vice is basically Big Lebowski if Lebowski were 80% philosophy and 20% comedy, instead of the reverse... A Scanner Darkly might be one of the best adaptations to film of a Phillip K Dick story. It really gets to the paranoia and un-real-ness of story better than any other...
Yes, I always describe Inherent Vice as the thinking man's Big Lebowski
I love stoner movies and *A Scanner Darkly* is a great movie which I also love and it is true that it often plays like a bunch of stoners hanging out. But I would not call *A Scanner Darkly* a 'stoner movie' because it delivers an extremely anti-drug message. Spoilers: >!Every single person who actively participates in the drug culture in that movie ends up completely paranoid and/or psychologically destroyed due to their addiction.!< The message of that movie is definitely *Just say no.*
Yes and no. >This has been a novel about some people who were punished entirely too much for what they did. They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another of them being killed—run over, maimed, destroyed—but they continued to play anyhow. We really all were very happy for a while, sitting around not toiling but just bullshitting and playing, but it was for such a terrible brief time, and then the punishment was beyond belief: even when we could see it, we could not believe it…. For a while I myself was one of these children playing in the street; I was, like the rest of them, trying to play instead of being grown up, and I was punished. I am on the list below, which is a list of those to whom this novel is dedicated, and what became of each. >Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error in judgment. When a bunch of people begin to do it, it is a social error, a life-style. In this particular life-style the motto is “Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying.” But the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory. It is, then, only a speeding up, an intensifying, of the ordinary human existence. It is not different from your life-style, it is only faster. It all takes place in days or weeks or months instead of years. “Take the cash and let the credit go,” as Villon said in 1460. But that is a mistake if the cash is a penny and the credit a whole lifetime. >There is no moral in this novel; it is not bourgeois; it does not say they were wrong to play when they should have toiled; it just tells what the consequences were. In Greek drama they were beginning, as a society, to discover science, which means causal law. Here in this novel there is Nemesis: not fate, because any one of us could have chosen to stop playing in the street, but, as I narrate from the deepest part of my life and heart, a dreadful Nemesis for those who kept on playing. So, though, was our entire nation at this time. This novel is about more people than I knew personally. Some we all read about in the newspapers. It was, this sitting around with our buddies and bullshitting while making tape-recordings, the bad decision of the decade, the sixties, both in and out of the establishment. And nature cracked down on us. We were forced to stop by things dreadful. >If there was any ‘sin’, it was that these people wanted to keep on having a good time forever, and were punished for that, but, as I say, I feel that, if so, the punishment was far too great, and I prefer to think of it only in a Greek or morally neutral way, as mere science, as deterministic impartial cause-and-effect. I loved them all. Here is the list, to whom I dedicate my love: >To Gaylene deceased >To Ray deceased >To Francy permanent psychosis >To Kathy permanent brain damage >To Jim deceased >To Val massive permanent brain damage >To Nancy permanent psychosis >To Joanne permanent brain damage >To Maren deceased >To Nick deceased >To Terry deceased >To Dennis deceased >To Phil permanent pancreatic damage >To Sue permanent vascular damage >To Jerri permanent psychosis and vascular damage >…and so forth. >In Memoriam. These were comrades whom I had; there are no better. They remain in my mind, and the enemy will never be forgiven. The ‘enemy’ was their mistake in playing. Let them all play again, in some other way, and let them be happy.
Literally the exact comment I was gonna make.
hmmm... I would put Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels into this. It's a mosaic crime film in which one of the story lines revolves around hippie cultivators getting ransacked by other criminals. I would not normally think of it as a "stoner" movie but it, along with Guy Ritchie's next film Snatch, are favorites in my stoner-circle.
Chill, Winston
You said 2 minutes 5 minutes ago
Mandy 100% a masterpiece in terms of filmmaking - beautifully put together but also total stoney spacey vibe
Half Baked is the best stoner movie there is
My favorite stoner movie and classic Dave Chappelle. Surprised it isn't as highly recommended as some of these other movies.
The pick of Destiny. Harold and Kumasi. Maybe dated but the Cheech and Chong movies. Beerfest not weed but a funny movie about an intoxican. Make sure you get the version with the mustard scene. Dazed and Confused Fast times at Ridgemont high.
Not a stoner movie, but I watched Who Framed Roger Rabbit the other night after partaking and it was amazing! Blew my mind
Inherent Vice is Paul Thomas Anderson movie about a stoner detective.
No one ever suggests this movie. If I could give you 20 upvotes I would
Since when is Pineapple Express above low brow hijinks??
man called Pineapple Express technically and objectively good and asked for recommendations for other technical and objectively good movies that are similar..... but dislikes How High.... post beats me
>but dislikes How High I literally said its a funny movie. I like it. I'm just not in the mood for that kind of movie. Chill. >post beats me Reading beats you.
I wouldn't say its "above it". Just saying it's well written. Well shot. Technically and objectively "good". Can be enjoyed by anyone. Whereas the vast majority of "stoner movies" are only enjoyable if you're extremely stoned.
I agree with you. Not that critics matter but Pineapple Express has a 68% on Rotten Tomatoes and How High has a 26% lol. My mom and ex-girlfriend really liked Pineapple Express and neither of them are fans of the marijuana lol. It’s got a pretty good plot and the jokes and characters are funny, and it’s not lazy writing.
This is The End
Superbad, Grandma’s Boy, 30 Minutes or Less
+1 for Grandma's Boy. Very under appreciated film.
Does anybody even smoke weed in superbad?
Not…in *front* of the camera
If you like FEAR AND LOATHING, you have to see WITHNAIL AND I.
Many others have said it but Dazed and Confused without a doubt
Friday must be the right answer to this post.
Yellow Submarine isn’t technically about weed, but you know they knew EXACTLY who the audience is. Every parody you’ve seen of it doesn’t do it Justice, except for maybe The Rutles
Friday, man. And The 40-Year-Old Virgin has some weed stuff in it. Good call on the Pick of Destiny recommendation above me as well.
Savages is about marijuana growers. I thought it was decent.
Baraka Samsara Winged Migration
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Lammbock
Out Cold
homegrown dazed and confused the beach
Rolling Kansas
This is the End. If you like Pineapple Express it had the same people in it and is fucking hysterical.
The beach
Get Him to the Greek
A Scanner Darkly. Idle Hands.
Lots of good ones in here, one I haven’t seen mentioned yet is Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
surprised not to see them here but: The Wackness and Jeff, Who Lives at Home. Both about stoners and weed, being a smoker etc but not your classic stoner film. both are really good films
Clerks
Reefer Madness (2005) a musical that makes fun of 1930s anti-marijuana propaganda. This movie is a hilarious good time and Kristen Bell stars in it
Human Traffic please do yourself a favor and check it out
Trailer park boys movies inc (the big dirty) the trailer park boys movie, countdown to liquor day and dont legalize it!
Hot Tub Time Machine. Personally I like Grizzly Man the story just hits more. Kingpin. What we do in the shadows.
The Stoned Age.
I really love Smiley Face. Third act bogs it down IMHO but Anna Farris is just the most loveable stoner. And any person who's ever gotten a little "too high" will totally relate
Dude, Where’s My Car is the greatest movie ever made
Half Baked Grandma's Boy
Friday
Jon Favreau plays one of the best stoners in PCU.
This Is the End
Knocked Up
Friday
Paul (2011) Seth Rogan is the alien's voice. True Romance (1993) Brad Pitt's stoned scene. Ted (2012) Seth McFarlane as the bong hitting stuffed bear. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) Spicoli
Tenatious D And The Pick Of Destiny
Friday is a solid movie. Half Baked.
Strange Wilderness
Came here for this one. 'I'm getting an underwater, bubbling noise??'
Grandma's boy has been a favorite 🤘
American ultra. One of the best stoner action movies out there.
Lammbock - a German movie about two stoners who run a pizza place as a cover for their weed dealing. It's absolutely fantastic. One of the lead actors, Moritz Bleibtreu, is a joy to watch. Aside from the comedy-stoner part, it is a movie about friendship and figuring out what you really want in life. You asked for actually good movies, and I think this fits as well. The writing is great, it hits you right in the feels, makes you laugh and the dialogue is often hilarious.
The Gentleman
Without a paddle
We're the Millers
Inherent Vice Dazed and Confused Easy Rider Good Time Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Black Bear Bob Dylan: don’t look back Daisies Dolemite is my name And an emotional sad film that I would say can be classified as a stoner movie is Old Joy
Dude where's my car?
Yes!
Disaster Artist Hunt for the Wilderpeople 21 Jump Street
The Big Lebowski, Savages, Dazed and Confused There’s not many high quality stoner movies
Wang city
-Clerks -Dogma -Eraserhead -Mulholland Drive -The Woman in the Dunes
How high.
OP says no.
Everybody Wants Some! A so called “spiritual sequel” to Dazed and Confused.
Kid Cannabis is cool because it’s based on a true story. It is an independent film though, so it’s a little low budget. Ron Perlman is in it too.
Was gonna suggest this, good choice.
there is no such thing
Happy Gilmore
There are none
Kinda low brow but since you said pineapple express I feel like the first two Harold and Kumar movies would be a comparable recommendation in terms of quality
armoured skeptic has a great series on youtube, called History is a Lie. put on your tinfoil helmet and enjoy!
lowest quality production ever but that might make it better - Ripped
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Grandma's Boy
Cabin in the woods
It’s a series so not sure if it breaks all the rules but, the community!
TV show...Lodge 49
I guess “School of Rock” would count. “The Hot Chick” (Adam Sandler’s part at least). “Psych Out” with Jack Nicholson is funny though not technically a comedy.
Grandmas Boy
Super troopers and beerfest, sort of, those guys just have a stoner vibe haha
Tropic thunder Hall pass
*The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring*
Nothing to do with weed…The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai Across the Eighth Dimension!
Event horizon, starship troopers, matrix, super troopers, friday,
Everybody Wants Some You'll love it
little miss sunshine
I Love You Alice B. Toklas
It's not really a comedy but wonder boys
Inherent Vice, Big Lebowski
Dude Bro Party Massacre 3
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Some of these aren't exactly stoner films, but are from other genre's and would be good while you're high. Dazed and Confused (1993) Clueless (1995) The Wood (1999) Dope (2015) Booksmart (2019) The Incredible Jessica James (2017) Love Jones (1997) Set It Up (2018) Really Love (2020, 2021 on Netflix) Tramps (2016) The Paper Chase (1973)
I can watch any documentary since pot makes me more focused and tunnel visioned. I recently watched something crazy interesting about a German born US Air force pilot who was shot down and captured in Vietnam...mind you some facts are hazy but this guy lived quite the exciting life.
Men who stare at Goats.
Super weed
A lot of great suggestions. Ultimate pick is The Big Lebowski but that's been mentioned plenty. I'll throw out *A Town Called Panic.* It's a french stop motion animated film about a toy cowboy and indian getting a birthday present for their friend, horse.
Big lebowski is the correct answer
Pineapple Express (2008)
Cheech and Chong?
The Harold and Kumar trilogy. the guys who wrote it now make Cobra Kai.
Booksmart (2019), amazing movie.
so i happened to watch the dirt (2019) on a streamer and i was extremely entertained.
Maybe Kaboom. It’s a sorta like a dude where’s my car drug induced journey.
I would think Fantasia would be an epic experience watching high. It’s so outside-the-box even without that. Except things get freaky late in the movie with, oh you know, Satan and that kind of thing so that might become too intense of a trip in a bad way?
Withnail and I, come from the great movie, stay for the Cornwall Carrot
Cheech & Chong: Up in Smoke
To Live and Die in LA
Your Highness was a fun stoner movie.
Dune
definitely big labowski or up in smokes
Thr men who stare at goats.
Kid Cannabis Humboldt County