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October 27, 2009
August 4, 2008
What Illegal Drug Should Replace Stoner Comedies?
With the release of Pineapple Express, which looks FINE but not EXCEPTIONAL, I'm reminded of my general distaste for stoner comedies and stoner culture in general. To recap: marijuana enthusiasts are far too self-satisfied with their mind-numbing indulgence. There's nothing particularly fascinating about using a substance to ease tension, or party, or whatever. The entire stoner ethos implies that for some reason there's something endlessly compelling about someone being kind of giggly and hungry. There is not.
Not to mention the HIPPIE ASPECT. Even if this generation's subscribers to Pot Aficionado magazine are more interested in listening to My Morning Jacket and talking about classic Nintendo games, they can't quite shake the association with the unwashed devil stick novice chilling in the park with his friends, having a drum circle and enjoying some organic aloe juice from the local food co-op. It reeks of failed promise and outmoded naivete. We need a new drug comedy culture, one that reflects the world in which we actually live, not the world in which our parents kind of went to college but don't remember much of it.
So, what illegal drug should form the basis of this era's drug comedy?
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Posted by Gabe at 1:30 PM in Poll
Tags: Harold And Kumar | Pineapple Express | Salvia
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April 23, 2008
Huge Box Office Dilemma: Baby Mama Or Harold And Kumar 2?
Can you feel the excitement in the air? No, not Spring, but this weekend's much-anticipated much-hyped comedy movie smackdown. This weekend, funny-film lovers with less than 198 minutes on their hands will face a gut-wrenching Sophie's choice: Baby Mama and Harold And Kumar: Escape From Guantanamo Bay are coming out. On the same weekend! After months of zero decent comedies! (Forgetting Sarah Marshall notwithstanding.) I will be seeing both, of course, but I did an informal lunchtime IM poll of fourteen friends to try get an idea of which movie is winning among people who have, in the past, been willing to give me their instant messenger usernames. Turns out, one of them is really kicking the other one's ass:
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Posted by Lindsay at 3:36 PM in I Love Kal Penn, Poll, Stoner Cinema
Tags: Amy Poehler | Baby Mama | Harold And Kumar | John Cho | Kal Penn | Neil Patrick Harris | Tina Fey
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