best stoner flicks? + Vineland

[Carvill John]

Just over a year ago, I mentioned 'Flashback':

"...Conicidentally watched the 1990 Dennis Hopper film 'Flashback' just the
other day, and couldn't avoid the Vineland resonances, think this was
briefly mentioned in one of the essays in 'The Vineland Papers' (by the way
I see the Modern World Pynchon site is still looking for someone to review
that collection, anyone wanna volunteer?), but I hadn't seen the film since
I watched it at the time, and I hadn't read any Pynchon at all  - except a
first abortive attempt at COL49 - back then. Looking at it now, the opening
montage of images would make the perfect intro to a film of Vineland.

Anyway maybe it's all this Croatian brandy I'm drinking but it seems
there're so many parallels, not least how the 1960s became the 1990s, the
tragic generational plummet from idealistic campus radicals to yuppie hell
whores, even little things like cops running for office, kids watching old
16mm films of their left-wing radical parents, guys going to old favourite
bars and finding them full of designer beers and jukeboxes they can't
understand. No more 'Born To Be Wild'! And odd how it just must be
coincidence that Pynchon's book and this film came out around the same time,
presumambly unaware of each other but both in their way addressing how 2
decades and 2 characters in the names turned hippie into yuppie....."

http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0509&msg=97670&sort=date

Ok, my post was a bit rambling and I was probably a bit, er, inebriated when 
I wrote it, but it generated the usual zero responses which lengthy posts 
seem to attract.......