best stoner flicks? + Vineland

[Otto]

I've never heard of that movie but the description sounds promising:
http://german.imdb.com/title/tt0099581/plotsummary

Huey Walker: "It takes more than going down to your local video store
and renting Easy Rider to become a rebel."
http://german.imdb.com/title/tt0099581/quotes

Otto

2006/10/6, Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com>:
> 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.......
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