Reefer Madness on Showtime...anyone else watching this ?

[Huckebein the Raven]

It is a musical remake.

[MissMarple]

1. Oh, my stars. We talked about that in civics class, 9th grade.

LOL. Our teacher was a commy fearing McCarthyite. She taught us that marijuana is an EVIL drug. To this day I still relate the two.

[ReadTomPaine]

2. Good? I recall a bad review somewhere.. (n/t)

[Huckebein the Raven]

3. It's different. Has a few funny scenes

[susanna]

13. I saw it too...

I thought Alan Cummings was really good in this (guy at the podium lecturing the parents). The role suited him.

Actually it was campy and over-the-top enough that I kind of enjoyed it. I thought there were some excellent references to the power of the press in it...especially how it can be used as a tool to demonize pretty darn near anything it wants.

[Mugweed]

4. I can't take musicals

Well...Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar were good.

[ReadTomPaine]

6. Musical comedies can be a lot of fun...

Lets see.. There's "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum", "Rocky Horror Picture Show", the new "Producers" tho I preferred the older film, just off the top of my head. I think the problem is that the form really sags with poor material. When a musical is bad... it's really bad.

RTP

[Mugweed]

10. OK, I forgot Rocky Horror

I'm up to 3 now.

[Floogeldy]

5. Used to watch the original in the 70's at the midnight movies

Everybody sat right there in the theater and lit up. Nobody gave a damn.

It was a different America back then, and I miss it.

:-(

[Huckebein the Raven]

7. Sadly before my time

[Floogeldy]

9. I wish you had been there

That film is funny as shit!

At least you can watch it at home now (something we obviously could not do back then).

B-)

[Huckebein the Raven]

11. I saw the original a few years ago

and yes I was "toasted" at the time

:D

[ReadTomPaine]

8. A Reefer Madness DVD was released with commentary by Mike Nelson

... from MST3K. It was colorized amusingly as well. I enjoyed that version a lot. Makes a perfect midnight movie.

RTP

[hippiechick]

12. A musical remake ?

OMFG. :wow: I have a dvd of 'the original' and it amazes me ... the potheads I know wanna chow and crash when they're wasted, not laugh hysterically and fuck like the Energizer Bunny ....