# Movies you watch(ed) when high.?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watch-ed-when-high/950008
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** movies
**Created:** [September 2, 2021, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watch-ed-when-high/950008 "2021-09-02T19:57:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@SuperNelson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNelson)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2021, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watch-ed-when-high/950008/42 "2021-09-04T17:53:19Z")
How about:
- [The Big Lebowski](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118715/)
- [Idiocracy](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/)
- (Do we still say hi to Opal?)
- [Joe Versus the Volcano](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099892/)
- [Labyrinth](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091369/)
- [Raising Arizona](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093822/)
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2021, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watch-ed-when-high/950008/43 "2021-09-04T18:38:59Z")
You people who suggested _Eraserhead_ ought to reconsider. That flick has all the makings of a Bad Trip. It’s bad enough watching it straight. .
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2021, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watch-ed-when-high/950008/44 "2021-09-05T07:52:14Z")
The Gods Must Be Crazy
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### Author:  [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2021, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watch-ed-when-high/950008/45 "2021-09-05T08:24:33Z")
I recommend being high before reading the linked article.
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### Author:  [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2021, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watch-ed-when-high/950008/46 "2021-09-06T10:27:05Z")
I think there’s two things here:
1. Movies which worked really well when watching high. Cult movies, Movies with highly intense scenes. Thinky movies.
and
1. Movies you HAVE to be high to enjoy. I’ll say Naked Lunch for that.
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### Author:  [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2021, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watch-ed-when-high/950008/47 "2021-09-06T10:41:59Z")
Heavy Metal and The Groove Tube, those are the only movies I could ever sit through while high. Pink Floyd’s The Wall especially became a snoozer once I was toasted.
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### Author:  [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2021, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watch-ed-when-high/950008/48 "2021-09-06T11:43:24Z")
Apocalypto
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### Author:  [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2021, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-watch-ed-when-high/950008/49 "2021-09-13T02:17:08Z")
Definitely answering that thread title in the present tense.
Wim Wenders’ _The State of Things_
ETA: Roger Corman has the coolest cameo in this as an asshole lawyer. And Samuel Fuller as the seen-it-all curmudgeon producer! _“Fritz!”_
Do lots of enailing then check out _Kamikaze '89_. People thought Hemmings was hip in _Blow Out_? Or Oates in _Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia_? Nah, Rainier Werner Fassbinder’s turn in front of the camera as the ace detective in that suit of his, with trusty sidekick Anton and the Hot Trike - _that’s_ hip, and great for the enailing. Literally colourful characters in this one, like the lady with the huge, shifting background scenery ‘panels’ in her ‘basement’.
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