# What's the best movie to watch on 4/20? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 20, 2011, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-movie-to-watch-on-4-20/579123 "2011-04-20T19:57:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-movie-to-watch-on-4-20/579123/1 "2011-04-20T19:57:52Z")
These are the titles suggested by me and the other people in the room. By all means contribute your own! ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-movie-to-watch-on-4-20/579123/2 "2011-04-20T20:31:01Z")
Heavy Metal? Pink Floyd’s The Wall? ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-movie-to-watch-on-4-20/579123/3 "2011-04-20T20:41:52Z")
Good calls! ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-movie-to-watch-on-4-20/579123/4 "2011-04-20T21:07:53Z")
_Dazed and Confused_ & _Friday_, multi-generational stoners. CMC fnord! :eek: \ **Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-movie-to-watch-on-4-20/579123/5 "2011-04-20T21:17:11Z") Koyaanisqatsi ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-movie-to-watch-on-4-20/579123/6 "2011-04-20T21:20:44Z")
Other–where’s \*\*The Wizard of Oz \*\*(by itself or synched to _Dark Side of the Moon_)? ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-movie-to-watch-on-4-20/579123/7 "2011-04-20T21:53:55Z")
Ooh, I forgot about **Dazed and Confused**. Good call on the others, too. Definitely Dark Side of the Rainbow. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f08c70/32.png) [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Brother_Walker)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-movie-to-watch-on-4-20/579123/8 "2011-04-21T01:08:00Z")
Totally down with \*\*Dazed and Confused, Heavy Metal, \*\*and **The Wall.** Every one of these have most excellent soundtracks. I voted **Half Baked** , but I almost went with **Harold & Kumar**. I nominate **Rolling Kansas** and **Fast Times At Ridgemont High.** ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-movie-to-watch-on-4-20/579123/9 "2011-04-21T01:23:33Z")
_Yellow Submarine_,_Magical Mystery Tour_, _Homegrown_. ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-movie-to-watch-on-4-20/579123/10 "2011-04-21T01:25:09Z")
Romancing the Stone ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-movie-to-watch-on-4-20/579123/11 "2011-04-21T01:48:17Z")
I watched _Eraserhead_ the first time while stoned. Not recommended! ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-movie-to-watch-on-4-20/579123/12 "2011-04-21T02:07:41Z")
_Withnail And I._ Far more booze than drugs, granted, but any movie that features the Camberwell Carrot deserves a mention at least. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PObknmaH9po](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PObknmaH9po) “This’ll tend to make you … very … high…” ---
**Author:** ![typoink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@typoink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typoink)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-movie-to-watch-on-4-20/579123/13 "2011-04-21T18:15:03Z")
Arg, I can’t believe I missed this thread yesterday. I have a killer recommendation for anybody who hasn’t seen it: _Smiley Face_. It’s a stoner comedy by Gregg Araki, and I think it’s absolutely the best stoner comedy I’ve ever seen. It’s a day in the life of a character who accidentally gets way, way, way, way too high early on very important day. It’s delightful because it’s the most accurate representation of “being high” I’ve seen on film. It’s also delightful because the whole film is essentially a tale of somebody throwing their life away and burning bridges, but it’s played as a comedy because the protagonist is way too high to realize what’s going on. Layered, unsettling, and exceedingly funny. ---
**Author:** ![AlohaLenny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/34f0e0/32.png) [@AlohaLenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlohaLenny)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-movie-to-watch-on-4-20/579123/14 "2011-04-23T19:57:25Z")
I know it’s late, but, in the everlasting spirit of 420, I humbly present to you [Reefer Madness, in color!](http://alohalenny.blogspot.com/2011/04/blog-post.html) Enjoy! ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-movie-to-watch-on-4-20/579123/15 "2011-04-23T21:26:46Z")
Ice Cube and Chris Tucker in [Friday.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113118/) ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-movie-to-watch-on-4-20/579123/16 "2011-04-23T21:50:58Z")
I’d like to throw out a few more suggestions for 4/20-type films… [Space Is the Place](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072195/) starring [Sun Ra & his Arkestra](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NJ2oXwWEvw). [Woodstock](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066580/). [the Song Remains the Same](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075244/) with Led Zep. [the Grateful Dead Movie](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076104/). [Fritz the Cat](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068612/trivia). Or for something a little more modern, there’s the [Triplets of Belleville](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286244/). ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-movie-to-watch-on-4-20/579123/17 "2011-04-24T00:04:05Z")
[_I Love You, Alice B. Toklas_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063115/) (1968.) starring Peter Sellers as an uptight Yank who receives a life-changing plate of brownies from the random hippie chick his slacker brother brings to their father’s funeral. If you’ve seen it too many times, I also recommend [_Psych-Out_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063469/) (1968,) in which Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, and Dean Stockwell play dirty hippies in Haight-Ashbury. If you don’t want to see something that directly references drugs of any sort but still manages to be over-the-top psychedelic, check out [_The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T._](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045464/), (1953,) Dr. Suess’s only original live action film. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2011, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-movie-to-watch-on-4-20/579123/18 "2011-04-24T00:37:57Z")
> [@typoink](#): > > Arg, I can’t believe I missed this thread yesterday. > > I have a killer recommendation for anybody who hasn’t seen it: _Smiley Face_. It’s a stoner comedy by Gregg Araki, and I think it’s absolutely the best stoner comedy I’ve ever seen. > > It’s a day in the life of a character who accidentally gets way, way, way, way too high early on very important day. > > It’s delightful because it’s the most accurate representation of “being high” I’ve seen on film. > > It’s also delightful because the whole film is essentially a tale of somebody throwing their life away and burning bridges, but it’s played as a comedy because the protagonist is way too high to realize what’s going on. > > Layered, unsettling, and exceedingly funny. This was going to be my recommendation. I hurt myself laughing when I watched this last year. It’s the best stoner movie I’ve ever seen.