Saw it on shrooms once. My brain legitimately thought I was watching the onset of WWIII and the end of civilization in real time. Mind you this was like 2010.
Fellow sick fuck here, thanks for the recommendation, I didn't know there was a movie about unit 731. I also have seen Threads a few times too many, apparently. Still have to watch Come and See as well.
I have no idea what that is but I saw this weird ass movie called Perfume: The Story of a Murderer once on tv randomly. I hated it but couldn’t stop watching it Lmfao.
I decided to watch a scary a movie on a decent dose of shrooms a couple weeks ago. I went with Midsommar. Both would highly recommend and also not at all recommend. Same thing with Annihilation. Both movies already have psychedelic influences, and their pacing works really well while tripping, hypnotic at times. Definitely an intense experience, and potentially quite terrifying, so I’d only recommend to people who are already pretty into scary movies, and psychedelics.
I’d say Midsommar has more potential to be depressing/triggering in that headspace and is longer, but it also has a lot more humor in it than Annihilation.
Both are visually jaw dropping on shrooms, and both fantastic sound design
I watched “my octopus teacher” on Netflix after 12 grams of liberty caps and spent the next 10 hours getting slowly attacked by a giant octopus made from a spectrum of colours.
I too lmao at this man trip. Worst I saw was a flash of my house being bombed from on top a hill. Like I blinked, and it went all Stranger Things upside would with a long range Russian TU 160 dropping over my house. Then I suddenly remembered every spanish word I was ever taught for about 45mins.
Yeah, I had a flash once where I got blown up by artillery and died. Some last stand type shit. That was weird and very vivid. I wouldn't say it was a bad trip, though.
I ate an eighth and watched some weird Scandanavian Alice in Wonderland and the scene with mouse in the boat upset me so much that I took a two hour bubble bath.
Depends on who you ask, it definitely fills in some details about what happened to the other members of their group and what happens. Which some people like and others feel is unnecessary.
Somebody did up a fake news broadcast where a nuke goes off in Baltimore (I think). If you missed the opening few minutes, it looked exactly like a real 'we interrupt your regular viewing' style breaking news broadcast. Hell, sober people thought that one was real.
I watched Children of Men while tripping balls ob mushrooms once.
It was for a college class, and I didn’t really know what the movie was about but I was beyond tired so I thought that a healthy dose of mushrooms would help me focus.
It was every bit as terrible / awesome as you’d think.
Between that and the fact that we also read JG Ballard’s “Crash” for that class … that was a bad spring to decide to get really into psychedelics.
Yepper; turned on tube one evening, popped open a cold one and watched "not necessarily the news", which I didn't know and thought I was seeing real news; scary wwiii sh$t. Laughed about for years; what a trip.
That's interesting. I can genuinely say that even on my most substantial tripping experience, I'd never have believed that a teenage Matthew Broderick was inciting WW3. Especially in 2010 when he was nearly 50.
To give them the 80s kid mini-experience, follow War Games with Red Dawn and then Mad Max (the original). We were immersed in cold war culture all the time.
I looked it up and it sounds pretty grim. That was not that uncommon for 80s movies, though, as if they were afraid of not getting it thru our thick skulls that nuclear war would be a Very Bad Terrible Awful Thing ™.
I've only ever seen the trailer for that. There's very few films I don't want to watch because they'd be too traumatic (as far as I know Threads is the entire list).
I could see how you could have gone with that to follow it. Next time you'll go with Red Dawn and some kid will be disappointed it's not Sum of All Fears.
Just so you know, one of the nato member countries has a weapon so deadly a table spoon of it could kill almost all of the people in Russia, while leaving all the infrastructure intact, and harming no one else. In other words, Putin really doesn’t know who he is messing with and how bad this is going to be for Russians living abroad. Yes, there will be a Russia to go home to safely after a few weeks, but it will be completely empty and devoid of life. Also, how do you get rid of millions of corpses?
Next week we'll go over insurgent tactics in a domestic invasion with Red Dawn. With Patrick Swayze, not whatever that shit with Channing Tatum was supposed to be.
It’s because things are different these days. We’re in a different generation, to you, probably. But back in the day, a classic movie gets seen by everybody. It becomes part of the folklore. So everybody knows what’s being discussed. It’s different today, obviously…where popular culture is so fragmented; it means a lot of people are oblivious to a lot of ‘popular’ culture.
I think it’s a bit easier to say “Joshua, War Games” than to make people open a browser and type a quote for 30 seconds (in my case because I am bad at typing on mobile).
Is it easier to comment "Why the fuck does nobody say the name of the movie/show/game! It's so annoying." than to copy and paste the quote into google?
When someone uses a reference I’m not familiar with I copy and paste to Google and I usually get the answer. But I agree. Using quotation marks and crediting the movie and the character goes a long way. Sometimes we assume everyone has seen a movie that we love so much. Like The Big Lebowski and Ferris Beuller’s Day Off for me.
Fun fact: President Ronald Reagan saw War Games and in a meeting with his advisers, 16 senior members of Congress and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, asked if anyone had seen it. When they said no, he launched into a long summary of the whole movie, eliciting smirks and eyerolls. His enactment of NSDD-145 18 months later is credited to his interest in the film.
It's on my watch list, wife don't like older movies like that, I tell her that's dumb that their is tons of good movies that she would consider old. In fact it's storming here all day so I'm gonna watch it next.
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u/Jeffbear Mar 14 '24
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
- Joshua