ACID HOUSE PROFILE
MOVIE: Bobby
DIRECTOR: Emilio Estevez
YEAR: 2006
DRUGs INVOLVED: Cannabis and LSD
Let me just get this out of the way first before I say word one about this movie and give you a brief cast list:
Nick Cannon as Dwayne Clark
Emilio Estevez as Tim Fallon
Laurence Fishburne as Edward Robinson
Heather Graham as Angela
Anthony Hopkins as John Casey
Helen Hunt as Samantha
Joshua Jackson as Wade Buckley
Ashton Kutcher as Fisher
Shia LaBeouf as Cooper
Lindsay Lohan as Diane Howser
William H. Macy as Paul Ebbers
Demi Moore as Virginia Fallon
Freddy Rodriguez as José Rojas
Martin Sheen as Jack
Christian Slater as Daryl Timmons
Sharon Stone as Miriam Ebbers
Elijah Wood as William Avary
No I am not pulling your leg all of those people are indeed in the same film, I am pretty sure if you threw the cast of friends in you would have everyone who has every worked with anyone in that film. Getting over the very recognizable cast the story is a very familiar one, 1968 the Ambassador Hotel in LA the day of the California Primary. At this time Bobby Kennedy was getting ready to essentially wrap his bid for the presidency up claiming to want change and an end to the war... sound familiar? The night of Bobby's win of the California Primary he was however gunned down by Iranian Sirhan Sirhan, what a lot of people don't know is that several other people were shot that night too and instead of it being Bobbies story it is their story encompassing the entire day of the California Primary.
I will say it once more for posterity sake, this cast is phenomenal and each individual performance is stellar. I think taking a look at a historical event from the perspective of ordinary people is a stroke of pure genius and I must give credit to writer, director, and actor in this film Emilio Estevez. The camera work is all great, the shot choice and editing take you on a very stream of consciousness view of the days events. I know what you are all thinking however, with all this historical stuff how could this be a candidate for the acid house? Well in the midst of a very important day 2 Kennedy aids that were supposed to go out knocking on doors getting people to vote instead decide to drop acid which gives us ample drug use footage. At then end of the day however this is just a great period piece, very accurately retelling the events of a tragic and historical event and nothing more. Still a really great film!
SUMMARY:
ACID HOUSE APPROVED: No
WHY WAS APPROVAL DENIED: Historical film
FAVORITE SCENE: The LSD trip scene, how could it not be
ACID SCORE: an easy 8 hits out of 10
ACID HOUSE PROFILE:
MOVIE: Bongwater
DIRECTOR: Richard Sears
YEAR: 1997
DRUGS INVOLVED: Cannabis, LSD, and cocaine
The plot centers on a lazy pot dealer (Luke Wilson) who is a painter with little to no aspirations. He meets a quirky, beautiful, free-spirited girl (Alicia Witt), who turns his life around, and not always for the good. He manages to get her out of his life when she moves to New York, but he can't get her off his mind. The movie also follows her adventures in New York City where she hooks up with a gun-toting rock star (Jamie Kennedy).
I will be deadly honest with you I stole that synopsis from IMDB because I really didn't know what the hell I was watching. The very poor attempt to roll a romance into a standard pot movie was not terribly successful. The storytelling was frenetic and aloof and it was easy to lose your place in the story and really wonder where the movie is going next. Honestly this form can work in acid house type films but I really think this one just didn't get it quite right. I think that the shooting and visual effect could be cool at times and Jack Black singing was pretty sweet too but all in all I think this was just a very mediocre attempt at a making a run of the mill pot film.
SUMMARY
ACID HOUSE APPROVED: No
WHY WAS APPROVAL DENIED: Did not work as a drug film
FAVORITE SCENE: Jack Black singing Jesus Ranch a Tenacious D song
ACID SCORE: a lowly 4 hits out of 10
ACID HOUSE PROFILE
MOVIE: Boogie Nights
DIRECTOR: Paul Thomas Anderson
YEAR: 1997
DRUGS INVOLVED: Cocaine and Meth
This look at the early days of pornography is not only a cult classic but is in my opinion one of the only films that Mark Wahlburg really nailed his part. The story takes us back to 1977 in the San Fernando Valley where director Jack Horner recruits a young bus boy to be in his adult films. The movie follows the career of this bus boy who renames himself Dirk Diggler. In the early days its everything goes great but as the 80's roll around and the decline of professional adult film production infringes on the success of all those involved things fall apart quickly.
"Boogie Nights" is the film when it comes to the history of porn, one of the most successful industries in the history of America which has had few if not nearly no coverage in the popular mediums of television or film. The cast which includes Wahlburg, Burt Reynolds, Heather Graham, Julianne Moore, and John C Riley is a total slam dunk. The production value of the film is great, with accurate recreations of the eras involved inter-cut with old 8 and 9mm film reels of the films "made" within the film. The drug use is prevalent, in your face, and bears heavily on the plot line, that combined with the great filming style and cast make this an acid house slam dunk.
SUMMARY:
ACID HOUSE APPROVED: Yes
WHEN WAS APPROVAL CONFIRMED: When a new arrival at Jack's party asks if there will be any coke at the party he replies "I am sure we could find some around here somewhere"
FAVORITE SCENE: The drug scam is high tension and visually appealing
ACID SCORE; A respectable 7 Hits out of 10
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