tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38454049.post7656266093709192715..comments2024-03-27T23:36:43.408-07:00Comments on Apocalypse Later Film Reviews: Reefer Madness (1936)Hal C. F. Astellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16807389103456317098noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38454049.post-38612457607576668022010-04-25T23:54:42.372-07:002010-04-25T23:54:42.372-07:00No, you're not the only one.
I got the feelin...No, you're not the only one.<br /><br />I got the feeling that the people who made the film didn't really know what a crook was. They just started with the worst thing imaginable, namely pot, and churned out their rhetoric around it.<br /><br />I hadn't noticed the money aspect, but it fits with the flagrant lack of consistency throughout. I love how this stuff is apparently so dangerous that one puff can turn anyone into a cackling, twitching, murderous sex fiend, yet all the crooks puff up a storm and never even hint at such adjectives.<br /><br />And of course, now that you've admitted to this most unholy of sins, I should attempt due diligence in my research on this film. Have you ever driven over 40mph? hehHal C. F. Astellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16807389103456317098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38454049.post-30994090386735908452010-04-18T20:39:36.711-07:002010-04-18T20:39:36.711-07:00The most amazing thing about Reefer Madness for me...The most amazing thing about <i>Reefer Madness</i> for me is how trusting the gangsters are. Not a penny is ever exchanged onscreen for their drugs. Even ruthless Jack is rather too kindly for his own good. If he had the true killer instinct he would have quietly had Ralph and Blanche whacked before Bill's trial ever got rolling, but instead he puts up with him for days and days (with an inexhaustible supply of free joints, of course). Yes, he finally does try to kill Ralph, but <i>veerry sloowwlly</i>. Might as well give the paranoiac stoned guy with a fireplace poker a sporting chance.<br /><br />I have smoked both tobacco and marijuana in the past and they do not smell or taste the same. I very much doubt whether anyone could accidentally smoke a joint thinking it was an ordinary cigarette. But even so, what does that say? None of the kids who fall victim to the noxious weed would have been snared if they weren't already, from the look of it, two-pack-a-day smokers who thoughtlessly light up and puff away on any cigarette-shaped object that's handed to them.<br /><br />I must not be the only one who thinks that Dr. Carroll's demeanor throughout the movie is of a snarling dog about to sink its fangs into the nearest bystander. Lord, those teeth of his!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com