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"&amp;#x2022; Killer Buds: How James Franco and Seth Rogen Made This Summer&amp;apos;s Great American Stoner Movie: &amp;quot;Pineapple Express&amp;quot;\n\n\nPineapple Express (2008)\nIs this the greatest stoner movie ever made? When process server Seth Rogen\nbuys the wacky weed of the title from dealer James Franco and they have to\nrun for their lives what with bad guys and bullets on their ass, it&amp;apos;s hard\nnot to think so. Directed by indie prince David Gordon Greene, Pineapple\nExpress offers primo baked goods. But it got me thinking of the other nine\ncandidates for stoner movie heaven. \n\n\n\nThe Big Lebowski (1998)\nAll hail the Dude, played by Jeff Bridges in an indelible performance that\ndeserves pride of place in the stoner pantheon. The ponytailed Dude, real\nname Jeff Lebowski, smokes pot like other people breathe. He makes poetry out of a simple request like &amp;quot;Mind if I do a J?&amp;quot; The Dude even bowls stoned. And the Coen brothers give him a movie worthy of his mellow approach to life in treacherous Los Angeles. It&amp;apos;s good to know the Dude is out there taking it easy for all us sinners. The Dude abides. \n\n\n\nFast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)\nBefore Sean Penn started winning Oscars, he played (immortally) Jeff\nSpicoli, a stoned surferboy who looks at a wave the same way he looks at\nlife by saying,  &amp;quot;Hey, Bud, let&amp;apos;s party.&amp;quot; Who can forget Spicoli pissing off\nhis teacher, Mr. Hand (Ray Walston), by ordering a pizza delivered to his\nhistory class? Cameron Crowe&amp;apos;s hilarious script has a classmate inform us\nthat Spicoli  &amp;quot;has been stoned since the third grade.&amp;quot; He has to be tricked\nto return to his boring classroom. &amp;quot;You&amp;apos;re wrong,&amp;quot; says Spicoli,  bummed\nout, &amp;quot;there&amp;apos;s no birthday party for me in here!&amp;apos;&amp;apos;\n \n \n\nDazed and Confused (1993)\nNo title better sums up the state in which high school leaves you &amp;#x2014; sometimes for life. Director-writer Richard Linklater sets his social satire\nin 1976, with a soundtrack of great relics ranging from Aerosmith to ZZ Top.\nIt&amp;apos;s the last school day before summer and trying to get blitzed on grass,\nnot to mention beer, music, brawling and sex, clearly transcends time.\nLinklater&amp;apos;s shitfaced American Graffiti is the ultimate party movie &amp;#x2014; loud,\ncrude, socially irresponsible and totally irresistible. The key scene\ninvolves Matthew McConaughey  as a stoned twentysomething grad who still\nhangs at the school because though he may get older but the babes stay\nyoung.\n\n\nTrue Romance (1993)\nBrad Pitt is glowstick perfection as Floyd, a Hollywood hanger-on who just\nlays around on a couch &amp;#x2014; a bong ever handy &amp;#x2014; while the whole movie happens\naround him. Since the film is the first script ever written by former\nvideo-store clerk Quentin Tarantino, a lot happens. Pitt isn&amp;apos;t onscreen\nmuch, but what he does is choice, especially the scene where he attempts to\ngive directions. Hilarious. I like to think that James Franco&amp;apos;s pot dealer\nin Pineapple Express is what Floyd grew up to become.\n \n \n\nClerks (1995)\nThe movie that marked the screen debut  of pot- and laugh-peddlers Jay\n(Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (director-writer Kevin Smith). They don&amp;apos;t do\nmuch except hang around a rundown New Jersey mall, pushing dope and hashing\nthings out with the guy from the Quick Stop (Brian O&amp;apos;Halloran) and his\nfriend from the video store (Jeff Anderson), a Star Wars fanatic. Jay is the\nmotor behind the foulest mouth in movies and Bob speaks rarely, but when he\ndoes, watch out. Together, they represent the yin and yang of stoner\nculture. \n\n\n\nHarold and Kumar Go To White Castle (2004)\nExpectations for Harold Lee  (John Cho) from his Korean family involve a big career\nin investment banking. Kumar Patel (Kal Penn), like his dad from India, is\nmeant to be a doctor. No wonder these buds toke out. Their desire to munch\ndown hard on a burger from a New Jersey White Castle gets them involved with\ncops, wildlife and a bizarro Neil Patrick Harris, who snorts coke off the\nass of a stripper.  If you prefer this year&amp;apos;s Harold and Kumar Escape from\nGuantanamo Bay, no sweat. They&amp;apos;re both  basically baked from the same stoner\noven, and both are just as funny.\n \n\n\nHalf Baked (1998)\nIndefensible as a movie, Half Baked still delivers the stoner goods. Come\non, just the idea of Dave Chappelle and his pals starting up their own weed\nbusiness and bringing on the unholy wrath of local dealer Clarence Williams\nIII is enough to give you the munchies. And the cameo from Snoop Dogg as a\nscavenger smoker belongs in the comedy time capsule.\n \n\n \n\nUp In Smoke (1978)\nNo list of dope movies would be complete without the godfathers of the joint\ngenre, Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong. This was their debut, which made a mint\nmuch to the shock of critics and tastemakers. My favorite scene involves the\nguys unwittingly smuggling a truck made entirely of marijuana across the\nMexican border with cop Stacy Keach in hot pursuit.\n\n\n\n\nReefer Madness (1936)\nThis old-school exploitation film about the dangers of demon weed is a cult\nclassic. It&amp;apos;s also a total hoot. Only the black-and-white prologue to\nPineapple Express, in which the government does experiments to learn the\neffects of inhaling maryjane, is as funny.  Reefer starts with narration\nyou&amp;apos;ll want to memorize about weed as &amp;quot;an unspeakable scourge &amp;#x2014; the Real\nPublic Enemy Number One! Its first effect is sudden violent, uncontrollable\nlaughter, then come dangerous hallucinations, the loss of all power to\nresist physical emotions, leading finally to acts of shocking violence,\nending often in incurable insanity.&amp;quot; Yup, sounds about right.\n \n \n\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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