Two guys by the name of Silas and Jamal decided to one day smoke something magical, which eventually helps them to ace their college entrance exam.Two guys by the name of Silas and Jamal decided to one day smoke something magical, which eventually helps them to ace their college entrance exam.Two guys by the name of Silas and Jamal decided to one day smoke something magical, which eventually helps them to ace their college entrance exam.
- Ivory - Ghost
- (as Chuck Davis)
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- TriviaThe film's sequences at "Harvard" were actually shot at UCLA.
- GoofsAfter Silas and Jamal smoke in the the car, in one scene the car is filled with smoke, the very next scene, the air in the car is clear, it is also mentioned in the commentary track for that scene.
- Quotes
Silas: Peace.
Bart: Peace is meant to explain a state of tranquility. Ok? So why don't you try finding a way to say goodbye, now that you're among civilized people.
Silas: Well, Mr. Civilized, peace can also be used interjectionally, as a request, greeting or farewell. So, try to find another way to be an asshole, if you don't know your, grammar, that is. Peace.
- Crazy creditsThere were no plants harmed during the making of this film.
- ConnectionsFeatures Onyx: Slam (1993)
- SoundtracksHits From the Bong
Written by B-Real (as Louis Freese), DJ Muggs (as Larry Muggerud), Ronnie Wilkins, John Hurley
Performed by Cypress Hill
Courtesy of Columbia Records
By arrangement with Sony Music Licensing
That's a long tradition in humor and especially ethnic and black humor directly derived from self-deprecating Yiddish vaudeville.
The story container is the same as in all sorts of similar projects: a collection of skits, some of which extend far to one side of this balance or another. Some are laughing with you, some at you.
So how you receive this has something to with whether you are the targeted demographic and the rest to do with your mood at the time. Since the nature of the audience, its edge, changes so quickly, the balance in the humor goes out of date soon after release, so these movies are poor rentals.
But I have to say that this one hit me right in the center. I liked it.
Here's an indicator. Early in the movie a stoner dies and becomes a ghost who can only be seen when his buddies are stoned on pot grown in his ashes. Perhaps an ordinary movie would just stop there.
The setup is that this guy rents Kevin Costner movies as a ploy to get sex. He is rebuffed so has to watch them alone, stoned of course. He sees himself in the movie, in the field of dreams in a baseball suit.
Cool folding there. Tells us we are with a writer or filmmaker who knows what folding is about. This is straight Bob Dylan.
There's some dialog about this folding. Then he passes out, catches fire, falls out a high window. Wait, he survives, stands up then gets creamed by a bus.
Remember that scene in "Something About Mary" when the dog was electrocuted then thrown out the window. Same space, friends. You laugh, then laugh at yourself for laughing taunted by something behind the actors.
It is a nearly perfect scene. See it just for that one risk.
Much of the rest is dumb.
Ted's Evaluation -- 2 of 3: Has some interesting elements.
- tedg
- Dec 10, 2005
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- Also known as
- Bao Phê
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Box office
- Budget
- $20,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $31,178,740
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $7,102,260
- Dec 23, 2001
- Gross worldwide
- $31,283,740
- Runtime1 hour 33 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1