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...hysterically antimarijuana film Reefer Madness was a camp classic to be mocked by stoned viewers at the midnight show in the local art house. The Zeitgeist of that generation is now wildly reversed. Public figures who used pot at that time express regret for the transgression. Political survival demands that they not offend the new cultural norm. Marijuana use now carries a moral taint...
...course, television shows some laughably awful films itself, and Amazon Women offers three of them. One is a 1930s government scare film, a la Reefer Madness, called "Reckless Youth," in which "Mary Brown" (Carrie Fisher) is a corrupted innocent who contracts "a SOCIAL DISEASE!" Another is "Son of the Invisible Man," in which the original's son (Ed Begley Jr.) walks around naked in the mistaken belief that he, too, is invisible...
...years after World War I were too busy finding bootleg gin to think about more exotic intoxicants. Marijuana began arriving in large quantities in the 1920s and '30s, smoked by Mexican immigrants who came North looking for jobs. Pot, too, was regarded with horror. One 1936 propaganda film called Reefer Madness warned the nation's youth that smoking the "killer weed" was a direct road to hell, suicide or at least insanity...
...intergalactic mysticism, propelling man into space and through the time barrier to confront his own past and a new race's future. The film was about quests, not answers, and at its conclusion an air of benign befuddlement lingered over its hipper audiences like a corona of reefer smoke. Now, in the quick-solution '80s, comes 2010, a sequel whose sole purpose is to explain the ending of its predecessor. Working from Arthur C. Clarke's novel, Writer-Director Peter Hyams lets his movie waltz in place for an hour or so before enlisting the surviving members...
...bones." The whole mess that has seen even terminally kind Steven Spielberg attack. Woodward stems from Woodward's wholly unsympathetic treatment of Belushi in Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi. As a creative enterprise, the book reads like a narrative version of the film Reefer Madness with Belushi playing all the parts...