It used to bug me, but now that I know more, i would rather pretend that a 35 year old is 15, than pretend a 15 year old is safe in the entertainment industry.
He doesn't upload regularly. There was a period he didn't upload at all. Old/bad movie reviews is a crowded and niche genre on yt. Get what your saying tho.
@@rickyvandusen1744 I’ve been been around since the multi-months long dry spells, where I thought the channel was dead. He’s seemingly stuck right at that point where YT isn’t profitable enough to quit his job. So, he has to work full-time to live in The-6, and that makes it harder to make his quality videos on a normal weekly/bi-weekly schedule.
Fun fact: Dorothy Short, the lead actress who played Mary - the one who gets shot dead - and Dave O'Brien - the guy who plays Ralph, the drug addict - were actually MARRIED in real life for around 18 years, and had 2 children together. Sadly, she passed away 9 years after their divorce at just 47, and he died 5 years after that during a yacht race accident. @Mark: Huge fan from India here :) Great job, as always!
As one of Reefer Madness’ own performers, Thelma White (who played the vampy Mae, whose apartment is the setting for wild reefer parties) affirmed, exploitation filmmakers did their utmost to produce films that would provoke a visceral response in audiences. “The director wanted us to ‘hoke’ it up. He wanted us to show the ‘madness.’ ” She remarked: “I’m ashamed to say that it’s the only one of my films that’s become a classic.” All this is to say that the makers of Reefer Madness (a title the movie was never known as until the 70s) knew what they were making was bullshit but being the pranksters and charlatans they were they did it anyway because the only goal of the movie was to make money. The above quote is taken from the book Forbiden Gruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Film which is a really good read to find out more about this genre in the 30s and includes a number of things about Reefer Madness and it's distributor Dwain Esper
Made the same year as Modern Times, My Man Godfrey and Things To Come. Also directed by the same man who directed Perils Of Pauline (1914). Louis J. Gasnier.
@@dr.burtgummerfan439 Yea , if I were 7 years old, but looking like i'm about 36 years old, I wouldn't want to have to wear a suit and tie to the grocery store either. Parents must have hated their kids back in the day...
When you pointed out that everyone that smoked Marijuana in the 1930s was now dead, solid argument. I suffered from violent, uncontrollable laughter myself.
@@virg0_lem0nade IDK, grand boomers were very susceptible to all manner of propaganda and fear-mongering. I'm surprised they didn't imply that smoking weed turned you into a dirty commie.
@@PongoXBongo --- i'm just saying, it's possible that someone who had only heard of the movie thought it was a documentary, but absolutely not possible for anyone to think that after watching it. not just because of how ridiculous it is, but because it's not done in the style of a documentary at all. it's very clearly done as a fictional story, and there's even a long written disclaimer at the beginning that tells you it's a fictional story. it's still propaganda material, but it was never intended as a documentary, and the OP of this comment was just writing something to get "likes".
@@FGuilt the dry mouth and throat sucks so much. Edibles could be a loophole around that. I know some people get the dry throat and mouth from smoking, so maybe try edibles?
@@vossburton3437 oh my god it sucks! And I did try the edibles. Twice. Nothing really happened. Maybe a slight lightheadedness and got really hyper and talkative and irritated. Snoop dogg is a LIAR! 😁. One day when shrooms are legal maybe I'll get this "high" I keep hearing about. Till then, it's Miller time I guess.
The moment Mark said "1930's anti-cannabis propaganda" I was like "HELL YEAH! Reefer Madness!" And he went with the colour version! By the way, they made a musical based on this. The film version has an animated trip-out sequence after the main character eats a pot brownie, Alan Cumming battling reefer zombies, and a Vegas-style number sung by literal Jesus. It's awesome.
I know a young man who was tricked into eating a pot brownie, and since then, he’s been a train wreck. He lost about 60 pounds, has panic attacks, and now needs a scooter to ambulate.
What people don’t realise is that marijuana is indeed lethal. I myself nearly died because of it. All it took was one incident where my mates jeans and boxers fell down, whilst he was bowling in a public bowling ally. The laughter damn near killed me. I had a lucky escape. Giggles aren’t funny people they are dangerous.
Weed was demonized so much that when I tried it at age 13 I was like, “Wow, this is awesome! They lied to me about weed....I bet pain pills are not bad either!” Went on to get addicted to pain pills and heroin for about 11 years. I think big pharma was probably behind a lot of the demonization of weed.
I have a similar story. Pot had been demonized so much but when I tried it, it was great. I figured they lied about everything and eventually became an opiate addict.
God I was thinking the same thing. It reminds me of when they did a presentation on why marijuana is bad and dangerous at are school. And when they said it was a gateway to other stuff somebody yelled from up in the bleachers in the gym "the only thing it's a gateway to is my fridge". Everyone starting cracking up I think even a few of the chiller teachers were chuckling about that one.
12:11 "When you're high nothing good can happen. The only thing that can happen is death." Not true Mark. Apparently there's also a lot of frantic piano music. The most frightening thing is none of these people have ever had a piano lesson in their lives.
@@andrewgwilliam4831 Maybe that's why sharks are such dicks, they're all high all the time. If they switch to good old Bayer Heroine they'd be herbivores.
Now I like those kale chips. There's only the one brand; Rhythm, I assume those are the ones Mark tried. I have a dairy allergy, so I think the vegan cool ranch flavor is actually pretty good. I kept a bag of them in the passenger's seat the year I drove from PA to CA to move. That being said, it's not like I can't understand why someone wouldn't like them. They're really just passable if you want something greener and healthier than traditional corn/potato chips, but don't have time to cook. It's got a weird aftertaste, except the weird aftertaste is pretty much its entire flavor. My real complaint is with the texture. If you're driving, you don't want to get the powdered blend of garlic yeast and sunflower oil all over the steering wheel. And because they're just dried leaves they break REALLY easily. The average potato chip bag will be reduced to crumbs when about 1/12 of the chips are left. With kale chips, all the big, grabable pieces have shattered by the time half the bag is gone. Again, the only time I would actually want these is as a snack on the go, so needing a spoon is a big flaw. It's more of a weird craving I get occasionally because the food had time to grow on me, rather than anything I'd recommend to someone who doesn't already shop at Trader Joe's.
Thanks for this! My hippie parents used to go see this at the midnight movies in the 70’s and told me how hilarious it is while under the influence of the Devil’s Lettuce, and I’ve never actually seen it all the way through
Gotta say, really like the suit. It just adds that extra little touch of panache. And if there's one thing I love it's a side of panache with my bad movie viewing experience!!
Which is ironic, as alcohol is a lot more deadly and dangerous than MJ, especially with regards to the withdrawal symptoms. Being from Germany, it's rather sad to see how completely accepted the absolute mass consumption of beer (and other alcoholic beverages) has become in our country. You're definitely the odd one out if you don't drink alcohol here; you'll always have to explain yourself like you're a recovering addict or something. Well, excuse me for not wanting to destroy my liver and brain cells from 14 years of age onwards. I'm 31 now and I know plenty of people in my close circle of friends who'll definitely become alcohol addicts in the future (if they're not already, judging by the sheer amount they tend to drink on a regular basis). But will they listen? Nope.
"Violent laughter" is probably the worst form of laughter. "Somnolent laughter" and "Indifferent laughter" are pretty evil, but "violent laughter" is probably the worst of the three. That time I smoked Mary-Joanna for about ten years did actually cause incurable insanity in me, I unsuccessfully held down a job and raised a family during that time because of my drug induced madness. I also drank alcohol occasionally and still managed to get to work and think rationally! What a heel! How the hell did that happen?! Crazy! Now that I'm free from that horror I'm just a swell guy, and my incurable marihuana insanity has been cured! Well, I suppose I'll be paying my taxes more than I did already and agreeing with everything the government tells me I should now. So long folks, and have a great day!
I watched the Legend Films colorized version with commentary by Mike Nelson, and there's this one line I'll never forget; "Meanwhile, everyone failed to notice that the piano player was going bat$#@% insane".
Mark. I’ve decided you are my favourite RUclips guy. Sincere thank you for your videos, your passion for weird movies and your endless sarcasm. I will watch all your ads.
Capitalism needs an exploited underclass to function. As long as rich people write the rules, there can never be freedom or equality. Look at the US; split in two, supporting two sides of the same poisoned coin
@Kill Team Charlie capitalism causes poverty. You like people being poor so you can take advantage of them. You are a bad person who should reappraise the viability of continuing to exist
@Kill Team Charlie this movie (Reefer Madness), and the demonization of marijuana that produced it, was capitalist propaganda designed to disenfranchise Mexican-Americans, African-Americans, and the poor. So not only are you a bad person, but also an ignorant moron the likes of whom are frankly ten-a-penny in neoliberal hellworld
my grandma used to tell me that if you smoke marijuana you'll jump out of a window because you'll think you can fly, looking back on it now after all these years i've realized this: *you probably shouldn't tell this to a child who absolutely loves birds, airplanes and pretty much anything involving flight*
It's interesting that the purported "madness" on display is easily outclassed by many a modern action movie with protagonists who aren't even on drugs.
Seriously whoever did that colorization made some of the strangest color choices I could have imagined. Definitely adds to the bizarro nightmare quality of the whole thing!
I saw this movie in a screening on the University of Michigan campus circa 1970. No easy way to own a copy (reel-to-reel only) at the time, although film clubs and societies could rent them from movie rental companies for limited screenings. In 1974 Actor Roddy McDowell was raided by the FBI and had to surrender his collection of old movies.
I saw another review of this same film (B&W version) and it was hilarious. When I saw Mark posted this one I couldn't wait to see it (again) and as always, you didn't disappoint!
I'm surprised that they didn't blame the extinction of the dinosaurs on pot. T-Rex lighting up a blunt, gets the munchies, and makes the mistake of taking on an over-sized Triceratops. Will the species of Earth never learn?
Actually, the transition between hashish (the form it used used in in the 1800s) to today's marijuana joint made people at the time conflate the two. Hashish has such high levels of THC that hallucinations aren't uncommon.
@Ultra CNC I am high. But Alcohol is highest on top for the most of car accidents, violent behaviour, family destroying, ... in every county, in whole world...
@Ultra CNC Why you forgot to copy first sentence? After alcohol, marijuana is the drug most often found in the blood of drivers involved in crashes. www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/drugged-driving So, eather you don't know many people or you lie about this just as you lie in post before... Alsohol is the most dangerous drug and even your page that u use say exactly that! We are arguing about most obvious thing. Marijuana is on second place, but it is ofthen used combined with other drugs or alcohol.
@Ultra CNC After alcohol, marijuana is the drug most often found in the blood of drivers involved in crashes. Your institute you reffer to said that. What else you want? I didnt day that they are both not bad. Just that Alcohol is worsen then Marijuana and causes more car crashes, more violent behaviours, family abuses etc in whole wrld then Marijuana! FACT! Every Police statistics, Emergency, Court, etc will show the same... Alcohol is most dangerous drug. Are we really arguing about that? www.cdc.gov/transportationsafety/impaired_driving/impaired-drv_factsheet.html In 2016, 10,497 people died in alcohol-impaired driving crashes, accounting for 28% of all traffic-related deaths in the United States. Drugs other than alcohol (legal and illegal) are involved in about 16% of motor vehicle crashes. So, alcohol causes almost double crashes then all other drugs combined, including some way more dangerous then Marijuana like Heroin, MDMA, Meth, etc...
I remember seeing clips of it in the documentary 'Grass' and randomly found a copy of it at Best Buy for 5 bucks. Best purchase of my life! Hot Fingers is my spirit animal!
@@BaranoffIsaac True, and this was also during the Hays Code era for Hollywood, so this never got a proper showing in most theaters that showed Hollywood studios, so the filmmakers would pay people to go from town to town, and set up tents right outside of town, drum of business by word of mouth, and flyers, and then show the movie like a taboo traveling carnival show.
For the Record, "Reefer Madness: The Musical" is not just a good adaptation of this movie, I would say it's one of the best adaptations of anything of all time. Beat for beat, it recreates many iconic scenes from the original 1930's film, all while writing more compelling versions of each character AND making pointed criticisms of society at the time. It's great as a parody, as a stand-alone musical, and as a bleak meditation on how ignorance and racism can overpower all common sense. Like seriously guys, the movie's ending is depressing as shit. Even Cabaret ends with Sally at the train station being like "Dear god, what has Germany become?!" Reefer Madness, nobody is even present to object to the fact that they're literally burning books. Every character who was a voice of reason within the narrative, by the ending is either intimidated into silence, or dead! And then we see one unnamed black family notice every white person in town parading down the street with torches, and without a single word, the dad gives a look like "Today is really not my day. Bonnie, get the kids inside!"
This movie - as someone who drinks, is hilarious. They seem to have marihuana mixed up with crack and LSD. The most weed can get you is the three h's: really *high,* really *hungry,* and really (I stress this) *h-annoying because you can't shut up about how good weed is.*
They knew weed didnt do any of that🤣. It was all propaganda. Jazz music and the free swingin days of the 20's freaked people out. So they blamed it on "loco weed" (term from the 30's)
I LOVE the concept of 'violent laughter'. this is one of the best films of the genre of laughable nostalgic cinema. Great comedy relief and a wonderful insight into the government's use of film as propaganda.
Ah the good old days, when kids where playing Yoyos and hunting frogs until they were 21 years old, and parents looked like proper grand grand parents!
Notice that even in the coloured version there are no _coloureds?_ Once one knows a bit about the background of cannabis prohibition it's hard not to see the glaring subtext behind this film...anti-Jazz, anti-Bohemian, anti-Negro. 😐
I started smoking the Ma-Rah-Wah-naa. I just started watching FanboyFlicks and I haven't stopped for the last 5 years. It's an endless cycle. Sometimes, I think I'm Mark. Please, say a prayer for me.
Looking very sharp in that suit Mark. I didn’t know there was a version of this film in color. So now it’s even creepier. Loved this video and your channel!
My dad is a boomer and he told me when I was teen that if I ever wanna try it let him and he'll get the get the good stuff for me. He didn't want me to just buy from anyone off the street. Sadly at that time I was against drugs and alcohol. This was back in the late 80s. 30 something years later, I love alcohol and pot. I could have gotten that party started earlier but I think it was for the best to wait it out.
Actually these kids in the movie are the ones that gave birth to the "boomers" in the 40s.. Ironically those same boomers are the ones that started that whole free lovin, weed smokin, LSD hallucinatin, special snowflake justice school of thought with their privileged boomer 60s ways. That, interestingly enough, you might find yourself agreeing with today each time you take your daily dose of twitter soundbites ;) Yeah the zoomers didn't come up with that horse sh*t sorry for the disappointment bruh
@@jerres9585 There's a reason why I specified "hyper-conservative boomers" in an edit. ;) I know that the hippie movement happened, but that doesn't suddenly erase all the other boomers who talked shit about weed and LSD, but didn't give two fucks about those who shoved a billion cigs into their mouth per day. They still exist. They're still a bunch of hypocrites. Also, you don't get to whine about "Twitter horse shit" and use the term "special snowflake" in the same paragraph.
Me and my gf just did a road trip from Detroit Michigan to Kansas City Missouri and back...each way took us about 12 hours and on the way there and back we were able to watch every "Wierd Movies With Mark" and "Bad Movies" reviews...it help with the trip and it was greatly helpful with making the time fly...so i just wanted to say...thank you for the sanity of a long tedious drive
This makes my evening. Our heatingsystem just croaked and now I'm stuck under a ton of blankets, waiting for the emergency repair service and have this gem of drug prevention to save my life! Wooohoo! 🥳
This is why I love Canada, Mark. Reefer Madness has taken over the country since legalization, and now everyone outside of Alabam-berta is super chill.
@@jerres9585 you misspelled *Backwards* But, I’m sure the First Nations of the numbered treaties would love all their land and resources back, if North Alabama tries to secede from the confederation.
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It's amazing to see that 35 year old teenagers have always been a thing in Hollywood.
1am
It used to bug me, but now that I know more, i would rather pretend that a 35 year old is 15, than pretend a 15 year old is safe in the entertainment industry.
I see Mark is wearing perfect attire to throw some football with friends
He's just a chicken chipchipchip cheep
Chipchipchip cheeeep
But everyone knows that you can’t throw a football unless you’re in an alley way
@G 84 I never attire of it myself.
😂😂😂
I still can’t believe more people haven’t found your channel. RUclips needs to adjust their algorithms.
He doesn't upload regularly. There was a period he didn't upload at all. Old/bad movie reviews is a crowded and niche genre on yt. Get what your saying tho.
@@rickyvandusen1744 I’ve been been around since the multi-months long dry spells, where I thought the channel was dead.
He’s seemingly stuck right at that point where YT isn’t profitable enough to quit his job. So, he has to work full-time to live in The-6, and that makes it harder to make his quality videos on a normal weekly/bi-weekly schedule.
for real
The influence of an elder god may help 🤔
@@greenkoopa that’s my cousin, I’m just a podiatrist.
Fun fact: Dorothy Short, the lead actress who played Mary - the one who gets shot dead - and Dave O'Brien - the guy who plays Ralph, the drug addict - were actually MARRIED in real life for around 18 years, and had 2 children together. Sadly, she passed away 9 years after their divorce at just 47, and he died 5 years after that during a yacht race accident.
@Mark: Huge fan from India here :) Great job, as always!
probably was high on marihuana when she drove that yacht
Fellow fan from India here ✌️🤘
@@KronStaro Dave o'Brien died on the yacht, but yeah he was probably smoking that fire🔥 stuff.
"Yacht race accident"
What were the odds?
@@pretorious700 That has to be the richest way to go out ever. I'd like to think he died with one hand on the wheel and the other sipping champagne.
As one of Reefer Madness’ own performers, Thelma White (who played the vampy Mae, whose apartment is the setting for wild reefer parties) affirmed, exploitation filmmakers did their utmost to produce films that would provoke a visceral response in audiences. “The director wanted us to ‘hoke’ it up. He wanted us to show the ‘madness.’ ” She remarked: “I’m ashamed to say that it’s the only one of my films that’s become a classic.”
All this is to say that the makers of Reefer Madness (a title the movie was never known as until the 70s) knew what they were making was bullshit but being the pranksters and charlatans they were they did it anyway because the only goal of the movie was to make money.
The above quote is taken from the book Forbiden Gruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Film which is a really good read to find out more about this genre in the 30s and includes a number of things about Reefer Madness and it's distributor Dwain Esper
Yeah I'm pretty sure a film about a bunch of persons getting high would be so incredibly boring it'd drive moviegoers to drink.
The movie was made five years into the depression. I'm sure everyone involved did it for money lol
Briefer comments are better.
Reefer comments are better.
Ahhhh. One of the worst ever.
I love the way you put yourself onscreen as a character in the movie.
Made the same year as Modern Times, My Man Godfrey and Things To Come.
Also directed by the same man who directed Perils Of Pauline (1914). Louis J. Gasnier.
It's so smooth.
I totally missed that on first viewing of this!
He makes it better to watch!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Why do all these "teens" look like they're in their 30s?
Because they are! All were in the 30's!
That's why things are so strange today - nobody is a grown up yet.
Because that's how kids looked back then. Life was harder. 😁
What? You never seen a teenage thirty year old before? 🤪
@@dr.burtgummerfan439 Yea , if I were 7 years old, but looking like i'm about 36 years old, I wouldn't want to have to wear a suit and tie to the grocery store either. Parents must have hated their kids back in the day...
@@greybeard6504 Unfortunately, there are still a ton of those around now. ..
When you pointed out that everyone that smoked Marijuana in the 1930s was now dead, solid argument. I suffered from violent, uncontrollable laughter myself.
I suppose that a child or teen could have been given a reefer in 1939 and now be under 100 and still alive. Older people in the movie, of course.
My mother seriously thought Reefer Madness was a documentary.
50% documentary,50% "movie"
lmfao there's no way this comment is true unless she had never watched the movie at all
@@virg0_lem0nade IDK, grand boomers were very susceptible to all manner of propaganda and fear-mongering. I'm surprised they didn't imply that smoking weed turned you into a dirty commie.
@@PongoXBongo --- i'm just saying, it's possible that someone who had only heard of the movie thought it was a documentary, but absolutely not possible for anyone to think that after watching it. not just because of how ridiculous it is, but because it's not done in the style of a documentary at all. it's very clearly done as a fictional story, and there's even a long written disclaimer at the beginning that tells you it's a fictional story.
it's still propaganda material, but it was never intended as a documentary, and the OP of this comment was just writing something to get "likes".
@@PongoXBongo Yeah, and millenials aren't...gtfoh junior.
gotta be honest, smoking a joint is not as fun as they present it in the movie.
LOL...You must be smoking with the wrong group of people.
You just gotta dust it.
Oh boy.
Get jiving then, thats all you need.
Nothing is as fun as they portray this.
People seem to think marijuana have the same effects as LSD. In movies like these
Everyone suburbanite did, even into the 80s with The Friday the 13th sequel Freddy’s Dead.
I wish it made me high. It makes me hyper with dry mouth. Weed sucks. I wish I was normal.
@@FGuilt the dry mouth and throat sucks so much. Edibles could be a loophole around that. I know some people get the dry throat and mouth from smoking, so maybe try edibles?
@@vossburton3437 oh my god it sucks! And I did try the edibles. Twice. Nothing really happened. Maybe a slight lightheadedness and got really hyper and talkative and irritated. Snoop dogg is a LIAR! 😁. One day when shrooms are legal maybe I'll get this "high" I keep hearing about. Till then, it's Miller time I guess.
@@FGuilt come down to oregon. Shrooms are legal here
It would be cool if it actually made those colors when you smoke it.
Not for your lungs it would"nt
Incense and peppermints, the color of time 🎶 😁
Mine does. I'm lying but my point is irrelevant
it does, when you smoke it on LSD
It would be a whole lot cooler if it did...
The moment Mark said "1930's anti-cannabis propaganda" I was like "HELL YEAH! Reefer Madness!" And he went with the colour version!
By the way, they made a musical based on this. The film version has an animated trip-out sequence after the main character eats a pot brownie, Alan Cumming battling reefer zombies, and a Vegas-style number sung by literal Jesus. It's awesome.
I know a young man who was tricked into eating a pot brownie, and since then, he’s been a train wreck. He lost about 60 pounds, has panic attacks, and now needs a scooter to ambulate.
What people don’t realise is that marijuana is indeed lethal. I myself nearly died because of it. All it took was one incident where my mates jeans and boxers fell down, whilst he was bowling in a public bowling ally. The laughter damn near killed me. I had a lucky escape. Giggles aren’t funny people they are dangerous.
"They had us in the first half, I'm not gonna lie"
Holy crap, Mark looks scrumptious in black and white.
He looks so good. I said this on the last video he did B/W in!
Oh Rexy... you're sooo sexy!
Even funnier when considering a decade or two earlier they were using cocaine for tooth aches
And they put it in coke cola too.
I love it when Mark implements this aesthetic in his videos, especially when they’re in black and white.
Weed was demonized so much that when I tried it at age 13 I was like, “Wow, this is awesome! They lied to me about weed....I bet pain pills are not bad either!”
Went on to get addicted to pain pills and heroin for about 11 years. I think big pharma was probably behind a lot of the demonization of weed.
I have a similar story. Pot had been demonized so much but when I tried it, it was great. I figured they lied about everything and eventually became an opiate addict.
Bro I was just saying some shit very similar to this the other day.
Nobody’s fault but your own
"How could weed be deadly?"- smash cut to an Applebees ad.
Yeah, that'll do it.
God I was thinking the same thing. It reminds me of when they did a presentation on why marijuana is bad and dangerous at are school. And when they said it was a gateway to other stuff somebody yelled from up in the bleachers in the gym "the only thing it's a gateway to is my fridge". Everyone starting cracking up I think even a few of the chiller teachers were chuckling about that one.
If Fanboyflicks uploads ANYTHING, I watch it freaking IMMEDIATELY.
I have so much respect for you saying "typeface" instead of "font"
12:11 "When you're high nothing good can happen. The only thing that can happen is death."
Not true Mark. Apparently there's also a lot of frantic piano music. The most frightening thing is none of these people have ever had a piano lesson in their lives.
You're a lifesaver. I had no idea.
*hurls marijuana into the sea*
Great, now you've killed all the fish! 😡
*Marihuana
*dives in after it*
@@andrewgwilliam4831 Maybe that's why sharks are such dicks, they're all high all the time. If they switch to good old Bayer Heroine they'd be herbivores.
It's called marihauna
The history of the war on drugs is the greatest example of propaganda in America.
Pretty sure their nationalism is, but I get where you’re coming from
@@miketiker Actually the two are linked as anti-weed propaganda inflamed the public against Mexican immigrants
Amen
The biggest lie for me is that I don't get amazing ragtime piano skills
lol poor Mark still suffering from PTSD of vegan kale chips
Now I regret quitting playing the piano years ago. All I need was weed!!!
You could've been the next Liberace!
Now I like those kale chips. There's only the one brand; Rhythm, I assume those are the ones Mark tried. I have a dairy allergy, so I think the vegan cool ranch flavor is actually pretty good. I kept a bag of them in the passenger's seat the year I drove from PA to CA to move.
That being said, it's not like I can't understand why someone wouldn't like them. They're really just passable if you want something greener and healthier than traditional corn/potato chips, but don't have time to cook. It's got a weird aftertaste, except the weird aftertaste is pretty much its entire flavor. My real complaint is with the texture. If you're driving, you don't want to get the powdered blend of garlic yeast and sunflower oil all over the steering wheel. And because they're just dried leaves they break REALLY easily. The average potato chip bag will be reduced to crumbs when about 1/12 of the chips are left. With kale chips, all the big, grabable pieces have shattered by the time half the bag is gone. Again, the only time I would actually want these is as a snack on the go, so needing a spoon is a big flaw. It's more of a weird craving I get occasionally because the food had time to grow on me, rather than anything I'd recommend to someone who doesn't already shop at Trader Joe's.
I wouldn't object if this was the direction the entire channel went in.
I'm with you! I'd love if Mark take a look at Ingrid Bergman first Swedish film or Ingmar Bergman's " Summer with Monica".
Alice in Acidland
Oh Mark is covering Reefer Madness? Let me get my bowl.
literally loading the vape rig right now
We're all gonna die.
I hear he's still looking for his bowl
Soup or cereal?
Yep, never watched anything about Reefer Madness without vapin' my way through it... :)
The green screen bits, never get old.
Looking like a long lost son of Paul Giamatti never gets old.
All the power is out here due to wind. Turns out all it takes to summon Mark is a massive blackout!
What city do you live under? In Chicago, the weather has had mood swings all day. Rain, hale and super winds
@@moxiemaxie3543 Cleveland here, still no power, cold as all hell haha
Thanks for this! My hippie parents used to go see this at the midnight movies in the 70’s and told me how hilarious it is while under the influence of the Devil’s Lettuce, and I’ve never actually seen it all the way through
Gotta say, really like the suit. It just adds that extra little touch of panache. And if there's one thing I love it's a side of panache with my bad movie viewing experience!!
This documentary helped get me off the Whacky Tobaccy back in ’40’.
But presumably not until after you’d killed a load of people and gone mad?
@@vooveks Seriously, you squealin’ on me now after 80 years...you rat fink🤪...come ’n get me...
@@cameraman655 Watch out boys! He's got a gat! Probably back on that reefer, so no telling what he'll do!
I'm always killed by Mark when he interacts with the movie he's reviewing it. Sarcasm meter totally explodes
It's worth noting that a lot of the push to criminalize marijuana was funded by beer breweries that didn't want competition.
And by William Randolph Hearst and paper mills because they didn’t want hemp to replace the need to cut down trees.
Which is ironic, as alcohol is a lot more deadly and dangerous than MJ, especially with regards to the withdrawal symptoms. Being from Germany, it's rather sad to see how completely accepted the absolute mass consumption of beer (and other alcoholic beverages) has become in our country. You're definitely the odd one out if you don't drink alcohol here; you'll always have to explain yourself like you're a recovering addict or something. Well, excuse me for not wanting to destroy my liver and brain cells from 14 years of age onwards. I'm 31 now and I know plenty of people in my close circle of friends who'll definitely become alcohol addicts in the future (if they're not already, judging by the sheer amount they tend to drink on a regular basis). But will they listen? Nope.
Dude, Keep posting. We need you in 2020.
"Violent laughter" is probably the worst form of laughter. "Somnolent laughter" and "Indifferent laughter" are pretty evil, but "violent laughter" is probably the worst of the three. That time I smoked Mary-Joanna for about ten years did actually cause incurable insanity in me, I unsuccessfully held down a job and raised a family during that time because of my drug induced madness. I also drank alcohol occasionally and still managed to get to work and think rationally! What a heel! How the hell did that happen?! Crazy! Now that I'm free from that horror I'm just a swell guy, and my incurable marihuana insanity has been cured! Well, I suppose I'll be paying my taxes more than I did already and agreeing with everything the government tells me I should now. So long folks, and have a great day!
I watched the Legend Films colorized version with commentary by Mike Nelson, and there's this one line I'll never forget; "Meanwhile, everyone failed to notice that the piano player was going bat$#@% insane".
it makes me so happy to see you uploading regularly. no more waiting 6 months in between uploads lol.
Mark. I’ve decided you are my favourite RUclips guy. Sincere thank you for your videos, your passion for weird movies and your endless sarcasm. I will watch all your ads.
Media Sensationalism and Propaganda Never Left.
Only Changes It's Focus.
Capitalism needs an exploited underclass to function. As long as rich people write the rules, there can never be freedom or equality. Look at the US; split in two, supporting two sides of the same poisoned coin
@@willywonka7812 okay
@@moxiemaxie3543 do you have something to say or does your capacity for critical analysis reach beyond monosyllabic dismissal?
@Kill Team Charlie capitalism causes poverty. You like people being poor so you can take advantage of them. You are a bad person who should reappraise the viability of continuing to exist
@Kill Team Charlie this movie (Reefer Madness), and the demonization of marijuana that produced it, was capitalist propaganda designed to disenfranchise Mexican-Americans, African-Americans, and the poor.
So not only are you a bad person, but also an ignorant moron the likes of whom are frankly ten-a-penny in neoliberal hellworld
This black and white, suit and tie nuclear vibe is pretty great
this is one of my faves.Thank you Mark for making amazing content! Really helped me get through this pandemic and quarantine! \m/
my grandma used to tell me that if you smoke marijuana you'll jump out of a window because you'll think you can fly, looking back on it now after all these years i've realized this: *you probably shouldn't tell this to a child who absolutely loves birds, airplanes and pretty much anything involving flight*
This is the best coloration of a black and white film I’ve seen!
The film do look good though.
It's interesting that the purported "madness" on display is easily outclassed by many a modern action movie with protagonists who aren't even on drugs.
Who else was smoking the devil’s lettuce while watching this?
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*snoop dogg sounds*
@@viscountrainbows6452 Cypress Hill sounds also 😄
7:22. Appreciate your attention to detail with the chest-high, tucked in shirt. Very bee's knees 👌
The filmmakers never got around to doing a film about the dangers of Awkward WASP Dance Parties.
@Kill Team Charlie Sorry you have me confused with a fictional character that doesn't actually exist in the real world. Maybe work on your delusions.
@AtomicPickle1 IDK man, the Bible Belt don't look too good these days.
It's interpretive dance. They're channeling their inner Jed Clampett.
Dude you need more subscribers!!! Your content is excellent and hilarious! Keep up the good work mate.
I had only seen the black and white version of this movie. It's so much scarier colorized...so bubblegum.
Seriously whoever did that colorization made some of the strangest color choices I could have imagined. Definitely adds to the bizarro nightmare quality of the whole thing!
@@AlbinoAxolotl especially since they mainly picked color tones straight out of the 60’s.
I saw this movie in a screening on the University of Michigan campus circa 1970. No easy way to own a copy (reel-to-reel only) at the time, although film clubs and societies could rent them from movie rental companies for limited screenings. In 1974 Actor Roddy McDowell was raided by the FBI and had to surrender his collection of old movies.
Perfect for a Sunday night! Hope you're well Mark
Please don't stop editing yourself into the films. They're one of my favourite things from your videos!
Love from Toronto
Don’t bring any of that jive 30s weed to Mark’s house. He likes that good koosh
The movie "Child's Play" must have been MADE of "marihuana" because that film gave me the longest laugh attack I've ever had.
Any particular part that tickled your fancy?
Alcohol has destroyed more lives than weed ever will.
I saw another review of this same film (B&W version) and it was hilarious. When I saw Mark posted this one I couldn't wait to see it (again) and as always, you didn't disappoint!
I'm surprised that they didn't blame the extinction of the dinosaurs on pot. T-Rex lighting up a blunt, gets the munchies, and makes the mistake of taking on an over-sized Triceratops. Will the species of Earth never learn?
Actually, the transition between hashish (the form it used used in in the 1800s) to today's marijuana joint made people at the time conflate the two. Hashish has such high levels of THC that hallucinations aren't uncommon.
I've been making hashish for over 20 years, including stuff clocking in at 98% pure THC. That's simply not true. I wish it was, ha ha.
Wait... Is Root Beer not soda? Has it never been soda?
Nah, it's a soda.
Doug Whatshisname just lied to us that it wasn't.
...'soda' was actually a jive euphemism for liquid meth laced with peyote and daytura.
Ok, I've been binging your content all afternoon and thank you youtube for doing your job right for once and recommending me a good channel!
Only ones that act like those in movie are poeple on one most dangerous drug. Alcohol...
@Ultra CNC If you think it's not you must be drunk.
@Ultra CNC I am high. But Alcohol is highest on top for the most of car accidents, violent behaviour, family destroying, ... in every county, in whole world...
@Ultra CNC
Why you forgot to copy first sentence?
After alcohol, marijuana is the drug most often found in the blood of drivers involved in crashes.
www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/drugged-driving
So, eather you don't know many people or you lie about this just as you lie in post before...
Alsohol is the most dangerous drug and even your page that u use say exactly that! We are arguing about most obvious thing. Marijuana is on second place, but it is ofthen used combined with other drugs or alcohol.
@Ultra CNC After alcohol, marijuana is the drug most often found in the blood of drivers involved in crashes.
Your institute you reffer to said that. What else you want?
I didnt day that they are both not bad. Just that Alcohol is worsen then Marijuana and causes more car crashes, more violent behaviours, family abuses etc in whole wrld then Marijuana! FACT! Every Police statistics, Emergency, Court, etc will show the same...
Alcohol is most dangerous drug.
Are we really arguing about that?
www.cdc.gov/transportationsafety/impaired_driving/impaired-drv_factsheet.html
In 2016, 10,497 people died in alcohol-impaired driving crashes, accounting for 28% of all traffic-related deaths in the United States.
Drugs other than alcohol (legal and illegal) are involved in about 16% of motor vehicle crashes.
So, alcohol causes almost double crashes then all other drugs combined, including some way more dangerous then Marijuana like Heroin, MDMA, Meth, etc...
@@generalposlijebitke6688 don't try to argue with revisionist.. They live up to their namesake
When Akira Kurosawa used the pink smoke in his black n white film High and Low, he took the idea from Reefer Madness. True story.
Looking quite the dandy, Mark.
You’ve got to do “Blood Beat”
We don't see you as often as we'd like, but when we do it's always worth it 👍
I remember seeing clips of it in the documentary 'Grass' and randomly found a copy of it at Best Buy for 5 bucks. Best purchase of my life!
Hot Fingers is my spirit animal!
I'm surprised the film makers didn't call this movie 'Plants of Death' to really hammer home the dangers of Marihuana.
@@BaranoffIsaac True, and this was also during the Hays Code era for Hollywood, so this never got a proper showing in most theaters that showed Hollywood studios, so the filmmakers would pay people to go from town to town, and set up tents right outside of town, drum of business by word of mouth, and flyers, and then show the movie like a taboo traveling carnival show.
Your deadpan delivery is so funny lol
Damn hes right about everyone who smoked in the 30s is dead. Mind blown!!! Incoming a 100 year old man who smoked when he was 10.
He was only 10?
Late bloomer I guess.
Ahhh yes! Back when cigarettes were healthy! Lol
My father has been smoking since he was ten so I'll get back to you in thirty years once he hits that big one double o.
For the Record, "Reefer Madness: The Musical" is not just a good adaptation of this movie, I would say it's one of the best adaptations of anything of all time. Beat for beat, it recreates many iconic scenes from the original 1930's film, all while writing more compelling versions of each character AND making pointed criticisms of society at the time. It's great as a parody, as a stand-alone musical, and as a bleak meditation on how ignorance and racism can overpower all common sense. Like seriously guys, the movie's ending is depressing as shit. Even Cabaret ends with Sally at the train station being like "Dear god, what has Germany become?!" Reefer Madness, nobody is even present to object to the fact that they're literally burning books. Every character who was a voice of reason within the narrative, by the ending is either intimidated into silence, or dead! And then we see one unnamed black family notice every white person in town parading down the street with torches, and without a single word, the dad gives a look like "Today is really not my day. Bonnie, get the kids inside!"
As someone who smokes weed, I have to ask what were the writers smoking when they came up with that crawl? And where can I get some?
The best breakdown of this I have ever seen. It made me subscribe 😊
This movie - as someone who drinks, is hilarious.
They seem to have marihuana mixed up with crack and LSD. The most weed can get you is the three h's: really *high,* really *hungry,* and really (I stress this) *h-annoying because you can't shut up about how good weed is.*
So 2 hs
They knew weed didnt do any of that🤣. It was all propaganda. Jazz music and the free swingin days of the 20's freaked people out. So they blamed it on "loco weed" (term from the 30's)
I recently found your channel. You crack me up! I love when you insert yourself into the scenes.
I LOVE the concept of 'violent laughter'. this is one of the best films of the genre of laughable nostalgic cinema. Great comedy relief and a wonderful insight into the government's use of film as propaganda.
And physical emotions
The devil's lettuce! Duh duh da! 😂😂
Tom Hanks satanic panic movie should be next lol
Ah the good old days, when kids where playing Yoyos and hunting frogs until they were 21 years old, and parents looked like proper grand grand parents!
"Marihuana." 😂
No way. I was just rewatching all of your videos. Nice.
Notice that even in the coloured version there are no _coloureds?_ Once one knows a bit about the background of cannabis prohibition it's hard not to see the glaring subtext behind this film...anti-Jazz, anti-Bohemian, anti-Negro. 😐
Only a few minutes in and you got me laughing already XD
*watches while smoking weed"
I started smoking the Ma-Rah-Wah-naa. I just started watching FanboyFlicks and I haven't stopped for the last 5 years. It's an endless cycle. Sometimes, I think I'm Mark. Please, say a prayer for me.
The earliest I've been in 5 years! 😭😭😭
ruclips.net/video/vUzOwj-OJ2o/видео.html
Already off to a great start 👏
All hail the public domain 👌.
Looking very sharp in that suit Mark. I didn’t know there was a version of this film in color. So now it’s even creepier. Loved this video and your channel!
Steve Jobs would have made these bricks *slimmer*!
And cost twice as much for what you're actually getting.
@@johnathandon exactly! It's a revolution for buck's sake!
Man this is the most I’ve laughed at one of your vids. I know I’m a year late but this was a lot of fun. Cheers, bruv!
No one :
(Hyper-conservative) Boomers: "Weed is EEEEEEEVIL!"
Also (hyper-conservative) boomers: "Would you like some tobacco?"
My dad is a boomer and he told me when I was teen that if I ever wanna try it let him and he'll get the get the good stuff for me. He didn't want me to just buy from anyone off the street. Sadly at that time I was against drugs and alcohol. This was back in the late 80s. 30 something years later, I love alcohol and pot. I could have gotten that party started earlier but I think it was for the best to wait it out.
1930s Mark: "Would you like some asbestos?"
Actually these kids in the movie are the ones that gave birth to the "boomers" in the 40s.. Ironically those same boomers are the ones that started that whole free lovin, weed smokin, LSD hallucinatin, special snowflake justice school of thought with their privileged boomer 60s ways. That, interestingly enough, you might find yourself agreeing with today each time you take your daily dose of twitter soundbites ;) Yeah the zoomers didn't come up with that horse sh*t sorry for the disappointment bruh
@@jerres9585 There's a reason why I specified "hyper-conservative boomers" in an edit. ;) I know that the hippie movement happened, but that doesn't suddenly erase all the other boomers who talked shit about weed and LSD, but didn't give two fucks about those who shoved a billion cigs into their mouth per day. They still exist. They're still a bunch of hypocrites. Also, you don't get to whine about "Twitter horse shit" and use the term "special snowflake" in the same paragraph.
Me and my gf just did a road trip from Detroit Michigan to Kansas City Missouri and back...each way took us about 12 hours and on the way there and back we were able to watch every "Wierd Movies With Mark" and "Bad Movies" reviews...it help with the trip and it was greatly helpful with making the time fly...so i just wanted to say...thank you for the sanity of a long tedious drive
😂😂😂😂 That's actually Model Train Set grass😝 Used it all the time as a kid. Don't smoke model grass kids. 🤣🤣🤣🤣⌚
They couldn't use real *marihuana* it would have driven the actors insane!!!
This makes my evening.
Our heatingsystem just croaked and now I'm stuck under a ton of blankets, waiting for the emergency repair service and have this gem of drug prevention to save my life! Wooohoo! 🥳
This is why I love Canada, Mark. Reefer Madness has taken over the country since legalization, and now everyone outside of Alabam-berta is super chill.
ALBERTA is too badass to be in Canada
@@jerres9585 you misspelled *Backwards*
But, I’m sure the First Nations of the numbered treaties would love all their land and resources back, if North Alabama tries to secede from the confederation.
Dude, you nailed this one!!! Might want to expand your content universe
So, according to this disclaimer, mary-huana turns you into a woman
Then you never met a bordeline man...
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This movie is aggressively killing my brain cells! I can feel them dying by the hundreds.😞
Based
For when your name is Mark and you huana be Mary instead.
How perfect is it that the ad preceeding this review was for a weed shop.