Today on “Why Drugs Are Bad” we present the film Altered States…William Hurt’s film debut is one hell of a trippy and wild ride.

I'm trying to go ape mode.Well if there's one thing drug nerds teach you (and especially the cinematic ones) it is to take some notes! it is unbelievably goofy, sometimes nauseatingly so especially when characters are talking to each other (the romance stuff in this really makes me dry heave), but ya know sometimes its goofiness can be really fun and creative. "It is the Self, the individual Mind, that contains immortality and ultimate truth ... What the hell is not religious about that? I tried to stay with life, but death kept creeping out of those corners and slowly taking over everything that…"The purpose of our suffering is only more suffering. Altered States (English) 0 references. movie/altered-states. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, time, and perhaps reality itself are states of mind. I haven't seen most of these movies.…Movies made by auteur directors with a very arthouse sensibility, that happen to be genre movies (e.g. This list is getting long so I moved some sections to…Every film that has ever been nominated for an Academy Award in any category. Statements. The movie follows Eddie's experimentation with sensory deprivation chambers and psychedelic drugs, as he attempts to reach enlightenment and find God. ... Letterboxd film ID. horror films, heist…Replicated film poster designs. For the /tv/ Film Club.. Altered States can best be described as Ken Russell's own 2001; his film is an odyssey that takes the main character, Eddie, back to the origins of humanity.It also contains a lot of trippy lightshows. Now I know where the Self is. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, time, and perhaps reality itself are states of mind. It's in our own minds. A (never-ending?) this movie seems like it thinks it's getting at something big when really it isn't saying much of anything. I don’t think that’s the movie’s intention, but it’s what makes the movie continue to work so…Just looking at the scratchy, vintage looking poster and saying the name out loud makes you think you are about to watch some super old, obscure experimental film that breaks every fabric of conventional film structure and logic to create an entirely unique artistic experience. That finale was a mesh of screensavers and I guess love overcomes genetic regression?Si tu novie no te redime del abismo en el momento de terror que es el inicio de la vida, realmente te ama?? That finale was a mesh of screensavers and I guess love overcomes genetic regression?Si tu novie no te redime del abismo en el momento de terror que es el inicio de la vida, realmente te ama?? Definitely wasn't expecting the body horror elements, but I was into it.The biggest downfall is the plot which is already confusing, but made even more so by poor editing and a sour endingKind of boring, but kind of visually entertaining?

1980 film by Ken Russell. I'm trying to go ape mode.Well if there's one thing drug nerds teach you (and especially the cinematic ones) it is to take some notes! With William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, Charles Haid. Watching the wheels come off the cart of this movie feels like a hallucinatory experience all it’s own.Leave it to Ken Russell to not only make a very intelligent science fiction film, but to also induce it with a unique visual and aural weirdness.The plot is as interesting as it is hard to grasp.

1 reference. These characters now come off as purposefully annoying, blinkered by their own little sociocultural bubble of effortlessly won Harvard jobs, which only makes their lust for the ancient, the wild, more fascinating to watch. This list is getting long so I moved some sections to…Every film that has ever been nominated for an Academy Award in any category. A Harvard scientist conducts experiments on himself with a hallucinatory drug and an isolation chamber that may be causing him to regress genetically. I remember that life was beautiful and full of pretty colors and beautiful imagery, but in the darkened corners of that house was death and it was cold and ugly and completely void of any of the warmth that life contained.

just read an oliver sacks book and you'll be much happier in my fockin opinionThis would actually explain why Joe Rogan is so weird.one of those movies that i'm never quite sure how seriously its asking me to take it. "If you are into mind-altering substances and enjoy listening to philosophical pseudoscientific jargon, then this is the movie for you!…I can't believe it took me so long to get round to this one.

From Aldous Huxley to Bill Lee, to Raoul Duke or to Dr. Gonzo or even Dr. Edward Jessup (William Hurt), our psilocybin-swallowing science hero of Ken Russell's That janitor has it figured out. When I was 19, I had a really bad trip that resulted from me unknowingly taking a much larger quantity of acid than I realized. Altered States is a 1980 American science-fiction horror film directed by Ken Russell based on the novel of the same name by playwright and screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky.The film was adapted from Chayefsky's only novel, published in 1978, and is his final screenplay. imported from Wikimedia project. Definitely wasn't expecting the body horror elements, but I was into it.The biggest downfall is the plot which is already confusing, but made even more so by poor editing and a sour endingKind of boring, but kind of visually entertaining? On paper, it should be right up my alley - tripped out, Cronenberg-channeling body horror - and sure enough, it is!I'm not sure I totally followed everything, but who cares when you have multi-eyed goats, distorted lava women, and visceral, pulsating practical effects. instance of. I don’t think that’s the movie’s intention, but it’s what makes the movie continue to work so…Just looking at the scratchy, vintage looking poster and saying the name out loud makes you think you are about to watch some super old, obscure experimental film that breaks every fabric of conventional film structure and logic to create an entirely unique artistic experience. OTOH, also inadvertently, the movie’s depiction of the educated intellectual class and how baffled it looks whenever it ‘discovers’ the culture of the Other has only gotten more persuasive.