The Stöned Age

The Stöned Age

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8.0!!! Is it really THAT good??? Judging by what was seen and experienced in THE STONED AGE, the answer provides pure and simple honesty in telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. That answer is NO!!! It appears we still have much to celebrate over the 70s, which is why this earned a very high rating. The replicas are true in form, except that it's too indistinguishable between now and then. Make no mistake, but this comes VERY CLOSE to the no-end, dead-end entertaining value of BIO-DOME! The vulgarity doesn't make this cool, especially when it takes up most of the spoken dialogue. The film also lacks comedy, only to be replaced by nonexistent acting and alcohol drinkers. Best idea ever devised: urinated ice cubes! Mark my words, everybody! Anymore movies like this will have all of us getting STONED! Final score: 3.0.

This is one awesome film. One of the greats in which they can keep the pace up without really having a plot for the full 90+ minutes. It's compared to Dazed & Confused SO many times, and why, because they both portrait teen life in the 70's? The truth is that these films are completely different. I own both & though Dazed and Confused is good for a few times, the plot gets kinda boring... I mean, in reality, how many 'last day of school' comedies can you watch, even if this one does have a 70's twist. The Stoned Age, on the other hand goes its own way & it's beautiful for that. It probably had a low budget, but you grow to love (& even though he's *supposed* to be a loser) connect too with Joe, especially as he just gets his as kicked all the time. Another great character was Tack. This guy's so funny 'cause he's so clueless, 'hey, get naked or shut up' is probably his best line, though he has a load through the film. I also like it that unlike most teen comedies (dazed & confused included, all the actors haven't come straight off the modelling track. They're mostly ordinary looking, and the film in my view is better for that. This is a great film. I've watched it loads & the scene after the girls are talking in the toilet always cracks me up. :)

This movie a cheap rip-off of Dazed and Confused. I don't know what anyone was thinking when they participated in the making of this film. I would rather be poked in the eye than suffer through this movie ever again!! Save your time, effort and money and never see this movie.

It's sad that many people who commented on this gem, either didn't get it, nitpick over it's faults (yes they are there but all movies have them), or want to compare it to Dazed and Confused. They are two different movies altogether. For one the kids in Dazed and Confused were essentially the 10% - rich, athletic, and popular kids in school partying it up. Then of course there was the rest of us. If you were an average teen in the late 70's or early 80's, driving, drinking, and smoking whatever you could afford then you got this movie for sure. Smoking skank weed out of a crushed Shlitz Malt Liquor tall can - been there, did it. Driving a vehicle that was a barely moving invitation for the cops to bust you (try a brush painted green Chevy Luv pickup for nasty)- did that too. Getting wasted and crashing the rich kid/jock kegger with your friends - did that more times than I can count. I especially liked how the writer/director portrayed Joe and Hubbs - for once long haired, hard rock listening, beer swilling, stoners weren't turned into violent sociopaths. There was no nannying Lifetime style message about drug and alcohol use. These were good kids, who while on the wild side, would more than likely grow up to be pretty responsible adults - like most of us did. It's sad there was never a follow up to this one. I liked the characters enough that seeing them in later years (can you picture both Joe and Hubbs being the father character, dealing with the hip hop listening punks of today - I could)would surely be worth seeing. This a great, nearly forgotten gem that deserves the 10 I gave it. Crack open a tall OX 45, light up some lumbo and enjoy

This is my fav movie, every person in this movie is cool. I wish some day that a sequal will be made, who ever made this movie should of won some kind of award,I think this movie doesn't get the credit it deserves for being one of the best films ever. It is sad that every movie now has either some fake rapper or a billion dollar budget, blue oyster cult is way cooler then nelly or emenim and colt 45 is way cooler then smirnof ice,I'm only 18 but I have way more respect for this generation then my own.

Several years ago, I rented this movie because of the "Better than Dazed and Confused" statement on the box. Maybe it was the booze, maybe the weed, but I never thought to ask who had made such a lofty statement. I learned a valuable lesson that night: Never make decisions while wasted. This movie was completely moronic, and not in the funny "Airplane" sense. It was just plain stupid. Weak plot, weak dialogue, and apparently no continuity to speak of. It also suffers from forgettable actors, and substandard filming. Save your money kids... 2/10.

This is an awesome movie, but the reason why is pretty subtle (or maybe not so subtle). It is one of the few movies of this genre (rock n' roll pot smoking, sex, adolescent mayhem) which actually takes the audience seriously enough to bother putting in a plot, and a character -- Joe -- that is interesting, I mean, he's a nice guy who doesn't want to be a "worm," unlike his more-popular friend Hubbs, but he keeps getting cheated out of "his" chicks! I think this movie was cooked up as a studio marketing idea, that is, "Hey! Dazed and Confused is so popular right now, let's cash in on that craze and make a '70s kids-smoking-pot movie!" but the writer/director actually bothered to write something interesting instead of mindless eye-candy. Like a character in the movie says, "At least you've got something going on up there!" I also have to say that this is one of the few movies I've ever seen where metalheads are portrayed as the heroes. Too often headbangers in movies are shown as thugs, bullies or morons, but this flick dares to have heroes and sympathetic characters headbanging to Black Sabbath and Blue Oyster Cult. A 10, definitely!