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Matthew D A visual feast, but not much of a movie. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 06/18/21 Full Review Audience Member What the hell did I just watch? Peter Fonda on a acid trip in the 60's sounded like it would be interesting. Turns out I was confused by this movie, probably only made sense to people on acid idk I only watched this movie once and once is more then enough, don't even watch this movie once. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Audience Member This is the OTHER Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, and Dennis Hopper hippy flick, and it's far more obnoxiously styled and insecure than its successor. Perhaps my lack of hallucinogenic drug-use will be apparent, but compared with, say, Midsommar, this never came close to putting me in that state. The dated tripping scenes, of which most of this movie is comprised, range from boring to straight-up laughable; I kept expecting Austin Powers to pop-up. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member Oversimplifies in some respects and is downright misleading in others. Kudos to them for trying, but tripping is an individualized, altered perception, multi-sensory experience that just can't be truly captured on film. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Now, let me get something straight with you people reading this 4.5 review of this film. This movie is definitely a B-movie Roger Corman psychsploitation movie from *the* psychedelic year, 1967. Which is to say that technically it's not good by almost any standard now and is in some places hilariously dated (almost every character says "groovy" and uses hippy dippy philosophical language). So why do I nearly give it five stars? Well, *because* it's a 1967 psychsploitation B-movie, and it does almost the best job of that that you really can. Some of the trip scenes look like "soft-focus tinsel, Lite Brite, and secondhand Vincent Price dungeons" in the words of Charles Cassady, and the ending was a studio forced "don't do drugs" PSA, but the film still remains startling and powerful despite these issues. The imagery is memorable and creative at its best, with some astonishing editing that cuts in and out of images at a wild pace. Jack Nicholson wrote the screenplay for this film, as he did with one of my all time favorite films, "Head." The film is unfortunately more tiring and repetitive at times than "Head," which was certainly a much more accomplished masterpiece. While the words in this film are not brilliant and the plot is threadbare (as one should hope with a drug trip movie), it does a perfect job of capturing an era. This is really what it boils down to for me. The movie has a lot of faults if you're a staunch modern critic who wants everything done your way, but looking at it through the lens of just seeing a fun psychedelic B-movie with some stunning visuals from the height of the era, then you're going to walk away happy with the experience. I also give props to the tagline for the film, which may be one of the best of all time: "A Lovely Sort of Death." Why has no one used that for an album title? Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member Probably better if watched while under the influence of drugs. Also needs more Dennis Hopper Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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