Yet again I find myself watching things I am told I probably should have seen years ago if I am going to call myself a fan of films in general or their particular genres.
Neo Tokyo (1987)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185481/
Technically it is 3 shorts totally 50 minutes from 3 legendary anime/manga writers so I don't know if film is suitable description but eh.
Did next to nothing for me, though I can see why compared to what else was out there at the time that it has the recognition it does. All three of the premises were interesting all failed to either make me want to learn more about the world, have a short story or even give a particularly clear message. This might have been more because I have seen all of them done better elsewhere in the years since.
Super Troopers
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0247745/
The misadventures of a state trooper station in a do nothing part of highway as they face being shut down.
Not going to be my favourite film and am not sure why people care to rewatch it a lot but for a comedy film, much less what would be a stoner film by most definitions, I actually had a good time. What I will say however is if you are trying to introduce people to stoner comedies think long and hard before you pick this over Harold and Kumar, Dude Where's my car or Cheech and Chong's better offerings.
The Abyss
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096754/
Submarine goes down and a deep sea submersible platform crew team up with the military to investigate.
Every instinct I had told me to stop at the would be a bittersweet ending part, indeed even the universe thought it would lend a hand and interrupted the stream. I ignored them and restarted the stream. What had previously been a pretty serviceable (science boy and armchair general wanted to have some words but were shushed easily enough) scifi - people trapped with a mission and a serious fate if they fail was almost undone by a Hollywood ending.
