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FUNKNUGGET
02-25-2008, 01:14 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7vMqowaPig



I really want to see this... Anyone know when it comes out?

other thoughts/ opinions?

SkyHigh420
02-25-2008, 01:27 AM
i wanna see this too it looks like it would be both interesting and hilarious. i think i heard something like spring/summer release in theaters but i really have no idea. if anyone else knows inform me! :jointsmile:

420_24/7
02-25-2008, 01:32 AM
So what exactly is he doing?
Smoking lots of weed for 30 days or something, i couldnt understand it from the video.
Also that doctor is a dumbass, "you smoke marijuana, you basically drank the koolaid"
Cause you know, the evil weed will kill you if you smoke it just one time.

smok3y
02-25-2008, 01:32 AM
Some one did a thread on this a while ago.. Looks pretty dam good, cant wait till its out.

Super High Me (http://www.theclawproductions.com/shm.html)

Director: Michael Blieden
Producer: Alex Campbell, Executive Producer: DJ Paul, Co-Executive Producers: Ted Sarandos and Bahman Naraghi, Co-Producer: Inman Young

Watch the Youtube Teaser if you haven't already.

Blieden's notes:

I was at Patton Oswald's wedding in 2005 and Doug Benson came up to me and said "I'd really like to work with you on something. There's this joke in my act that I think would make a great movie." The joke is about the movie Supersize Me, in which Morgan Spurlock ate McDonalds all day every day for 30 days. Doug suggests the same concept, only with pot - "Super High Me".

Over lunch a couple days later we seriously discussed making a documentary about a guy who smokes pot for 30 days straight. I suggested that perhaps in order to add some gravitas, that the ON month be followed by an OFF month in which Doug quits smoking pot. Doug liked the idea, but argued that the ON month should come second because "that was going to be the fun part."

I think that Doug and I understood the potential controversy that the idea could generate, and we hesitated for several months without really trying to get the movie made. In casual conversations, Netflix had expressed some interest in getting involved, but neither Doug nor I made a serious push. Then one day I ran into prodcuer Alex Campbell who had just learned of Los Angeles's thriving medical marijuana movement. I casually mentioned the Doug Benson project and Campbell siezed on it. Six months later we were in production. Without Alex the movie would have languished indefinitely.

Super High Me was, in its inception, a light hearted comedy about a guy who smokes pot. And even though the movie covers weighty public policy issues and the ongoing battle of State's Rights, I think we succeeded in making a light hearted comedy about a guy who smokes pot. That being said, I feel it is important to acknowledge that while I am pro-marijuana, it is certainly not a good thing for everyone. It may sound ridiculous to say this, but I hope that all the snappily edited footage of people enjoying marijuana, laughing, and behaving responsibly doesn't reduce the idea of pot use to a simple argument of good or bad. Even a marijuana advocate like myself knows that it's much more complicated than that.

It is my sincere hope that people who are against marijuana see this film and find support (even unintentional support) for their views. Similarly, I hope that people who like marijuana see the film and find support for theirs.

I will say this. We did try to find people to come out very strongly against against marijuana, but in California that's harder than you'd think. And when people ask me what I've been up to recently, even people outside of California, when I tell them about Super High Me, they always laugh and say the same thing. "I gotta see that."

Super High Me should be in theaters in early 2008.

FUNKNUGGET
02-25-2008, 09:38 PM
^^^ thanks for the info... is it really going to be in theaters??? seems to me like the type of movie they would send straight to video or something...

smok3y
02-25-2008, 10:54 PM
Not sure if they will release it in theaters. Think they will release it at some film festive.. Or it could just be one that goes straight to dvd.. Need to wait and see....:jointsmile:

jagarr
02-25-2008, 11:13 PM
i am more than a little pumped for this movie.

i absolutely love documentaries of all kinds.

Cannakush
02-26-2008, 02:18 AM
Looks good, but should he really be talkin about it killin him? It could misinform some ppl who know nothing about pot. Idk looks like a good movie.