Incredibly flawed in its occasional mimicking of Tim Blake Nelson’s past collaborators and peers (the Coens notably come to mind here), but the attempt is pretty cool all the same.
I like that it seems Nelson kinda wanted to make a true stoner movie, not one playing dress-up but actually living by and indulging in the various “stoner” philosophies that our main character has been teaching as a straight-laced professor.
It does feel like a haze of contradictions at times which is partly the fun, so I admire the guy who made The Grey Zone to be ambitious again in a rather different way.
Also, I believe the ultimate thing you can be in life according to this movie is a Jewish stoner so hallelujah.
Incredibly flawed in its occasional mimicking of Tim Blake Nelson’s past collaborators and peers (the Coens notably come to mind here), but the attempt is pretty cool all the same.
I like that it seems Nelson kinda wanted to make a true stoner movie, not one playing dress-up but actually living by and indulging in the various “stoner” philosophies that our main character has been teaching as a straight-laced professor.
It does feel like a haze of contradictions at times which is partly the fun, so I admire the guy who made The Grey Zone to be ambitious again in a rather different way.
Also, I believe the ultimate thing you can be in life according to this movie is a Jewish stoner so hallelujah.
