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Yesterday I dropped acid and then watched Mandy followed by Beyond the Black Rainbow and my idea of what cinema can be has just been shattered. Thanks Cosmatos.
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SlimGoodbody posted:This was my read. It seemed to be tied to a character's intent or purity of purpose, and just made them more of whatever they were inside, like how the super soldier serum affected Captain America, Red Skull, and Abomination differently. This makes sense considering real LSD also can have very different effects depending on several factors, so specifically namedropping that as the basis for the fictional superdrug seems to support that reading.
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Oct 10, 2018 20:41
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Free Drinks posted:I would highly recommend The Void (a different film from Enter the Void), but with a big grain a salt. I don't know how that works, but it's a very interesting movie that just doesn't live up to it's potential. It's overt in it's use of supernatural eldritch forces but I feel shares some of the ethereal dread that comes from Mandy. Though I'll say it's faaar closer to Event Horizon than any of the others on your list. Cosmatos is thanked in the credits for this, so I'm planning to watch it soon just based on that.
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Oct 13, 2018 03:37
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Free Drinks posted:I really love this and how he licks his fingers when he puts his hands down. If you don't know anything about LSD, he is soaking the paper with the drug suspended in a solvent. So he's dunking his hands in LSD. His bare hands.There's a reason the guy basically doesn't have irises the whole scene. And it's that. Like, holy poo poo. While LSD is indeed an extremely potent drug in terms of dose and licking those fingers would normally hit you like a ton of bricks, LSD tolerance also builds really quickly (as in if you take it two days in a row you'll need about three times the dose on the second day to get the same effect) and if that dude takes it daily, a little lick of his fingers is unlikely to do much. Also, anecdotal evidence from hardcore acid-heads suggest that very large doses will screw up your tolerance for much longer, possibly for life. Probably the same reason that one dude chugs it like it's beer.
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Oct 19, 2018 18:12
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SlimGoodbody posted:Ftfy Thanks, the keys are like right next to each other.
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Oct 19, 2018 18:53
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Free Drinks posted:I am aware of the licking part, heck that would mostly be ethanol or another solvent anyway, but the dunking your hands in it all the time would likely be enough to be hosed up 24/7 regardless of tolerance. I mean, obviously in reality there is some point where it wouldn't have the same impact, but if you made acid nearly nude and with bare hands, you would be one hosed up dude. Actually...
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