The Trip
1967 Directed by Roger Corman
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Listen to the sound of love. Feel purple. Taste green. Touch the scream that crawls up the wall!
Paul Groves (Peter Fonda), a television commercial director, is in the midst of a personality crisis. His wife Sally (Susan Strasberg) has left him and he seeks the help of his friend John (Bruce Dern), a self-styled guru who's an advocate of LSD. Paul asks John to be the guide on his first "trip". John takes Paul to a "freak-out" at his friend Max's (Dennis Hopper) pad. Splitting the scene, they score some acid from Max and return to John's split-level pad with an indoor pool. Paul experiences visions of sex, death, strobe lights, flowers, dancing girls, witches, hooded riders, a torture chamber, and a dwarf. He panics but John tells him to "go with it, man." Would you trust John?
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"THIS PICTURE REPRESENTS A SHOCKING COMMENTARY ON A PREVALENT TREND OF OUR TIME, AND ONE THAT MUST BE OF GREAT CONCERN TO ALL"
When I heard that this LSD movie contained the DNA to Easy Rider I just had to see it. The Trip is written by Jack Nicholson and features a dope smoking Dennis Hopper, you see. Plus, Peter Fonda plays a commercials director keen to try the drug in the hope of finding something out about himself. After taking it at a friend's house, played by the experienced Bruce Dern, Fonda witnesses a series of stroboscopic light shows that flicker between various pleasurable encounters. Imagining he's in various locations, he runs around the room like a toddler, while…
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The earliest incarnations of my cinematic self-education came from late night viewings of DVDs taken from my older brother's collection and sneakily watched in near-silence when I was supposed to be sleeping. Being a young kid, naturally the highest-rated films were always the chosen ones, and I found myself awash with the violent and sexualised wonders of New Hollywood. I knew Roger Corman's fostering of the talent behind these films was crucial to that great period in film history, but never did I realise that he had himself made something so completely in touch with those ideas, so hugely influential in its aesthetic and thematic material. This is a clear precursor to New Hollywood, most clearly Easy Rider, a truly…
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The Trip is a rather bizarre cult flick that takes a look into the effects of the drug LSD, which was a popular craze with hippies back in the late 1960s. Directed by Roger Corman and written by Jack Nicholson back in 1967, it was fairly controversial over here in the UK when it was banned for the strong drug theme and glorification of LSD. It remained this way for decades until it finally received a home video release in 2002.
The plot is quite basic. Peter Fonda plays Paul Groves, a man who is struggling to cope with the divorce with his ex-wife. He visits his friend John, who tries to help him get over his loss by giving…
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i just didnt get it....
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For many years I have put off watching this, expecting a series of ‘trips’ linked by rather inane dialogue. In fact it’s just one ‘trip’ and what dialogue there is is fine. Admittedly I used the fast forward occasionally but this is nevertheless a rather decent effort. It’s bright and flashy and if a little slow at times, makes up for it at others. Two main problems are that it is Fonda all the way and he is barely up to it, only excused by the fact that he is supposedly on this ‘trip’ throughout the whole film. The other problem and I feel it’s a major one is the music. Budget restraints were probably to blame but it really is a shame that the soundtrack should be so limp. This has to be the finest psychedelic film we have, and so quick off the mark, it could have been a real wow with the right sounds.
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Roger Corman’s LSD expose is his most indulgent film, a brief excursion into “square” Peter Fonda’s first experience with the drug. Film school psychedelic imagery fills the film, which really doesn’t have much of a plot to speak of, but it’s badly dated and often bsurprisingly oring. Things get more interesting when Fonda heads out on the street, but the ending is entriely anti-climactic--he simply sobers up
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i just didnt get it....
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The Trip is a rather bizarre cult flick that takes a look into the effects of the drug LSD, which was a popular craze with hippies back in the late 1960s. Directed by Roger Corman and written by Jack Nicholson back in 1967, it was fairly controversial over here in the UK when it was banned for the strong drug theme and glorification of LSD. It remained this way for decades until it finally received a home video release in 2002.
The plot is quite basic. Peter Fonda plays Paul Groves, a man who is struggling to cope with the divorce with his ex-wife. He visits his friend John, who tries to help him get over his loss by giving…
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Not a movie that you will watch many times but I think it's a classic from the counter-culture era. Wouldn't recommend it to someone who likes a precise storyline, the film is as inconsequent as a person under LSD.
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Just watched Roger Corman's THE TRIP, starring Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper in a pre-Easy Rider freak-out. This is a movie about a guy who takes acid for the first time, and the rest of the movie is about what happens to him on his trip. This movie is full of bright colors, free association montage, and strobe lights, but it doesn't really qualify as a head-trip movie or a thesis on hippy philosophy, despite it's best efforts. This is no Enter the Void, or even Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, but it does make for a nice 60's drug-scene time-capsule.I found this movie to be entertaining, even if it does run out of story halfway through.
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"THIS PICTURE REPRESENTS A SHOCKING COMMENTARY ON A PREVALENT TREND OF OUR TIME, AND ONE THAT MUST BE OF GREAT CONCERN TO ALL"
When I heard that this LSD movie contained the DNA to Easy Rider I just had to see it. The Trip is written by Jack Nicholson and features a dope smoking Dennis Hopper, you see. Plus, Peter Fonda plays a commercials director keen to try the drug in the hope of finding something out about himself. After taking it at a friend's house, played by the experienced Bruce Dern, Fonda witnesses a series of stroboscopic light shows that flicker between various pleasurable encounters. Imagining he's in various locations, he runs around the room like a toddler, while…
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For many years I have put off watching this, expecting a series of ‘trips’ linked by rather inane dialogue. In fact it’s just one ‘trip’ and what dialogue there is is fine. Admittedly I used the fast forward occasionally but this is nevertheless a rather decent effort. It’s bright and flashy and if a little slow at times, makes up for it at others. Two main problems are that it is Fonda all the way and he is barely up to it, only excused by the fact that he is supposedly on this ‘trip’ throughout the whole film. The other problem and I feel it’s a major one is the music. Budget restraints were probably to blame but it really is a shame that the soundtrack should be so limp. This has to be the finest psychedelic film we have, and so quick off the mark, it could have been a real wow with the right sounds.
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The earliest incarnations of my cinematic self-education came from late night viewings of DVDs taken from my older brother's collection and sneakily watched in near-silence when I was supposed to be sleeping. Being a young kid, naturally the highest-rated films were always the chosen ones, and I found myself awash with the violent and sexualised wonders of New Hollywood. I knew Roger Corman's fostering of the talent behind these films was crucial to that great period in film history, but never did I realise that he had himself made something so completely in touch with those ideas, so hugely influential in its aesthetic and thematic material. This is a clear precursor to New Hollywood, most clearly Easy Rider, a truly…
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Roger Corman directed LSD freak out film was written by Jack Nicholson and features plenty of psychedelic-editing and trippy lighting. Pretty interesting, if not a little dated, but worth a watch nonetheless for Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper.
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A well-directed drugploitationer from Roger Corman about a commercial director (Peter Fonda) in the midst of a divorce who decides to unwind with some LSD. He ends up having one incredibly bad trip, running from the home of his friend (Bruce Dern) and into the city. Written by Jack Nicholson, the film occasionally felt to me like AFTER HOURS in reverse -- instead of a man encountering strange things in the night, the Los Angeles nightlife encounters him, acting strange as he's stoned out of his mind. Not for everyone, but I liked it.