Psych-Out / The Trip
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Movie Reviews of Psych-Out / The Trip
Movie Review: Rack Focus!
Summary: 4 Stars
This disc is so worth getting just for the mini-documentaries included for each. If you have any interest at all in filmmaking, they're even better. Director Richard Rush discusses his technique for the film "Psych Out." If you're familiar with the concept of rack focus, he discusses how he shot his film built entirely around that concept. Using it in lieu of cuts and fades. Fascinating! There's also technical stuff about "The Trip" and how they achieved the special effects. Even funnier is the fact that Roger Corman dropped acid for research purposes! (What people will do for their art!) Bruce Dern is highly amusing as he discusses how drugs ruined people's work ethic and habits back in the day (hmm, he wouldn't be including Jack in that, would he?). Bruce also does quite a fine Nicholson impersonation. Overall, both films are worth seeing. I love the look of both, with beautiful saturated colors -- they don't make film stocks like that anymore. The films are pristine, too, with little evidence of scratches and whatnot as so often you get when older movies are transferred to DVD. "Psycho Out" is extremely funny. There's a wonderful love scene that looks like one of those old black light posters brought to life. Lots of bad acid trips. And a gay couple is presented very matter-of-factly, like, hey, this is set in San Francisco, no big deal. I never even realized that the two characters were a gay couple when I first saw the film years ago on television. The things you learn from DVD viewing! Anyways, this is a must-have DVD, a real bargain, and a potential learning experience for film students. Get it! It's a trip!Movie Review: Reality is Dangerous
Summary: 4 Stars
An interesting film trip through 1960's Haight, but for the most part this is visual porn. Plot of Psych Out is disjointed and is all over the place. Film makers try to incorporate everything from the scene-the bands, the posters, the drugs, the sex, the attitudes and the viewer just ends up a little bewildered.
I like San Francisco, so this film was appealing to me. People who are attracted to the city, the era, or the actors are going to find this film appealing. Others may find it without merit. I suggest the film I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! if you want a glimpse of the era AND a bit of a plot.
Performances by Nicholson and Stockwell were good. Stockwell lays down tracks for later performances in David Lynch films like Twin Peaks - The Definitive Gold Box Edition (The Complete Series)
This is the second early Jack Nicholson film I've seen with a distinct anti-drug message. Who was financing his early films? Wait...maybe this film did influence me a bit more than I thought. I'm feeling paranoid...
Movie Review: The LSD tripumentary
Summary: 4 Stars
I was so pleaed to see both these movies on a single DVD cause I was going to buy both of them anyway. First off Psych out shows Jack Nicholson in his heyday as 'Stoney' a hippie in the haight ashbury district of San Francisco smack dab in the middle of the hippie movement with lots of great sixties psychedelia and a wonderul soundtrack and a good storyline. Next on the double bill is 'the Trip' the reason I bought this DVD;It was written by Jack Nicholson and stars Peter Fonda,a man who just went through a divorce seeks his friends guidance in an LSD trip to better understand his problems but as the hallucinations grow and the confusion of the trip set in you are guided on a trip through the city from paranoia to horror to ecstacy and you in the end are as unsure of things as he is cause you all in'all experience what he experiences. Truly brilliant film making for a truly surreal glimpse into the often misunderstood world of psychedellic drugs. You get the impression LSD is neither glorified or villified just documented.Movie Review: 'Psych Out' / 'The Trip' (Metro Goldwyn-Mayer) 2 movies on DVD
Summary: 4 Stars
What an experience here!Two long-forgotten movies,'The Trip'('67)which is about a disgrunted newscaster who's been recently fired(Peter Fonda)tries LSD to deal better with his problems,while under the supervision of a drug guru(Bruce Dern).Fonda goes through some rather pleasant as well as brutal hallucinations.Visuals include a love scene,some psychedelic images and Fonda being chased by armored demons(?)on horseback.Fun to watch.Then there's 'Psych Out'('68)which has a runaway deaf girl(Susan Strasberg)looking for her brother,'The Seeker' in the hippie borough of San Francisco where she ends up being befriended by Stoney(Jack Nickolson).A decent find.Features music by The Seeds and Strawberry Alarm Clock.Only trippers,hipsters,former biker wanna be's,bikers,later day hippies and fans of '60's culture would most likely get the most out of these two movies.Anyone else is chancing it.Recommended.Movie Review: excellent
Summary: 4 Stars
I unfortuantely have yet to see Psych Out, and when I do I will edit this in.
But in the Trip, Peter Fonda takes LSD in 1967 to deal with his divorce, guided by Bruce Dern. He starts off enjoying himself, but then gets paranoid, seeing little hobbits killing him on beaches and in caves of modern L.A. He escapes the house he his tripping in, and comes down, finding himself in the same place he began.
The best sences are early ones: the interaction between Fonda and Dern is amazing to watch, and the big early 20th century mansion they are in, painted in psychadelic colors, is a real bonus prize.
When Fonda escapes, the film still works, but the interplay is gone. Still, this is a great view, for the first half, or as a period piece.