Nothing with too many hearty belly laughs, it was abdominal surgery.
Don’t watch the first few episodes of The Walking Dead while actually in the hospital under heavy opioid medication. That’s how you end up with extremely terrifying and vivid dreams of a zombie apocalypse in the very hospital you’re currently in! Ask me how I know!
I watched 28 Days Later during a delirious fever spell, so I think I understand where you’re coming from, lol.
Requiem for a Dream so you don’t get hooked on them
This is somehow the best AND the worst advice in the whole post.
I mean, add Trainspotting.
With trainspotting you might get some belly laughs in, though.
excellent film
Have fun!
Oh, I’ve heard of this one, but I never got around to it. Sounds like the perfect time to cross it off my list.
Do yourself a favour, watch the directors cut.
Seconded. When I find out how botched the theatrical ending was, I was glad I started with the Director’s version.
Priest. I recommended it in a terrible movies thread. It’s Paul Bettany and Karl Urban in a cowboy/ronin/faith-based militia versus vampires film. Critics gave it 16% fresh.
… seriously. Look at this.
Paul Bettany and Karl Urban
Come for the over-the-top Karl Urban as wild west gothic vampire performance.
Stay for Maggie Q being the only sane and smart person in the entire post-apocalypse.
Equilibrium with vampires.
Equilibrium was the first time I saw Christian Bale in a movie, loved it.
Seems odd they’d both end up in the same crappy movie together in that year. May not be remembering movie years well but Urban was least in Star Trek and Bettany in Marvel even if only as a voice but assume the plan was to make him Vision from the start.
Was it entertaining at least? It sounds like it could be a fun watch, in theory…like the synopsis of Red Letter Media’s Best of the Worst movies probably do.
It’s based on a comic series, so the bones are good and the critics are all weenies. I ♡ crappy derivative action schlock.
I won’t say it’s always my thing but sometimes a plain action movie with few cheesy lines is all you’re looking for. Definitely saw enough Chuck Norris in the 80s to confirm that.
When I had an abdominal surgery, I watched the full extended cut versions of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy
I did the same when I had surgery and was couch ridden for days. That was great. I then watched the “Tolkien cut” of the hobbit movies
– Sir, you need to walk a bit to recover faster.
– Take my signs already and don’t interrupt me!
I was in an altered state of mind while watching the Aquateen Hunger Force movie. I can barely remember anything about the movie, but I know I had a great time!
I KNEW it was going to be that! 😂
WE STILL GOT YOUR FUCKING MONEY!!!
That should be at the beginning of every movie.
Also maybe I’m just fucking old but I think if you bust your cell phone out in a movie theater during the movie you should get punched in the face and have the phone shoved up your ass.
Watch some documentaries of opioid addiction. Better safe than sorry.
Tenet might be fun.
Well at first I was going to suggest Snatch, but after seeing the additional information you wrote maybe wait until after you’re feeling better to watch it lol it’s one of my favorites, but it is a comedy so it might hurt.
One of my favorite movies. Me and my kid laughed our asses off when we watched it together.
What the fuck can he get away from?
Requiem for a dream
Ain’t a single laugh that whole movie.
Nooooooo
Great movie but not a fun movie
The Fountain
When I was on a bunch of painkillers after some surgery I watched Whiplash. Everyone was like “wow that movie was so intense” but I was so numb I didn’t think much about it.
I don’t know about anyone else but both my wife and I feel like we get little effect from them. Such that it feels like the side effects make them not worth it. This is for all opiods for us. Now granted if you don’t take them your just absolutely fucked but to us its like the pain is still there you just can like use the toilet and such. Niether of us gets why anyone can become addicted to them. Now like the ones that block nerve pain like gabapentin we fucking love as it actually seems to cause pain to go away.
People take more than they are prescribed at once “until the pain goes away” and yeah at that point they start to get high on them
My experience with pain killers is that when I’ve actually needed them for pain, after a bad injury, they work on the pain without any euphoric effects. I can only get high when I don’t have any pain to relieve.
You know we honestly hadn’t thought about that. We both tend to get some annoying side effects so the thought of taking more is just not a thought. We actually both have tried not taking them until necessary and learned a lesson there as it take so long to kick in and yeah you literally will not be able to function since they gave you stuff like that by iv and once it wears off you won’t be back for like a day. Whats funny is the iv stuff seems to not have the side effects the way oral dosages do.
It’s obviously different for different people but yeah, for me it’s just the difference of “in pain and miserable” vs “tolerating pain and normal.” And this is from someone with a standing prescription for tramadol, the only opioid that actually works for me. I only have to take it a couple times a year now, thankfully. Gabapentin has never actually helped with my pain though.
is tramadol and opiod? that seems to work a bit better than things like oxy for us to but we still have had better effects from gaba. wonder if its all genetic on the response to these various things.
Originally they sold tramadol as “not an opioid” (and not addictive) but then they backtracked on that, so yeah, it is. But most people mentally classify it differently.
Every time I’ve had other opioids, they literally have no effect on me, including not reducing my pain. My lay understanding is that tramadol gets metabolized into a different kind of opioid while in your body, and I suspect something about that process allows it to work for me while others don’t.
And in general I seem to have a lot of abnormal responses to medications, including some paradoxical effects (like Ambien keeps me awake, or Claritin-D—the non-drowsy one—puts me to sleep).
I watched it many years ago, I just remember how trippy the movie was, not much of the plot. I don’t know whether it’s too funny for the state you will be in!
