Every time I watch a movie, I come to the messages boards and inevitably, someone says something to the effect of "I've just wasted (insert minutes here) of my life."
What are you looking for, sympathy? Should we feel sorry for you and those precious minutes you lost?
Nobody made you watch minute after torturous minute.

This is the 2nd time in 30 years I am trying to watch this movie. I turned it off 30 years ago, and I'm about to do so again. It is uninteresting. It is bad sci-fi, lousy horror. Even William Hurt can't help this turkey. It's my last time trying this film, too many good ones to waste my time on it. At least this time I lasted, let's see, 47 minutes this time. I think I lasted 25 the previous time.

Wow, it must really choke your chicken that you have to waste 7-10 hours of your life sleeping every night.

Yes, half way through I realized it's just a psychedlelic version of old time sci-fi horror like Neanderthal Man and Monster on the Campus, with little attempt at plauibility plausibility. "Good special effects" is all it has going for it.

No one here mentioned that the reason they went to Mexico was because of this tribe and it's rituals.It was also explained to them that EVERYONE has the same hallucination. "Their original truth".

I can't resist; you didn't get it. You have to understand evolution in order to understand the movie. Given the sorry state of education in this country in regards to evolution, it is no surprise that many people did not understand the movie.
In a nutshell, a scientist finds a drug, whose effect is amplified by an isolation tank, that accesses the junk DNA in the cells of his brain and causes him to undergo reverse evolution. He goes further and further back into humanity's evolutionary chain, eventually all the way back to Darwin's primordial life form and finds out that life has no meaning or purpose. He also finds out the tremendous power of love; it pulls him back from the primordial edge and changes the profound emptiness he feels to a feeling of meaning and purpose.
I don't know if that description helps you; you really do need to understand evolution in order to appreciate the story.
An often overlooked aspect of this film is that William Hurt's performance was brilliant; really the best of his entire career. But you need to understand the story and the scientific mindset to appreciate just how amazing Hurt is in this movie.

I'd (not "Id"). I'm (not "Im"). Also didn't (not "didnt"). And hallucinogenic (not "halluconegenic). Spellcheck, please!

He's regressed to a very primitive statehe's a bacterium. Get him on the slides for the microscope. (
Don't squish me, don't squish meeeee!
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You must be one of the young punks that wasn't around back in the 80s.
No wizz bang stupid junk you kids watch today, or in the last 10-15 years.
Computer generated graphic wasn't even used back then because it was still in its infancy, no one had it yet but the computer programers and the labs.
When you finally dry behind the ears, watch it again.

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I'm willing to discuss films with others, just not people like yourself who clearly have no taste.
Oh, gosh, you made that one easy, didn't you? "I won't argue with you because you're too stupid for me to waste my time on."
Nice. I'll have to remember that one in case I ever get myself into an embarrassing argument and need to find a back door to duck out of.
You claimed that ALTERED STATES is just about the worst Hollywood film ever made.
Actually, no, I never said that.
So now the question becomes, are you deliberately distorting what I said in order to strengthen your argument in relation to mine, or is it an honest mistake on your part? Were you just reading carelessly, or are your reading comprehension skills poor?
You're hardly someone I'd want to deconstruct this movie with, being that you obviously have no idea what you're talking about.
Says the guy who can't even read English. Perhaps there's a 7-year old living in your neighborhood who could read my posts out loud to you and explain the words with which you have trouble. Would that make it easier for you?

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And still no actual attempt to rebut my post. Just three more paragraphs about what a genius you are and what a bunch of morons everyone is who disagrees with you. Blah, blah, blah it seems to be the only thing you come here to talk about.
Obviously you find that subject quite fascinating, but isn't there some other message board somewhere where you could go to discuss that? Then you could leave this one for the half-dozen or so members of the human race who for some inexplicable reason aren't interested in discussing that, and just want to talk about you know
movies.

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Oh, look at what you did. That's so cute! You quote a line out of context and use it to insult someone who disagrees with you about a movie.
I would imagine that if you don't have the intellect to assemble a lucid, rational argument, 4th-grade level neener-neener "clever" retorts will have to suffice. Make sure you remember to print out a copy, so that when you brag about it to your friends at recess tomorrow, you can prove to them that you actually scored your major coup.

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Seemed like the whole story only existed so the director could make a film full of random BS and claim it was art, or maybe even science? What the hell do I know. I have no idea what the director was thinking.
Im presuming someone is going to say that I just didnt 'get it'. Well Id appreciate it if someone could explain it to me because what I just saw was pretty awful.
Don't ask me to clear it up for you, because I don't have a clue either. This was a horrible movie - quite possibly the worst major release picture I've ever seen.
I have never seen a movie with more painfully terrible dialogue, and in most cases the delivery was even worse than the lines themselves. It was like the "actors" were just reading lines from a teleprompter, without ever rehearsing any of them. I gave it a "2", and that was generous. Complete piece of pointless, pretentious, ponderous crap.

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I wasted 102 minutes only !!!
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Drop some acid or Adam (MDMA) and you'll get it instantly. Remember, keep breathing.

You mean psychedelic (not "psychodelic").

I would have thought being stoned would have been an advantage in your situation.
So, other than NOT making musicians "better" at their craft drugs also do not help when watching a character in a film take an experimental psychodelic trip through sensory deprivation.
"Drugs are bad, m'kay" Mr. Mackey from South Park.