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!

Requiem for a Dream so you don't get hooked on them

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.

When I had an abdominal surgery, I watched the full extended cut versions of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Dredd (2012)

The drug in it, named Slo-Mo, should be semi relatable. 

Be warned, high level violence depicted.

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!

We have a whole community of free movies over at !fullmoviesonyoutube@piefed.social, be sure to check it out!

Videodrome maybe. Some of these suggestions are mean.
Paprika

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.

Tenet might be fun.

Watch some documentaries of opioid addiction. Better safe than sorry.

The Fountain

Requiem for a dream

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Requiem for a Dream.

I tried to watch Pulp Fiction for the first time as a teen loaded up on oxys after getting my wisdom teeth out. I turned it off after twenty minutes because I realized I had no idea what anyone had said. Great movie, just not good from my perspective when you’re fucked up. Watch something stupid like Face Off

Brainscan

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0109327/

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.

Ooh, I thought of another awesome early 90s wild movie.

The Lawnmower Man

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0104692/

Yellow submarine

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!

The inside of your eyelids. It's a banger every time! 😉 Good luck to you on your surgery, and a speedy recovery.

I be had two major surgeries, I've only been given oxy for one of them. I took it maybe two days and got off of it as quickly as possible. I hate taking pills, and I didn't feel like I needed it anyway. Pretty much just made me tired.

Whatever you do, take pictures, you're not going to remember it after.

Last time I was on them, they told me I could go back to work but I took the week off and went hiking. Mine was dental surgery. I still haven't figured out all the places I went. They probably should have taken my keys, but it wasn't something they warned about for that level of pills back then. Thinking back on it is kinda terrifying.

Be careful, you're not going to be competent to make decisions.

Was gonna suggest EEAAO but then saw you say "no belly laughs" so that's out

• 10,000 Years of Longing
• Being John Malkovich
• The Fisher King (some of it didn't age well, it was the 80s)

Don't watch anything you want to remember 😂

better make yourself some Epstein brand multigrain muffins. your colon will thank you.

When it happened to me, I had a 1000 song countdown of the best songs by Michael Jackson, Prince and Madonna.

Not sure I would recommend it...

Lord of the rings series and the hobbit The matrix series The DaVinci Code Series The Librarian Series The Associate Children of the Corn (1983) side note: I drove the road they were on to school every day it's only a couple miles long and the house the kids were playing in is a bed and breakfast now. Downsizing Escape from Pretoria The Dirty Dozen Black Book Book of Eli Cast Away Dances with Wolves The Fugitive and US Marshals Heartbreak Ridge Jumpin Jack Flash Labyrinth of Lies Mr Baseball Medicine Man The Pursuit of Happiness Pleasantville Quigley Down Under Red Sparrow Runaway - 1984 Saturday Night Fever The Shawshank Redemption The Silence of the Lambs series Striking Distance Tank - 1984 Timeline The Tremmors series U 571 V.I. Warshawski View from the Top Wargames - 1983 Welcome to Marwen The Witches - 2020 Woman of the Hour Zathura -- And when you feel up to laughing a little -- Breakup Man (also known as Schlusmacher) Blast from the Past 9 to 5 Every which way but loose and Any which way you can The Frighteners Moscow on the Hudson Loverboy Overboard and the remake Overboard The Secret of my Success Can't Buy Me Love Office Space Real Genius Sex Drive Spaceballs Spies Like Us Summer School - 1987 Wildcats - 1986

And don't discount some TV series either. OZ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118421 Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis Bates Motel Black Sails Dexter Dollhouse (Watch Epitaph 1 and 2 after the rest of the series or you will be lost) Eureka Frasier Firefly (and the movie Serenity) Halt and Catch Fire Last Man Standing MASH Warehouse 13

If you get done with all that you will probably be healed up but if not I can add more

If you want to experience diversity in human experiences and landscapes, Samsara.

Tron should be a decent watch, good visuals at least, and nothing too heavy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Congress_(2013_film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Triplets_of_Belleville

• Koyaanitsqatsi, etc
• Eraserhead
• The Man Who Fell to Earth
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Whenever I’m taking that stuff as prescribed, I’m usually not high, I’m simply not in pain.

I don't have any good movie recommendations but I very much enjoyed listening to the album
Avec Laudenum by Stars Of The Lid when I was zonked out on morphine.

Good luck. Those only made me nauseous.

Switch off them as soon as possible to avoid getting backed up.

Hardcore Henry. Not kidding. You'd think that'd be too much. But with the movie at +5 speed, and you at -3 speed, it comes off pretty well.

magnolia

Lost Highway

So how’d it go? Surgery and movie time both a success?

Knowing absolutely nothing about you or your taste in movies other than that you're on drugs, my recommendation is Lifeforce (1985).

I've never liked to take opiates of any kind. My go-to for pain is "Poor Man's Percocet:" 2 Ibuprofen (Advil), and 1 Acetaminophen (Tylenol). If the pain is really bad, you can double them, but don't take them more than every 6-8 hours.

The Ibuprofen is metabolized by the kidneys, and the Acetaminophen is metabolized by the liver, so neither one overwhelms your organs, and the effect together is far better than the individual effects alone, and I've actually heard multiple doctors say that it approaches the efficacy of an opiate, without the addictive dangers.

I have a very physical job, and at the end of the day, I can sometimes feel almost broken, and this works great for me.