Who thinks that movies such as easy rider and fear and loathing in las vegas portray tripping correctly? if so which one do you think portrays it better?
I'd say Fear and Loathing. Those guys were doing a lot of other shit as well, but what sells me on its accuracy is when Johnny Depp is talking about the things that bother him. I believe they're at some carnival type place and his reaction is right on the money. To say 'this is what America would have been like had the Nazis won the war' in describing a kiddie funhouse is EXACTLY what such a place would feel like when tripping. It's the really ordinary shit that bugs me when I'm tripping (esp. coming across someone that seems to have low self-esteem and is unhappy with himself; e.g too fat, or too lonely). Fear and Loathing also gets the visuals thing right, especially veteran trippers' nonchalant reaction to them (note to sitcom writers: acid gives you illusions---alterations of what is already there, not hallucinations----seeing what is not there at all). Sorry to go off like that, but everybody and their brother who tries to dramatically depict acid trips gets it oh so horribly wrong.
