Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas

Fear and Loathing is one of my absolute favorite movies. I am reading the book right now and I am enjoying it so much. I wish I read the book first but what can you do. I really like the illustrations in the book. They are very amusing.

 

where the buffalo roam was better i think, but this was a great movie and a great book.

i've only read the book on lsd though, and i dont think ive ever seen the movie all the way through sober.

 

great movie when washing a cat on wednesday nights with esopn 1943.

 

This is my all time favorite movie. I've seen it at least 50 times and read the book twice. The book is better though.

 

Information is
not knowledge
Knowledge is
not wisdom
Wisdom is not truth
Truth is not beauty
Beauty is not love
Love is not music...​

Now you got me started. You've got a bunch of disclaimers, "D is not E", "F is not G", and so forth. That's fine. "My dog needs to take a shit" is not "Leonard Bernstein was a fine conductor", but the subject and predicate are both true.
How about some syllogisms?
The more I have, the more I use. The more I use, the less I have. Therefore the more I have, the less I have.
The less I have, the less I use. The less I use, the more I have. Therefore the less I have, the more I have.
Dry bread is better than nothing. Nothing is better than wisdom. Therefore, dry bread is better than wisdom. ("Better than" is a transitive relation.)

 

I haven't read the book but my old teacher recommended I do, I own the movie and it is very decent... I want to read the book while I'm high.

 

Man I love both the book and the movie!!
I think they did a wonderful job for the movie and of course the book was tons better.
They stuck along the story line quite well though and made an interesting depiction of the events

Brilliant

 

I REALLY wanted to love this movie. I made it about an hour into it and had to give it up. I just couldn't take the way Johnny spoke in the film. It sincerely pulled on my very last nerve after X amount of time.

The book, I liked bunches.

 

ever notice that in every single one of Depp's movies he is at least a little bit crazy?

 

I noticed that a long time ago, I think he just is crazy.

 

This was a great movie. Easily one of my favorites. There is a movie that just came out recently about Hunter Thompson. I havn't seen it yet, but plan on it soon.

 

I hear they're making the Rum Diaries with Depp.

 

I wonder, how many people here have actually read Fear and Loathing? The movie is great and all, but the book is sooo much better in every way... Except visual.

 

Yeah, they are.

Pushit: I am an avid reader, and movie watcher. IMHO, there are very few movies that compare to the book.
On my short list and off the top off my head:

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Fear and Loathing
1408

I don't think many movies compare to the book, but I think Fear and Loathing the movie is just as good, if not better. That book is very drawn out, and it seems to me it gets more praise for the drug use and era. HST has better works.

 

I love the novel, and I love the movie. The movie totally cracks me up every time I watch it.

 

Rating: 10/10
Stars: Johnny Depp, Benecio Del Toro

I have yet to read the book. Don't read past the first 2 paragraphs if you have not seen the movie and want to.

This is possibly my favorite movie of all time. There are probably some aspects of it that knowledgeable movie buffs can pick apart that I'm not really aware of. I mainly just am interested in the content and acting in the movie.

I have seen this movie probably 10 + times which is a lot for me as very few movies I watch over 5 times. The first couple times I saw it I viewed it pretty much as a straight comedy. I realized the character (Dr. Gonzo) is loosely portrayed on Hunter S. Thompson himself so the fact that I think Johnny Depp overacts his role adds to the surreal effect of this character. As I watched it more and more I noticed quite a bit of commentary on American life, which I am sure appears throughout the book and was impressed as I think it's quite hard to portray on the big screen.

Some of the drug scenes to me are kind of embellished and not portrayed accurately as the dinosaur scene when he's on LSD seems a little far fetched (although dosages of LSD where higher at this time) and the way he portrays mescaline makes it seem like more of a dissociative, but like I said the embellishment adds to the surreal effect.

I think Depp truly shines in this movie. I like his frantic nature he portrays as he is a journalist doing serious work while twisted on mind bending drugs. He is constantly trying to maintain the sanity and decency as his lawyer gets pretty far out there and crude at times. The humor is pretty twisted and absurd but I do find a lot in this movie pretty funny.

One complaint I can see many having is that this movie may be to long for some. The first half of the movie is pretty fast paced and has more of the eye candy and notable jokes/quotes. About halfway through Gonzo looks out his hotel window and delivers what is known as the 'wave speech.' This speech, which is an awesome monologue, talks about San Francisco in the middle of the 60's and how he felt the huge movement by the counterculture was really counting for some sort of transformation of mankind and that they were right. He admits that at some point that feeling 'crashed' and was lost. The speech is accompanied by him at a Jefferson Airplane concert where he goes into a bathroom and takes LSD from a random hippie (played by Flea). After this speech the movie slows down a bit visually and becomes more based on commentary and Dr. Gonzo trying to finish his work. There is one more heavy trip scene on a drug called 'adrenochrome' which is supposedly extracted from the pineal gland. At the end Gonzo comes to the conclusion that the drug culture's dreams were just that dreams and that there were causalities of the acid culture who eventually just burnt out with no lasting moral or religious virtues to fall back on. He saw that his lifestyle seriously effected his work and that Timothy Leary basically ignored the darker side of LSD and psychedelics.

 

I like the book better, the movie can be grating by the end, but I can open the book to any chapter and have a blast. Still, a good movie that really sparked my already growing interest in drugs and more specifically, psychedelics, back in the day.

 

The movie is fuckin sic!! Haven't read the book yet...

 

the movie is visually stunning, the book is intense. best if one watches the movie before. the opposite of da vinci Code, where you have to read the book first or else one isn't going to understand much of the flick.