Film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

[wirreddreams]

very very good movie.But i hate when plp say "fear and loathing man lets watch fear and loathing" when ive seen the movie hundreds times and i wanna watch something different

 

[branum2112]

good movie, but i like the dialogue a lot, dont care that much about all the drug use... i hate when people are like, "FL is so cool, they take so many drugs andget fucked up". i like the self reflective moments, which is why i would say the book is way better.... i love when he talks about goign to visis i think it was his neighbor, when he was on acid and how because of it he was scared of acid till that night in the bathroom...wish they would have kept that first part of it in...

 

[Tenchi]

I've watched this movie countless times, never fails to entertain. Although I feel REALLY dumb because it was only the last time that I watched it that I noticed the hitchiker they pick up at the beginning is Tobey Maguire of Spiderman fame. Duh.

 

[JerryBlunted]

"don't worry, just admiring the shape of your skull"

 

[L2R]

^fantastic line/scene!

 

[Rasclatt]

Hunter S. Thompson 1978 BBC Documentary "Fear & Loathing in Gonzovision" A couple of scenes where you can see how accurate johnny depps performance actually was. http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?doc ... &plindex=1

 

[Rated E]

Well at least with Requiem you can say that it was about addiction rather than necessarily being about drugs. But with Fear and Loathing, I find it hard to think of what it could be about other than drugs.

Paranoia, perhaps?

Either way, I am in love with this movie.

 

[Thou]

Movie's great, even with Terry Gilliam's odd approach to the film, still a classic.

Now, I highly suggest to you to get into his writing, everything he's ever written is beyond genius, I've never been more impressed with an author's prose (and I read A LOT), but not only that his language is so gripping and semantically entertaining that you will not once get bored with any of his writing, and that even goes for his last book published encompassing all of his ESPN sportswriting articles from his online column (I don't follow sports, read the entire book and loved it) before he killed himself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Thompson

Works by Hunter S. Thompson
Novels: The Rum Diary ♦ Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ♦ Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
Short stories: "Fire in the Nuts"
Short story collections: Screw-Jack
Essay collections: The Gonzo Papers: ( Gonzo Papers, Vol. 1: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time ♦ Gonzo Papers, Vol. 2: Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80s ♦ Gonzo Papers, Vol. 3: Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream ♦ Screw-Jack & Other Stories ♦ Gonzo Papers, Vol. 4: Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie) ♦ Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 ♦ The Fear and Loathing Letters, Vol. 1: The Proud Highway: The Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman 1955–1967 ♦ Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist 1968–1976 ♦ Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness: Modern History from the Sports Desk ♦ The Mutineer: Rants, Ravings, and Missives from the Mountaintop 1977-2005
Articles: "The Battle of Aspen" ♦ "The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved" ♦ "Strange Rumblings in Aztlan" ♦
"The Temptations of Jean-Claude Killy"
Non-fiction: Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga ♦ GONZO: Photographs By Hunter S. Thompson ♦ The Curse of Lono ♦ Mistah Leary - He Dead

Here's one that's been kicking around, but her'es his influence to my life, etched into my arm:

 

[Thou]

Watching this now, i love it. I love Depp's narrated thought patterns, so trippy.

Does anyone know what those little cylinder shaped things are that they snap in half and snort?

Apolgies if this has already been answered, but their poppers: little viles of amyl nitrate, a drug providing a 5 minute rush (their ok, not all their cracked up to be), their used in the treatment of angina pectoris, a heart condition.

Their still available in sex shops known as "rush" in little brown vials you just sniff.. They supposedly extend orgasm once reached during intercourse, i've yet to verify if this is indeed true or not.

 

[Thou]

the dialogue comes almost directly from the book. a lot of sections are word for word. i thought the movie was great and did a really good job of capturing the spirit and vibe of thompson's sort of insane ambiance. i love a lot of his other work, one of my favorite books is "the great shark hunt" which collects a lot of his shorter work.

my question is... when is the damn "rum diaries" supposed to come out?

I've been asking this question for the past 4 years. It may never, but I think depp is really petitioning to get it done. For those of you who haven't read the book and are hoping for another "Fear and Loathing," just to foreworn you its completely different, has nothing to do with drugs, but the story of a man in puerto rico working as a journalist and the drame that ensues (him being Hunter, never compromised his role as Hunter), (his only fiction, i LOVE this book).

 

[Rated E]

Apolgies if this has already been answered, but their poppers: little viles of amyl nitrate, a drug providing a 5 minute rush (their ok, not all their cracked up to be), their used in the treatment of angina pectoris, a heart condition.

Their still available in sex shops known as "rush" in little brown vials you just sniff.. They supposedly extend orgasm once reached during intercourse, i've yet to verify if this is indeed true or not.

haha, yea I figured out what they were called. I went through a phase where I used them a lot, but then decided they were stupid since it's basically like huffing.

 

[Thou]

Nothing wrong with inhalation as method of administration.

Case and point: Nitrous [fucking] Oxide. Oblivion is only a breath away.

 

[BlueFractal]

I've watched the movie a couple of times. Last time I and a friend watched it when our first LSD trip was coming up. It is very amusing in parts, but as others said before, also dark and "over the top". The last part, where hunter wakes up in his flooded hotel room and makes those flashbacks, isn't enjoyable under psychedelics, in my opinion.

 

[Rated E]

The last part, where hunter wakes up in his flooded hotel room and makes those flashbacks, isn't enjoyable under psychedelics, in my opinion.

Then don't watch it on psychedelics.

 

[Frank Zito]

I wouldn't sit through this trash again for a hundred dollars.

Depp was great, as usual, and Del Toro, was excellent, as well, but there was no plot, and the "dialogue" could have been written by a drugged up 90-IQ sixteen year old.

Among the most overrated movies EVER, in my opinion.

AGREED, Wholly, Because of this piece of shit this is all 85% of the self professed HST fans work they are going to exposed to, and givin' it's not his...HE DIDN'T direct it, people are gonna' miss it. The movie don't do the book justice. I PERSONALLY think that Terry Gilliam is OVER-FUCKING rated.

HST's own words "I found myself imposing an essentially fictional framework on what began as a piece of straight/crazy journalism".

ALOT OF the narration in FaLiLV is MADE UP. Lots of events never took place.

 

[L2R]

many of the events in star wars were made up too, but i don't hear you complaining about that

 

[Rated E]

I wouldn't sit through this trash again for a hundred dollars.

Don't worry, no one's offering you.

Depp was great, as usual, and Del Toro, was excellent, as well, but there was no plot, and the "dialogue" could have been written by a drugged up 90-IQ sixteen year old.

"Drugged up" was kind of the point of the story. The second part of your claim, regarding the IQ of the writer, that's the kind of name calling reminiscent of 90-IQ sixteen year old, so congratulations on being ironic.

Among the most overrated movies EVER, in my opinion.

I was to the understanding that the movie didn't even get much attention upon it's initial release and that it currently enjoys a more cult kind of popularity. This, of course, doesn't mean that it can't have been overrated in your opinion. However, I thought I would point it out.

AGREED, Wholly, Because of this piece of shit this is all 85% of the self professed HST fans work they are going to exposed to, and givin' it's not his...HE DIDN'T direct it, people are gonna' miss it. The movie don't do the book justice. I PERSONALLY think that Terry Gilliam is OVER-FUCKING rated.

Taken from a source in the appendix of my copy of Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, the novel:

Where the Buffalo Roam (1980), the picture based on Hunter S. Thompson's eulogy for his Fear and Loathing buddy Oscar 'Zeta' Acosta, The Banshee Screams for Buffalo Meat, was neither a critical nor commercial success. Asked about the film in 1997, Thompson referred to it [the film] as a 'horrible pile of crap... a cartoon.'

However, when speaking of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998 ):

Thompson, who put in the odd cameo appearance, declared that the finished film was 'a masterpiece' and called it an 'eerie trumpet call over a lost battlefield.' A winning endorsement if ever there was one, and while the film didn't far too well at the box office, it slowly grew and adoring cult following - much, fittingly, like the book itself.

I thought you'd like to hear from the author regarding whether the movie "did the book justice".

HST's own words "I found myself imposing an essentially fictional framework on what began as a piece of straight/crazy journalism".

ALOT OF the narration in FaLiLV is MADE UP. Lots of events never took place.

What do you mean a lot of the dialogue is made up and that a lot of the events never took place?

If you are referring to the book, then of course, that is kind of the idea of Gonzo journalism.

If you are referring to things that may have been added for the movie but were not present in the book, then I will say, who cares. I don't see why the movie has to even try to exactly replicate the book to be inspired or representative of the book. Not to mention I think your claim is wrong anyway, I thought the movie followed quite closely to the book. There were some minor adjustments, like certain events were changed in ordering, but this was to make the story work better on screen.

Personally, I have seen the movie 7 or 8 times and I have read the book. I find both to be enjoyable and to stand up in their own right.

 

[I am shpongled]

Effin sweet tattoo. I thought the book was funnier but, unlike the movie, I can only read it once.

I watched it while coming up on acid once. Made for a slightly paranoid and heavily narrated trip.

 

[lolitsjohn]

The movie -- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas -- is somewhat like the book, only not at all funny or well-done(written).

 

[Rated E]

^ I disagree. So did the author (Thompson).