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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycle race. As their consumption of drugs increases at an alarming rate, the stoned duo trash their hotel room and fear legal repercussions. Duke begins to drive back to L.A., but after an odd run-in with a cop, he returns to Sin City and continues his wild drug binge.
Release : | 1998 |
Rating : | 7.5 |
Studio : | Universal Pictures, Summit Entertainment, Rhino Films, |
Crew : | Art Department Assistant, Art Department Coordinator, |
Cast : | Johnny Depp Benicio del Toro Tobey Maguire Michael Lee Gogin Larry Cedar |
Genre : | Adventure Drama Comedy |
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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
If you don't like this, we can't be friends.
This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.
Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.
Adapted from Hunter S. Thompson's 1971 novel of the same name, Terry Gilliam's Cult-Classic 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' is Utter madness! Its bleak, high & absolutely nuts! But Gilliam's brutally honest Storytelling along-with Depp & del Toro's mesmerizing performances take this unusual film to dizzy heights.Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is not just a psychedelic comedy, but also an astute piece of literature-cum-political science on a period in American history that was just really strange. This is far from your everyday movie, and only for those with a deep appreciation for the diversity of film-making. The directing is fast paced with offseting angles a lot of wide angle lenses. Gilliam has a style which is unmistakable, it's like walking around inside of a Dali painting, everything is distorted and stretched to create a strong sense of surrealism. Yet his approach is much less offensive than Oliver Stone, who desperately throws every single filming trick at you repeatedly until you are pummeled into submission. Excerpt from "Movies that Moved with Prakash Silwal https://www.facebook.com/ektafilmsnp/
This is not so much a movie, much like Pink Floyd's 'The Wall', it is an experience. It is not meant to be viewed as a narrative story, as there is none.A nutjob journalist and a crazy Mexican lawyer go to Vegas to milk Rolling Stone magazine on the expense tab, and not so very slowly, they go insane.FALILV:AJTTSHOTAD tells the story of what happened when gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson traveled to Vegas to do an interview on a protest death, and take pictures of cars, and instead discovered the rotten heart of his country in all it's vile splendor, and decided to write about that instead. While extremely high.Look for a 21 yo Tobey Maguire, sans spandex, to steal the opening act as a young hitchhiker who quickly realizes the folly of hitching a ride with a wacked out HS Thompson (who uses a pseudo-name for some reason throughout the movie, yet according to Jonny Depp, the book and movie are 100% legit)Jonny plays Thompson aka Raoul Duke, and to a tee apparently, as he spent 4 months at Thompson's wacky jacky neversoberranch, studying his materials and ingesting anything that also went in Hunter's body.Benicio Del Toro brings his excellent mad dog routine, as the crazed and paranoid Dr. Gonzo, perhaps the only man at the time capable of going toe to toe with Hunter S.Best viewed after 6 beer, 2 joints, and with eye dropper solution diluting your pupils...
The first sentence that i read when i bought the DVD is ''Hate it, love it, Take the ride see for yourself''. Well I've taken the ride more than a few times and it is true u either hate it or love it :) It still fascinates me how this film was created, it's just a piece of art for me due to the way its been filmed and how it gives a pretty accurate view of how it feels to be under the influence of psychedelics. This movie is one of the few that i can watch over and over and still notice that I've missed some details i haven't seen the other times i viewed it. Also this film was dedicated to the late hunter s. Thompson who invented a new type of journalism, its called gonzo journalism. This movie is based on true events and it has made me curious about alternate lifestyles and especially the style of the 60's hippie. I found this one so special that i actually bought the book and i can say they are both equally as good, people that love movies that aren't as predictable as the common blockbuster this really is a must have seen film. I hope u will enjoy it as much as i did cause it really is one of a kind, Johnny Depp has done a wonderful acting job as well as his fellow actors ;) peace and love fellow earthlings
This is a love/hate movie, such as the matrix and various others that the mainstream might have a hard time to wrap they're mind around. Either you get it or you don't. To enjoy this to the fullest, you probably have to: 1) Have an idea who Hunter S Thompson was (which the character is based on) 2) Be more than 30 years old, and at least have some concept of how "old" USA or Europe was like, like it used to be in the 1990s, 80s, 70s and 60s. In cocaine cowboys they tell how they in the early 80s could walk into an airport with a suitcase full of cash and buy an airplane (try that today). If what goes on here played out in 2016, these character would be in jail max 10 minutes into the movie.3) Have some knowledge of drugs and they're effects or be familiar with shady characters that has been heavily into this so you know whats going on. This movie would be a good one to watch for a young police officer.I rank it as one of the best I've seen, along with blow, requiem for a dream, wolf of wall street and other absolutely top notch movies, it belongs to the elite division and the best that has come out of Hollywood, along with series like "breaking bad", which all are either based on actual stories or portray things and settings in a very realistic way to what actually is going on out there in the underworld, though spiced up a little extra with more action and humor added to it.