Movie:Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

[Intrepid]

I thought it was a brilliant movie.
What are your opinions?

[Irongrinder]

I find it amazingly done, but at a certain point I start wondering when this movie is finished with it's weirdness.

[Timber Loftis]

It's a piece of crap movie based on a piece of crap book written by a piece of crap person who finally did us all the favor of offing himself.

Thompson showed up, drank up, drugged up, half-assed-up his work, and then mockingly held it all up, as if he was proud of it. I did that too. For four years. It was called college. Then I grew up.

I like Johnny Depp and Benecio del Torro, but that movie sucked the big one. And, it didn't do the whole "acid trip" thing very well. You want to see a good acid trip movie, go for Campus Man.

[ 04-12-2005, 02:45 PM: Message edited by: Timber Loftis ]

[Grojlach]

I actually own it on DVD (bought it in a sale), if only because I'm still planning on watching it again, trying to figure out just what the heck the story is really about and what point it was really trying to make.

[ 04-11-2005, 06:58 PM: Message edited by: Grojlach ]

[Timber Loftis]

If you're looking for meaning, here's a bit:
http://cinemapprentice.com/fearandloathing.htm

To get meta, though, I look at the artist, Thompson, whose drug-induced and depraved writings reveal and obvious theme -- his own depravity. No great insight there. Perhaps I'd be more impressed if it wasn't a "been there, seen that" to me.

[Zuvio]

I own three copies of the film on DVD, own three copies on video, one retail, one recorded from TV and a german voice-over from TV. I also own his book. The day Hunter S. Thompson 'offed' himself was a sad day for me, for I truly worshipped his work. I too experienced the same shit during several years of my life, I 'call' it the period before college.

Timber Loftis: dont spit your gal over the dead like that, it's 'called' cowardice...

[Timber Loftis]

Hmmm... I see you're certainly not part of the "agree to disagree" crowd.

Cowardice? Eh? Me? Or him? Clarity in writing -- it can be your friend, or a goal you never reach.

Anyway, you can feel free to post or link anything redeeming you find in his work, or you can just lob insults my way. Whatever.