Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

Double Dose (40 movies items)

"Raoul Duke & Dr Gonzo "

Watched in 2013 (179 movies items)

"27.4.13 blu-ray"

Movie Reviews (part 7) (50 movies items)

" The Ups: Extremly inventive in look and style. The movie that changed Johnny Depp and he started getting typecast in the same type of roles: eccentric drug/alkohol infected characters with strange quirky behavior that mumbles to themselves. Benicio del Toro wandering around like a hairy slob for the entire movie. No cool "funny drug" camera shots that helps the audience - we have to accept that the characters are drugged with the help of the acting and script though there are couple of cool hal"

Films and the critics who hate them (732 movies items)

"Unlike Trainspotting, Fear and Loathing doesn’t shock or fascinate. It simply disgusts and repels. - Judith Egerton, Kentucky Courier-Journal Although the picture’s final moments establish it as a morality play, it’s been so previously vacuous that the effort is futile. - Forrest Hartman, Reno Gazette-Journal As for Depp, what was he thinking he made this movie? He was once in trouble for trashing a New York hotel room, just like the heroes of “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.” What"

Unfilmable (16 movies items)

"The book (1971): Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is gonzo-journalist Hunter S. Thompson's most famous book, a drug-fueled drilling to the heart of American dream. Blending fact and fiction, Thompson's novel lacks a proper coherent narrative, instead describing a series of lurid hallucinogenic trips which leads the two main characters to a rampage through Las Vegas while handling the failings of the counterculture movement of the 1960s. How did they film it (1998): Oliver Stone couldn't do it, Ma"

My Film Collection (329 movies items)

"Do you need to be on drugs to enjoy this movie? No, but it helps. Hunter S. Thompson's scathing satire doesn't come through as often as it could've, but still a very good film, and a must see for any fan of Thompson or Gilliam."