Fear and Loathing: tonight (friday) 00:10 C4

[Barking_Mad]

"That's right, MUSIC!!"

Quality film.

 

[Belzub]

"Fucking beautiful tits!"

 

[girasol]

bloody love this film and for some sick reason i could still do johhny even when he is sweating and twitchin like a bastard

I couldn't do johny, but I like this film too... Although I've only seen it once, it's time to watch it again!

 

[anfield]

Watched the film last night through a whiskey haze which the Good Doctor would approve of. By coincidence I read the book a few days ago, and Hell's Angels is also waiting to be read.

Anyone know if the Bill Murray film is any good?

 

[Onket]

It was a pleasant surprise to find this on when I got in last night, only caught the 2nd half but I was surprised how much I had forgotten about it.

Anyone got it on DVD? Any extras? I think it's got to be worth buying.

 

[dlx1]

Anyone got it on DVD? Any extras? I think it's got to be worth buying.

Yes US inport.
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"I FOUND OUT WERE YOU LIVE AND BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN YOU FUKING SHIT "

some top lines

the criterion collection

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

it's the only depp film I've seen that I didn't like. didn't get it. didn't see the point. withnail and i is great though...

I really like both Depp and Gilliam, but I thought Fear and Loathing was mediocre. Not crap, but not great.

 

[El Sueno]

read the books?

His books are just fucking brilliant. The Great Shark Hunt is my fav, a collection of aritcles from Rolling Stone, Playboy etc. and actually contains the original article which went on to become 'Fear & Loathing'. No-one's come along since who's inspired me quite the way HST has, his fucked-up insight was a mild revelation to me.

I flicked over from watching 'Alfie' last night and caught the beginning of F&L... and couldn't help but stick with it right to the end.

 

[rutabowa]

Del Toro is also exactly like his real life counterpart.

it's an ok film... I'm not sure the above is true tho, Del Toro might have looked vaguely like him but in both book and film this character is extremely simplified from the real life version... he was a Puerto Rican human rights lawyer who did, ooh, loads of good things and then took too much acid and disappeared forever one day in the early 70s, and ended up totally hating Thompson due in great part to the book. Is there any film of him to check if Del Toro got him right?

 

[Cid]

it's an ok film... I'm not sure the above is true tho, Del Toro might have looked vaguely like him but in both book and film this character is extremely simplified from the real life version... he was a Puerto Rican human rights lawyer who did, ooh, loads of good things and then took too much acid and disappeared forever one day in the early 70s, and ended up totally hating Thompson due in great part to the book. Is there any film of him to check if Del Toro got him right?

Actually I was just thinking how ridiculousy inaccurate and far from the truth my post was

He is just like the character would be if he was the one in the book though...

 

[grogwilton]

this is a fucking amazing film. must have watched it about 30 times, its so good,and its so full of references and little details about hsts life that you pick up something new everytime you watch and understand the 'plot' a little bit more.

i think you will appreciate this film if you see the 60s as a good time when something new was happening, the wave crest monologue is one of the best film monologies of all time, and there are intensely sad and nostaligic moments in the film, as well as hilarious moments.

if you dont give a shit about the ideas associated with and the history of the 60s then granted you wont find this very interesting.

theres also that whole ive been there that kind of thing has happened to me feeling that some people have mentioned that makes the film great if your a certain type of person.

and finally the dialogue, acting, sets, costumes, soundtrack, casting, all comes together perfectly to create the exact kind of atmosphere they were after, and if you have an idea what that atmosphere is, its impossible to suggest how they could have done it better.

 

[Cid]

I liked the book because of the way HST writes, his kind of larger-than-life protraying himself as the ultimate 'freak' character, and his observations on the politics and culture of that time. The book allowed you to see things through his eyes. It was more the world that was wierd not him. While its great to see a film based on a HST book and they did a pretty good job I didn't really like the change of perspective and also I didn't see it as necessary to try and be "truthful" to HST's mannerisms and appearance. In his book he created a character for himself in any case. In the film it ends up that the two central characters are the wierd, fucked up and scarey ones whereas in the book he successfully projected all this onto mainstream America, the Nixon era and Las Vegas itself. I just don't get this from the film, which seems to paper over this by relying heavily on the voice-over.

Um - hang on a sec... Las Vegas is a collage of horribly garish colours filled with almost hideous characters that are designed to make the viewer feel almost nauseous (the cop convention bit being a good case in point). 'Duke' and Dr Gonzo are portrayed as misfits (as they are in the book), but at the same time they are the last vestiges of a sane world. Look at the press tent in the race - the only vaguely sane place in the whole film, a sort of haven for those who want to spend their lives in various states of mind-fuckery. The most 'normal' character is the waitress at the end (the 'back door beauty' one), short of that we have errr... Lacerda (the deeply obsessive photographer), Lucy (Ricci's Streisend obsessed Christian), Garey Busey's repressed highway patrolman and L. Ron Bumquist (Nice subtle dig there). Gonzo and Duke have no repression - they may be fucked constantly, but they know who they are and they understand that there is no point in getting lost in a strange world of insecurities and money grabbing. They are the antithesis of the dream, but they are what it should have been - their sanity is shown in the fact they refuse to live in a ridiculous world and will not accept that the status quo is right by default.

 

[thestraightman]

I think it's like what Trainspotting the film is to the book.

Not as deep and dark, but just as entertaining

 

[onenameshelley]

I couldn't do johny, but I like this film too... Although I've only seen it once, it's time to watch it again!

i have a very special Johhny love thats why i could