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And you thought YOUR trip to Vegas was rough and wild!
Written in 1971, `Fear and Loathing' still has a powerful impact on the mind even today. If you are easily offended by gratuitous drug usage and the craziness resulting from it, then put the book down and back away slowly. For those who may have perhaps saw the movie with Johnny Depp and did not know what to think of it, I highly recommend reading the book and then watching the movie again, its subtleties come out from the background provided in the book, and you will truly appreciate the performances afterwards. `Fear' is absolutely hilarious, following the ramblings of a journalist and his attorney into Las Vegas in the early years. Through clouds of mescaline, acid, ether, amyl, tequila, rum, and pot, we see Las Vegas through the demented eyes of a person totally over the edge and bordering on drug induced psychosis. The bar scene in Circus-Circus is worth the price of the book alone, and all of the vapid trippings of our dynamic duo are practically...
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November 15, 2004 (California) | Helpful Votes: 79 | Rating: 5

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream" by Hunter S. Thompson Hunter Thompson practiced total immersion journalism. This form of reporting is called gonzo journalism. Hunter Thompson drove to Las Vegas to report on a motorcycle race and ended up writing a story about himself writing a story about a motorcycle race. If he would have written a conventional report on motorcycle racing it would have been interesting to motorcycle enthusiasts for a few days. Since he wrote a gonzo story he had a very wide canvas and he used it well to create a classic. The reader might be turned off by the obstreperous behavior, extreme self indulgence and offensive inconsiderate language. If you can look past this offensive conduct and you will see that Hunter Thompson gave us an insight into the American character of the 1970's. See also:...
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May 5, 2008 (Hawthorne, California) | Helpful Votes: 22 | Rating: 5

May 5, 2008 (Hawthorne, California) | Helpful Votes: 20 | Rating: 5

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken.

Now this cult classic of gonzo journalism is a major motion picture from Universal, directed by Terry Gilliam and starring Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro. Top to learn more

Heralded as the "best book on the dope decade" by the New York Times Book Review, Hunter S. Thompson's documented drug orgy through Las Vegas would no doubt leave Nancy Reagan blushing and D.A.R.E. founders rethinking their motto. Under the pseudonym of Raoul Duke, Thompson travels with his Samoan attorney, Dr. Gonzo, in a souped-up convertible dubbed the "Great Red Shark." In its trunk, they stow "two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers.... A quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls," which they manage to consume during their short tour.

On assignment from a sports magazine to cover "the fabulous Mint 400"--a free-for-all biker's race in the heart of the Nevada desert--the drug-a-delic duo stumbles through Vegas in hallucinatory hopes of finding the American dream (two truck-stop waitresses tell them it's nearby, but can't remember if it's on the right or the left). They of course never get the story, but they do commit the only sins in Vegas: "burning the locals, abusing the tourists, terrifying the help." For Thompson to remember and pen his experiences with such clarity and wit is nothing short of a miracle; an impressive feat no matter how one feels about the subject matter. A first-rate sensibility twinger, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a pop-culture classic, an icon of an era past, and a nugget of pure comedic genius. --Rebekah Warren Top to learn more

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The critics were wrong again
I find it sad that much of the country bases it's movie selections on the opinions of hacks like Leonard Maltin. I can see why this wasn't a mainstream success due to it's waaaaaay out in left field mentality, but because of all the negativity this great film remains unseen by many. As people come around to the acting genius of both Johnny Depp and Benecio Del Toro (and they will), they will inevitably want to see their earlier works and then, finally, they will see what all the hype wasn't about. Terry Gilliam absolutely NAILED Hunter's book. The visuals are incredible and alarming. The angles, strange and enticing. I heard that they filmed this movie without a script, just the book in hand. After reading the book, I believe trying to write a script for it could have severly dampened the impact.Now for the drug use... If you are the type of person who realized that Fight Club wasn't really about the fighting, then you will also realize that Fear & Loathing isn't really...
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January 23, 2001 (Flemington, NJ United States) | Helpful Votes: 94 | Rating: 5

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
A Review of the DVD: "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" Starring: Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro Director: Terry Gilliam Writing credits: Hunter S. Thompson (book) Terry Gilliam (screenplay) Tony Grisoni (screenplay) Tod Davies (screenplay) Alex Cox (screenplay) Run Time: 118 Minutes Released: 1998 Hunter Thompson practiced total immersion journalism. He called this form reporting gonzo journalism. Hunter Thompson drove to Las Vegas to report on a motorcycle race and ended up writing a story about himself writing a story about a motorcycle race. If he would have written a conventional report on motorcycle racing it would have been interesting to motorcycle enthusiasts for a few days. Since he wrote a gonzo story he had a very wide canvas and he used it well to create a classic. Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro do justice...
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June 21, 2008 (Hawthorne, California) | Helpful Votes: 34 | Rating: 5

Madness, Politics, Drug Use and Mean-Tempered Cops
This DVD finally gives one of Terry Gilliam's lesser-loved (but brilliant!) films the red carpet treatment. The commentary from Gilliam is crazed and passionate; Depp and Del Toro really show off their wit, charm, and intelligence along with producer Laila Nabulsi's back-stage insight, and the last commentary is a rather odd and screwball one from Thompson himself. I won't tell you a thing about the last commentary. You've got to buy this and check it out on your own. (Here's a hint: 'Screeee-ahhhh! Raaaaaaaagh!' *other assorted sounds*)The second disc is crammed with some great goodies as well - Depp reads letters written to/from Thompson. There's a great BBC documentary showing HST and Ralph Steadman undertaking a trip from Las Vegas to Los Angeles. Another gem is a snippet from an audio-book recording of Fear & Loathing with Jim Jarmusch as Raoul Duke! All definitely worth it.Fear and Loathing isn't just a drug movie (as all the extras on the DVD will reiterate over and...
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January 31, 2003 (Los Angeles, CA United States) | Helpful Votes: 37 | Rating: 5

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The original cowriter and director of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was Alex Cox, whose earlier film Sid and Nancy suggests that Cox could have been a perfect match in filming Hunter S. Thompson's psychotropic masterpiece of "gonzo" journalism. Unfortunately Cox departed due to the usual "creative differences," and this ill-fated adaptation was thrust upon Terry Gilliam, whose formidable gifts as a visionary filmmaker were squandered on the seemingly unfilmable elements of Thompson's ether-fogged narrative. The result is a one-joke movie without the joke--an endless series of repetitive scenes involving rampant substance abuse and the hallucinogenic fallout of a road trip that's run crazily out of control. Johnny Depp plays Thompson's alter ego, "gonzo" journalist Raoul Duke, and Benicio Del Toro is his sidekick and so-called lawyer Dr. Gonzo. During the course of a trip to Las Vegas to cover a motorcycle race, they ingest a veritable chemistry set of drugs, and Gilliam does his best to show us the hallucinatory state of their zonked-out minds. This allows for some dazzling imagery and the rampant humor of stumbling buffoons, and the mumbling performances of Depp and Del Toro wholeheartedly embrace the tripped-out, paranoid lunacy of Thompson's celebrated book. But over two hours of this insanity tends to grate on the nerves--like being the only sober guest at a party full of drunken idiots. So while Gilliam's film may achieve some modest cult status over the years, it's only because Fear and Loathing is best enjoyed by those who are just as stoned as the characters in the movie. --Jeff Shannon Top to learn more

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May 5, 2008 (Hawthorne, California) | Helpful Votes: 20 | Rating: 5

In a Search of the American Dream
Hunter S. Thompson was a much celebrated American journalist and writer, and "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" is his most famous book. Written in a style of "gonzo journalism," this seminal book aimed to capture as much as possible the wild and reckless drug-induced adventures of Thompson and his lawyer friend over the course of two journalistic assignments in Las Vegas in the early 70s. The actual protagonists of "Fear and Loathing" were actually slightly altered from the real world personages, as is probably a big part of the actual narrative in order to create more dramatic and deliberately outrageous events. This is perhaps one of the most entertaining and original books that I have read in my life. Some of the slang and jargon feels a bit dated, but overall the book has aged remarkably well. It is as fresh and lively today as when it was first written. I actually did laugh out loud on many occasions while reading it. Most of the time there was a total disconnect...
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September 20, 2010 (Indiana, USA) | Helpful Votes: 4 | Rating: 5

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A very funny book.. Definitely worth reading . This was my first introduction to Hunter S Thompson and I became addicted after that. If you like this you will also like his Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail
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October 16, 2009 | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5

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If you love Hunter S. Thompson, you'll love this
Let me be frank and honest up front about this: you HAVE to love Hunter S. Thompson or you will NOT enjoy this movie. I see a lot of reviewers saying that the movie is trash - I counter by saying that they probably haven't read this book or any of his other works. This is an incredibly faithful adaptation of the book, and captures the Gonzo feel of the writing. It's really a testament to Terry Gilliam's directing ability as well as Johnny Depp's range that made this movie the masterpiece it is. The blu-ray is beautiful, the sound is amazing, and it is completely worth it in every way.
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September 13, 2011 (NJ) | Helpful Votes: 4 | Rating: 5

Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
This is my all time #1 favorite film, I love Hunter S. Thompson's writing, Terry Gilliam's films, and Johnny Depp & Benicio Del Toro are 2 of my favorite actors, but what makes this movie my favorite is the combination of these 4 peoples talents. "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" for years was considered to be an unfilm-able novel, in part because it's a true story about ungodly amounts of substance abuse, but aside from that, there really isn't any kind of normal story structure to it, and for years no one could figure out a way to fit Thompson's free-form writing style into a typical, 3-act structure, movie screenplay. The brilliant thing a but Gilliam's film though, is that he doesn't even bother with a typical 3 act structure screenplay, but instead uses weird camera moves, lighting and editing to create a kind of "visual approximation" of Thompson's free wheeling, start and stop, style of story telling, and Depp and Del Toro tie the whole thing together brilliantly...
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February 2, 2010 (West Chester, PA USA) | Helpful Votes: 12 | Rating: 5

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When a writing assignment lands journalist Raoul Duke (Johnny Depp) and sidekick Dr. Gonzo (Benicio Del Toro) in Las Vegas, they decide to make it the ultimate business trip. But before long, business is forgotten and trip has become the key word. Fueled by a suitcase full of mind-bending pharmaceuticals, Duke and Gonzo set off on a fast and furious ride through nonstop neon, surreal surroundings and a crew of the craziest characters ever (including cameo appearances by Cameron Diaz, Christina Ricci, Gary Busey and many others). But no matter where misadventure leads them, Duke and Gonzo discover that sometimes going too far is the only way to go. Capturing the insane madness of Hunter S. Thompson's literary classic was the challenge that director Terry Gilliam (12 Monkeys) openly embraced. Critics hailed it as: "Mindblowing. Bizarre. Outrageous. Wild." Buy the ticket. Take the ride! Top to learn more

Blu-Ray US release vs. previous overseas Blu-Ray and overall
I have been a Hunter Thompson reader and fan for years. I saw this film when it was released in the local cinema and fell in love with it. The entire movie is a masterpiece and will not disappoint if you are in any way shape or form a fan of Hunter's writing. The movie pays an honest and humble homage to the book. Hunter's writing was extremely visual to begin with and therefore a challenge to put to screen. And in my opinion it was done near-flawlessly. Fret not, all the lewd, lascivious, and what is now politically incorrect behavior are present in the movie. And done so with respect for the book as well as the most scrutinizing fan. But if you're reading this review then you're most likely familiar with the movie itself and have long since formed your own opinions about it. That being said, how about this "new" BluRay release? This movie was indeed released on BluRay long before the US release. And it was not too expensive in online auction sites and was even...
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February 5, 2010 (Sagamore Beach, MA United States) | Helpful Votes: 29 | Rating: 4

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May 5, 2008 (Hawthorne, California) | Helpful Votes: 16 | Rating: 5

The man, the legacy, the insanity
Anyone who has not read Hunter S. Thompson, owes it to him or herself to read at least one of his efforts. This is the perfect starting point. Often described, alternately, as a drug crazed lunatic, a brilliant writer, a humorist, a political commentator, and a popular historian; none of those titles really does justice to him as a person or his body of work. Hunter was a visionary, while associated with the counterculture of the 1960's and 70's, he is more closely related to the beat movement of the 1950's. His desire was to capture life in action, with a blend of prose and newscopy. To try to explain Fear and Loathing is impossible, its simply not about a trip to Las Vegas. Its about the American Dream, something Hunter stringly believed in, and his attempt to experience it hanging on by his fungernails. As he would say, buy the ticket... take the ride.
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January 9, 2006 (Phila, Pa) | Helpful Votes: 11 | Rating: 5

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First published in Rolling Stone magazine in 1971, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is Hunter S. Thompson's savagely comic account of what happened to this country in the 1960s. It is told through the writer's account of an assignment he undertook with his attorney to visit Las Vegas and "check it out." The book stands as the final word on the highs and lows of that decade, one of the defining works of our time, and a stylistic and journalistic tour de force. As Christopher Lehmann-Haupt wrote in The New York Times, it has "a kind of mad, corrosive prose poetry that picks up where Norman Mailer's An American Dream left off and explores what Tom Wolfe left out."
This Modern Library edition features Ralph Steadman's original drawings and three companion pieces selected by Dr. Thompson: "Jacket Copy for Fear and Loath-
ing in Las Vegas," "Strange Rumblings in Aztlan," and "The Kentucky Derby Is Deca-
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Dr. Thompson made the list of inspirational scribes when I polled in a recent writing workshop, and why not? Back in a spiffy Modern Library edition, replete with additional essays, I find in this iconographic work that HST both invoked--and provoked--an era that was not so much the '60s proper, but rather the mean, shadow-filled death of that time, which is still playing out. Thank God Thompson was there to explode the myth of "objective" journalism and help pave the way for the pens and voices that followed. Top to learn more

So much fun, it's worth losing brain cells. Almost.
Deep within the mind of the creative artist often lies the tendency to become destructive. Nowhere is this more apparent than in this brilliantly written work. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" describes the effects of alcohal and drugs in calculated journo-prose. Initially assigned to cover a motorcyle race in the desert, the emphasis soon shifts from responsibility to reckless partying. The book meanders between odes to opium, mescaline and other mind-altering substances to ethical issues and social commentary. The book is a true story, which recounts the adventures of Thompson, alias Duke, and his obese lawyer, alias Gonzo in Las Vegas in the early 70s. Generally regarded as a collection of infamous drug exploits, the book also captured critical acclaim for it's abrupt and edgy style, and has remained a favorite in journalistic circles. The drug concotions enable Thompson to comment carelessly on everything from social issues to personal exploration,...
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November 27, 1999 (Macon State College) | Helpful Votes: 5 | Rating: 4

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January 23, 2001 (Flemington, NJ United States) | Helpful Votes: 94 | Rating: 5

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I really wish Hunter Thompson, the author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas , could have lived to write about this scene. A long divisive repuknican campaign season is something I would like to see encouraged by those who know that we (the working people) are especially f*cked if middle class Not being humor-impaired, I can appreciate Ed's characterization of... Don’t know what Newt will try next, but don’t think he’s gotten around to associating Romney with ACORN just yet. Since we really have to have Obama for another four years, distasteful as that is to many of us, let's hope the Rethugs tear each other limb-from-limb on a daily basis. " Maybe because it really, really isn't a good idea to base your operation of a national government on bribery, fraud, corruption and threats. Newt only knows how to attack, and he should be encouraged to attack all his opponents early and often. I've noticed that others who also find the thought of another four years of President Obama as "distasteful" don't seem to have any idea of what is actually involved in politics. And Newt knows better how to do that than few others alive. Or since this was a cowboy bar, maybe Sacha Baron Cohen could have shown up as Borat and warmed up the crowd with a few verses of “Throw the Jew Down the Well. Perhaps it's because they came of age during the reign of George II, but they ALL seem to think that "If George did it, why won't Obama. It's a thrill to see the unstable Rethug coalition come undone, and Newt is great at making it happen.

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I thought that's all it would be, but when the lyric bug bit me again (after finishing the novel's second draft), I thought I could build an actual song out of it. I've joked before about not really being much of a composer, but I think when the... " It's a great little syncopated reggae-like groove (sounding like the bastard spawn of "Blacking Out" and "Mercy Rule") with lyrics that are essentially a massive piss-take on the time I spent in recent years attempting to write my first novel. Have a listen: So, my New Year's resolution for 2012 is to finally self-publish the thing—it's been through two drafts at this point, the second wrapping in about January 2010—and I feel like I have enough distance from that period of debilitating... However, that HST quote is tangentially relevant to this week's "30 Songs" post about a new-ish Honey White song called "Historical Friction. Anyway, by the end of the second rewrite, in fact, I had such a healthy sense of security about it that I could churn out a self-deprecating lyric like "Historical Friction. You can hear it crop up at the end of this jam from a Honey White rehearsal in April 2004 (listen to the left channel): "Morbid Frieze" and "Archaeology" were actually two different attempts to give the riff some identity, and for the most part it... "archaeological," "therapeutic," and "creative" are all essentially ways to figuratively bullshit my way through explaining what exactly I was up to, and why I even bothered.

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"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" is one of the more literal film adaptations in recent memory. The film relies almost exclusively on Dr. Hunter S. Thompson´s original words, both in dialogue scenes and in voice-over. Some lines are relocated from
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Hunter S. Thompson, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas It happened in the spring of 1971, 40 years ago now. It was like a snap; the kind of ghastly sound a finely tuned athlete hears when it all goes wrong inside. A major tendon gives way. A knee buckles.
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Another problem is with Thompson's enduring legacy, and I think Terry Gilliam's adaptation of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is mostly to blame. It took me awhile to come around, but I really do like the movie, which is coming to Criterion Blu-ray this