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Amateur movie with Big budget

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

The original novel by "Gonzo" Hunter S. Thompson's is unchallenged by the movie (if you never read the book but weird stuff on an acid trip and after that some more drugs sounds good to you - read).The adaption got such fine actors like Depp (before he was lost in his role as Captain You Know Who) and Benicio Del Toro - great cast, great acting, a good story and script, a fast paced movie driven by drugs and well wasted lives. And don't forget the Red Shark. Anyway, if you like to trip you gotta trip. Watch if you are a free spirited mind - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is of course no movie (or novel) for guys and gals who don't appreciate a good bite from a sweet and fat donut called madness.

Two friends (?) go to Las Vegas, apparently to write an article, but mostly to do drugs. Not being in the most rational states of mind, the two have quite a few bizarre experiences that they vividly share.Not my cup of tea, not at all. Though I must say, they took the idea and really went for it. This is not done half-hearted, they have really gone all out to make a really bizarre movie. And I must appreciate Depps performance, who narrates all their experiences in a very detached way (albeit not being always so rational) giving a comic air to the setting. But the story contains too much misery and suffering to be entertaining.3/10

To me, the best movies feel like dreams... or nightmares. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) is very much the latter.It is fearlessly ugly. The canted, garish visuals and weird voice-over narration make you feel as though you're on drugs like the main characters, and the trip is not a good one. The world of this movie is threatening. It's a world of physical and moral decay, the graveyard of the American Dream that Raoul Duke is searching for throughout the story.Some may find this movie obnoxious or trashy, and there are moments where it leaves you utterly exhausted. If you are a person who gets what I have often heard termed "Gilliam fatigue," then Fear and Loathing will push you past your limit. But I like how it dares to be grotesque. Had the filmmakers been any softer or sentimental, the movie just would not work. The movie can be hard to stomach, but an appreciation for dark, twisted humor can help this bitter pill go down.

Paranoid, unpredictable and out of control, Raoul Duke (Johnny Depp) and his lawyer Dr. Gonzo (Benicio Del Toro) venture through a drug bender in Las Vegas. Adapted from the legendary journalist's book of the same title, Hunter S. Thompson's real life experiences and Terry Gilliam's strong direction create a marriage in psychedelic heaven. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas delivers all of the drugged up wackiness of a binge gone too long and taken too far.To the inexperienced with psychedelics, most of this film probably won't make sense on a few levels. There isn't much of a discernible plot: stuff happens, but nothing truly develops logically. Dialogue is spoken, but most of it doesn't seem important except the narration. Francis Ford Coppola famously stated that Apocalypse Now, "...is not about Vietnam...it is Vietnam." Fear and Loathing isn't a film about drugs, it is a drug.Much like the desired and adverse effects of taking too much LSD or smoking too much marijuana, there are two major tones in the film: The fear, then the loathing. The adventure begins as they start the drive into Vegas. The fear sets in as they arrive to check into the first of many hotel rooms. The acid kicks in, and Duke panics when he concludes he is too gone to deal with the check in lady. This continues with many funny and baked results. Then the mood shifts into a darker, much more menacing half where lines are crossed and the altered states feel inescapable.Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas isn't just about the hallucinogenic trip either. It draws parallels to an era of transition from the 1960s to the 1970s. After the drug trip, the movie concludes as if it all was a prolonged haze of confusion in a city with empty promises of the American Dream. Drug culture became more of an escape from the brutal realities than a movement for peace and love.