Is this worth watching? What am I in for?

Not usually a fan of Gilliams direction but it absolutely works perfectly with the theme here. It really is an experience of a film. Depp is perfectly cast as the wild and eccentric Thompson and impossible not to like.

>Not usually a fan of Gilliams direction
>pretends to understand film and posts on here
I bet you think The Godfather is "overrated ;)"

Op is a fag

Druggies will like it because dude weed. Puritains will hate it because muh drugs. Fans of Hunter Thompson and everyone else might like it because it's really about the sorry failure of the 60s counterculture set during a decadent and degenerate lAs Vegas drug binge
>There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda. . . . You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. . . .
>And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. . . .
>So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

FOR YOU

Good film based on a really great book. There's one really essential problem with it though. All the characters talk like their real life counterparts, i.e. Johnny Depp talks and acts like the real Hunter S. Thompson. It's a great impression and a great performance but, much like the real HST, he mumbles and slurs all his lines and that's before he starts taking the drugs. Unfortunately it means some really funny lines and dialogue are lost in the mumbling and general cacophony going on around them. Put on subtitles and you'll find you missed dozen jokes the first time around.

Meanwhile the book is way funnier, partially because you don't know which parts are real (or as real as Hunter Thompson could be/remember with a head full of acid and absinth) and which parts Thompson just made up for shits and giggles. But mostly because reading the insane dialogue is just funnier because you understand it the first time around and you're not watching Johnny Depp fall off a barstool.

Finally here's the best video of the real Hunter Thompson I've ever seen. The dude was the real deal: youtube.com/watch?v=NHeSC_Ws5Ic

Also, if you can find the dvd/blu-ray with the real Hunter doing the commentary while doing tequila shots and snorting... something (probably cocaine) it's fucking hilarious and unhinged. And maybe watch some of Gilliam's other films.

>What am I in for?
My life rn

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white rabbit scene was kino

Watching this on acid is a laugh

But that ending pulls the rug from under you

"when white rabbit peaks, i want you to plunge that fckn tape recorder into the tub"

it is pretty good for the first 1/3 of the movie
the rest is garbage

>Johnny Depp talks and acts like the real Hunter S. Thompson. It's a great impression and a great performance but, much like the real HST, he mumbles and slurs all his lines and that's before he starts taking the drugs
mother fucker he was meant to be off his head the entire movie, that and he sounds exactly like young Thompson if you listen to his interviews from back then

It's a great adaptation of the book, but if you haven't read the book... I don't even know what to say. It's also Depp's best performance. Definitely worth a watch.

Yes, I know. That's what I said. It's just that you can't understand a lot of the dialogue and it's really funny stuff unlike the book where you can read it all fine. I'm just saying the books better because of it even though I don't know what they could have done to fix the problem unless Depp wasn't impersonating Thompson - and in that case why bother making it.

Decent adaptation but overrated. Could have been much better.

Given the time and circumstance, there won't ever be a better adaptation of the book. Hunter and JD had a real bond, Hunter was deeply involved/had a say, approved of JD's portrayal, shaved his head, let him wear his clothes, JD lived with him for a while, endless character actors and star cameos who just wanted to be a part of it, directed by Gilliam...c'mon man. It's the visual version of the book, Hunter approved. What more could you ask for as a viewer?

To contrast, watch Where the Buffalo Roam. Bill Murray is a pretty good HST, but nowhere near Depp. Peter O'Boyle is a great sidekick and actor as well, but the film is flat. Hunter never liked it and wasn't consulted nearly to the degree as the remake. So get however you wanna get for the movie, and watch the Hunter approved version of his book.

>fear and loathing
>weed
get this lightweight pansy-leaf shit outta here

Samefag; just wanted to include WtBR trailer and 'pologize for O'Boyle

youtube.com/watch?v=_ZT6fziaIIw

They smoked a fair bit of grass, but it was more to cut the edge from the cocaine and acid

don't watch it alone. not funny enough for that

is wild ride going into depravity and paranoia of drugs and the musings to a end of an era.

It's a bad movie. The guys do drugs almost the entire movie, then at the end they sober up and realize that doing drugs all of the time isn't such a good idea. The End.