What's the appeal?

if you have to ask, just move on and watch whatever trash you're into

I’m terminally gay

Benicio Del Toro's performance is fucking great.

>as a straight but it's great now that I've been through my teenage experimental years

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Great book, prety good movie.

They are using lots of different drugs and drinking all the time. It’s ridiculous and out of control. If you’re somewhat straight edge then I can see why it would seem like a stupid movie.

the phone call scene is beyond hilarious.

Do you know what drugs they were using?

This

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To truly understand it, you need to be on ether

i always forget that entire scene for some reason.

I've never had drugs and I enjoy the film and Thompson's books.

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quads confirm

I specifically remember ether and LSD but I'm sure grass and coke were involved. I'll look up the scene

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>nhey! lets watch this wacky funny comedy with Johnny Depp everybody loves him!

it's the kind of story that's cooler as a book because you use your imagination to think of shit that's literally unfilmable and/or extrapolate your own drug related experiences which ends up being better than the actual movie; movies about drug use are just limited in that way

pretty sure there's a fairly famous passage where they describe the contents of the trunk

>Directed by Terry Gilliam
>Based on Hunter S Thompson novel that was loosely based on real experiences
>Del Toro and Depp give some of their best performances
>Great cameos from dozen of actors
>God-tier lighting and set design
>Surreal scenes that often cross into black comedy
>Actually has a point, it gives a critique of the drug culture of the 60s despite "glorifying" it

What's not to like?

doesn't make sense unless you read the book. the movie just makes hunter look like a moron off his head rather than someone heavily cerebral and with an interesting perspective on things that just happens to also like drugs

Beautiful fucking tits, man.

>tfw never watch a movie specifically for comedy

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...

Off the top of my head, I can't think of a straight comedy that isn't fucking trash.

>The trunk of the car looked like a mobile police narcotics lab. We had 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 multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers . . . and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls . . . Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon.

Good movies to watch for the comedy:

Jackass Trilogy
Cornetto Trilogy
Airplane!
Kung Pow! Enter the Fist
South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut
What We Do In The Shadows

also Scary Movie 1, 3, and 4. 2 is decent but not anywhere near as good as the others in terms of pure comedic value. Not Another Teen Movie is also good.

>saw this movie like a month before going to vegas for the first time
>holy shit that circus casino looks awesome, have to make sure to swing by while i'm there
>make it to vegas
>go to circus circus
>its all shit literally market to children
>no carousel bar
>no carnival games run by homeless-looking people
>no monkeys

fuck this movie for getting my hopes up. every casino besides caesar's palace, the belagio, paris, and venice were complete shit and look like they haven't been updated since the 60s

If I remeber right... everything

Thats the same jewish cunt from Animal Kangdom

60's and 70's Vegas doesn't exist anymore. It wasn't even there when they shot the film.

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every time i fire up this movie i'm surprised to see that toby fucking maguire is in it

death at a funeral (not the nignog one) isn't awful, imo.
all the unfunny reasons i avoid comedies right here. american comedy being the worst.
>expecting a good thing to not change to shit
>in america
that's on you, blind sir

This movie legit talked about the underground cult that some lawyers, writers, doctors, etc. partake in pedophilia and illicit drugs... a Hollywood movie btw. I think the movie itself is Hunter S. Thompsons middle finger to Hollywood even though he was kinda part of it.

This might be the dumbest post I read tonight. Incredible.

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and Christina "baby funbags" Ricci

Have you considered killing yourself?

For me it was unironically not drugs. years back i had heard of Thompson but never bothered too check his shit out so i watched the movie instead. The films always made me want to try ether

>all the unfunny reasons i avoid comedies right here. american comedy being the worst.

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gimme some

“We had 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 multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.
Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.”

During my early years, yes. No chance of me doing it anymore.

midget fight was alright. jackass was decent for what it was, plus those fuckers threw caution to wind in actually funny ways. you lumping it with that other shit is on you. also
>posting 10+ minutes videos of shit i'll never watch
also on you. you have shit taste and are shit tier in general for defending comedies.

He just REALLY REALLY REALLY wants you to agree with him, user. It's REALLY important.

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don't i know it. anyway

youtu.be/m6kFCNsnQpQ

It pretty brilliantly painted the euphoria of drugs meant to elevate a failed movement. Once the ideals had fallen away, all that was left was the feeling and the decadence. Thompson looked to exploit that ideal with all its failings in one of the most exploitative environments in the country.

Very visually interesting movie that highlights the absurdity of the american dream

It filtered the pleb critics

I huffed ether a bit good times. Certainly better than huffing gas. But gas is cheap and easy to obtain huff away my fiends.

Basically watching it as a non jaded teen in the 90s. It was all this.

On the contrary, watching while on acid is the ideal viewing method if you ask me, really intensified the drugged out craziness they get into

>Pizza time

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johnny depp plays the same character in every movie

I feel that it's an admirable attempt to translate one of the most important books of its era to film, even if it completely fails in doing that. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is kind of like Watchmen, in that it loses a lot of what makes it great in its adaptation into another medium.
Some of Fear and Loathing's greatness comes from its experimentation with blending fact and fiction to illustrate a mood and ethos that could not be accurately depicted otherwise, and from its unique prose; neither of those things could really be adapted to film, because the medium of film is completely different to writing.

Do they have you guys watching movies in shifts or something? Literally about the tenth movie I just watched and bam! it shows up on old neckbasement central here.

>hasn't seen the libertine, edward scissorhands, blow, transcendence, donnie brasco..
oh well

this scenes great. its just a stark reminder that everyone in this is just a fucking monster and nothing they did was actually okay. it grounds the entire movie

Literally the whole point of the movie and the book was showing a neutered vegas and a neutered version of what the American dream was coming close on the horizon

which is exactly why my memory glosses over it on its own. i don't ever need to be reminded of that.

Straight up he should have won an Oscar for it.

this, laughed thorough the whole movie, also I'm a degenerate drug user so I understood every reference

Live fast die young YOLO

yeah willy Wonka and Donnie brasco are like the exact same character