This was shit

What kind of high powered mutant wrote that?

why were boomers so narcissistic?

first half (part 1 of the book) is kino. Just pure madness, quotable moments, some layers. The second half kinda drops off. Aside from a few quick scenes like the adrinochrome trip or whatever, it just gets dark. It's like the hangover after part 1's fun. I guess that may be the point, but it hurts re-watch value.

Sometimes I watch Fear and Loathing and Rum Diaries back to back.
Sorta comfy.

Retard

A coke powered mutant

I've never missed a plane yet, except that one time in Peru.

Potion seller did the right thing

I try to watch this movie every couple of years and i just cant get myself to follow it. I end up turning it off around the same point everytime because im so lost and missed too much maybe

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Rum Diary is absolutely dogshit. Wach where the buffalo roam instead.

It's a stream of consciousness.
It's based on a book that is a story about two times he was sent to las vegas to cover a story and in typical gonzo fashion it wanders and meanders.
It doesn't have a plot, its a series of vignettes about searching for the american dream, in las vegas, on a shitload of drugs, and an expense account.
Read the book. Get the edition that has "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved" included. One of the most influential writers of his generation, literally created an entire sub genre by accident.

>it's a stream of conciousness
eh. I guess it follows Raole. Its not like its ulysses or as i lay dying.
>it doesn't have a plot
Yes it does. Raole Duke is contracted to cover a bike race in las vegas. He does there with his "attourney", they do acid. He blows the shoot and decides to fuck off into las vegas. They decide to do more drugs. Dr Gonzo has an acid freakout, and after dealing with it Duke reminisces about more naive times. After parting ways and Duke drives into he's almost arrested/raped by a gay cop, so he decides to go back to Vegas. After meeting back up with gonzo he finds they have essentially abducted and raped a young autistic girl with acid. They trick her and send her away. More drugs are consumed and eventually dr gonzo flies out of vegas an duke probably huffs more either off screen. That's the plot. Are you simple?

Drives into the desert* ether*

was bat country

I'd say its likely that anyone who doesn't appreciate or understand this movie hasn't really questioned their existence.

obviously he meant a theres no conventional plot where specific points lead to another. The characters decision are far more random than a typical story.

60s America was literally the most prosperous nation in all of history

I smoked weed and watched this with a friend. It was comfy.

They definitely do lead to one another and the movie does a good job of showing what a three day binge if you have tons of drugs in a hotel looks like. Obviously dramatacized but the sunday hangover was perfect. The only thing they didnt really show was drinking like a fish the first night along with the acid.

Yep

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I think you have to have taken a strong dose of psychedelic drugs at least once in your life to fully appreciate the movie

I don't understand your brains, did you sit down without distraction and watch the whole movie? I could follow it just fine when I watched it and was like 10 years old. Do you anons have trouble following other things or functioning in general?

agreed

I agree, the movie was so god damn boring. I get the artistic side, but it's all around just boring. I think because it was an early expression of drug culture that many people thought it was great simply out of the fact of lack of recognition at the time.

Thanks for global warming, capeshit and trannies, you cockends.

the key is to do drugs while you watch it and/or be under 25 years old

It’s because it’s sort of the ramblings of someone who’s high out of their mind, if you’ve never taken drugs before it can come across as very confusing

DUDE DRUGS LMAO

> t. Incel

>i don’t understand your brains

couldn’t care less

doing a lot of drugs in a casino and circus and all of the extraneous shit that comes with it in this movie is a lot different than extolling the virtues of sitting on a couch smoking pot. Dude weed lmao falls apart I think when you're talking about this level of effort and personal risk into the endeavor

It's interesting but it's a pretty average film.

Totally agree OP

RAOUL, you fucking tard.

LOL. I've never taken a single dose, and I fully appreciate and understand the book, the movie, and everything Thompson wrote.
Taking drugs does not make you special. It just means you took drugs.

Why would they care? They got theirs and they're going to die anyway, not their problem.

Have sex. Do drugs.
Only then you will understand this kino.

Not taking drugs and reading 9000 trip reports doesn't make you special, its just makes you a retard and essentially a cuck.
>I'm so enlightened for not doing this cheap, 12 hour long thing I have heard so much about and think is interesting
you're just a pussy

Hey andrew

I thought this was one of Depps best movies. It was a study in charecter acting where he developed what he later used as the basis for the pirates movies. If you watch old footage of Hunter s Thompson, Depp had him nailed almost perfectly.

It's supposed to be dark, and the second half was less "Let's take advantage of a free trip", and was more intentional. Thompson talked about that aspect of it, the story takes a dark turn, because at that point the intent of the book changed. He was looking to rip into the "American Dream" that Vegas was selling.
Thompson had no problem repurposing his stuff, to make a sale. He has discussed how he wanted the story to be a literal transcription of the trip, thus the tape recorder, but then for the book decided to throw fake elements on top of the actual events, to make it more entertaining. Remember - started out for 1971 Sports Illustrated, was published by Rolling Stone. "More drugs maaaaaaaaan", is a given. And, he wrote the bulk of the first part alone in his hotel room, AFTER the true parts of the story occurred.
It always amuses me, when each generation discovers Thompson, and thinks the books are factual. And that was the whole con he was running, so it's fine, but c'mon. He exaggerated and threw so much fiction into everything he wrote, you have to treat the whole as pure fiction. Same with books like Curse of Lono - he took a trip with Steadman and his family to Hawaii, it rained the whole time, so he made up some goofy drug fueled stories to pass the time.

>before LSD, extaxy, having done only shrooms hash and weed
Good movie
>after said drugs
Fuckin gay glorification and exageration of the drugs

'K, try hard.

Once he gets pulled over by that actor with the giant horse teeth the movie loses all sense of purpose or direction and fun. At least before him wandering around on drugs was entertaining and then from the cop part it’s just boring until it ends.

You clearly never seen it while on shrooms, it's a whole different movie

he's right though, there's no reason to act like you're some cool saint for not taking drugs when the works you say you appreciate are literally all about them. no one says you're cool for doing drugs but it DOES make you better able to understand thompson's mindset and experience. lots of drugs, especially psychedelics are nothing what pop culture portrays them as

ANY movie on shrooms is a completely different movie, lol. Isn't that the point of eating them?

Movies like it?

I'm not trying to act like a saint, I didn't attack anyone for taking them, I'm just laughing at his teenage "I discovered drugs!" nonsense, and that you have to take drugs to unlock some "special" meaning. I have zero fucks to give what you drink, eat, snort, or inject, I really don't, but if some snotty little try hard tries to sneer at me that I can't possible enjoy or get a movie without them, I'm going to laugh and mock their pretentious ass, every fucking time.

I think the drugs smoothed your brain

Dude shut up.
>if you've ever done the drugs St. Hunter glorifies you're a teenager and whatever
You're just an insecure pussy

>but if some snotty little try hard tries to sneer at me that I can't possible enjoy or get a movie without them,
Also this never happened. I just called you a bitch, because you're an obvious faggot.

not that you can't enjoy the movie, you just can't completely understand thompson's experiences because you haven't had the same experiences. it'd be like reading a book about someone climbing mt everest or something, obviously anyone could enjoy it, but a fellow everest climber would get the full emotional impact of the story because of having experienced the same thing
the difference here is that taking drugs is way easier and more accessible than climbing mt everest so a lot more people are gonna get the full emotional impact from thompson's works

Oh, look, the try hard has more to say.

And the crying starts.

>not that you can't enjoy the movie, you just can't completely understand thompson's experiences because you haven't had the same experiences.
Implying you have to, to enjoy a movie. Can I not enjoy a movie where someone gets shot and dies, because I didn't get shot, and died? Of course not.
> it'd be like reading a book about someone climbing mt everest or something, obviously anyone could enjoy it
Aaaaand you prove my point.
>but a fellow everest climber would get the full emotional impact of the story because of having experienced the same thing
So you think taking shrooms and sitting on a couch staring at a TV gives you the same emotional journey Thompson made up, for a book?

Really?

LOL.

Try harder. I'm older, I've heard this lame ass shit a million times. Drugs don't make you special, or more intelligent, or more perceptual. They're just drugs.

But every generation has try hards like you, who are so weak brained, that you think a low effort, artificial state of consciousness defines you. LOL. Always funny.

I'd call you a sheep, but I'd probably get a call from sheep saying "don't lump us in with that try hard idiot, fuck you!"

AGAIN

Not against drugs. Take what you want. But when you start sneering at me, I'm coming for your lame ass. Now sit down, take your drugs, and shut the fuck up. Nobody cares, try hard.

Why would you take mushrooms and watch tv? Are you being ironic with the rest of this trainwreck of a post or what? Jesus christ

Shoo. Thread is done. Stop trying to troll, you're too late. Your butthurt at someone not being impressed by your drugs is your problem, learn to handle it on your own time.

>Now sit down, take your drugs, and shut the fuck up. Nobody cares, try hard.
>I fully appreciate and understand the book, the movie, and everything Thompson wrote.

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The bump limit on Yea Forums is over 300. What is honestly wrong with you?

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worst movie ive ever seen

cringe

WHERE DO I GET A GONZO BF. PLS TELL ME

Transformers 3, Cannibal Holocaust, Necromentia and party monster I think with cauley mcaulkin and seth green are the worst movies I've ever seen. They're all really bad.

What have you seen, like 3 films? It's not even the worst movie in Terry Gilliam's filmography.

Try watching this movie on ketamine

What would be the point? The last time I gave a bunch of people ketamine I held into and air mattress pump for an hour then spilled water on myself and my wife had to stop my friends gf from drowning the toilet. In my defense I didnt think it would be that good but against me I took the first sniff and still handed it out even though it was that good

>Yes it does
how did you fuck up the plot so many times?

That's chronologically correct tho