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Summary: a faboulous version of Hunter S. Thompsons classic journalis
Review: jon depp and hunter S. tompsonis one of the most underrated actors and writers ofour time and is a american icon to the american people.
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Summary: Amazing Film. Amazing Book. Amazing Director.
Review: Terry Gilliam is the best director alive now that poor Stan Kubrick is no longer with us. If it is the last thing you do go and buy Brazil and 12 Monkeys. After buying this, of course. Of course the viewer from the "small suburban home" didn't like it! He's one of THEM! This movie was hypnotic and wonderful. And I wasn't even on any illegal narcotics. But read the book first. In fact, go to books, buy the book, and then come back. And get "The Great Shark Hunt" too.
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Summary: A Twisted Masterpiece
Review: FALILV is my all time favorite film. The critics hated it. In 1971, Hunter S. Thompson and Oscar Acosta were both working on a murder case in which a Latin-American journalist had been killed while having a drink at a bar during a Latin-American rally. They were both stressed out over the thing so they decided to go to Polo Lounge, a bar in the Beverly Hills Hotel. They were sitting there talking when Thompson remembered that a friend at a magazine had offered to send him out to Las Vegas to cover an off-road race. He needed a break from the Salazar/Murder case so he and his attorney loaded up Thompsonm's rented car with drugs and booze and roared out into the desert to "cover the story". The rest is a long drug trip full of politics, hallucinations, etc. The crtics dismissed it; calling it a "painfully long drug trip". But FALILV is more than that. It is not about a couple of drug fiends who got high in Las Vegas in 1971. It is about two men's search for what was the last dying part of the Sixties. Thompson knew that the Sixties were quickly dying. He knew that if he waited too long they would be forever gone. He knew that this was his last chance. Th film is at times, for me at least, moving. I was not there in the Sixties. I never roamed Haight-Ashbury or went to Woodstock , but I have a sense of what it was like. It is gone now. Dead forever. The Counterculture left behind many things from the Sixties. But the youth of today still does not understand... FALILV is a masterpiece about a time when it was possible to go crazy on drugs and rip off hotels in Las Vegas. About a time like no other when a man named Thompson roamed Vegas searching for something he subconciously knew that he could not find. Buy the ticket. Take the ride.
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Summary: Hahahaha...this was awesome!
Review: I don't know much about Terry Gilliam, but I think I'll be checking out more of his movies. This is a film that really needs no plot...it's just something to sit back and enjoy. "We can't stop here, this is bat country!" I don't usually see too many films where the main characters are stoned out of their minds the entire time, but it was great! I only had one request...that Johnny keep his hat on all the time. I couldn't stand to look at his bald head. And just the way that Depp would say his lines made me laugh.
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Summary: If I was trapped on a desert island with only 1 movie...
Review: FaLiLV would be the one!!! This is the best movie I have ever seen besides The Hunt for Red October. You should be chemically altered (beer of course) to actually watch the whole thing. I have seen it countless times "drunk" and about 3 times sober. It is good. Get it now. Please buy this movie!!!
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Summary: Huh?
Review: Well, maybe it's just me, but i couldn't see any plot whatsoever in the movie. You know, that little thing usually included in the movie that makes the movie worthwhile. So anyway i was watching it and nothing at all happened in the first hour or something (time moves so slow when youre bored). It was like an entire first part of the movie on an acid trip and that got old fast. So i turned it off and rewound it and went outside and that was more entertaining than the movie.
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Summary: A Rich, Chaotic Experience
Review: This movie has recieved mixed responses. I however found it to be a rich, powerful movie. At times it was chaotic and anarchic, at others I was struck by the sensitivity of the narration. The movie follows two Americans who seek to uncover the 'American Way', by taking a drug-focused stay in Las Vegas. I'll leave the conclusion up to you, but I found Fear and Loathing rich, repulsive, intensly funny and bitingly critical. Strongly recommended.
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Summary: i must have missed something
Review: i didn't find anything redeeming about this film. i must have missed the point, but i found it boring and irritating from start to finish. i'm just glad i got it on divx cause it was a one time thing for me.
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Summary: Not just a movie for stoners, but for all burnouts!
Review: Johnny Depp does a first-class job at portraying Hunter S. Thompson, and the supporting cast of the film was also excellent. Terry Gilliam hasn't lost his sense of humor, and does and excellent job directing this film. Scenes such as the "police convention" and "Inside of Circus Circus" were side splitters. This is one film I can watch over and over and is my favorite movie.
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Summary: "dated"?-- f*** no, thank you kindly
Review: i had to go on opening night, and i believe that most of the other freaks in los angeles were in the theatre with me-- i've never seen such a seemingly arbitrary group of people-- yuppies from bel air, middle-aged hippies and greasers from hollywood, art-house hipsters, stoned college students, etc. the nonstop explosions of laughter this group emitted from start to finish should quell the critics' condemnation of the material being "dated" and "irrevelant." in the words of the immortal hst-- "f*** no, thank you kindly." such insight (and humor) into americana and the twists of the human psyche will never pass out of date, and gilliam's vision, combined with the unsurpassable performances of depp and del toro, should surely make this an american (if cult) classic, deserving to go on the shelf right next to the book itself.
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