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"Disappointment and Loathing in Las Vegas"
I was first hipped to Hunter S. Thompson after reading an interview in a 1974 Playboy magazine, I was 18 at the time.

Despite thinking he might be insane (and thankfully he was, but in a good way)I was fasinated by his take on current events and the rich life he led. Since that day I have read everything he has ever written and have a library of all his works, "Fear and Loathing" being a favorite.

When I first found out that Fear and Loathing was being made into a movie I was thrilled, but did not get too excited having seen more than a few favorite books butchered in movie form. But after seeing who was involved in the making of the film I figured they couldn't lose....I was wrong.

It does not even come close to doing the book justice! If you have never read the book, or you were not alive during those crazy times you might enjoy this movie, but I recomend reading the book and skipping the flick. I have not seen the new version with commentary, and that part may be interesting, but despite whatever is said on this disc I know for a fact that Thompson was not pleased with the final product despite being a big Johnny Depp fan (as am I).

I do not fancy myself a literary critic, this is the first and probably last review I will write but I felt I had a realistic take on the author, the book, and the times. Plus I wished someone would have warned me,I might have saved the price of a ticket and the movie poster.

You don't have to be stoned to like this movie
I wasn't when I first saw it, and have yet to be. (I gave that up years ago.) But if you have ever been taken acid, this could ring a few bells. It's definitely a "counter-culture" movie in that, if you like the powers-that-be and their attempts to straighten us all out and see things their way, you probably won't be much amused. But if you think a couple of guys standing the fakery on its ear, who are more than a little on their ears themselves; this is a riot. Obvious with a little more attention, what someone seems to have missed is the serious side: i.e. The drug/counter culture couldn't continue any more than the society which made it seem like such extremities might be The Answer at the time. This is a movie about a social rite of passage conservatives (et al) appear to refuse to admit could have ever happened here. See it straight and see if we're not still on the same road to Hell, only a little closer, than we were thirty years ago.

If you don't get this movie, you don't get America
Yes this film/book is about one horrific drug scene after another....and that's what the 'American Dream' is, just one nightmare after another. The constant search for a non-existent upotia only to be bombarded with one horrific nightmare after another...read your American History books again. HST was a man of vision.....extremely twisted....but still very much on target.

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