Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Canadian First Time Watching | Movie Reaction | Movie Commentary

[@Sirala6]

Hunter S. Thompson - 'I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.'

[@billdoor3140]

Until he died in agony...

[@justinrigrags5756]

Hunter S. Thompson - 'I wonder what this gun tastes like'

[@Osentalka]

@@billdoor3140 Agony caused by playing golf...

[@brycealthoff8092]

Until they didn’t. The man was an empty shell towards the end of this life.

[@sk8erburd]

Me too 😂😂😂

[@Cadinho93]

Fun Fact: When Johnny Depp is walking through the club during the flashback sequence and says, "There I was… there I am!" The guy he's looking at is the actual real life, Hunter S. Thompson. Also, the part in the casino when the carpet is morphing is one of the most accurate depictions of tripping on acid that I have seen in a movie.

[@pete_lind]

They waited so long filming this that they could do that effect . Fun to notice that legal pot user dont know real drugs , like Mescaline natural drug from Peyote cactus, can cause a person to seeing or hearing things that do not exist or are distorted and the little side effect of vomiting . Did anything happen , was his friend even there or did he just trash a hotel room high as a kite ?

[@Naranuru]

Watching Doctor Strange in Cinema wasn't a good idea, it put me right back for a sec. 😂 In fact my last PsySub use is more than 10 years ago so I was very surprised. I know most People compare the animation to DMT but I can tell on shrooms I was able to visit different Dimensions. 😂 Maybe I was kind of sensitive, but maybe I just know how to consume things more right. I got told once that you don't need to swallow shrooms cause the psilocybin is reacting with our saliva so I started to take 1.2g, chewed it together with two airwaves gums for 30min, spit the mixture of shrooms n gum out and let's go! No more sickness in the stomach. I also noticed that my body is telling me throughout yawn that things are kicking in. The shrooms I liked the most called Himalayan Golden Teacher, do you have any favorites? Spiral Out and may the Force be with you 🤘😝🔥

[@derGhebbet]

Those lizards tho...

[@di0__0ib]

yes! absolutely nailed it with the carpet. years later and i STILL see things like that

[@3DJapan]

Don't ask how I know, but you're right about the carpet.

[@ApesAmongUs]

Trying to make sense of this movie while A. not knowing who Hunter S. Thompson is and B. being sober seems a monumental task.

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

Yeah, I had the benefit of having read the book. Going into this with zero knowledge of Thompson would be…..interesting😏

[@johnpolack9168]

Yeah, can't imagine not having context for this.

[@korganrocks3995]

I did both back in the day, and I still enjoyed it as a comedy, my friends and I used to quote it endlessly. 😄

[@garryiglesias4074]

The historical context is sine qua none, not being sober is optional, but, of course, not being a Bigot is ANOTHER sine qua none condition.

[@korganrocks3995]

@@garryiglesias4074 This comment made less sense to me than the actual movie.

[@donotevenbegintocare]

So basically the production was very authentic to Hunter S Thompson's "fictional story" (read: slightly fictionalized account of what he and Oscar Zeta did in Vegas while high as kites) down to Johnny Depp wearing Thompson's actual real life clothes from this time period, given to him by the man himself. Despite the accuracies there is one significant blunder though. When Depp's character looks at the screen and says 'You're not Portuguese, man'. This is incorrect, as in fact I am.

[@christopherwall2121]

From what I heard, the motorcycle race was just convenient excuse, the real reason they left was that Oscar Zeta Costa, who was a prominent Chicano rights activist, well, his buddies were getting suspicyof the weird white guy he was hanging around with all the time. Since Thompson wrote for several magazines, one of them got him a tip on a the race, so they had an official reason to slip out of California until the heat died down.

[@RodrigoMeschiatti]

prtgal cralh

[@mitchellwright5478]

@@donotevenbegintocare Still a fan of Yamaha’s or Pursang?

[@MetastaticMaladies]

Ah, so you’re the Portuguese photographer? Thought you were dead.

[@jacobyoung729]

Lol.

[@80Jay71]

Hunter's philosophical monologue halfway into the movie about the american dream is strangly beautiful.

[@mrwomby5007]

He put into words the exact feeling I had at the time; all that promise turned out to be just a delusion.

[@radiof00le]

that's a great part of the book: Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era - the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run . . . but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant. . . .History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of “history” it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time - and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened. My central memory of that time seems to hang on one or five or maybe forty nights - or very early mornings - when I left the Fillmore half-crazy and, instead of going home, aimed the big 650 Lightning across the Bay Bridge at a hundred miles an hour wearing L. L. Bean shorts and a Butte sheepherder‘s jacket . . . booming through the Treasure Island tunnel at the lights of Oakland and Berkeley and Richmond, not quite sure which turn-off to take when I got to the other end (always stalling at the toll-gate, too twisted to find neutral while I fumbled for change) . . . but being absolutely certain that no matter which way I went I would come to a place where people were just as high and wild as I was: No doubt at all about that. . . . 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.

[@matthew6427]

​@@radiof00le The man had a way with stitching words together in a way that highlights the horror and beauty of our lives. I have always found it strange that Hunter was such a big Hemmingway fan. I'd heard that he would type Hemmingway's books over and over to get a sense of the rhythm. To me, their writing is vastly different, but I've never been a fan of Hemmingway either so 🤷‍♂️

[@80Jay71]

@@radiof00le That's the one!

[@GrisbaneAddams]

I mean... that's the central point of the book. It's what the rest of the book is *demonstrating.*

[@ZombieShobb]

One of my favorite movie quotes is from this movie: "Too weird to live, too rare to die."

[@henrick_the_lover]

I still to this day say “We can’t stop here this is bat country!”

[@gonzoshots4691]

I always loved 'As your attorney I'd advise you to take a hit from the little brown bottle in my shaving kit' shit is a BAR

[@davelewis8270]

One of the rare cases where I felt the book and the movie were equally as good as eachother.

[@lukebarton5075]

Indeed. Pretty much everything from the book makes it into the film. Even managed to capture the amnesia loss of the blank page.

[@carlossaraiva8213]

Truth

[@SquishedFaeries]

Reading the book gave me a whole new appreciation for the film.

[@efkastner]

I can’t imagine going in to either one totally blind!

[@reverendB]

I'm already waiting for "Hey Everybody and welcome to "Tell me about the fucking golf shoes" my name is Simone, and this is George and this is where we watch movies and television"

[@jculver1674]

"Let's get down to brass tacks, how much for the ape?"

[@varg666varg]

@@jculver1674 😂🤣😂🤣

[@bloodymarvelous4790]

Terry Gilliam is the king of surrealist movies. Check out Brazil, The Fisher King , 12 Monkeys, and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.

[@DamagedButManaging]

He is one of my favorite directors. Man is a visionary

[@Greybeard70]

The Fisher King is AMAZING.

[@adrianowen476]

I'd love you guys to see the fisher king

[@butt5326]

This one and 12 monkeys are his best films

[@mattigator600]

Brazil was amazing Monty Python's *1984* ?

[@Redneckkratos]

Now you two will get the reference in Rango; “we can’t stop here, this is bat country!!!!”

[@taffleberry]

It hurt me when they watched rango and didnt react to that

[@spocko2181]

Even being sober at Circus Circus is an actual nightmare.

[@brucemangan3807]

Lived in Vegas… can confirm 😂

[@matthewfike4491]

I’m a coward, I ignored the $3 shrimp cocktail.

[@laudanum669]

@spocko2181 For real! Back in the 90's my wife and I went to visit her brother in Las Vegas. He was working at Circus Circus and he told us to meet him there when he got off work at midnight. Both my wife and I had been drinking and were also very highwhen we got there and it was a lot to handle.

[@quinndavis]

Thompson said the only problem he had with this depiction of his book/him, was the abuse of the waiter at the hotel. He said he'd never be rude to service industry workers.

[@michaelnewsham1412]

The horrendous abuse of the waitress at the diner in the book belies that.

[@quinndavis]

@ Which was perpetrated by the attorney.

[@Spikeelsucko]

for those who are less savvy, the running gag in the film about the "mescaline not working" is because the more potent forms take longer to set in- so they end up loading themselves to the gills and THEN everything else hits

[@MysteriousMrL]

In that scene at 21:23 there's a bit where he narrates "There I was..." then he stops to look at that guy sitting there and says, "Mother of god, there I am! Holy fuck! Uh...." That was a cameo by the real life Hunter S. Thompson. I love that the character gets so thrown off by encountering his real life counterpart that he needs to take a second before continuing.

[@protoclone138]

The best way I have heard this movie described "it's like drugs. At first, it is fun and trippy, but eventually, you want it to end, but it won't. "

[@SargNickFury]

accurate

[@robertcartwright4374]

Hahaha!

[@kirstonemmm1423]

That is perfection, and I kinda hope the intention of the filmmakers.

[@Narapoia1]

@@protoclone138 Depends on the drugs really

[@goldboy150]

@@Narapoia1haha yeah. Was going to make that point. Also how much and what else you’ve got going on.

[@robertcartwright4374]

This is a very authentic movie adaptation of the book, with one exception, anyways, one that I've noticed. When you're reading the book, it's descriptions of gross behaviors have an element of coolness, because they exist only in your imagination. This distance makes them funnier, and less sickening. And it's a theme in the book, the difference between reporting an event, and being the event. It's a running joke. At one point, the gist of the narration is something like "I considered parking the convertible in the laundry room of the Hacienda Hotel, but the doorway looked too narrow, and the people inside seemed dangerously excited." The cool tone of professional reportage, the unaware narration, and how far it is from their hot, bodily savaging of polite norms, and how that weirdness would appear to bystanders, really made me laugh back in the '70s. The movie makes you grapple more with the ugliness of their indulgences, and indicts the counterculture more pointedly. Which is a message in the book, so I guess the movie taught me something!

[@81OH4Z4RD]

I think you meant "indict" rather than "indite"? Wouldn't bother to mention such a triviality most times but I really enjoyed reading your reply, it is very nicely written.

[@robertcartwright4374]

@@81OH4Z4RD Thank you so much, and you're right, I did mean "indict".

[@orlandoruizjr3834]

This is actually the second film about Hunter S. Thompson. The first is called WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM. It came out in 1980, and Bill Murray plays Thompson. It's definitely worth a watch.

[@UTubeHandlesSuck]

Personal Opinion: Bill was a far better Thompson than Depp, and Peter Boyle WAS Laszlo.

[@jeffreywettig5302]

Yes, then The Rum Diary, more akin to his personality before adopting Raul Duke persona.

[@vilefly]

Does anyone know the chronological order in which to watch these movies? I think Fear and Loathing is 1st, WTBR is 2nd, and The Rum Diaries is 3rd, but I am not sure.

[@jeffreywettig5302]

@@vilefly where the buffalo roam is from the late 70s, it's a hodgepodge of Hunter stuff set in the early 70s. Fear and Loathing is the next movie made in the late 90s and is set in 1971 or 2. The rum diary is the last movie made, but is a book hunter wrote in the late 50s and early 60s.

[@EdiZonCarTeR]

​@@vilefly Rum Diary, Fear and Loathing then Buffalo. If you go by time periods in Hunter's life.

[@juice_box_jax]

Circus Circus is a real casino and even now it is terrifying.

[@gluecement]

I stayed there because of HST's book.

[@christopherschreiber5805]

Pretty sure it's the oldest on the strip that's still standing, now that the Mirage is gone. The Flamingo's been there awhile too.

[@ggbarnum765]

And they got rid of the carousel bar...

[@mikeyben7]

“You took too much man. Took too much.”😂😂😂

[@user-vf3wk2nw9d]

My favorite line in the movie ha

[@korganrocks3995]

I still say this whenever someone can't finish all the food on their plate! 😄

[@michaelbuhl4250]

I got to see Hunter S. Thompson speak at Vanderbilt University back in 1984. He started off lucid and quite funny. He opened by saying that a vote for Reagan was actually a vote for Vice President Bush because Reagan was so old that he would be dead by Groundhog Day. There was a moderator on stage, but she basically had no control over the situation. Somewhere around the middle of the event Thompson began to drift, and by the end he was just listing dangerous animals and mumbling about being taken away by "rich Greeks." The event didn't end so much as it fizzled. If you haven't read the book "Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas" you should.

[@7rollface]

Fun fact: for the first half of filming this apparently the crew were talking behind Depp's back about how over the top his performance was. Then Hunter S. Thompson visited the set. The next day the crew were talking about how Depp's performance was absolutely spot-on. Gonzo from the Muppets is named after the attorney. As for drug information films, the classic is Reefer Madness. It's something. Oh, and as for Terry Gilliam, you should absolutely do Brazil, 12 Monkeys, and Tideland. All nuts in thier own way, and all brilliant.

[@michaelminch5490]

And "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen."

[@carlossaraiva8213]

Dont forget Time Bandits.

[@7rollface]

@@carlossaraiva8213 Oh yes, Time Bandits. Ignore the remake.

[@carlossaraiva8213]

@@7rollface a tv show, right?

[@7rollface]

@@carlossaraiva8213 I think so, yeah.

[@andyc66612]

"Right next to me a huge reptile was gnawing on a woman's neck, the carpet was a blood-soaked sponge-impossible to walk on it, no footing at all. “Order some golf shoes,” I whispered. “Otherwise, we'll never get out of this place alive. You notice these lizards don't have any trouble moving around in this muck-that's because they have claws on their feet" Passage from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

[@djgizmoe]

That Ellen Barkin scene in the diner is like the ultimate "it's all fun and games until" moment where you realize that they've gone from being amusingly self-destructive to an actual danger to people around them. A great film about the counterculture hangover of the '70s...

[@Madbandit77]

Barkin was supposed to be the love interest in Gilliam's "Brazil".

[@carlossaraiva8213]

Of the 60s. The 70s is when the hangover happened.

[@sahbian]

Del Toro's character, Dr Gonzo, was an attorney who also wrote a couple books (Revolt of the Cockroach People and The Brown Buffalo) before disappearing in Mexico in the 70's. in one of his books, he described the night Robert Kennedy was assassinated, at the hotel he was also to speak at.

[@aaronliggett3224]

The same hotel where they filmed the police convention scene at in this movie

[@sahbian]

​@@aaronliggett3224 oh wow! thats crazy.

[@adamj1278]

Johnny Depp took home the big white gorilla statue from the circus scene. He put it on his front lawn as an ornament.

[@user-vf3wk2nw9d]

I’ve seen this movie dozens of times, I THINK it’s about a guy going to write an article about a motorcycle desert race in Vegas and his lawyer joins him. That’s it. That’s all I got lol

[@streetdogg8206]

Yes, that is indeed the plot of the movie. :D

[@jakkolantern6981]

It's the perfect journey movie. There is no goal... just events that paint the picture. It's a portrait of a moment, rather than a progression. No character growth, no resolution. It's weirdly like a handful of days captured as a still shot. And the cinematography is wonderful. One of my top ten for sure.

[@felixfungle-bung4688]

Terry Gilliam is one of the underrated GREATS! Fisher King, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, and Brazil are cinematic perfection.

[@vibepusher2717]

To get the 'inside joke' it might be necessary to have read the book, be a fan of Hunter Thompson and understand his quest for the 'American dream'. And be tripping nuts of course.

[@lawrencegough]

Damn I wrote almost the exact same post! You are, of course, absolutely correct.

[@RobVanDelay_WholeFnContest]

If you are short on time and have to choose only one, make sure it"s the "trippin nuts" option

[@BouillaBased]

“Listen. Let's get down to brass tacks here, how much for the ape?”

[@somerotter]

The inside joke is Hunter S. Thompson’s work and life. This is more or less exactly what happened when Rolling Stone sent him to Vegas to cover that motorcycle race. A fun experiment is watching Bill Murray play Hunter Thompson in “Where the Buffalo Roam”, an earlier movie based on his life. The mannerisms are very similar between them, which makes for a fun comparison.

[@bwilliams463]

"Don't tell me those things. Not n-now, man." Thompson admitted that the vast majority of the events chronicled in the book were fictional, but it's still a fantastic read, and this is a fantastic adaptation. When I first read the book, I was sure that the only way you could turn it into a movie would be in animation, like Don Bluth or Ralph Bakshi style, but the practical effects handled the tone way better than I could have envisioned. Remember, not only was Terry Gilliam part of the Monty Python troupe, he was also their resident animator, and he was very skilled with imagery. This was also the movie that cemented Johnny Depp as one of my favorite contemporary actors.

[@misterkite]

Terry Gilliam isn't just the directory of Holy Grail, he's a full member of Monty Python. He played the Bridge Keeper, and the animator having a heart attack, and Patsy (with the coconuts) in the beginning.

[@McBeelzebub]

Take what you want from this: I watched this movie with my best friend in the world at a matinee showing. We walked out after seeing it, stood in the parking lot…then looked each other in the eyes, and without saying a word, turned around and watched it again.

[@TheLucaspotter2010]

I am convinced that this film was made this way to make you feel high as a kite. And I think I can provide some context for whatever was going on: Hunter S. Thompson was hired by the Rolling Stones magazine to cover the Mint 400 motorcycle race in Las Vegas, 1971. As he missed the race, he turned to writing about the chaotic atmosphere surrounding the event rather than the event itself. Then he just sent it like, 'whatever, they were firing me anyways.' Instead, his article “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” was credited with revolutionizing journalism through a new unique style known as Gonzo journalism, which blends fact and fiction and emphasizes personal experience and subjective perspective. I can't fathom everything Hunter did in his life because, this film pales in comparison to barely what he used to do as a child - a small example: setting his street on fire and starting race wars with neighbouring children. I highly recommend the book GONZO by Wenner and Seymour. It's a good laugh.

[@laudanum669]

Hunter was also once hired to cover a Super Bowl in Miami. He gave the the tickets away and and just went on to party while in Miami.

[@TzunSu]

Hell, even as an adult. Long after this, he ran for sheriff of Aspen, Colorado (Yeah, the place where all the uber rich go to ski), where he lived for a long time, and only *very* barely lost. There's video of him here on YT exchanging gunfire with his neighbour, with his neighbour shooting buckshot at Hunter, and Hunter firing a Luger back. Man was truly unique.

[@jmsmys13ify]

The general consensus about this film usually lands right about: "I mean... it's a film. I think I was entertained. Right? Where was I again? What day is it....?"

[@WillFlyTheLightingGuy]

The old anti drug movie you are looking for is “Reefer Madness”. It was made to be serious, but unintentionally landed on ridiculous and hilarious. It is THE quintessential “Pot will turn you into a raving lunatic” film.

[@popejaimie]

There are a lot of great ones. I wouldn't say Reefer Madness was made to be serious, it was more made to be titillating.

[@WillFlyTheLightingGuy]

@ It was made out of fear to spread fear. I don’t know in what way you think it was meant to be titillating. And it absolutely is the quintessential anti-drug propaganda film.

[@popejaimie]

@@WillFlyTheLightingGuy I mean yeah, initially it was funded by a church group, but that version was never actually released. It was later discovered by an exploitation filmmaker who edited in some sexy parts and whatnot, and released it on the exploitation film circuit. That's the surviving version. But it was still the 30s, their sexy isn't our sexy. For them, an extended scene of a woman getting dressed is basically 🌽

[@Madbandit77]

​@@popejaimie The film's funding was from a Los Angeles-based church.

[@popejaimie]

@Madbandit77 yes. That version was never released. The version that was released was heavily edited including new scenes by another filmmaker, for the purposes of release on the exploitation circuit.

[@myohmyDesign]

Please watch the Bill Murray film Where The Buffalos Roam, it's another great Hunter S Thompson performance.

[@vilefly]

.....and they pick up another hitchhiker to terrorize. Bill Murray had to unlearn what he learned from Hunter Thompson so that he could get along with people again.......and stop muttering. lol.

[@devlinallistair-zx5by]

Fk the doomed.

[@JakkFrost1]

6:47 "how many things has he taken?" Yes. And never a more appropriate time to use that joke! 🤣

[@mrkrinkle72]

Yes kids, LSD will make the carpet swirl and never judge a taco by its price!😵😵

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

I remember taking too many mushrooms, sitting in the cramped backseat of a 73 Camaro & watching a kaleidoscope on the back of the front seat. I’m not sure how long I was watching it occur, but it was long enough that my friend in the front passenger seat (who we’d recently picked up & didn’t know I’d taken anything) said, “you’re tripping, aren’t you?”

[@TheTrueMac]

He talks and acts almost exactly like Hunter S Thompson, he lived in Hunters basement for a few months to prepare. In the 70's Hunter was sent to a motorcycle race in LV to cover it for Rolling Stone Magazine and instead of writing the article, he wrote an entire book while in the depths of one of the most insane drug binges ever recorded. Hunter S Thompson was an absolute mad man but had an ability to write like no other. It constantly feels off because they were in a constant state of intoxication, sometimes to a sickening degree, throughout their entire time in Vegas. Hunter had always said he was going to take his own life, on his own terms when he was ready and when he was reaching the end of a very bumpy road, with his entire family in the other room celebrating the Holidays, shot himself in his office. He left a note, nobody was surprised, most of them already knew before even going to check on what the noise was and nobody was mad. He had his ashes stuck into a firework and during a large ceremoney with friends, family, artists, writers and actors in attendance, had his ashes shot out of a cannon and exploded in a huge firework over the forest of his massive property. And yes, he took direct influence from the manerisms he used in this film to craft Jack Sparrow. And no, Dr. Gonzo was in fact there, left back to LA (just a 45min flight). He was also a very real person.

[@patrickdepew4976]

I remember this movie was trashed by critics when it came out in 1998. The original book had always been described as "unfilmable," and the consensus was that this movie proved that assessment to be accurate. I got hooked on this movie in college thanks to a friend. It's now one of the many Criterion titles I own, as Criterion has released many Terry Gilliam movies. I did watch this movie the only time I was ever drunk in my life. I kept rewinding the movie because I thought I missed Johnny Depp's line about the circus being "the sixth Reich," only to find that the line hadn't even happened yet. So, yea, color me disappointed that you guys didn't get drunk to watch this. I think that would have been fantastic.

[@michaelminch5490]

I have all of Criterion's Terry Gilliam films. Personally, I think it would have been a mistake for George and Simone to watch this "altered" for their first viewing. It's a lot for the uninitiated. I was stone sober my first time, and glad for it.

[@SmokeNoMirrors]

This is one of my favorite movies! Thanks for reacting!

[@cazper420]

I've had this movie playing on repeat for days at a time and never watched it all the way through. I used to trip and roll so much with this on. I've probably played it over 2,000 times. Such a great movie

[@apatternedhorizon]

Hunter S. Thompson was a hell of a human being. He has a lot of great books and stories. If you read anything about his life.. it was incredible. If it tells you anything he had his ashes shot out of a cannon after unaliving himself. His s**cide note was published in Rolling Stone magazine. And yes this actually happened. It's just exaggerated. Knowing hunter it isn't entirely farfetched that 80% of this is true. His style of writing became known as gonzo journalism.

[@flippert0]

Simone: "I don't get any of this and I ..... OH, GOD!" - I think, that pretty much sums up the whole movie

[@Tateorsomething]

Watch the documentary "Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride". You'll then understand how well J Depp did at impersonating HST.

[@JohnLoutsenhizer]

George: Some convertible scene. Hunter: This is bat country. Also, the drugs, especially acid, of back in the day were just...different....

[@khronotrigga2638]

There is a movie based on the same thing called "Where The Buffalo Roam". It stars Bill Murray playing Hunter S. Thompson and is great as well.

[@leonardvandergriff6241]

No one is ever ready for the crazy awesomeness of this movie, but after you watch it, you will always remember it😂😂

[@P.A.T.S.91]

There are several cameos in this film but this is the number one stoner film of the century. And always remember to bring a fly swatter when going to bat country Cameo list Mark Harmon:Reporter in the desert who talks about Ali Flea: Hippie in the bathroom Hunter s Thompson: in the matrix Christopher Meloni: gay hotel clerk Toby Maguire: hitchhiker Gary busey: Desert cop Cameron Diaz: Reporter

[@LordVolkov]

Verne Troyer (Mini-Me) is in Circus Circus and so is magician Penn Jillette

[@yaze3316]

and Christina Ricci

[@SlinkyFromHell.4]

Ankther odd cameo: the hotel desk clerk at the Flamingo is Det. Stabler from SVU

[@magicbrownie1357]

I saw Hunter Thompson in a bar in Colorado. My friends were like: "Go get his autograph!" I was like "Uh...no," And I'm still alive today because of that very wise decision. Love his writing, but he's like a loaded gun, and usually carried one.

[@satyadasgumbyji8956]

Smart human! I'd be dead.😅

[@Littlepea2890]

That's a far smarter decision than a lot of us would have made! LOLLL glad you lived to tell the story!

[@LiberPater777]

My dad met him several times in San Fran. Jurno's all hung out at the same digs and went to the parties back in the 60's apparently. Said he was interesting, but kinda weird, which is a pretty accurate description I'd say. He had major respect for Thompson's HA coverage though.

[@Tommysimonsen]

Terry did not just direct Pythons, he is the only American member.

[@korganrocks3995]

Also the entire animation department. 😉

[@BB13131313]

I've always had a love/hate relationship with this film lol.. the performances are nuts!

[@TTM9691]

This was Benicio Del Toro's next movie after "The Usual Suspects". He went from that to this. Instant legend! Just for those two, in a row.

[@PauloHernandezXD]

18 year old me felt existential when I first watched this, lmao. Thompson did make me develop a fascination with archiving through audio and text. And made me develop a love for writing fiction and some nonfiction anecdotes, lol :P This movie is fantastic XD

[@DamagedButManaging]

The man himself, Hunter Thompson. His life was a trip. Literally

[@rhwinner]

Hunter Thompson was a very, and I mean very, flawed individual. He died by suicide. That said, this movie is one of the most hilarious ever made.

[@gootvansquid]

Him dying by suicide is an assumption; allegedly he was cleaning his gun without checking for a round and it went off. Most likely suicide but un-provable. He was also quite old, and had recently been given some very dire medical news.

[@kingcosworth2643]

@@gootvansquid Dire medical news and suicide often go together

[@Stipe-f4y]

While one is high, the other stays sober. They take turns so that the sober one is always ready in case something happens. Love this movie 😄

[@iesickboy]

They are both incredibly high at the same time on multiple occasions.

[@questionablehumor2800]

When this was announced last week... i was equally intrigued and terrified for y'all. Bon chance!

[@splitimage137.]

Yeah... I once saw the patterns on the carpet at the casino restaurant DO THE SAME THING! Good Times!

[@MarcosElMalo2]

Thanksgiving 1991, tripping balls. We (nine of us) go into Caesar’s Palace looking for the buffet. We promptly get lost by banks of slots and we’re starting to fragment. The guy that was least high somehow corraled us and we didimau-ed the fuck away from the tables in a tactical conga line. We were now at the buffet, sliding our trays past pans of fried, steamed, or broiled obscenities. My friend Mark grasped a spatula and plunged it into a pan, withdrawing it with a fillet riding upon it. “This Mahi Mahi looks pretty good,” he said. He tilted the spatula and the fish slid onto his plate. It was breathing. I couldn’t stop staring at it breathing. Finally I said, “How long have I been staring your plate?” Or maybe I just thought I said it.

[@Uncle_T]

"How many things has he taken?" Yes! You must watch more Terry Gilliam movies, like The Fisher King, Twelve Monkeys, Brazil and Time Bandits, all top notch.

[@ThreadBomb]

Yes! There are many Gilliam movies better than Fear & Loathing, e.g. Jabberwocky, and Baron Munchausen.

[@SkewtLilbttm]

Brazil please!

[@johnbernhardtsen3008]

@@SkewtLilbttm my fav movie of Gilliams!one of the directors who actually can make abnormal places and people look normal!his most notorious movie Baron von Munchausen was told to be 85mill dollars which made it the most expensive movie of the day!it probably was closer to 50mill tops!

[@SkewtLilbttm]

​@@johnbernhardtsen3008Agreed, love Gilliam, I believe I've seen all his films at this point have to check IMDb or something.

[@felixfungle-bung4688]

​@johnbernhardtsen3008 I was 7 when I watched Brazil, and Terry made me realize movies can be something more.

[@laudanum669]

If you are not familiar with Hunter S. Thompson and his mannerisms it's hard to appreciate the amazing job Johnny Depp was in Hunter's portrayal.

[@swearwolf7785]

I remember reading this book when I was 13, a few years before the movie came out. It changed the angles I was seeing the world. When the movie came out I was stunned at how well they captured Thompson’s vividly chaotic descriptions.

[@squirethemouse3457]

Let's watch "A Scanner Darkly"! 😊

[@CineBingeReact]

oh wow! thank you! ☺️

[@xbulelo]

I’ve read the book & I’ve seen the film. But when I flew LSD airlines for the first time, it made this film so much funnier to me. Good choice for a reaction 👏

[@wakkadakka9192]

This is one of my favorite movies. I read all of Hunter S. Thompson's books, for me he's the best American writter. He was a real rebel, a real anarchist, he was against any kind of a system, not only against norms and governments, but also against hippies and others similiar of non-comformists as they also are sort of a system. A real lone ranger against the world. Too weird to live, too rare to die.

[@gohawkeyes529]

I've always interprested HST's works to be strongly America and the American dream, and critical of what's become of America. His last line of his eulogy of Richard Nixon about Nixon "breaking the heart of the American dream" is heartbreaking in and of itself. HST believed in the potential of America and American government. His essay on George W. Bush (Jesus Hated Bald...) in Kingdom of Fear and suicide note "Football Season in Over" reveal how betrayed and disgusted by his country he was between 2002-2005. God only knows what he'd have to say about America today. But I think it's wrong to say he was against governments or systems. Abuses of said governments and systems? Hell yeah.

[@wakkadakka9192]

@@gohawkeyes529 Maybe I didn't express myself correctly. I meant that he was against any existing systems because he saw in them false leadership that had failed several generations.

[@Ghostfailure33object27]

I’ve read quite a few as well, but there’s one that I could never finish - Hell’s Angels. When it gets to the part about the entire group graping two 15 year old girls, I had to put it down.

[@yaze3316]

​@Ghostfailure33object27 ....thats fcked....

[@JoeandOlly]

Sven at the hotel right before Christina Ricci shows up, was Elliot from Law and Order SVU

[@sirmister5383]

Depp lived with Thompson for 6 months to get the roll right. They became good friends. Depp really hasn't been the same since

[@christopherwall2121]

Bill Murray warned him that Hunter Thompson is a character that doesn't ever really leave you. I think Depp saw that as an acceptable risk.

[@vilefly]

@@christopherwall2121 Bill Murray took awhile to return to normal, and to stop muttering and stop pissing people off during that time period. But he was never quite the same either.

[@pillmuncher67]

I didn't even remember Lyle Lovett and Flea being in this movie. Also Christopher Meloni. And Harry Dean Stanton. And Penn Jillette.

[@MarcosElMalo2]

If you blink, you miss Penn.

[@signorpippistrello]

Last year I’ve seen it in a cinema for the first time here in Vienna. What made it quite special was that Terry Gilliam was there telling some background stories beforehand.

[@claytonbishop4021]

Hunter S. Thompson shaved Johnny Depp's head. They were in Thompson's kitchen, Depp refused to look in a mirror, and Thompson wore a miner's hard hat.

[@johnbickle8457]

Alice the maid was the foster mom in Terminator 2 and Pvt Vasquez in Aliens.

[@dianebrown8046]

❤❤ This..met Hunter Thompson, 70's, he was doing speech and show at PennState my freshman year..found to meet him & Party with him because after show"tallk" He wanted to party..he asked if anyone had Pot to smoke.. one of my friends told him I had pot and Hashish..bad Wild night smoking and drinking Tequila with him...was Awesome 😂 FUCK I'm Old 😅😅

[@UncleBuckRodgers]

The movie makes so much more sense when you know who the actual characters are, spoke, and behaved in real life. Much better. He was a reporter for Rolling Stone at that time, took an assignment to cover a desert race. He took his crazy, friend/attorney (also crazy) on a drug binged trip to Vegas. Then wrote this book from his point of view. Johnny Depp lived with Hunter for a while before this. This is exactly how the real guy spoke and dressed. He is actually in the plastic green visor sitting at a table in the casino as a cameo in this movie.

[@boarder6246]

Whoa! Didn’t expect this! Awesome way to start my Monday!

[@MaxxRemKing1]

When I was 14-23 this was one of my favorite books. I did not know him but I met him. Depp took his advice in real life, handled his ashes after his death, and became him in this performance. RIP Hunter

[@LOUISifer93]

The book is a must read

[@gorrammudder1600]

The moving carpet while the guy is explaining insainity and then asks hows your momma. Is my favorite part.

[@jamesoblivion]

Hunter Thompson worked freelance for both Rolling Stone and Sports Illustrated in the 70s (and beyond)...that was who was sending him on these assignments. The book actually started as what was supposed to be a series of photo captions for Sports Illustrated on the motorcycle race, that spiraled into madness. He was in LA when he got that assignment, working on a story for Rolling Stone about the murder of Ruben Salazar by LA County Sheriffs. Oscar Acosta (Dr. Gonzo) was his primary connection on that assignment, hence his decision to bring Acosta (an attorney and activist) to Las Vegas with him. The drug convention story was also for Rolling Stone.

[@samovarsa2640]

Why is there so much grapefruit in this movie? Answer - citruses, but especially grapefruit, have an inhibitory effect on the liver's metabolic processes meaning that if you combine any form of intoxicant with grapefruit, you can essentially prolong the effect of the former. Please note, DO NOT DO THIS. You will notice many medicines giving warnings about taking them with citruses.

[@RasMix1]

one of the most faithful adaptations of a book ever made. reading the book after seeing the movie 30 times was alot of fun. I read the book in two days. Depp lived with Hunter for months before doing this movie He nails it.

[@myohmyDesign]

You can't stop here! This is bat country!!!

[@Narapoia1]

This is the best adaptation of a book to screen I have ever seen. Pretty much perfect.

[@questionablehumor2800]

26:40 WHY!!! It's been decades since i took a "tongue candy vacation"... but the carpeting in hotels ALWAYS flashes me back to those 14 hour adventures! 😵‍💫

[@M4EOzzy]

One of my all-time favorite movies. My roommate and I spent a good chunk of college quoting this movie to each other.

[@Randomizer939]

If you are Hunter S. Thompson - you get it. 21:42 Flea for RHCP - He did couple great cameos in late 90s, this and the big lebowski

[@jerbil9353]

Vhere is ze money, Lebowski?

[@Randomizer939]

@@jerbil9353 I'm zinking and zinking

[@LordVolkov]

Also Son-in-law and The Chase. I love when Flea pops up in stuff.

[@Madbandit77]

​@@LordVolkovHe's brilliant in Penelope Spheeris' "Suburbia".

[@michaelminch5490]

Simone's summation at the end that she felt like she'd been on a bender is accurate. That was how I felt after seeing this for the first time (completely sober), like I'd spent a week doing all the drugs in the movie....pretty damned twisted. Took a while to recover. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

[@AndogaSpock]

The cigarette filter was actually glued to his lips.

[@brantwilliams9447]

Funniest part of the movie for me is while Del Toro's character is in the bathtub the song playing on the radio says "Feed your head" and then Depp's character continues to throw a cheesburger at his head lmao

[@guntherpiedmont4529]

Conan O'brien does an interview with Hunter s Thompson, a very rare occurance. I'd recommend watching it and seeing how mad the guy actually is. Johnny Depp does a great job at replicating it.

[@matthew6427]

Hunter was an original. I hope he's at peace. I still love reading his works. The flow he had will never be replicated.

[@kagutsuchi969]

Where the Buffalo Roam, is another Hunter S movie, but the role is played by Bill Murray

[@christopherdeguilio6375]

Hunter Thompson was a particular favorite of me and my friends at that time, so when we all moved away together to wait tables and play music at the beach that summer, we must've seen this in the theater more than a dozen times. I think we got it held-over for a few weeks....

[@adamsaenzjr.8181]

Man, I love these reactors, Ms. Lady is cheerfully quirky and Mr. Man is down to earth, y’all r great

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

They’re definitely in a select group of my favorite reactors. I’m always happy to get a notification from them.

[@TheGwydion777]

Terry Gilliam was the only American member of the Monty Python team. He was most famous for his animations.

[@simonfrederiksen104]

The Way of The Gun (2000) Also with Benicio Del Toro

[@LiberPater777]

"A plan is just a list of things that don't happen."

[@simonfrederiksen104]

@@LiberPater777"No one's ever said that before."

[@LiberPater777]

@simonfrederiksen104 "I thought you were a fan of the movie, and not a poser. Like removed."

[@simonfrederiksen104]

@@LiberPater777 "No one's ever said that before." is a line from the movie - poser

[@LiberPater777]

@simonfrederiksen104 "y r u gae?"

[@terryandjoe]

Man, I love this film, it's all over the shop. One of Depp's best performances imo. This is also an easy segue for me to bring up you guys watching The Long Kiss Goodnight! The guy driving Depp around in the race is a character in that film.

[@friendlyneighborhoodclown7754]

Caught here in a fiery blaze, won't lose my will to stay