Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas DVD

Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas DVD

Production Year: 1998 - Comedy - Director: Terry Gilliam - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over more

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Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas [1998] Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas [1998]
The original co-writer and director of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was Alex Cox, whose ... more
earlier film Sid and Nancy suggests that Cox could
have been a perfect match in filming Hunter S
Thompson's psychotropic masterpiece of "gonzo"
journalism. Unfortunately Cox departed due to the
usual "creative differences", and this ill-fated
adaptation was thrust upon Terry Gilliam, whose
formidable gifts as a visionary film-maker were
squandered on Thompson's ether-fogged narrative.
The result is a one-joke movie without the
joke--an endless series of repetitive scenes
involving rampant substance abuse and the
hallucinogenic fallout of a road trip that's run
crazily out of control. Johnny Depp plays
Thompson's alter ego, "gonzo" journalist Raoul
Duke, and Benicio Del Toro is his sidekick and
so-called lawyer Dr Gonzo. During the course of a
trip to Las Vegas to cover a motorcycle race, they
ingest a veritable chemistry set of drugs, and
Gilliam does his best to show us the hallucinatory
state of their zonked-out minds. This allows for
some dazzling imagery and the rampant humour of
stumbling buffoons, and the mumbling performances
of Depp and Del Toro wholeheartedly embrace the
tripped-out, paranoid lunacy of Thompson's
celebrated book. But over two hours of this
insanity tends to grate on the nerves--like being
the only sober guest at a party full of drunken
idiots. So while Gilliam's film may achieve some
modest cult status over the years, it's only
because Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is best
enjoyed by those who are just as stoned as the
characters in the movie. --Jeff Shannon,
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to you before you've seen or heard a thing. And
once you're in, it's a case of blasting from one
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dialogue from Johnny Depp. Strung together they
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listener it'll seem to be before they've even hit
Play by looking at the cover and contents. Terry
Gilliam's efforts to warp expectation stretch out
to you before you've seen or heard a thing. And
once you're in, it's a case of blasting from one
song to the next via constant nasally-delivered
dialogue from Johnny Depp. Strung together they
somehow make a sense they never did individually.
"One Toke Over The Line", "Expecting To Fly", or
"Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues
Again" were never career bests for Brewer &
Shipley, Buffalo Springfield, or Bob Dylan. Yet
slotted betwixt the likes of Jefferson Airplane's
"White Rabbit" and Perry Como's "Magic Moments"
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Recommended for Aspiring Drug Addicts
Review of Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas DVD by tazzywazzy

Advantages: Lots
Disadvantages: None

...book, so here goes… Fear & Loathing follows gonzo* journalist Raoul Duke** & his attorney, Dr Gonzo***, on a trip to Las Vegas, the intention - to do a piece on the Mint 400 Desert Motorcycle race, and then later on a Narcotics & Dangerous Drugs convention, so off they set in the famous great red shark (Hunter S. Thompson's red Chevrolet Caprice convertible) - sounds all very simple so far, and a bit dull really, so let's spice it up! Duke & Gonzo ...
...many attempts to actually make Fear & Loathing into a film, many actors had over the years been considered for the roles of Duke & Gonzo - Jack Nicholson, Marlon Brando, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, John Malkovich & John Cusack, who eventually went on to direct the theatrical version of the book. Along with many actors being considered, many directors were also considered (including Martin Scorsese & Oliver Stone). There was also an attempt at an animated ... Read review

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10.04.2007
Fear it, don't loath it!
Review of Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas DVD by middleton28

Advantages: Incredibly faithful!
Disadvantages: Maybe too faithful....

Anyone who has read the book upon which this film is based will love this. Prior Knowledge of the plot and character outlines will really enhance your enjoyment of this film. Anyone who hasnt read the book will likely experience it in a different way. I have watched the film with members of both groups, sometimes in mixed company. The raucous laughter i heard was coming solely from the well-read in the audience, with the others looking on, bemused. ...
...paints a vivid acid trip onto the screen, with every inch of the screen bursting with activity. Depp and Del Toro, as the main protagonists, are hilarious, with comic timing still unseen in most of their other performances. Depp is Raoul Duke, a caricature of Hunter S. Thompson, the author of this semi-biographical book about a drug-fuelled weekend in Las Vegas in the foul year of our lord 1971 (one for the fans there!). He recreates every facet ... Read review

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13.10.2005
A Truly Unique Film
Review of Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas DVD by Furbystein

Advantages: Messes with your head.
Disadvantages: Messes with your head.

From the acclaimed, somewhat obsessive and strange director, Terry Gilliam- this film kicks your knees from behind, grabs your head and forces illegal substances down your throat. Let's talk about Johnny Depp. He's cool, right? You've all seen him doing his drunk, I-don't-care acting in Pirates of the Caribbean. His character in this follows a similar, but all the more entertaining, pattern. Absent-minded, forgetful, constantly narrating the situation ...
...completely off his trolley on drugs. The performance we get from Depp in this film is something rather outstanding, which seems to be something Spike has a knack for. His film 'Twelve Monkeys' features Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt, both giving amazing performances as characters very different from their usual... Let's get some more things out of the way. For one, the film makes no sense. This is a good thing all round, but you will have to watch it ... Read review

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12.06.2007
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Review of Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas DVD by Psych

Advantages: DRUGS !
Disadvantages: none !

Daaaamnnnnn this movie is the best ever! Featuring Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Tobey Maguire what is directed by Terry Gilliam. A totally junkie movie. When the journalist and his lawyer are going to a motocycle meeting, and the trips on the way and there and after. On the way there, they are going with a cadillac, "they were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold". This sentence always associates ...
...an auto stopper and they trip him out that much that the poor guy had to run away when they stopped to snort coke... They are smoking joints in the car, eating LSD that's the REAL life!! At the entrance to Las Vegas they see the sign.... Ok I don't remember exactly but there were written that for marijuana 30 years prison and such things... When they get in Las Vegas, drugged, totally hallucinating at the reception was a great trip, and the story ... Read review

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23.05.2008
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Review of Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas DVD by adz313

Advantages: unconventional comedy, brilliant leads
Disadvantages: the film itself is loosely attached to the main 'plot'

...drugs and its effects.. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a movie for those who don't necessarily need a set plot, and like their humour more thoughtful, more subtle, slightly psychadelic, yet none the less hilarious. Both Depp and Del Toro play their parts amazingly, with Tobey Maguire managing to convincingly portray a skinny albino hitch-hiker for the short while he is in the film. For those who have read the book and not seen the film, you ...
...the film grasps, in my opinion, the same ideas that the book portrayed. For those who have seen the film and not read the book, i suggest you go and find it, for it will allow you to get deeper into the 'plot' of the film. I now regard it as one of my favourite films, and have lent my copy to anyone who i thought may enjoy it, in other words pretty much everyone i know ... Read review

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Review of Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas DVD by  fingertoe

Advantages: its druggie
Disadvantages: its druggie

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28.07.2000
Truly loathesome
Review of Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas DVD by  TRABZON

Advantages: Las Vegas location
Disadvantages: Everything else

...This is a truly boring film of Hunter S. Thompson's cult book of the same name. The only reason to watch is to check that Johnny Depp really is in it. It is an overlong repetitive tale of drugs and the weird things they can do to your brain. Unfortunately it is rarely amusing. Perhaps the sequence with the traffic cop played by Gary Busey is mildly funny. Also cameos from Cameron Diaz and Ellen Barkin. I suppose the special effects are not bad as the bad acid trips appear in techicolour. Its also nice to see Las Vegas in all its crazy glory. But on the whole very disappointing.... Read review

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02.09.2000
excellent film
Review of Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas DVD by  jiminyjones

Advantages: very funny
Disadvantages: loads of drugs

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Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas DVD

Main specs

Actor(s): Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Cameron Diaz, Christina Ricci, Gary Busey

Director(s): Terry Gilliam

Genre: Comedy

Classification: 18 years and over

Production Year: 1998

Running Time: 1 hour 53 minutes

Video Category: Feature Film

Country Of Origin: United States of America

Plot: A journalist and his partner on assignment wind-up in Las Vegas where they begin a mad tour loaded with mind-bending drugs.

Release details

DVD Region: Region 2 (Europe)

Studio(s): UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK; UNIVERSAL MUSIC OPERATIONS

Release date: 05/09/2005

No of Discs: 1

Catalogue No: 823 623 8

Barcode: 5050582362381

Screenwriter: Tony Grisoni

Languages

Main Language: English

Subtitle Language: Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish

Hearing Impaired Language: English

DVD Description

FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS is a whirlwind of a movie, a wacky, drug-laden story backed by a fist-pumping rock & roll soundtrack