Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas

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Year:	1998
Country:	UK
Language:	English
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Rating:	7.5 Rate
Collection:	Seen It Wishlist
Community:	18 Have Seen, 1 Wishlist


Director	Terry Gilliam
Selected Cast	Johnny Depp as Raoul Duke
	Benicio Del Toro as Dr Gonzo
Producer	Patrick Cassavetti
	Laila Nabulsi
	Stephen Nemeth
Writer	Hunter S. Thompson
Soundtrack	Ray Cooper

On DVD & Blu-ray World

VHS

Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas - Universal - UK (1999)

VHS

Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas - Universal - USA (1998)

DVD

Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas - Roadshow Entertainment - Australia (2005)

DVD

Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas - Universal - UK (2005)

DVD Box Set

Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas \ Where The Buffalo Roam - Universal - UK (2005)

DVD

Delírio Em Las Vegas - Lusomundo - Portugal (2001)

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Comments and Reviews


Magic Marmalade 30th May 2023		Rated 8/10 It's strange, watching this at a distance of some years now, in that we are as far from the date of release, as the date of release was from the events depicted in this movie... ...And yet the background mood of reactionary conservative repression created by the "squares" of the time, flinching in moral panic at the licentiousness of the sixties and seventies, and seeking to squash it out at all costs, and who's puritanical, narrow lines of social acceptability seemed positively absurd to me back then... as if the world could be so ridiculously straight, and judgemental, certainly not in the comparatively liberal and enlightened nineties... ...Thank God we're over that, I thought (!) Indeed, it seemed such repressive society almost demanded a semi-psychotic anti-hero (and his attorney :) brandishing his wildly crazed, relentlessly drug fuelled Gonzo journalism like a wrecking ball, to smash, head-long through the social mores of the times, and break almost every taboo they could find as they went. In order that the human spirit should not entirely succumb to such impositions. (Well, it's a fine excuse, anyway!) Be that as it may, it seems further away from the nutty, hilariously cartoonish picture of wild exaggerated, mythologised excess, or a depraved "psyche" movie that seemed to be the culmination of the nineties style of off the wall movie that I used to watch it as entertainment, but now, rather a bench mark of just how far we seem to have fallen into the seventh circle of moral hell since that time... so much so, this new millennium at times seems to make the fifties seem like a very liberal, open minded time by comparison! Watch this then, for all the social commentary and pjilosphophy an old fart like me might ramble on about, or watch to see a movie that you would simply sit and think: "Well, they couldn't get away with making this kind of thing anymore!", or sit and watch the brilliantly funny characterisations Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro give of two of the most improbable human beings ever to walk the earth, or just put aside the trendy wokery for a spell, and bean-bag that old brain of yours Google boy, and just have fun watching an excessive, degenerate thrill ride that will have you laughing all the way through... ...Because it's fun. 1 person found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



Crisanto 20th Jun 2018		I read the book first. The film then showed exactly my impressions of the book. 1:1 ;-)



zabadak 29th Sep 2015		When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro :cool:



Magic Marmalade 27th Sep 2015		I actually liked both book and film... Hunter S. Thompson may have been a complete fruitcake (possibly a complete charlatan too), but my word he was funny! "Did I say that, or just think it?.... Can they hear me?". ("I find it impossible to explain myself in this climate")



nboldock 22nd Apr 2015		As much as I loved the book, the film just didn't work for me. It had its moments but is it possibly "unfilmable"... I think it may be? Or maybe it's just me!

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