The film is primarily about the death of the American Dream. Hunter (books author) grew up in a time in America where it was promised that you would be given all you needed, work, home, income, family, if you just worked hard and followed the rules. Hunter would begin to realize that all this was a farce and illusion to hide the hard truths of American reality, the hippies failed, the culture was shifting, fear, consumerism, he had to accept that the America he believed in never really existed.
That "high watermark line where the wave finally broke" passage is, in my opinion, one of the greatest pieces of American writing so far. It captures every aspect of the time -- the hope, the triumphs, the failure -- and does so with poetry.
@@FriendRequestReviewsOh very much so. Hunter S Thompson was a famous gonzo journalist and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a originally a book by him chronicling, well...this.
@@FriendRequestReviews pretty much fear and loathing in Las Vegas is a book written by Hunter S Thompson he was originally going to go write about the race the mint 400 in Las Vegas but got sidetracked obviously Hunter S Thompson’s writing revolutionized journalism as he more conducts in gonzo journalism more of a point of view instead of regular journalism
@@FriendRequestReviews Terry Gilliam is the only American member of Monty Python. He directed all the python movies and made the cartoon parts of the TV show Monty Python's flying circus.
Hunter's books are great also, The Hell's Angels book is more straight forward about his time living among the infamous biker gang. The Rum Diary book was better than the movie. Some of the audiobooks are narrated in an impression of his voice. This movie is best viewed when you know Depp is playing a real life accomplished journalist, and lived in his basement for 3 months researching the role. They remained close friends until Hunter's death.
The central theme that ties the whole film together imo is that short,somber part in the middle about "riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave"...the counterculture of the 60s came and went,with all its hopes and dreams...and what you see is just 2 remnants who couldnt let go, 2 freaks stuck in that drug culture mindstate of that time,chasing the dragon of a bygone era
And to go up another level for a bit of context, Hunter wrote a column for Sports Illustrated for years and was on the payroll for them here in this story. On the surface, this film is just a double-header weekend reporting trip for him where he was supposed to be covering the Mint 400 motorcycle race and a police conference on drugs. So, with a combination of the company account, press credentials, and fake names, they take to a madly irresponsible bender in the spirit of what you describe.
Once you have traveled far enough on a particular road turning back is not only pointless it's more detrimental than to just keep pushing ahead regardless of how dark that road may _seem_ be. I kinda miss the 60's-70's but I also, with older eyes, can see the absolute insanity and desperation in those times. Everything known and familiar was being cast under a bright spotlight and questioned, there were many casualties, there were many regrets, but the ones who survived and emerged (more or less intact) literally changed the world for the better.
I always saw the theme at the end with the lawyers send off. "There he goes. One (out of 2) of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die." At the end, hes satisfied with how they lived. It was insane but it was them. You can see it like they are "stuck" but how can you be stuck in a counter culture of freedom? I always saw the story as one of liberty, but liberty and freedom is also chaotic and madness. There's no real antagonist in this film, but there is the cold, lifeless, and cruel portrayal of law enforcement, authority, and "normal" people in general. I guess there 2 types of people in the world.
Johnny Depp and Hunter were friends IRL. Hunter wanted his ashes shot out of a cannon when he passed. Johnny carried out his friends request and I think you can still find the video of it.
Guy licking the LSD off his shirt is the bassist (Flea) from the Red Hot Chilli Pepper. 24:38. He also plays one of the nihalists in The Big Libowski. There was also a part in that club scene where he sees himself. The older man he is looking at is the real Hunter S. Thompson aka Raul duke. The writer of Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas and the man Depp is playing. This film is great to rewatch because there are so many little details. The director Terry Gilliam was a part of the Monty Pythom crew. He did all the animation for Monty Python.
His life was amazing. Basically invented Gonzo journalism. Was on presidential campaign trails, almost got elected to Sherriff in CO. Wrote for rolling stone. The list goes on and on
The whole movie and really Hunter’s bit in culture as a whole was summed up in the monologue where he’s talking about the wave of their movement of the 60s ending and how close they feel they got to something special. It’s all encapsulated in Thompson himself. The whole story is like Thompson throwing a last gasp bender to mourn the end of an era. Hope you guys check out more Gilliam. 12 Monkeys is an easy pick.
man we used to get so stoned and watch this movie so many times. there was a time where this movie was playing in every stoners home when you went to hang out. everyone was watching it over and over again.
Another awesome Gilliam movie, and imo. Bruce Willis' best work. Also the best performance I have seen from Brad Pitt (that I am not a big fan of, otherwise).
There's also another movie about Hunter S Thompson produced in 1980 titled "Where the Buffalo Roam" starring Bill Murray and just as crazy. Definitely, worth watching.
I like to say that Fear And Loathing is from Hunter's perspective and is hence super tripped out. Where the Buffalo Roam is a bit more outside looking in at Hunter. Watching both though you can see that both actors went hard on their HST impression and mostly nailed it.
The opening quote along with the Benico del Toro's character, a once young & hopeful attorney now jaded & cynical & in great pain go hand in hand perfectly.
Getting baked out of your skull and sitting down to this is ideal viewing conditions. A lot of the movie messes with your head under the influence. Almost seems to make sense more than it should. Side note, really accurate depiction of what an acid trip is like. Specifically the part towards the beginning where the valet is taking their car, and the carpet colors bleeding onto the guys pant leg.
The part where he says, "1965....there I was. GOOD GOD, THERE I AM!" That was the real Hunter S. Thompson he looked back at. Depp lived with Thompson for months learning his mannerisms...he's never been the same since 😂
Part of what makes this movie funny is that, throughout the whole story, the only;y threat they face is themselves. Even that room full of cops leaves them alone.
Fun fact, the lawyer is Acosta Zeta a famous Chicano lawyer. He disappeared in Mexico in the 70’s but wrote a Gonzo classic book called the Revolt of the Cockroach People
Fun fact: The idea of adrenochrome being used as a drug originated in this book. In reality, adrenochrome is not particularly difficult to get, and doesn't get you high. The adrenochrome incident in the book is entirely fictional, and with it, Thompson essentially created an urban myth that's fueled a thousand conspiracy theories.
It's hard for me to put in words how much I love the late Hunter S. Thompson. I have read every one of his books, articles and watched all the documentary's about him. He was the last of the true rebels in this world.
I love that Hunter was hired by Rolling Stone to cover the Mint 400 race in Vegas - instead he did whatever he wanted and sent in the story at deadline lmao! Love the reactions, same way I felt first time!
Hunter S Thompson was one of the first true psychonauts, basically a person who explores the limits of the mind, perception, and their own sanity. He was on an introspective journey to find the meaning of life, and the American Dream. He lived his life as recklessly as possible to prove that he was actually free. Sadly he ended his life to prove he wasnt trapped in his body. He is one of the most original writers you could ever read, and truly unique. He was God's own prototype. Too weird to live, but too rare to die...
HST popularized the writing style called “gonzo journalism”. “Gonzo journalism is a style of journalism that is written without claims of objectivity, often including the reporter as part of the story using a first-person narrative.”
It's funny that you mention the attorney being a figment of his imagination. In a lot of the stories Hunter S. Thompson used his attorney, people began to speculate that the attorney wasn't real, or was possibly an extension of the writer's drug-fueled brain. Hunter did have an hispanic attorney named Oscar Zeta Acosta, who was also a writer, and it was said that the attorney in these stories is actually him and he went on record claiming everything Hunter wrote was true. We may never know the truth. Acosta went missing many years ago and we have no knowledge of his whereabouts or if he's even alive.
The book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is even better. You mentioned why so many people agreed to be in this movie. The answer is that Hunter S. Thompson was a legend and invented Gonzo journalism. Hunter is played in this by Johnny Depp who spent a lot of time with Hunter and really studied the way he behaved and his general outlook on the world. This was based on an actual job Hunter was given to cover (as a journalist) a motorcycle event in Vegas, and, yes, he did take his attorney. Most of it was captured on audiotape, and although I'm sure it's exaggerated, it's not too far from the truth of how they behaved.
The "crest of a wave" passage is one of the very best things written about the 60s counterculture, along with this passage by Kurt Vonnegut: ."..every respectable artist in this country was against the war.... We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high."
Thompson attempted to give a talk at UNR when I went there. After they managed to drag him out of the Circus Circus he was so hammered he couldn’t sit upright in the chair
Damn you boys drop gems. No one reacts to stuff you do... if you ever start Boardwalk Empire, a show, deeply connected to the Sopranos.... I'll be a happy man.
@@greed42o Naturally. The sopranos was on air in the development time of gta 4 and yes I remember that game well. It really felt sopranoish with that part of the city that was based on Jersey. FWY quite a few voice actors for many gta games we're actual actors from sopranos. Ralphie, Phill comes to mind, pretty sure there's more, can't remember.
The first few seasons of Boardwalk are pretty historically accurate. To the best of mob history that we know. The politics and all were well documented.
A similar - yet quite different - film you might want to check out is NAKED LUNCH. That one really takes you on a trip! "The centipedes are getting downright arrogant..."
Johnny Depp is playing an exaggerated version of Hunter Thompson himself, and does a solid job, having lived with Hunter for some time in preparation for the role. The red convertible is Hunter's actual car, and much of the wardrobe Depp wears in the movie is either Thompson's own clothes, or recreations made by the production, based on that clothes that he brought from Hunter's ranch. Hunter also personally shaved the actor's head for the role. Johnny Depp got very into the part, just as Bill Murray (another personal friend of Thompson's) had when he played Hunter in Where the Buffalo Roam...not nearly as good a film, overall, but I think Murray played Hunter even better than Depp. But again, Depp was playing almost a caricature of Thompson, based on a book that often embellishes reality for satirical purposes, so his more over the top performance is fitting. They're both excellent performances.
Depp and Del Toro absolutely nailed their roles, Hunter S Thompson is the man 😅check out fear and loathing in Aspen a biopic about Hunter S. Thompson and his 1970 attempt to run for sheriff of Pitkin County, Colorado,which was before his Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas fame. The movie fear and loathing in Aspen wasn't better than the movie fear and loathing in Las Vegas but the story is pretty cool Hunter s Thompson has lived many lives.. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was a fictionalised account of two trips Thompson made with his friend Oscar Zeta Acosta from LA to Las Vegas.
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 the 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 ot 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. [...] 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 all had 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. This, my friends, is why you need to read books. Authors, no matter how fucked up they are, are the best of us, and they can teach you quite a lot about what navigating this crazy place is all about.
During a snow storm the winter after 9/11 I got this movie's narration voice stuck as my internal monologue for at least four days. Was an amazing journey.
Terry Guilliam is a top director. Check out his other movies, you wont regret it. "Twelve Monkeys", "Brazil", and "The Fisher King" are some of his best ones.
“The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.”
I first read Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail then this one. Many years later saw the movie. I met HST once and Depp nails the role. I also appreciate they call him "Duke" a couple of times. Raoul Duke was his name in the comic strip "Doonesbury."
It's pretty much word for word how it happened. The basics are Hunter was a journalist who was asked to go and cover the race in vegas by rolling stone. His attorney friend (who was an actual attorney) went with him and they, as you saw went on a drug fueled bender. Before they left they bought a tape recorder which Hunter carried everywhere and recorded everything that happened. At the end of the bender he didnt have any articles, and rolling stone were given the tapes which they transcribed and released as articles, and it was eventually published in the book fear and loathing in las vegas. Its pretty much all true. You should read up about Hunter S Thompson, he was one of the realest men to ever walk the earth.
One of the best adaptations of a book ever and one of the best performances of playing a real person ever. Depth and hunter became very good friends during the making of this. So much so that johnny fulfilled his dying wish of shooting him out of a cannon. He did such a good interpreting hunter as thompson. Spot on perfect impersonation. As a life long conesure of the good things, I can verify the accuracy. The book is a work of genius. And yes, I have been as close. Beleven it or not this is based on a true story... by hst. Both guys were real people. Now I have definitely gone this hard in my life. Not recently but it happened. Quite crazy ten years. Please take some time to review the rest of Terry gilliams movies. by far. My favorite of his is the fisher king
If you are unfamiliar with Hunter S. Thompson it's hard to wrap your head around this film. And the amazing job Depp does portraying him. Some will think that this story and Hunter's antics are greatly exaggerated but it's close to the real deal.
Hunter S. Thomspon's daily routine/drug schedule. Every day this is what the man did, absolute madman. 3:00 p.m. rise 3:05 Chivas Regal [whisky] with the morning papers, Dunhills [cigarrettes] 3:45 cocaine 3:50 another glass of Chivas, Dunhill 4:05 first cup of coffee, Dunhill 4:15 cocaine 4:16 orange juice, Dunhill 4:30 cocaine 4:54 cocaine 5:05 cocaine 5:11 coffee, Dunhills 5:30 more ice in the Chivas 5:45 cocaine, etc., etc. 6:00 grass to take the edge off the day 7:05 Woody Creek Tavern for lunch-Heineken, two margaritas, coleslaw, a taco salad, a double order of fried onion rings, carrot cake, ice cream, a bean fritter, Dunhills, another Heineken, cocaine, and for the ride home, a snow cone (a glass of shredded ice over which is poured three or four jiggers of Chivas) 9:00 starts snorting cocaine seriously 10:00 drops acid 11:00 Chartreuse [French liquer], cocaine, grass 11:30 cocaine, etc, etc. 12:00 midnight, Hunter S. Thompson is ready to write 12:05-6:00 a.m. Chartreuse, cocaine, grass, Chivas, coffee, Heineken, clove cigarettes, grapefruit, Dunhills, orange juice, gin, continuous pornographic movies. 6:00 the hot tub-champagne, Dove Bars, fettuccine Alfredo 8:00 Halcyon 8:20 sleep
My absolute favourite movie of all time. Think I've seen it about 5 times a year, for the past 20+ years... But only recently have I started questioning the timeline, it doesn't add up.
You guys usually like the casting deep cuts, I got one. The gay hotel clerk is Christopher Meloni. He’s usually bald in roles, been in tons of stuff. I know him from Oz, Law and Order probably his most known.
Terry Gilliam directs a brilliant film with Oscar Winners Jeff Bridges and Robin Williams called "The Fisher King." Similar stylistically, but the story is much more substantial. A very good film.
Hunter s Thomas is the Gonzo legend! You should watch a documentary on him after he went up on the hill and took his own life as he said he would in the '60s Johnny Depp erected a memorial that was well over 100 ft high and paid for his funeral and everything Johnny Depp was an amazing man and before this roll him and Hunter prepared for it together he would go through Hunter's daily routine using cocaine and alcohol it's an amazing documentary
This movie centers around the Hunter S. Thompson, an iconic writer/journalist of the 60s. It's my favorite movie. Definitely one of the most crazy movies made in the 90s. Both Depp and Del Torio are just beyond amazing. The style, music, screen magics and the general vibe... it sure reflects my own life during the 90s without saying too much. lol. I was really curious to your reactions... Few channels have covered this awesome flick. The movie Rum Diaries is a follow up to this one. And another monster flick you REALLY need to check out is : Perdita Durango ! It's got some of that crazy vibe and is set in the desert.
The first time I saw this movie, I had never done any drugs, and I didn’t like it. Now 20 years later having done all the drugs, it’s one of my favorite films of all time! Seriously though, it’s an absolute masterpiece that is literally impossible to fully appreciate on first viewing.
This movie is way better the second & third & fourth time because the dialogue is insanely funny & original & iconic but impossible to pay attention to much especially on the very first viewing with all the insanity popping off that seems so random but the more y watch it , the more quotes you'll notice in the dialogue & the more you'll love it like a drug because that was the directors mission anyways ❤ One single view just doesn't do it because the movie is too bonkers to catch even 19% of it on a first viewing 💯💯💯
This movie needs multiple rewatches to really appreciate it. As it is so chaotic and strange. On a 1st watch, by the time its over most people are thinking 'I dont know what the hell I just saw.... but I like it'. I keeps getting better the first 4 or 5 times. One of my all time favourites.
This takes me back. Watched it about 30x at uni. Tbh I never even thought about what the story means, I just saw it as a representation of deep hedonism played comedically. There's a lot of layers of stuff going on in the background which you don't notice on 1st viewing. It's detailed. (And yes they were taking that stuff the elites are rumoured to take. The writer of the book is rumoured to have attended Bohemian Grove.)
The chemical Adrenochrome began being studied by scientists in the 1950s. That inspired it being mentioned in a lot of fictional writing from 1950's-70s. A Clockwork Orange, The Doors of Perception, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas all have different theories about how it affects you, and how one would theoretically obtain it. The most popular myths about it today have been based on Hunter S Thompson's writing.
@@christophstuwe4330 Well that can't be true because eating raw animal meats and organs gives you an adrenaline buzz. So I'd imagine eating the adrenaline gland is on the potent side.
I for one also love the Bill Murray and Peter Boyle movie playing the same characters in somewhat better comic hijinks circumstances called WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM
I'm sure plenty of folk have mentioned the book this is adapted from, but if you want to read another book that illustrates the major problems with the drug counter-culture movement of the 60s, there's the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test; a memoir of a member of a commune who were big in manufacturing and supplying LSD in the U.S. The author may not have meant it to come across this way, but reading it made them seem like the most aggravating forms of hedonists; the ones who think that their hedonism means they are in tune with some greater, immaterial truth. It's frustrating to see people with genuine and good reasons to critique the condition of the U.S. just devolve into vapid acid freaks
Also, this book popularized (though I can't say if it was the source of) the whole idea of harvesting adrenochrome from people. It was simply a boogey-man, campfire story that 60s druggies made up to freak out the squares.
Its amazing to me that when this movie came out, it made perfect sense to me. But now in 2024.....with these dudes....they don't know wtf is going on....................they don't understand, drugs.
Hey, just wanted to let you know that I enjoyed watching this with you guys. I've seen the movie more times than I can count, but seeing your reaction was like hanging out with a couple of buddies who hadn't seen it before...it was like watching it again for the the first time. This movie was part of my personal "stoner trilogy", including "SLC Punk", and the animated "Heavy Metal" (the 1982 original, not Heavy Metal 2000 - that one sucked.) Both of these may be worth looking into.
Adrenochrome being some kind of rare super drug is a notion entirely invented by Hunter S. Thompson in the book this film is based on. Adrenochrome does _exist_ , as a largely inert and not-terribly-interesting chemical compound, but Hunter introduced the idea that it's radically psychoactive and needs to be extracted from the adrenal glands of a living person. It's only relatively recently that this vintage 1970s meme has been recycled by conspiracy theorists (some of them dim enough to not have realized Hunter was kidding in the first place), with the new flourish that it needs to be extracted from live _children_ - a detail presumably grafted on to better merge it into dodgy stories about various high-profile politicians, elites, and lizard-people being involved in child trafficking networks.
its probable that shit has in fact spilled over from the Satanic Panic of the 80s,them mentioning the adrenochrome was from a Satanist client....but realistically you could get adrenochrome from an EPI-pen 😂
You do realise that blood contains adrenaline, right? (And the body's own version of pretty much every drug. Hence why people get a buzz from eating raw meat / organs.)
@@neilsun2521 I'm not sure what your point is - is this supposed to refute something I've said? Adrenaline was the first hormone isolated and identified, and _adrenochrome_ is just oxidated adrenaline. Both can be synthesized, and have been for decades. But nobody bothers to synthesize (or extract) adrenochrome for anything beyond niche R&D purposes, because again, it just isn't very interesting or useful - there are no medical applications, there's no wild buzz, and it certainly isn't some magic elixir of youth. "[the blood contains] .. the body's own version of pretty much every drug" is close to nonsense - I suspect that you've badly misunderstood something intended to be figurative or metaphorical if you believe that anything like this is literally true. As for raw meat and organs giving people a "buzz", and this being connected to our blood supposedly being loaded with close-but-not-quite drugs, uh... OK? Feel free to substantiate these claims with anything non-anecdotal.
@@neilsun2521 What?! I never claimed that he invented adrenochrome. Seriously, read my original comment - I clearly acknowledged that adrenochrome exists (I literally italicized "exists"); the claim I made was that he invented "the idea that it's radically psychoactive and needs to be extracted from the adrenal glands of a living person". Which he did, in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
I realise now,we are just at the rotate bar but still more than half to watch...I didn't understand why this movie didn't go well, it's one of my top 3 back 15 year ago
I. Would. Give. My. Right. NUT to watch this masterpiece for the absolute first time, again! I am so JELLYFISH, boes! EDIT: Not the left one, mind you. Nuht-uhh...
The film is primarily about the death of the American Dream.
Hunter (books author) grew up in a time in America where it was promised that you would be given all you needed, work, home, income, family, if you just worked hard and followed the rules. Hunter would begin to realize that all this was a farce and illusion to hide the hard truths of American reality, the hippies failed, the culture was shifting, fear, consumerism, he had to accept that the America he believed in never really existed.
No it's about tripping your fucking ass off and giving the finger to "normal" people!
breh thats the best damn description/summary ive seen on the nets about this movie
His life ended when he truly came to terms with that... or so I believe.
I see it more as accepting that they were depraved consumers just like everyone else.
That "high watermark line where the wave finally broke" passage is, in my opinion, one of the greatest pieces of American writing so far. It captures every aspect of the time -- the hope, the triumphs, the failure -- and does so with poetry.
Beautiful and a little sad. I recommend all Hunter S. Thompson's books. He may have been a wild man, but his writing was out of the park.
Depp is playing Hunter S Thompson. Look him up, he looks and sounds just like him.
Didn't know he was actually playing someone 😳
@@FriendRequestReviewsOh very much so. Hunter S Thompson was a famous gonzo journalist and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a originally a book by him chronicling, well...this.
@@FriendRequestReviews pretty much fear and loathing in Las Vegas is a book written by Hunter S Thompson he was originally going to go write about the race the mint 400 in Las Vegas but got sidetracked obviously Hunter S Thompson’s writing revolutionized journalism as he more conducts in gonzo journalism more of a point of view instead of regular journalism
@@FriendRequestReviews Terry Gilliam is the only American member of Monty Python. He directed all the python movies and made the cartoon parts of the TV show Monty Python's flying circus.
Hunter's books are great also, The Hell's Angels book is more straight forward about his time living among the infamous biker gang. The Rum Diary book was better than the movie. Some of the audiobooks are narrated in an impression of his voice. This movie is best viewed when you know Depp is playing a real life accomplished journalist, and lived in his basement for 3 months researching the role. They remained close friends until Hunter's death.
The central theme that ties the whole film together imo is that short,somber part in the middle about "riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave"...the counterculture of the 60s came and went,with all its hopes and dreams...and what you see is just 2 remnants who couldnt let go, 2 freaks stuck in that drug culture mindstate of that time,chasing the dragon of a bygone era
Perfectly put. That is the theme of the movie
And to go up another level for a bit of context, Hunter wrote a column for Sports Illustrated for years and was on the payroll for them here in this story. On the surface, this film is just a double-header weekend reporting trip for him where he was supposed to be covering the Mint 400 motorcycle race and a police conference on drugs. So, with a combination of the company account, press credentials, and fake names, they take to a madly irresponsible bender in the spirit of what you describe.
Once you have traveled far enough on a particular road turning back is not only pointless it's more detrimental than to just keep pushing ahead regardless of how dark that road may _seem_ be.
I kinda miss the 60's-70's but I also, with older eyes, can see the absolute insanity and desperation in those times. Everything known and familiar was being cast under a bright spotlight and questioned, there were many casualties, there were many regrets, but the ones who survived and emerged (more or less intact) literally changed the world for the better.
I always saw the theme at the end with the lawyers send off.
"There he goes. One (out of 2) of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die."
At the end, hes satisfied with how they lived. It was insane but it was them. You can see it like they are "stuck" but how can you be stuck in a counter culture of freedom?
I always saw the story as one of liberty, but liberty and freedom is also chaotic and madness.
There's no real antagonist in this film, but there is the cold, lifeless, and cruel portrayal of law enforcement, authority, and "normal" people in general.
I guess there 2 types of people in the world.
The subtitle of the book is "A Savage Journey To The Heart Of The American Dream" and it couldn't more succinctly describe the theme.
Johnny Depp and Hunter were friends IRL. Hunter wanted his ashes shot out of a cannon when he passed. Johnny carried out his friends request and I think you can still find the video of it.
yes - watched the video about Hunter S Thompsons funeral - its easy to find on youtube
Guy licking the LSD off his shirt is the bassist (Flea) from the Red Hot Chilli Pepper. 24:38. He also plays one of the nihalists in The Big Libowski.
There was also a part in that club scene where he sees himself. The older man he is looking at is the real Hunter S. Thompson aka Raul duke. The writer of Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas and the man Depp is playing.
This film is great to rewatch because there are so many little details.
The director Terry Gilliam was a part of the Monty Pythom crew. He did all the animation for Monty Python.
His life was amazing. Basically invented Gonzo journalism. Was on presidential campaign trails, almost got elected to Sherriff in CO. Wrote for rolling stone. The list goes on and on
The whole movie and really Hunter’s bit in culture as a whole was summed up in the monologue where he’s talking about the wave of their movement of the 60s ending and how close they feel they got to something special. It’s all encapsulated in Thompson himself. The whole story is like Thompson throwing a last gasp bender to mourn the end of an era.
Hope you guys check out more Gilliam. 12 Monkeys is an easy pick.
Time Bandits is another great movie directed by Terry, and Brazil is another of my favourites to re-watch
man we used to get so stoned and watch this movie so many times. there was a time where this movie was playing in every stoners home when you went to hang out. everyone was watching it over and over again.
I'd recommend another movie by Terry Gilliam, 12 Monkeys. That one does have Brad Pitt. 😀
Another awesome Gilliam movie, and imo. Bruce Willis' best work. Also the best performance I have seen from Brad Pitt (that I am not a big fan of, otherwise).
There's also another movie about Hunter S Thompson produced in 1980 titled "Where the Buffalo Roam" starring Bill Murray and just as crazy. Definitely, worth watching.
And there's the sequel "rum diary"
I didn't know it even existed until about a year ago. IMO the best movie about any part of his life/books.
I like to say that Fear And Loathing is from Hunter's perspective and is hence super tripped out. Where the Buffalo Roam is a bit more outside looking in at Hunter. Watching both though you can see that both actors went hard on their HST impression and mostly nailed it.
Look at Bill Murray and Johnny Depp both before they played Hunter Thompson, and after.
They both changed.
Where the Buffalo Roam is a great movie too.
The opening quote along with the Benico del Toro's character, a once young & hopeful attorney now jaded & cynical & in great pain go hand in hand perfectly.
25:30 "Dang, he's a pretty good writer". Yep.
The high-water mark” speech is one of my all-time favorite scenes
Getting baked out of your skull and sitting down to this is ideal viewing conditions. A lot of the movie messes with your head under the influence. Almost seems to make sense more than it should. Side note, really accurate depiction of what an acid trip is like. Specifically the part towards the beginning where the valet is taking their car, and the carpet colors bleeding onto the guys pant leg.
Facts ❤
The premise of the film is contained in the opening quote - He Who Makes A Beast Of Himself Gets Rid Of The Pain Of Being A Man - Samuel Johnson
First time hearing that quote and I love it
The part where he says, "1965....there I was. GOOD GOD, THERE I AM!"
That was the real Hunter S. Thompson he looked back at. Depp lived with Thompson for months learning his mannerisms...he's never been the same since 😂
Part of what makes this movie funny is that, throughout the whole story, the only;y threat they face is themselves. Even that room full of cops leaves them alone.
Fun fact, the lawyer is Acosta Zeta a famous Chicano lawyer. He disappeared in Mexico in the 70’s but wrote a Gonzo classic book called the Revolt of the Cockroach People
Terry Gilliam was the animator for Monty Python who made all the weird animations, he's got some GREAT movies.
Fun fact: The idea of adrenochrome being used as a drug originated in this book. In reality, adrenochrome is not particularly difficult to get, and doesn't get you high. The adrenochrome incident in the book is entirely fictional, and with it, Thompson essentially created an urban myth that's fueled a thousand conspiracy theories.
You are totally full of it. Adrenochrome is well-known to trigger schizophrenic episodes. This has been known since the 1950s.
I took a photo of that strip of highway '40 miles outside Barstow' when I was trucking for a couple years.
Excellent choice, my friends. This one treads that line between repulsive and profound so perfectly. Love your insights
It's hard for me to put in words how much I love the late Hunter S. Thompson. I have read every one of his books, articles and watched all the documentary's about him. He was the last of the true rebels in this world.
I love that Hunter was hired by Rolling Stone to cover the Mint 400 race in Vegas - instead he did whatever he wanted and sent in the story at deadline lmao! Love the reactions, same way I felt first time!
Hunter S Thompson was one of the first true psychonauts, basically a person who explores the limits of the mind, perception, and their own sanity. He was on an introspective journey to find the meaning of life, and the American Dream. He lived his life as recklessly as possible to prove that he was actually free. Sadly he ended his life to prove he wasnt trapped in his body. He is one of the most original writers you could ever read, and truly unique. He was God's own prototype. Too weird to live, but too rare to die...
HST popularized the writing style called “gonzo journalism”.
“Gonzo journalism is a style of journalism that is written without claims of objectivity, often including the reporter as part of the story using a first-person narrative.”
It's funny that you mention the attorney being a figment of his imagination. In a lot of the stories Hunter S. Thompson used his attorney, people began to speculate that the attorney wasn't real, or was possibly an extension of the writer's drug-fueled brain. Hunter did have an hispanic attorney named Oscar Zeta Acosta, who was also a writer, and it was said that the attorney in these stories is actually him and he went on record claiming everything Hunter wrote was true. We may never know the truth. Acosta went missing many years ago and we have no knowledge of his whereabouts or if he's even alive.
The book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is even better. You mentioned why so many people agreed to be in this movie. The answer is that Hunter S. Thompson was a legend and invented Gonzo journalism. Hunter is played in this by Johnny Depp who spent a lot of time with Hunter and really studied the way he behaved and his general outlook on the world. This was based on an actual job Hunter was given to cover (as a journalist) a motorcycle event in Vegas, and, yes, he did take his attorney. Most of it was captured on audiotape, and although I'm sure it's exaggerated, it's not too far from the truth of how they behaved.
The "crest of a wave" passage is one of the very best things written about the 60s counterculture, along with this passage by Kurt Vonnegut: ."..every respectable artist in this country was against the war.... We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high."
Thompson attempted to give a talk at UNR when I went there. After they managed to drag him out of the Circus Circus he was so hammered he couldn’t sit upright in the chair
Damn you boys drop gems. No one reacts to stuff you do... if you ever start Boardwalk Empire, a show, deeply connected to the Sopranos.... I'll be a happy man.
gta iv was heavily inspired by the sopranos they even have a actor from the show to voice ray.
Give it time pretty sure it'll make it to the channel 😉
@@greed42o Naturally. The sopranos was on air in the development time of gta 4 and yes I remember that game well. It really felt sopranoish with that part of the city that was based on Jersey. FWY quite a few voice actors for many gta games we're actual actors from sopranos. Ralphie, Phill comes to mind, pretty sure there's more, can't remember.
Now I can sleep easy, f yeah!@@FriendRequestReviews
The first few seasons of Boardwalk are pretty historically accurate. To the best of mob history that we know. The politics and all were well documented.
Been a few years since I watched this. Laughed my ass off watching you guys watch it.
A similar - yet quite different - film you might want to check out is NAKED LUNCH. That one really takes you on a trip! "The centipedes are getting downright arrogant..."
Johnny Depp is playing an exaggerated version of Hunter Thompson himself, and does a solid job, having lived with Hunter for some time in preparation for the role. The red convertible is Hunter's actual car, and much of the wardrobe Depp wears in the movie is either Thompson's own clothes, or recreations made by the production, based on that clothes that he brought from Hunter's ranch. Hunter also personally shaved the actor's head for the role. Johnny Depp got very into the part, just as Bill Murray (another personal friend of Thompson's) had when he played Hunter in Where the Buffalo Roam...not nearly as good a film, overall, but I think Murray played Hunter even better than Depp. But again, Depp was playing almost a caricature of Thompson, based on a book that often embellishes reality for satirical purposes, so his more over the top performance is fitting. They're both excellent performances.
Depp and Del Toro absolutely nailed their roles, Hunter S Thompson is the man 😅check out fear and loathing in Aspen a biopic about Hunter S. Thompson and his 1970 attempt to run for sheriff of Pitkin County, Colorado,which was before his Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas fame. The movie fear and loathing in Aspen wasn't better than the movie fear and loathing in Las Vegas but the story is pretty cool Hunter s Thompson has lived many lives.. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was a fictionalised account of two trips Thompson made with his friend Oscar Zeta Acosta from LA to Las Vegas.
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 the 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 ot 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. [...]
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 all had 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.
This, my friends, is why you need to read books. Authors, no matter how fucked up they are, are the best of us, and they can teach you quite a lot about what navigating this crazy place is all about.
During a snow storm the winter after 9/11 I got this movie's narration voice stuck as my internal monologue for at least four days. Was an amazing journey.
This is my favorite movie ever. I had it on repeat in my DVD player for like 3 months straight.
Terry Guilliam is a top director. Check out his other movies, you wont regret it. "Twelve Monkeys", "Brazil", and "The Fisher King" are some of his best ones.
“This man ain’t no lawyer…”
…said the guy who never met a lawyer. 🤔
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is another fantastical Terry Gilliam film starring Heath Ledgers and a slew of famous faces join the cast.
read the book...it's gets wilder. Hunter S Thompson was a savage!!!
‘ Looks like we might be tripping on some sort of drugs here… “. Yes. all the drugs.
Johnny Depp agreed to let Hunter S. Thompson shave his head for the role. He looks, acts and speaks a lot like Hunter in this film. 😊
“The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.”
I am still stoned from the Patreon full length reaction. Thanks again PMNM! Look forward to future requests!
I first read Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail then this one. Many years later saw the movie. I met HST once and Depp nails the role.
I also appreciate they call him "Duke" a couple of times. Raoul Duke was his name in the comic strip "Doonesbury."
It's pretty much word for word how it happened. The basics are Hunter was a journalist who was asked to go and cover the race in vegas by rolling stone. His attorney friend (who was an actual attorney) went with him and they, as you saw went on a drug fueled bender. Before they left they bought a tape recorder which Hunter carried everywhere and recorded everything that happened. At the end of the bender he didnt have any articles, and rolling stone were given the tapes which they transcribed and released as articles, and it was eventually published in the book fear and loathing in las vegas. Its pretty much all true. You should read up about Hunter S Thompson, he was one of the realest men to ever walk the earth.
One of the best adaptations of a book ever and one of the best performances of playing a real person ever. Depth and hunter became very good friends during the making of this. So much so that johnny fulfilled his dying wish of shooting him out of a cannon. He did such a good interpreting hunter as thompson. Spot on perfect impersonation. As a life long conesure of the good things, I can verify the accuracy. The book is a work of genius. And yes, I have been as close. Beleven it or not this is based on a true story... by hst. Both guys were real people. Now I have definitely gone this hard in my life. Not recently but it happened. Quite crazy ten years. Please take some time to review the rest of Terry gilliams movies. by far. My favorite of his is the fisher king
@@pmbbmp you certainly aren't wrong!
If you are unfamiliar with Hunter S. Thompson it's hard to wrap your head around this film. And the amazing job Depp does portraying him. Some will think that this story and Hunter's antics are greatly exaggerated but it's close to the real deal.
Hunter S. Thomspon's daily routine/drug schedule. Every day this is what the man did, absolute madman.
3:00 p.m. rise
3:05 Chivas Regal [whisky] with the morning papers, Dunhills [cigarrettes]
3:45 cocaine
3:50 another glass of Chivas, Dunhill
4:05 first cup of coffee, Dunhill
4:15 cocaine
4:16 orange juice, Dunhill
4:30 cocaine
4:54 cocaine
5:05 cocaine
5:11 coffee, Dunhills
5:30 more ice in the Chivas
5:45 cocaine, etc., etc.
6:00 grass to take the edge off the day
7:05 Woody Creek Tavern for lunch-Heineken, two margaritas, coleslaw, a taco salad, a double order of fried onion rings, carrot cake, ice cream, a bean fritter, Dunhills, another Heineken, cocaine, and for the ride home, a snow cone (a glass of shredded ice over which is poured three or four jiggers of Chivas)
9:00 starts snorting cocaine seriously
10:00 drops acid
11:00 Chartreuse [French liquer], cocaine, grass
11:30 cocaine, etc, etc.
12:00 midnight, Hunter S. Thompson is ready to write
12:05-6:00 a.m. Chartreuse, cocaine, grass, Chivas, coffee, Heineken, clove cigarettes, grapefruit, Dunhills, orange juice, gin, continuous pornographic movies.
6:00 the hot tub-champagne, Dove Bars, fettuccine Alfredo
8:00 Halcyon
8:20 sleep
According to that madwoman.
23:06 I’m Actually Dying 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Absolutely one of my favourite films. Depp is amazing in this.
I always tell my friends that this movie made me NOT wanna take any drugs
This is the best adaptation of a book I’ve ever seen. The Book is exactly the same. This is a true story by the way
My absolute favourite movie of all time. Think I've seen it about 5 times a year, for the past 20+ years... But only recently have I started questioning the timeline, it doesn't add up.
That’s funny I took the opposite from this movie. “ Do Drugs” look in too Hunter S Thompson he is a genius.
omg, I had the criterion collection dvd of this in high school, the commentary was great. Johnny Depp "Fucking spider man was in my back seat!"
The hippie in the bathroom with Duke was Flea from the red hot chilli peppers.
Ohh I have got to see this reaction. 🤣🤣🤣
You guys usually like the casting deep cuts, I got one. The gay hotel clerk is Christopher Meloni. He’s usually bald in roles, been in tons of stuff. I know him from Oz, Law and Order probably his most known.
Terry Gilliam directs a brilliant film with Oscar Winners Jeff Bridges and Robin Williams called "The Fisher King." Similar stylistically, but the story is much more substantial. A very good film.
Watching Fear and Loathing sober is criminal behaviour 😂
Hunter s Thomas is the Gonzo legend! You should watch a documentary on him after he went up on the hill and took his own life as he said he would in the '60s Johnny Depp erected a memorial that was well over 100 ft high and paid for his funeral and everything Johnny Depp was an amazing man and before this roll him and Hunter prepared for it together he would go through Hunter's daily routine using cocaine and alcohol it's an amazing documentary
The boys on the rollcoaster. HAHA!
Before he start directing movies Terry Gilliam did all the Monty Python animation sequences.
This movie centers around the Hunter S. Thompson, an iconic writer/journalist of the 60s. It's my favorite movie. Definitely one of the most crazy movies made in the 90s. Both Depp and Del Torio are just beyond amazing. The style, music, screen magics and the general vibe... it sure reflects my own life during the 90s without saying too much. lol. I was really curious to your reactions... Few channels have covered this awesome flick. The movie Rum Diaries is a follow up to this one. And another monster flick you REALLY need to check out is : Perdita Durango ! It's got some of that crazy vibe and is set in the desert.
The first time I saw this movie, I had never done any drugs, and I didn’t like it. Now 20 years later having done all the drugs, it’s one of my favorite films of all time! Seriously though, it’s an absolute masterpiece that is literally impossible to fully appreciate on first viewing.
Yet the director of this movie never took drugs in his entire life.
i love this movie and i learn new stuff every time i watch it, i also love doing traveling like them two! fucking epic rides all over Europe
We Can't Stop Here!!!!! This is Bat Country!!!!!
Every Terry Gilliam movie is a very interesting movie.
Thanks Guys. One of My favorite movies.
Sven aka detective stablers scene was so good
Movie is absolutely hilarious. If you've experimented, you just get it.
Loved Hunter Thompson and his books and Rolling Stone articles. Looks like y'all had fun reacting!
It was! 😂
Weird to think that Rolling Stone used to be cool.
This movie is way better the second & third & fourth time because the dialogue is insanely funny & original & iconic but impossible to pay attention to much especially on the very first viewing with all the insanity popping off that seems so random but the more y watch it , the more quotes you'll notice in the dialogue & the more you'll love it like a drug because that was the directors mission anyways ❤
One single view just doesn't do it because the movie is too bonkers to catch even 19% of it on a first viewing 💯💯💯
28:59 how about that carpet!
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This movie needs multiple rewatches to really appreciate it. As it is so chaotic and strange. On a 1st watch, by the time its over most people are thinking 'I dont know what the hell I just saw.... but I like it'. I keeps getting better the first 4 or 5 times. One of my all time favourites.
It's called acid mate😂😂😂❤
This movie is legend... unfortunatelly the movie is very underrated and many people do not now that it exists.
This takes me back. Watched it about 30x at uni. Tbh I never even thought about what the story means, I just saw it as a representation of deep hedonism played comedically. There's a lot of layers of stuff going on in the background which you don't notice on 1st viewing. It's detailed. (And yes they were taking that stuff the elites are rumoured to take. The writer of the book is rumoured to have attended Bohemian Grove.)
The chemical Adrenochrome began being studied by scientists in the 1950s. That inspired it being mentioned in a lot of fictional writing from 1950's-70s. A Clockwork Orange, The Doors of Perception, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas all have different theories about how it affects you, and how one would theoretically obtain it. The most popular myths about it today have been based on Hunter S Thompson's writing.
Hey guys, i took it, has zero effect, its all fictional.
@@christophstuwe4330 Well that can't be true because eating raw animal meats and organs gives you an adrenaline buzz. So I'd imagine eating the adrenaline gland is on the potent side.
@@neilsun2521 oh i was talking about adrenochrome i aint eating fucking organs.
I for one also love the Bill Murray and Peter Boyle movie playing the same characters in somewhat better comic hijinks circumstances called WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM
I'm sure plenty of folk have mentioned the book this is adapted from, but if you want to read another book that illustrates the major problems with the drug counter-culture movement of the 60s, there's the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test; a memoir of a member of a commune who were big in manufacturing and supplying LSD in the U.S. The author may not have meant it to come across this way, but reading it made them seem like the most aggravating forms of hedonists; the ones who think that their hedonism means they are in tune with some greater, immaterial truth. It's frustrating to see people with genuine and good reasons to critique the condition of the U.S. just devolve into vapid acid freaks
Also, this book popularized (though I can't say if it was the source of) the whole idea of harvesting adrenochrome from people. It was simply a boogey-man, campfire story that 60s druggies made up to freak out the squares.
He’s talking like Hunter S Thompson talked in real life.
Now take acid or mushrooms and watch this movie.
It's perfectly paced for a trip and plateaus at the best parts.
Where the buffalos roam. also a movie abut hunter. A true legend.
Hell yeah 🔥🔥🔥
You haven't been this messed up ? Bless you 😂
Its amazing to me that when this movie came out, it made perfect sense to me. But now in 2024.....with these dudes....they don't know wtf is going on....................they don't understand, drugs.
lol this isn't the flex you think it is
God damn it, Bill Forsythe isn’t Gary Busey. Everyone gets them mixed up.
Hey, just wanted to let you know that I enjoyed watching this with you guys. I've seen the movie more times than I can count, but seeing your reaction was like hanging out with a couple of buddies who hadn't seen it before...it was like watching it again for the the first time. This movie was part of my personal "stoner trilogy", including "SLC Punk", and the animated "Heavy Metal" (the 1982 original, not Heavy Metal 2000 - that one sucked.) Both of these may be worth looking into.
Adrenochrome being some kind of rare super drug is a notion entirely invented by Hunter S. Thompson in the book this film is based on. Adrenochrome does _exist_ , as a largely inert and not-terribly-interesting chemical compound, but Hunter introduced the idea that it's radically psychoactive and needs to be extracted from the adrenal glands of a living person. It's only relatively recently that this vintage 1970s meme has been recycled by conspiracy theorists (some of them dim enough to not have realized Hunter was kidding in the first place), with the new flourish that it needs to be extracted from live _children_ - a detail presumably grafted on to better merge it into dodgy stories about various high-profile politicians, elites, and lizard-people being involved in child trafficking networks.
its probable that shit has in fact spilled over from the Satanic Panic of the 80s,them mentioning the adrenochrome was from a Satanist client....but realistically you could get adrenochrome from an EPI-pen 😂
You do realise that blood contains adrenaline, right? (And the body's own version of pretty much every drug. Hence why people get a buzz from eating raw meat / organs.)
@@neilsun2521 I'm not sure what your point is - is this supposed to refute something I've said? Adrenaline was the first hormone isolated and identified, and _adrenochrome_ is just oxidated adrenaline. Both can be synthesized, and have been for decades. But nobody bothers to synthesize (or extract) adrenochrome for anything beyond niche R&D purposes, because again, it just isn't very interesting or useful - there are no medical applications, there's no wild buzz, and it certainly isn't some magic elixir of youth.
"[the blood contains] .. the body's own version of pretty much every drug" is close to nonsense - I suspect that you've badly misunderstood something intended to be figurative or metaphorical if you believe that anything like this is literally true.
As for raw meat and organs giving people a "buzz", and this being connected to our blood supposedly being loaded with close-but-not-quite drugs, uh... OK? Feel free to substantiate these claims with anything non-anecdotal.
@@antirevengineer784 My point is that Hunter S Thompson didn't invent it.
@@neilsun2521 What?! I never claimed that he invented adrenochrome. Seriously, read my original comment - I clearly acknowledged that adrenochrome exists (I literally italicized "exists"); the claim I made was that he invented "the idea that it's radically psychoactive and needs to be extracted from the adrenal glands of a living person". Which he did, in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
There is another great hunter s Thomson movie called the rum diary, yall should watch that...
If anyone could play the part of a drug addict it's Johnny Depp. It's his whole like.
I realise now,we are just at the rotate bar but still more than half to watch...I didn't understand why this movie didn't go well, it's one of my top 3 back 15 year ago
And oso the full movie....wow
I can't find it on italy
This movie is sooooo good.
"Withnail and I" worth a look after this! ❤️
I. Would. Give. My. Right. NUT to watch this masterpiece for the absolute first time, again! I am so JELLYFISH, boes! EDIT: Not the left one, mind you. Nuht-uhh...
many famous people with minor roles in this movie: eg. Hunter Thompson or Flea from Red Hot Chilli Peppers