This is my favorite movie of all time. Ever since I discovered it, my friends and I watch it annually. I became so obsessed with it I dressed as Hunter on a Halloween trip to Vegas, and never broke character all night. I was given several different, uh, candies from complete strangers because I was so into it. Still one of the best nights of my life.

@alexeilindes7507

Жыл бұрын

Uhh how obnoxious 😊

@reyagu4607

Жыл бұрын

@@alexeilindes7507 you’re not invited to the cook out

@alexeilindes7507

Жыл бұрын

@@reyagu4607 bad vibes all around us...

@bospurgeon1039

Жыл бұрын

I ate some chocolate shrooms one day and totally went into character. But I’d read 75% of HST’s books and already owned or watched every movie or interview I could get my hands on. Amazing dude, and Depp did the best at bringing him to the screen. Sounds retarded, but I tend to get all up in my emotions when I watch the extra footage from my FaL double disc set. Not sure why he hits that spot, but I’m the same w/ George Carlin too

@sizzlechestmcmurphy4365

Жыл бұрын

I did the same here in Bangkok, Thailand. The vast majority of people had zero clue who I was supposed to be. The people that knew, loved it.

A couple of personal experiences. Ok, I am old. I knew Hunter in 70's in Aspen. We would have drinks in the Hotel Jerome. It was convenient as I was the late night disk jockey on the local radio station in the basement where the studio was. That was the time before Aspen became super jet set. In the late 70's, I was living in Las Vegas. A local TV station had a culture critic criticize a proposed film of Hunter's book. I called the station and asked to respond. Unimaginable today, but back then the FCC had a rule to require that. Even so, to my surprise they accepted. So, as a relative amateur, I wrote a 2 minute text as they had asked and went to the studio. Basically I said that the film would be good for LV. They accepted it without change and recorded me saying it. Everyone was very nice. Even the critic I was responding to complemented me, a gracious fellow. Those days are long gone. I could add more humorous details, but that is the essentials.

@usernotfound00118

Жыл бұрын

70s had class people were respecting each other or other opinions not like today.. released caged animals..

@NobleNemesis

Жыл бұрын

Please share us the more humourous details, Ned! It's already so cool and coincidental that you knew him and are here to share it with us today haha

@MADMAX-vd8pr

Жыл бұрын

We need details.

@nedludd7622

Жыл бұрын

@@NobleNemesis There isn't much more there. I was only once at his place in Woody Creek. It was during the summer and I had a day job at a nearby sawmill. In winter at the hotel, I could put my show on program for a bit, it was a news and weather feed, to go up and get a drink. Hunter and his charming girl friend would sometimes be there. He was cool, calm, and collected. I didn't know about his writing. He was not at all like his wonderful character in "Fear and Loathing...". But drugs were not rare in Aspen. I shared a house with a couple of guys and friends would come around. One day with time on our hands, someone asked, what shall we do today? Another responded, how about abusing some drugs? That meant LSD. Said and done. Funny, I remember some of the following events well. I lived a life time in a couple of years. After a few years I stopped and haven't done any for decades. I don't have anything against, it is just that my interests changed. People should experiment.

@NobleNemesis

Жыл бұрын

@@nedludd7622 That's awesome.. Very fortunate to have met him in that time and corner of space. Thanks for sharing Ned.

Hadn't been a fan of Johnny Depp, but his performance in this movie was incredible. It made me a fan

@InAtlasAtLast

Жыл бұрын

He lived with hunter for a while to get his speech patterns and physical patterns down

@mogensschmidt2498

8 ай бұрын

he even shaved him bald sort of@@InAtlasAtLast

@MrJayArt

8 ай бұрын

He’s literally the only reason the movie is watchable

“We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson

@nadapuesnada7716

Жыл бұрын

Hunter had me right there.

I was really impressed with Depp's ability to get Thompson's character so accurately. His close study while living with Thompson was demonstrably the right method to use for pinning all the nuances of the author.

@yannick245

Ай бұрын

This was, hands down, the most authentic portrayal of a real person in the history of cinema!

I felt so lucky to experience this in the theater, the whole 5 days it was in there. This enshrined Depp and Del Toro in my heart forever. #GonzoLives

@minexer

Жыл бұрын

but were u tripping in the theatre?

@0therun1t21

8 ай бұрын

​@@minexerI love how Gilliam makes that optional!

@minexer

8 ай бұрын

@@0therun1t21whos gilliam?

@martinprybylski2392

7 ай бұрын

Same!!

@SandwichGlitch

3 ай бұрын

@@minexer the... the director... are you kidding?

Funny story…As a rebellious teen, I use to check the “after hours” return slot of my local video rental place for movies that got stuck half-way down…like Fear & Loathing. I had no idea what I was in for. After watching and re-watching it, I read the book, then every other HST book I could get my hands on…I’m just sorry to whoever accumulated all those late fees on the movie that was never returned…

@billyrayhoscheit1775

Жыл бұрын

So it was you! Finally! You owe me $28.95 🤔. 🙄. 😎.

@geIoeschterBenutzer

Жыл бұрын

☺️

@Seniormuffins

Жыл бұрын

That’s super shitty but how fitting that you ended up getting fear and loathing out of it lmao

@mikecampbell1731

Жыл бұрын

Lol you took the ride without ever having to buy the ticket 😂 mr. Duke would be proud

@notyobiz6207

8 ай бұрын

@@mikecampbell1731 fucking clever lmao

Terry Gilliam is a legend, a creative genius and deserves better.

@buh2001j

Жыл бұрын

Like having his name pronounced correctly in this video

@filipeandrade9697

11 ай бұрын

@@buh2001j Gillam lol

@hello21707

8 ай бұрын

He probably pronounces the name William like Willam too

@ryanoleary4771

8 ай бұрын

​@@buh2001jshit drove me crazy

@Peanutdenver

8 ай бұрын

@@ryanoleary4771Fear and Loathing were before my time but as a fan of Monty Python, this film and Terry even I know its not GIL-LUM.

I watched the movie 2 times sober and didn't know what I am even looking at, the 3rd time I watched it while doling shrooms, my mind was blown and I understood EVERYTHING. One of my most favorite movies of all time and I rewatch it at least once a year!

@andresterrazas855

Жыл бұрын

This movie on shrooms is the funniest shit I've ever seen.

@MrSeedi76

Жыл бұрын

At least some weed is a must. The depiction of the LSD trip when they check in was pretty much what I see on shrooms, except for the reptiles 😂.

@ajagoff

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I saw this before I had ever done psychedelic drugs, and thought it was just so overdone and indulgent that I really disliked it. Then I watched it again a little while after my first LSD trip and was like "holy shit, this is the perfect movie." They absolutely nailed the visuals, but more importantly, the paranoia and general vibe of being in the grips of psychedelia.

@MrJayArt

8 ай бұрын

You understood the end with the creepy child predator vibes on mushrooms? Yeah such a deep meaning.

@detritic

8 ай бұрын

I am and have always been a very sober (square) person, and I saw this the first time with some stoner co-workers. I thought it was funny, but they told me I had *no idea* how fucked up it was. Now I guess I know why

One of my favourite films ever! I honestly have watched it at least 100 times. Incredible performances, hilarious dialogue and very authentic depiction of drug taking. Love it

This was one of my favorite movies! Brilliant! Johnny was the best Hunter S Thompson! ❤😊

@BarryHWhite

Жыл бұрын

Bill was a close 2nd though!.

@thefourhorsemen91

Жыл бұрын

@@BarryHWhite I read the book and then saw "Where The Buffalo Roam" and fell in love with HST. That first movie will always have a soft spot with me but this movie was an instant classic.

This movie is a time gem and cult classic. The movie is designed to really mess with you when you are under the influence. If you ever watch this movie on any hard drugs or hallucinogenics the movie will mess with you if you focus on it. The director intentionally used color, camera angles and obscure scenes to mess with your mind when altered. Its a hidden masterpiece. Hunter Thompson lived a life no one did.

@vaze791

Жыл бұрын

Sure, he pulled the trigger himself, but maybe it’s not right to say nobody did it. Perhaps when you’ve lived your life staring down the American Dream and unflinchingly seeing it for the twisted, scabrous thing it is, or can become, then maybe you let a part of it into you. The abyss gazes also.

@Alex-ht3yq

Жыл бұрын

Watched it for the first time on my first dose of magic mushrooms, I second your statement lol.

@joeo1725

Жыл бұрын

The fuzzy TV screen vision thing affected me for an entire year of my coke abused life. Like I was living in the fuzzy matrix. Weird looking back now my minds clean

@ReysonFox

Жыл бұрын

@@Alex-ht3yq yess

@pegcity4eva

9 ай бұрын

Yup. Definitely made it ten times more insane.

Fear & Loathing is one of my all time favorite films and became a defining movie of my generation in high school. While it wasn't shown at any of my local theaters, I grabbed it the day it was released on VHS and began introducing all of my stoner friends to the weird, wild world of Hunter S Thompson one by one, until all of us were quoting it daily. It is THE definitive drug movie imo, and Johnny Depps portrayal of Thompson is one of the greatest performances of all time. He was spot on after spending so much time living with the enigmatic author and embodied the gonzo persona HST invented through his prose. It affected Depp so deeply that you could see shades of the character in every role he had for years after. Despite Hunter being a unique, memorable and iconic character, Adapting HSTs work is a difficult and daunting task (see also: Where the Buffalo Roam and Rum Diary), but Gilliam and Depp nailed it. I cant imagine a better final product than what we got.

@TheMoose126

Жыл бұрын

The book AND the movie were a hoot

@Luke-en2tk

Жыл бұрын

And mine

@tmotytmoty2

Жыл бұрын

absolutely! Maybe it bugged you too, but the narrator made me wince when he said something to the effect of "...a cult classic "discovered" 25 years later"..? Not quite.. Everyone (everyone) loved this movie within a year of it coming out. It did not take ~25 years~.. this movie has been popular all along. It's roped in two (and a half) huge audiences: 1) Hunter Thompson fans 2) Terry Gilliam fans 2.5) the audience comprised of "people who just liked Johnny Depp" movies It had terrible distribution, but it's always been a straight up hit all the way after exiting theaters. Fear and Loathing's rise and popularity are on par with The Big Lebowski. Gilliam made a movie miracle through his adaptation! Great movie.

@believeinmatter

Жыл бұрын

I found out years after seeing the film for the first time, that it was based on Hunter S. Thompson’s actual exploits..crazy.

@AdiFingold

Жыл бұрын

Terrible movie read the book than tried watching it couldn’t even finish very jarring

I read the book a few years before the movie after it being referenced in an episode of Blossom of all things. Later I saw Hunter on Charlie Rose talking about how it was being adapted for film and I waited anxiously. I dragged two curious enough friends out to see it on opening day. We were the only 3 people in the theater.

@CorduroyPaco

Жыл бұрын

I also saw it in a nearly empty theatre and couldn't believe it...I thought it was so good and such a great adaptation to the book and couldn't understand why more people weren't coming out!

A Scanner Darkly could use more attention these days, it's definitely not as fun as Fear and loathing but it's a classic in its own right. Fantastic cast and performances as well, written by a great author

@starwarsroo2448

Жыл бұрын

The improvised dialogue goes on a bit in that, particularly RDJ, I say that it's not a bad movie though

@hunterwhitner6998

Жыл бұрын

A scanner darkly fucked with me more than fear did on lsd forsure.

@jr2904

Жыл бұрын

@@starwarsroo2448 It really fits in with the way the book is written though, I'd recommend it

@starwarsroo2448

Жыл бұрын

@@jr2904 yeah PKD is awesome, but a script needs to be a script

@resistancesst

8 ай бұрын

The best detail in ASD is Alex Jones playing a prototype of his current media character.

To accurately mimic the effects of the drugs cinematically; that's dedication.. adds to the trippy experience. Love the movie. Also love how much Hunter S Thompson appreciated Depp's narration, I've always felt the narration added the glue that kept this fever dream together. Great directing job by Terry GILLIAM..

@______IV

Жыл бұрын

For what it’s worth, those representations of what it’s like to take those drugs wasn’t accurate (excluding adrenachrome of course since it’s fictional). It was entertaining, and definitely trippy to watch (especially for people who haven’t taken those drugs), but it’s close to impossible to capture the reality of what various drug trips are like. Depp and Del Toro did a great job acting like they were on those drugs, but the visuals are pure fantasy.

@shenkichin6295

Жыл бұрын

@@______IV It isn't THAT hard to capture the reality of what drug trips are like. The movie "Taking Woodstock" sucks but it's LSD scene in the van is pretty acurate. Also, Midsommar has a pretty accurate depiction of what tripping on mushrooms is like, especially in the visual department and especially trying to convey a "bad trip" as well. Even in Fear and loathing, the way the pattern on the hotel floor started moving is pretty accurate for an acid trip.

@apesy800

8 ай бұрын

​@@shenkichin6295No, its not. Im sorry. Ive been tripping for decades. They are always metaphors for how it makes you feel.

@apesy800

8 ай бұрын

​​@@______IV"Adrenachome" is real however you cant obtain that easily (look up Adrenochrome)

@GregBreden

8 ай бұрын

Yes. GILLIAM, I was getting pretty annoyed when he kept saying "Gillam". Still, I do appreciate the effort it takes to make any kind of video but that's a very basic thing to get wrong.

I couldn't see anyone other than Depp and Del Toro playing the leads. I remember going to an art house theater in 98 to watch this with my GF. I was memorized with the movie. My GF hated it only went cause Depp was in it. I hadn't read the book and bought it that day in the Barnes and Noble that was next door. I went down the rabbit hole with Thompson. That Halloween i dressed as Gonzo and my buddy dressed as Thomson and went to all the college parties at our school

@GTMSGAMES

8 ай бұрын

Try out bill maury

I am surprised to hear that it was a failure at the box office, I remember it being a much buzzed about film when it came out, and I loved it! The opening scene is just like how I visualized it when I read the book years earlier!

@nuaru100

Жыл бұрын

And how perfect is Tobey Maguire as the hapless hitchhiker? It was like they animated Steadman's drawing of him. XD

@dandavis8300

Жыл бұрын

I saw it in the theatre and thought it was a great horror movie. Now you tell me it was the defining movie of your generation and it's scarier yet. Great movie to see around Halloween.

@bennygerow

Жыл бұрын

I didn't know anyone who saw it or wanted to see it with me, so I missed it in the theater.

@glenmcdonald375

Жыл бұрын

The main-stream public was not ready for a movie like this. it was probably a nightmare to try and market too? Should have tried to reach the Rocky Horror/ Animal House/ Brazil crowd?

Still one of my all time favorites - I notice something new every time I watch it. I actually stayed at the Boardwalk Casino in 2005 (I'm from the UK) at the tender age of 23 and didn't actually realise that some of the filming for this was done there. Thanks for the great vid, this film is well overdue another re-watch by me!

I don't know how script writing was so difficult for this film, the finished product is almost entirely word for word with the book

@GotTheBestLigma

Жыл бұрын

A lot of it is but like they said a lot was left out and it's probably a thing where it was a hard choice of what to include and what to leave out

@TylerCGore

11 ай бұрын

I loved the film, but felt the book was so much better because of a major stumbling block -- in the book, you get HST's wry interior monologue, narrating every f*d up thing he's doing with such smart, witty irony. That's not possible to reproduce in a movie -- the interior action -- so you only get his bizarre behavior, without the constant irony of his acute social observation and self-deprecating wit.

I love when he says" im getting the fear"my buddies and i would always say this"dude, im getting the fear"

@ML-kx9gz

Жыл бұрын

same.

This is one of my all-time favorite movies, it’s just so bizarre and unique in a way, I’ve never seen since, it really is a one of a kind movie

Terry Gilliam, not Gillem. It drove me crazy!

@buh2001j

Жыл бұрын

I think they do it on purpose to drive engagement and prompt comments like yours and mine. It's cheap and easy which is why it's done on lots of channels.

@NX6.2

Жыл бұрын

You should find more important things to get upset about.

@buh2001j

Жыл бұрын

@@NX6.2 I'm upset? Thanks for letting me know. So what *should* I be 'upset' about according to you?

@chrishumpert608

Жыл бұрын

Not a simple misspelling of a name nobody knows

@streetgamer3452

10 ай бұрын

@@buh2001jthey’re obviously talking to op not you

Once the cops busted in they found captains of football, baseball and basketball. All setting on my couches, with heads full of mushrooms and acid and weed that we converted into pudding .We were all watching Fear and Lothing.Then we all went to jail. This movie is one of the best ever made.

@anthonypate8657

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for deleting my first post

@28russ

Жыл бұрын

@@anthonypate8657 Ya prob used a word and or phrase the YT bots didn't fuckin like. They're fuckers like that. Though ya can usually get away with a few fucks if ya don't give a..........🤷‍♂😂

I never got a chance to see this in theaters because it just slipped under my radar. I discovered it on vhs. It was such a weird mind trip of a film. It really felt like a flow of thought, each scene just flowing to the next with no rhyme or reason. It’s a disorienting flick that mimics the disorientation of Thompson. It was funny, insane, troubling… I have never used hard drugs but watching it made me feel like I was. To that end I think the movie delivers on what the director wanted. I swear I watched that vhs enough times it wore out the tape.

I remember thinking about going to see Fear and Loathing with my friends. We started talking about the high cost of tickets and snacks, then the conversation turned to the added cost of party favors we'd want to consume prior to heading into the theater. Then somebody suggested that going to see it could be "a set up" and people might have too much fun in the theater and police would be called and search and siezure activity might follow and everyone would ultimately get arrested. The conversation kind of turned into a Fear and Loathing scene after that. So, we didn't go. We had a watch party at home when it came out on dvd instead. No high ticket and snack prices, no arrests, and no paranoia involved. I suspect many people had similar discussions. 😂

@hazonku

8 ай бұрын

Definitely. I watched a private screening after hours with some friends who worked at my local theater. It was a great time.

@Johnny_Hipp

6 ай бұрын

I remember when any of my friends would laugh too loudly we would all take turns side eying each other to dial it back and be cool, looking behind us all super paranoid. By the end scenes we just accepted our fate and let loose. The audience was an empty theater with just a few random teens who just looked completely confused and not into it, some even exiting, as we were the only people truly enjoying the show on a whole other level. Another wild thing we saw in the theater lobby was a smashed glass candy concession stand that was roped off with police tape and a construction fence. It was odd to see all the candy strewn about and not picked up in the mess, maybe for insurance reasons they left it like that. Some other film goers must've had a pretty wild out of control trip at a previous showing. As we were all giggling and scratching our heads at the mysterious lobby chaos everyone else seemed to be ignoring the scene entirely like it was business as usual. Only one of our friends composed themselves enough to buy the tickets. Truly reminiscent of the line ~ "You approach the turnstiles and know that when you get there, you have to give the man two dollars or he won't let you inside. But when you get there, everything goes wrong. Some angry rotarian shoves you and you think "What's happening here? What's going on?"

@liamsdad33

5 ай бұрын

You let the fear win

Just watched this masterpiece yesterday, and same time you published this. Wow. I have this on Bluray, DVD, Laserdisc, VHS, and the HD-DVD.

Roger Ebert: "Seal Beach" Benedict Cumberbatch: "Pen-goo-in" Joblo: "Gillem"

Man, an animated fear and loathing would have been awesome. You can exaggerate a lot through cartoons.

@buh2001j

Жыл бұрын

Hunter's ex who was the main force behind getting the movie made hate animation so this wasn't ever going to happen. Apparently Hunter hated Bakshi's pitch for making the speech about the high water mark left from the wave visualized as a literal wave.

The director's last name is pronounced GI * LEE * UHM, not Gil-Uhm!

@TheAwkwardSituation

Жыл бұрын

Killing me

@psflipper

Жыл бұрын

I seriously can't watch the video because of this. If you're making videos about film and don't know how to pronounce the man's name I have doubts about your knowledge.

@VJFranzK

Жыл бұрын

also, not "gill ee AM", as might be thought by the spelling.

@mrcody1924

Жыл бұрын

@@psflipper dang lol, you sound like a lovely person 😂

@doylelacrua

Жыл бұрын

But which syllable is the accent on?

GILLIAM did such a brilliant job. He created the best depiction of the sensation and visuals of Tripping in a place like LV! I wouldn't recommend do it there for anything

It's Terry Gill - ee - um not Terry Gill - um ffs...

Who is Gillum ? I know the director and member of Monty Pythons, Terry Gilliam

The Busey improvisation is most certainly part-and-parcel with his absolutey insane reputation both back in the day, and nowadays.

@MrBuketman

Жыл бұрын

He’s awesome in this. People forget how great of an actor he was up until he had that rough accident. I watched Point Break recently and forgot how good he is in that too.

Thank you, that was a great video from a great film.

You never actually called out the cameo with Hunter S. Thompson and the brilliant line: "Mother of god! There I am"

Gilliam, NOT "Gillam"!

@yannick245

Ай бұрын

Yesterday I had to turn off a (German) podcast I wanted to listen to, because of a mispronunciation! It was about Fritz Todt. The creator of the Nazi organization "Organisation Todt" a civil and military engineering organisation. His name is pronounced like the English name "Todd". But they always pronounced it like "Tod", which is the German word for "death". It was narrated by two people and they both did the same mistake. It was so awful!! "Death, death, death..." all the time. It seems like they didn't knew the person before and did their research only by studying texts (together) and they both got his name wrong. It's also been the case on many KZread clips, that the person reading the script wasn't the person that wrote it. Due to constant mispronunciation. Even though you know that the person that wrote the script did definitely know how to pronounce the word/name.

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.

@nadapuesnada7716

Жыл бұрын

Reading that part is when you learn the story is a tragedy and not a comedy.

@willtheangrydudeist9120

Жыл бұрын

@@nadapuesnada7716 💯

Went to see it in theater the weekend I graduated high school, have always loved it. Great video

What an amazing informative video very in depth thank you gonzo lives

What is there to say about this movie that hasn't already been said?. It was and is one of my favorite off-the-wall movies of all time. " Buy the ticket take the ride."

God, I’ve loved this movie since it came out, one of my favorites

Legendary and EPIC! The BEST! Must see multiple times.

I remember taking shrooms at a homies house and his mom had the dvd of this, the box art and Depp sold me. Been one of my favorite films ever since

When I was in college and took a film class, this was 1 of the required film to watch

@AwesomeBlackDude

Жыл бұрын

My place holder for a later date or time. 🤔

@tvirus9369

Жыл бұрын

That's a joke right

who's Terry Gillum? i mean, how could they get his name wrong SO many times? sheesh

@inertiamonster

Жыл бұрын

Also mispronounced mescaline and umbrage.

What's most overlooked about this film is the soundtrack. Every song seems perfectly placed.

@clown134

8 ай бұрын

such a great ost

@bajorekjon

8 ай бұрын

@@clown134 It might be the most underrated part of the film. All the songs blend perfectly with the trippy visuals.

@clown134

8 ай бұрын

one of my favorite parts is during the mescal on the beach scene where he gives a monologue about 70s culture.. having been born in the late 80s that scene makes me sad that i missed the acid revolution@@bajorekjon

@bajorekjon

8 ай бұрын

@@clown134 I agree it makes me nostalgic for a time I never lived in, even though a lot of the 60s was pretty terrifying. But I guess that contrast is a theme in the movie.

There’s only a few films I’ll watch repeatedly from time to time, and this is one of them

@marknewton6984

2 ай бұрын

This one and "Tuttles of Tahiti."😮

It’s gill-ee-um not gillem lol

It's gill-ee-um, not gill-um.

I legit could not have found a better time to watch this movie, I legit finally watched it for the first time (loved it so much me and my friend are obsessed) and this dropped yesterday while I'm still thinking of it daily,, good video

One of my all time faves for sure. The Rum Diaries was great too

It may not have done well on release, but I did my part by seeing it four times in the theaters lol ❤❤❤

A lot of people find the movie to intense, and if they have never taken any drugs, they kind of don't 'get it' I love this movie, one of the greats.

I haven't seen Fear & Loathing for some years. But it's definitely a trippy classic. Puts me in mind of "Naked Lunch". Another masterpiece of psychedelic weirdness.

This is one of my favorite movies of all time. A true use of the medium.

It didn't do well simply because of timing. If it had been released in late 60s or early 70s, people would have reacted like I did with,"Oh,crap,I've felt exactly like that!". I can even remember a late night decision to drive to the beach in the middle of the night while doing acid. Picked up a hitchhiking preachers kid and gave him a hit before dropping him off in the middle of nowhere! When the film came out it wasn't "hip" anymore. Like doing a film about roller blades 10 years after everyone forgets what it was.

best author, best director, best actors, best movie.

I will always love this movie, and hunter himself, great vid 👍

It was on tv last day, enjoyed it again, as usual

A masterpiece in every respect of film making!

@MrJayArt

8 ай бұрын

Every aspect?

@Zed-fq3lj

8 ай бұрын

heheh...tnx lapsus in fabula - ''I took too much man, I took too much'' of....something from their trunk heheh@@MrJayArt

One of my all time favourites, watched it in Uni which was the perfect time to see it. I love the Withnail and I connection as that is also up there. If it had have had a Cohen brothers/Big Lebowski connection that may have blown my mind and turned my top 3 favourite (Non horror) movies into a trilogy.

@Steaminlidz

Жыл бұрын

Basing your entire persona on Withnail at University is a pretty common trait.. I was guilty.

Great analysis of the film techniques displaying the various altered states!

its a masterpiece. fell in love with it the first seconds of the movie and watched it 50+ times

It’s pronounced GILLYAM not GILLUM

@ML-kx9gz

Жыл бұрын

It's going to be okay.

The acid scene is totally accurate for a good strong hallucination in an uncertain setting. There were places in my wild youth I would not venture while visually impaired and it was usually down to someone's choice of decor. Depp's portrayal of Thompson is so accurate and he looks 100% the part.

@TylerCGore

11 ай бұрын

I also thought it was one of the most accurate depictions of a bad acid trip. That carpet!

@HumanOddity69

8 ай бұрын

The lizard people though? I mean shit, if that can really happen I don't think I'm ever taking the stuff again.

@mantovannni

8 ай бұрын

@@HumanOddity69 I've had similar experience of terrible stuff for a brief moment but it was more a seeing it inside my mind and then snapping out of that thinking where the heck was that from, did II just see that?

@MrJayArt

8 ай бұрын

Not really I’ve taken it hundreds of times and it’s way crazier than that…

@clown134

8 ай бұрын

​@@HumanOddity69the lizard people is a step into the comically exaggerated in my opinion, but the rest is pretty good

Thank you Hunter 🤘💯

This movie is a bonafide legendary classic. I really do wonder why it didn't do good at first but it is probably more known and respected than most of the others now

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was the first Thompson book I read and the first book that made me laugh so hard I was crying. I fully knew what those situations were like being an acid head myself. I actually screened the movie in the theater the day it opened. That said, the movie absolutely blows "where the buffalo roam" out of the water. And Dr. Thompson was involved with both. But Depp is hands down a better Dr. Gonzo than Murray. And the story is true to the book, not a conglomeration of stories like WTBR.

Such a great movie. You’re missing out if you haven’t seen it.

Great video m8

Criterion Collection knew what was up. Still got my og Criterion dvd version as well as the Criterion Blu-ray. The box art is one of my favorite from them!

Rarely is an adaptation to film of a novel done so well and so accurately. Not that I KNEW THAT when I kinda-sorta watched it for the first three HUNDRED times, as I - like 90% of everyone else kinda-sorta watching it - was high as a space tickling kite at the time.

I recently rewatched this move, after seeing clips of it on KZread for years. It's a pure fever dream. Definitely a unique movie, but I dare anyone try to watch this while high. Mind would not only be blow, but would fly away entirely.

@CrispyBreadcrust

Жыл бұрын

as a young lad me and the boys got stoned and watched it and my gawd what an experience!

@BarryHWhite

Жыл бұрын

Got the t-shirt

@dalefuller5507

Жыл бұрын

Got some tabs coming I'll do a trip report afterwards wish me luck🎉

@colinburroughs9871

Жыл бұрын

@@dalefuller5507 it's not that great in that state fwiw- the CGI hallucinations won't compare to the real thing at the same time.. lol

@BarryHWhite

Жыл бұрын

@@dalefuller5507 send some to Scotland... I've already got the dvd. Enjoy my fiend ( lucky barstuard ). I know you will !.

I'll never forget watching this film for the first time. I was 18 in 1998. loved the movie. had it on VHS.

I went to see this movie every night for seven days straight. One of the greatest films of all time. Incredibly well crafted by all involved.

This is probably the most underrated movie ever. Its in my top 5 movies of all time. Its so freaking smart and well acted. Its funny and profound. Its amazing.

@andrewprobst846

Жыл бұрын

I would not consider this an underated movie

@DanRobbinsUM

Жыл бұрын

@@andrewprobst846 most people I know have never seen it. That makes it underrated in my book.

@andrewprobst846

Жыл бұрын

@@DanRobbinsUM I can't think of a friend I have that hasn't seen it

@andrewprobst846

Жыл бұрын

@DanRobbinsUM I discovered it from a teacher who lent me the book upon reading it I discovered both my parents and several other parts of my family were familiar and even had more Hunter S books to lend me, he is far from underrated

@disposable3167

Жыл бұрын

lmao i dont understand... this is one of the most talked about and loved movies of all time

The first time I saw this also happened to be the first time I tripped on acid. The colors seemed to bleed out into my reality and I had to take a couple breaks. Watching it again sober was a completely different experience

@MrJayArt

8 ай бұрын

One time I was playing Minecraft on mushrooms and I forgot how to play the game so my girlfriend started playing it, then Minecraft crawled out the edges of the tv into reality, everything was made of patterned Minecraft blocks and it was extremely vivid.

I was obsessed with this movie for quite a while and it’s still one of my top faves

Awesome review, thanks a lot for the insight adventure.

Why do you keep calling him "gillam" it's "gilliam"

@yannick245

Ай бұрын

That's like every second comment here! And they still get endless upvotes. I think everyone that didn't knew it, now do. (Absolutely no offense to you personally!)

This movie is a masterclass. Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro are brilliant here.

It’s one great movie! And guess what, a couple of days ago I bought tickets for it, to see it on the big screen again. Well, and because Terry Gilliam is actually gonna be there!

first time watching your channel. I'm only 35 and that movie makes me wish I had been around during that era. great work on this video. if you're looking for a movie to cover for the Halloween season, may I suggest "highway to hell." it's under appreciated in my opinion, even to this day

Definitely one of my all time favorites. It's great while stoned, but somehow it's even better when sober.

@jasonsaville8822

Жыл бұрын

Have you ever seen Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas? Have you ever seen Fear and Loathing, on weeeed?

Awesomeness!! 😎👍👌 An Absolute Masterpeace!!👊✊🍁♈🍁

Last i checked its still on the shelf. Still plays. Still good...

I loved this movie, saw it in theaters and bought in on VHS and then on DVD. It was a crazy ride and did the book justice. I knew the first time I saw it that it wouldn't do well, it was just too intense for a time when people were watching crap like American Pie.

It's ironic that Jack Nicholson nearly portrayed Thompson, as the two were briefly neighbors in Woody Creek, Colorado and strongly disliked each other. Especially following a series of crazy pranks Thompson played on Nicholson, including leaving a bloody elk heart on his doorstep.

@rabbieburns2501

Жыл бұрын

nope, didn't strongly dislike each other .. or dislike each other, Hunter considered him a friend .. whether Jack Nicholson considered Hunter S a friend, may be another matter, but def not enemies

@clarenceworley3714

Жыл бұрын

​@@rabbieburns2501 Hunter even gave a prank Christmas gift to Nicholsons young daughter with a note saying not to trust men..they were friends with mutual respect for one another

I love when people talk about this classic, more people should know about it!

One of my all time favourites. I picked up the Criterion version way back.

..."petered out a the end"...Kind of like the hopeful aspirations of the sixties

@marknewton6984

2 ай бұрын

60's petered out in the 70's.😮

its gilliam, not gillum

I used to stay at the seal rock in San Fran. Rolling stone used to put thompson in a room there to write . Thanks for sharing that sign

I use to have this on DVD back in the gap and went to sleep every night with it playing. Great times.

Gillium => Gill-i-um and umbrage => um-ber-age

@sadie9728

Жыл бұрын

Almost couldn't finish the video. Drove me absolutely nuts

Gill-I(E)-AM

I have only one word for this and it i's "stylissimo"! Keep on trucking mister!

I saw it in the theater. Parts of it paralleled some of my life in the early 90s.

How do you comunicate so much beauty? It's Incredible. I just look at it and it brings me to tears. Because I'm looking at it and I'm looking at myself. Yeah you've never really seen porn until you've seen it on WTF happened to fear and loathing in Las Vegas. Until you recognize that it's you and that's basically what Infinity is. Sort of like I love you, no I love you, no I love you, no I love you, no I love you more, I love you more, I love you more. Who can love who more? And whoever can love who more is God. You see that long laundry list of stuff about you that you don't love. God loves all of it. I'm sorry for not loving more, that's the only thing you have to be sorry about. Thank you. Thank You For Love! And at this point you realize that that's it, that's the point. That's the only lesson in life. That's my only job. Is to love. Everything else is idiocy and then what you do is you say I love you. For the first time in your life you say I love you because you really understand what that phrase means and you fall in love with God. But as it throws it out there, it's gentle so he throws it out there but then you say oh I can't love it and then what God will say in return is, it's okay. I love that you are not capable of love. I love that. And when that hits you. That's what fills you with enough love to overcome your resistance to love even that next level thing that you could do. No it can't be love. Of course it's love! what else could it be! It's love! No oh my God this is impossible! Of course it's love how could it be anything else!? How could I be so stupid as to think it's anything else. And God is like of course it's love.

@IAmAFamel

Жыл бұрын

Not sure what you just said but YES!

@JoMagic-ny8zu

Жыл бұрын

Dang, you are into it deeply.. 😵‍💫