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# Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas [Blu-ray] [Region Free]

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a whirlwind of a movie, a wacky, drug-laden story backed by a fist-pumping rock & roll soundtrack featuring everything from Wayne Newton and Tom Jones to Combustible Edison and Dead Kennedys. Journalist Raoul Duke (Johnny Depp) heads to Las Vegas to cover a motorcycle race, bringing along his Samoan lawyer, Dr. Gonzo (Benicio Del Toro), in this furious adaptation of the book by Hunter S. Thompson. It is 1971, and Duke and Gonzo are on their way to Sin City with a frightened hitchhiker (a nearly unrecognizable Tobey Maguire) and a trunkful of drugs, which they ingest nonstop. Depp is terrific as Duke, Thompson's alter ego, and Del Toro is a riot as the crazy lawyer. To perfect his Thompsonian performance, Depp spent a lot of time with the good doctor, and it paid off in a film that captures the frenetic pace of the counterculture novel. Director Terry Gilliam, a master of complex, bizarre visual imagery, has a field day interpreting the drug-hazed world in which Duke and Gonzo reside. An all-star cast chimes in with wonderfully offbeat bit parts, including Harry Dean Stanton, Gilliam regular Katherine Helmond, Flea, Cameron Diaz, Ellen Barkin, Christina Ricci, Gary Busey, Lyle Lovett, and others.












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The original cowriter and director of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was Alex Cox, whose earlier film Sid and Nancy suggests that Cox could have been a perfect match in filming Hunter S. Thompson's psychotropic masterpiece of "gonzo" journalism. Unfortunately Cox departed due to the usual "creative differences," and this ill-fated adaptation was thrust upon Terry Gilliam, whose formidable gifts as a visionary filmmaker were squandered on the seemingly unfilmable elements of Thompson's ether-fogged narrative. The result is a one-joke movie without the joke--an endless series of repetitive scenes involving rampant substance abuse and the hallucinogenic fallout of a road trip that's run crazily out of control. Johnny Depp plays Thompson's alter ego, "gonzo" journalist Raoul Duke, and Benicio Del Toro is his sidekick and so-called lawyer Dr. Gonzo. During the course of a trip to Las Vegas to cover a motorcycle race, they ingest a veritable chemistry set of drugs, and Gilliam does his best to show us the hallucinatory state of their zonked-out minds. This allows for some dazzling imagery and the rampant humour of stumbling buffoons, and the mumbling performances of Depp and Del Toro wholeheartedly embrace the tripped-out, paranoid lunacy of Thompson's celebrated book. But over two hours of this insanity tends to grate on the nerves--like being the only sober guest at a party full of drunken idiots. So while Gilliam's film may achieve some modest cult status over the years, it's only because Fear and Loathing is best enjoyed by those who are just as stoned as the characters in the movie. --Jeff Shannon

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## Customer Reviews

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    This is the best
  

*by G***G on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 December 2019*

This Arrow is the best blu-ray transfer of this film: 4K, though not a 4K disc.  Sharper with nuanced contrast despite such vibrant colours.  Beautiful.  Those dutch angles really make you lean into them now.So there are now TWO indispensable editions of F & L IN LAS Vegas: this blu-ray, and the old American Criterion double DVD with the great animated Menu design that blu-rays just don't do anymore.(Why did the great tradition of DVD Menus animated in the spirit of the featured film stop with the introduction of blu-rays?)The old Criterion double-DVD had unbeatable, prolific Extras, mostly  supplemental to HST's writing career (including a HST audio commentary, if you can translate what he's mumbling - - not ported over to Arrow's release).  Arrow's extras lean toward Steadman's half of the Faustian bargain.Quite a few new Arrow Extras and some ported older ones here.  All new Extras are worth watching more than once.Benico Del Toro is so intelligent in his interview, I wish there were more footage, so insightful about HST's writing, with his own thoughts instead of the usual cliches, that I thought, 'My God, he should write a Book about the work of HST!'  On Criterion's disc release, HST in commentary objected to the way Depp disdainfully treated a midget hotel waiter as something he would never do; HST liked the film but not that scene.  That HST commentary isn't the one on Arrow's release.  But in an Arrow extra, Benito Del Toro recalls asking HST about the Vegas book, 'Why were you so mean to the working classes?'  Now that is a brilliant question no scholar has ever thought to ask, and you can find out what HST replied in this interview.Terry Gilliam's new audio commentary is a hoot, of course, and well mediated by a moderator who keeps low key to feature Gilliam.  Gilliam sounds older now; he's cogent, and recalls a lot, but one or two memory lapses have me worried.The 2nd disc is the definitive documentary feature about Ralph Steadman, made with Steadman's extensive input, FOR NO GOOD REASON  - - already available elsewhere on DVD but this Arrow release has an extra Extra, a short film adaptation of Steadman's work.  Johnny Depp shows up a lot in the film and on the soundtrack and reads some HST writing - - always a good thing.  Depp is to HST what Richard Burton was to Dylan Thomas: the best narrator of the author's writing on record.The interview with producer Laila Nabulsi clues you in on what a major contribution she made to the film, and, likewise, the less-than-20-minutes could have been twice that and well worth the extra time.Four rare interviews bundled together, with the costume designer and cinematographer and editor and production designer, add insight and history to the project that you will not have heard before.The 2006 feature documentary BUY THE TICKET TAKE THE RIDE has been available on DVD for years, so it feels like no Extra at all on this disc if you already have it - - but if you don't, it's one of the additions that makes this release a genuine bargain even without a sales price.The small book has some old writing that HST aficionados will already have in full, and some new writing that isn't worth reading - - par for the course as DVD booklets go.  The art card photos are garish and as I see it worthless.  The double-sided poster is nothing special.  This release is all about the 2 discs, and there;s no good reason to pay extra for the paperwork if you can get the discs separately.The film and the book are about an insurmountable culture clash between the radical underground and the Silent Majority, a generation gap between conservative Americana and youth dissenters: a double-edged Culture Shock where Thompson and his attorney were AT LEAST as appalled by regular people as they were of these creative post-Beat Generation highly creative acid heads.One more thing.  There are many reasons why HST's journalism is vital and his writing right out of the 20th century's top drawer,.  HST aficionados have been starved of new writing BY HST ever since he died in 2006, which isn't as paradoxical as it sounds...The project HST completed before he died, a last volume of collected letters, is still stalled in mysterious limbo all these years later, as if his own wishes and efforts to prepare that book counted for nothing as far as the HST Estate is concerned.And HST's legendary 1968 20,000-word piece on his ambivalence about the NRA and gun ownership, written after the assassination of RFK has still to see print with no hope in sight - - though Johnny Depp says it's as good as anything HST ever wrote.And excised chapters of F & L IN LAS VEGAS - - that Depp has read and rates as highly as the rest of the book - -have still never been published.Which makes you wonder what the HST Estate thinks its function actually IS, other than collecting royalties on existing publications.  As I see it, Doug Brinkley and HST's widow ought to have their heads banged together by the ghost of Hunter Thompson and their feet nailed to a perch until they get the job done.  Either that, or kicked off the team to let someone else handle the estate who has more respect for HST's literary achievement than to delay important publications for So Long that HST's generation - - the folk who read his works hot off the press and can most deeply relate to his life and times - - are dying off without the opportunity of reading his last works.Shame on the HST estate: No Excuse.So we are tempted to grab at anything HST-related by even two-bit scholars who rehash what we already know just to channel the great writing.  But this time the merchandise is worthwhile.  It was a fabulous film in 1998 and it's a fabulous 4K transfer in 2019 with some very interesting new Extras.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Great
  

*by B***D on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 September 2019*

Amazing film

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    Can You Really Afford To Waste 2 Hours Of Your Life??
  

*by B***7 on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 March 2019*

I spent half an hour writing a review on this film but it crashed and I could not retrieve it.This film is realty not worth the time to write it all again,This film is so rubbish, I feel that I have wasted 2 hours of my life on it.No tangible plot, no substance, no sense.complete rubbish... AVOID!

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