Jesus! This place has terrible waves of madness, paranoia, loathing, and fear, intolerable vibrations.

It won't be long before they tear us to shreds.

I was in the middle of a reptile zoo! And somebody was giving these things booze.

The movie has exciting quotes, some of which aren't in the original book.

Several felons, but indeed not dangerous.įear and Loathing movie quotes Photo: Getty Images (modified by author)įear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a popular 1998 movie about a journalist and his psychopathic lawyer who travel from Los Angeles to Las Vegas.

I tell you, my man, this is the American dream in action! We'd be fools not to ride this strange torpedo out to the end.There was madness in every direction, at any hour.No, this isn’t a good town for psychedelic narcotics.In a world full of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.Old Americans go to the highway and drive themselves to death with big cars. Old elephants limp off to the hills to die.If asked whether you care about the world's problems, look deep into the person's eyes.If ever told to look at yourself, don't look.Never do anything a person standing in front of you can’t understand.Never create anything it'll chain and follow you your entire life.Beware of enthusiasm and love both are temporary and quick to sway.Still, this film is an above average watch. I've no idea how succinct this analysis is, I just resented being beaten over the head with it quite so much. Instead, it spends far too much time labouring it's central point, which is that the hippies had some good ideas underneath the craziness, they just needed to get out and vote. Ironically, leaning into the nastier side of Hunter's legend ( or indeed the darker side of American society at the time) might have given the film the extra bit of tension and pizazz needed to lift it from good to great. It all rolls along quite nicely but in the end, the film just doesn't quite go in hard enough.

Humourous japes such as pcp laced cigarettes and roller skating activists are placed alongside more serious themes such as industrial pollution, police harassment, and, inevitably, the war in Vietnam. Though most will probably know the name 'Hunter S Thompson' for his wilder exploits chronicled in the book and film 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas', this movie focuses on some of his more constructive efforts, namely his bid to become Sheriff of the rural town of Aspen in 1970.

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