What do people see in this garbage?
>DUDE DRUGS LMAO
why would you pay barely any attention to the movie and then complain about not understanding it
>>62985017
>>DUDE DRUGS LMAO
That's literally the point, you are retarded for going into this with the expectations it would be anything but.
Holy shit, you're a fucking idiot.
>>62985045
I went in expecting a good movie, not thirty minutes of a fat guy in the shower on drugs.
>>62985053
Only reason I watched this hot flaming peice of shit was because you guys told me it was a classic film.
>>62985093
it wasnt even 30 minutes, and there was a reason for that
are you SURE you payed attention?
>>62985109
>hurr movies that make you think
What was the purpose of that scene?
>>62985093
>because you guys told me
So yes, you're a fucking idiot.
It's more about the decline of 60's optimism
It's funny, shows Depp and Del Toro in their prime and creatively shot.
Way the fuck better than Bill Murray's version.
>>62985017
The book was better
You need to read the book to understand
>>62985289
Isn't the movie pretty faithful to the book?
I like how the film triggers people's ADD. If you need shit spoon fed to you, go read a fucking book. It explains shit a lot better than film huur duur
>>62987129
Yeah, Hunter himself was on set
>>62985222
Definitely this. Depp and Del Toro prepare for this amazing weekend where they're going to get completely fucked and have a great time.
Except they don't. At all. Their drug use pretty much ruins most of the weekend and, at the end of the film, they don't really seem to have had that great a time.
That one scene with Depp reminiscing and writing alone really sums up the film's point and puts the rest of the film, which to be fair can definitely seem like a bunch of stupid shit, into perspective.
>>62985289
What is this from? A reference book about prehistoric animals?
>>62987461
Reverse image search:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_After_Man
its about the end of the American Dream
Their persuit of excess and drugs is a metaphor for American hyper consumption
And how it has destroyed America
>>62985017
Reminder that it's too mainstream to hate Pulp Fiction, Fight Club and FaLiLV
>>62987494
That's cool, thanks. Is it any good?
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>>62985017
>what plebs say about Thompson's writing
>>62988786
>dude, lets ridicule things for the sake of it, lmao
I watched this when I was about like 15 and didn't get it, now I'm an adult, have read the book, and now it's one of my favorite movies. There's something new in it every time you watch it. You might just not be old enough.
>>62988786
DUDE REDDIT LMAO
DUDE "DUDE LMAO" LMAO
>>62988840
>>62988877
>>62988907
ASSHURT 'SIKONOTS' DETECTED
Let's turn this thread around. What was your favorite part of Fear & Loathing? My favorite was
>With a bit of luck, his life was ruined forever. Always thinking that just behind some narrow door in all of his favorite bars, men in red woolen shirts are getting incredible kicks from things he’ll never know.
I have no interest in drug "culture", I've never gotten "high" by choice, I don't drink, smoke or any other pleb shit.
I like the movie because it's funny. This is far from "Pineapple Express" and the like.
>>62988940
DUDE HIGH HORSE LMAO
its about the american dream and the 70s, the drugs are just a character trait of the protagonist
Anyone else find itsad?
>>62989068
Yeah, a few scenes are pretty depressing. The scene where del toro threatens the waitress with a knife is disturbing too
>>62988940
Probably the dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth line.
>>62985017
The film ecplores the hypocrisy and absurdity of the american dream, while critiquing the cynicism of post "free-love" America. Also comments on Vegas and its role in the deterioration of the American spirit.
However on the surface it serves as fun drug fueled adventure that satisfies on its own without having to look deeper. Either way its a beautifully directed and faithful adaptation of the novel.
>>62989306
4CHAN IS A DRUG FREE ZONE PLEASE LEAVE
>"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.”
>>62989418
Who let you out of /b/ meme poster?
>>62989702
DUDE DRUGS GAVE ME A NEW PERSPECTIVE LMAO
>>62989777
>has no arguement
>Doesn't understand the irony of being anti-drugs but using stoner levels of comprehension.
>>62989925
DUDE HOLIER THAN THOU LMAO
>>62988940
That part where his lawyer pulls out the knife, scares that sqwaking waitress, gets the pie, and shoves the money in her tits.
If that was in a new movie coming out now, could you imagine all the triggerings that would ensue?
>>62990069
Depends on who directed it. Tarentino and other reddit tier directors would get away with it.
Guys like Wheton get in trouble for having the audacity of showing a woman and a man express emotion toward each other.
DUDE THE AMERICAN DREAM LMAO
>>62987129
>Isn't the movie pretty faithful to the book?
Not really: the movie is more a DUDE DRUGS LMAO comedy with the Wave speech shoehorned in, ending on a triumphant note instead of depressing.
Had they stuck the original plan of making it animated instead of live action, it could've gotten under your skin like the book does.
its awful.
>>62988952
How many friends do you have, anon?
the trick is to play this like a bingo where you take the same drugs they take in the movie and then judge it. There, you discovered the secret to its cult following
I don't do drugs at all. I just like this movie for the adventure aspect of it
>>62985017
leaving aside the drug factor, the movie works like a surreal comedy, I mean you can clearly see Monty Python-esque hints in this movie.
DUDE HUMOR LMAO
>>62991330
dats a lot of drugs buddy. u buyin, rite?
>>62987213
Hunter hated Gilliam, he thought he was a twisted homosexual who was gaying up his book.
>>62988816
I'm reading Hells Angels now. Its amazing.
>>62985017
>>62985053
>>62992183
>>62991825
>>62992129
LOOK AT WHAT I HAVE FOUND
https://www.quora.com/Which-is-the-best-movie-of-all-times
>>62992245
What are you on about?
>>62992183
This was me. Just saying what HST said in the commentary on the Criterion Collection.
Great movie
Easily one of terry gilliams best
That scene at the police convention was gold.
>>62985017
It's a fun movie to watch when you're 19 or 20 and experimenting with psychedelics. Outside of that it's somewhat comfy. Otherwise it's really not a particularly good movie.
There's something about drugs that triggers /tv/, it's hilarious
>>62988940
KAWASAKI
always puts a smile on my face
>>62985017
What do people see in this garbage?
>DUDE SAND LMAO
>>62985017
It's nowhere near as good as the book. At the risk of sounding fedoracore I really love Thompson's writing.
>>62989306
so it's like the Wolf of Wallstreet in that regard?
>>62994536
Nothing "fedora" about The Good Doctor's writing.
>>62988940
Highway chase.
>>62994638
More like Easy Rider.
>>62988857
No this movie is just shit.
>>62994817
>Released by Criterion Collection
>Thinks it's shit
Spotted the pleb.
>>62985093
That isn't paying attention to the movie, that is being triggered by seeing other fat guys and forgetting everything else you just watched.
>>62994850
oooo the criterion collection ooooo big man huh big boy big movie watcher huh think it good cause it's in the criterion collection ooooo
>>62994172
correction
>There's something about drugs that triggers [4chan], it's hilarious
and that something, big surprise, is that most people here are friendless momma's boys who never had access to drugs and had to justify it with an irrational hatred of all things drug related
>>62994965
Here's your reply. Eat a dick nigga.
i get that people are annoyed by basic hedonist drugs and dont like movies of seth rogan smoking weed and going 'duuuuude '
but who the hell isn't fascinated by psychs? really? it's the stuff of dreams, of the far reaches of your mind, it's exploring reality, - of all people shut ins like 4channers should be most interested in these kind of psychonautics.
its kind of bafflign to me anyone could not be fascinated by the warping of reality, or find a paranoid romp through such an unstable reality funny.
f&l in las vegas is practically one long greentext farce of being anxiety ridden and awkward as fuck
there is something inherently funny in seeing a grown man reduced to a babbling idiot
I hate people who use "DUDE X LMAO" or "hello reddit" as arguments
>>62985017
I liked it
it was pretty good
>>62995139
I know exactly what you mean.
I love all fiction and non-fiction about exploring the human mind, especially pychs
Really interesting stuff
Anyone here recommend more movies about psychedelics?
>>62995724
Altered States and Enter The Void.
>>62995748
Thanks m8
>>62988631
>>62989306
These guys know.
It's a film about a journalistic piece about a philosophy, which further illustrates the points of the philosophy,absurdism.
>>62995724
Waking Life
Not necessarily psychedelics but different mind sets and done in a style of psychedelia, but also A Scanner Darkly is the spiritual successor and goes much more into drug use.
>>62995139
I'm fairly convinced after years of 4chan and seeing the reactions drugs often get is that it's simply a social thing.
You'd have to interact with others to be introduced/acquire drugs. People and 4chan especially throw all logic out the window when something touches their insecurities.
>>62995025
Says the guy shitposting on an anime website past midnight.
>>62995800
Np senpai.
Never knew this movie had a book and I especially didn't know that the "Waves" speech was from this work. Definitely going to read the book now, that speech was amazing. I remember having read it from some copypasta from /b/ and thinking it was amazing even coming from some retard
>>62996331
you thought someone on /b/ wrote that somber recollection on the psychedelic 60s?
>>62996554
nah, he used a part of it to describe the rise and fall of /b/
kind of poetic, actually. say what you will but copypasta most of the time is extremely well written
>>62996592
damn thats clever.....
it feels like a lifetime ago ... the kind of peak that never comes again. 4chan in its early days was a very special time and place to be a part of and no explanation, no mix of posts or images or fox news coverage can touch the feeling of being there and alive in that corner of time and the world... maybe it meant something.... maybe it didnt
kindaof like that?
>>62989558
Favorite of mine as well
>>62996592
>>62996653
/b/ was always gay as fuck newfag shit
pure cancer
>>62996723
you're not wrong.
but /b/ in 2006, the age i was, felt like the Wild West
>>62985017
OP now realizes that not only will he never be as cool as Hunter S. Thompson, and he will never meet Hunter S. Thompson, he will never BE Hunter S. Thompson.
>>62995025
Yeah you're right, I would have said 4chan as a whole if I wasn't silly
>>62995139
didn't see your post before but I said the same thing a little later
>>62995748
I thought Enter the Void had its head stuck up its own ass.
>>62995827
Waking Life - THAT is a good psychedelic movie. Also pretentious but actually good.
>>62985093
i seriously hope you're b8ing, no one over 16 can be this much of a stupid faggot
>>62997709
I didn't like it either.
>>62997709
Waking Life is 10/10
I get tired of hearing it called pretentious
It's about a guy dreaming and walking around in his dream talking to people
A lot of the cast came up with their own speeches
Linklater set out to do 2 things : Capture the feeling of a dream, and capture conversation and ideas
If you think either of those things are 'pretentious' you're a fucking imbecile
Sure some of the people's speeches are out there, Linklater's most of all. Who cares? The film doesn't ask you once to believe any of them. The film rarely seems to itself. It even pokes fun at over-intellectualizing stuff with the pack of guys who are 'all theory no action'
it's about capturing the bizzare thoughts you can get in a dream, fully formed ideas, and thinking, where the hell does it come from?
>>62995025
>he never listened to his parents
keep telling yourself the richer experience is worth all the physical and mental decay that comes after soaking up values from shitty sex and drug adventures you never understood
>>62998186
Who said that they were shitty?
>>62985017
the book is better
ITS HAPPENING
>>62995139
>the warping of reality, or find a paranoid romp through such an unstable reality
THAT. IS FUCKING. TERRIFYING.
It's the ground disappearing from under your feet.
In one hand you have useless drones smoking pot laughing at nothing, and in the other you just have a complete lack of empathy.
This movie isn't silly, it's depressing. Folks just don't understand how precious sanity is, how beautiful reality is.
You have to dive off the deep end because you spent your whole suburbanite childhood just receiving and suckin off the sexy teet of youth.
>>62998186
>Things are bad because I don't like them
lmao alright mate
>>62998186
Keep telling yourself that you really understand your experience and that alone will eventually justify your fear of any new experience.
>>62998227
>>62998300
>>62998294
you can't enjoy underage drinking and fingering sloots forever champ
>>62998367
Gary Coleman did.
>>62985017
clever and funny wording unlike anything else i'd seen.
hunter s. Thompson had a way with words I've never seen from anyone else.
no one put things the way he did.
>>62998572
>If the current polls are reliable—and even if they aren’t, the sheer size of the margin makes the numbers themselves unimportant—Nixon will be reelected by a huge majority of Americans who feel he is not only more honest and more trustworthy than George McGovern, but also more likely to end the war in Vietnam.
>The polls also indicate that Nixon will get a comfortable majority of the Youth Vote. And that he might carry all fifty states.
>Well . . . maybe so. This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it—that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
>The tragedy of all this is that George McGovern, for all his mistakes and all of his imprecise talk about “new politics” and “honesty in government,” is really one of the few men who’ve run for president of the United States in this century who really understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been, if we could have kept it out of the hands of greedy little hustlers like Richard Nixon.
>McGovern made some stupid mistakes, but in context they seem almost frivolous compared to the things Richard Nixon does every day of his life, on purpose, as a matter of policy and a perfect expression of everything he stands for.
>Jesus! Where will it end? How low do you have to stoop in this country to be president?
>>62987555
Who gives a fuck about blobs? They are a joke of a country and irrelevant now.
>>62988940
>how much did they pay you to screw that bear?
>>62998572
don't forget, he was a helluva shot, too
>all of these anti-drug fags sneaking stupid pills
Reading your posts are mental diarrhea. I'm convinced these threads are started by underaged faggots.
Never have I seen people wear ignorance like some kind of badge of courage.
>>62998826
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 72 was Hunters best work
And after that he fell to pieces
The booze and drugs took over
He went to Zaire to cover the Ali/Foreman fight
Anyone ever read his piece on it?
No?
Of course not. He didn't write it. He spent the whole time zonked out by the hotels pool.
From the end of the 70s he stuck to Woody Creek and waited for the stories to come to him
>>62999523
>doung drugs means i'm mature
DUDE LOL LMAO
>>62993200
>book has movie art
>movie has book art
>>62992183
So that's why he agreed to do a cameo in the movie?
>ralph bakshi wanted to make an animated fear and loathing film based on ralph steadman's illustrations of the book
>unfortunately thompson fucking hated cartoons and wouldn't have any of it
how do you think that would've turned out /tv/
>>62989111
What about the statutory rape and drugging of a 12 year old?
>>63000561
I would be interesting but i'm not sure Bakshi would have been the right guy for the job.
>>62999523
Welcome to 4chins. You'll see stuff like this every day.
>>63000561
>bakshi
he would have spent the GDP of a small nation rotoscoping a dog liking his own balls from every possible angle and then when his budget runs out and the production gets killed every autist would cry about his lost masterpiece
fear and loathing is an excellent movie as it is
>>63000642
>bad
>>62985017
>DUDE BAIT LMAO
>>62992183
That's why Hunter thinks this is the best adaptation and has praise for everyone involved?
Quit making shit up.
>>62995724
Apocalypse Now
>>62995724
A Scanner Darkly, while mostly underperforming, has some decent moments regarding tripping.
Hunter S. Thompson is a great author and this movie is a good adaptation of his best novel
