Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 1998
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Amanda's Review
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 1998
"An adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's novel of the same name. The film details a whacky search for the "American Dream", by Thompson and his crazed, Samoan lawyer. Fueled by the massive amount of drugs they purchased with an advance from a magazine to cover a sporting event in Vegas; they set out in the Red Shark. Encountering police, reporters, gamblers, racers, and hitchhikers; they search for some undefinable thing know only as the "American Dream" and find fear, loathing and hilarious adventures into the dementia of the modern American West." -IMDb
Best Part:
The acting and the cast really stood out to me. It had an all star cast in roles like you have never seen before. Johnny Depp plays Raoul Duke amazingly well. He is believable throughout the entire movie. It is probably his performance which has kept me away from drugs.
Worst Part:
If you couldn't tell by now, I am very picky about my music in movies. This movie had very little music and it never seemed quite right. I understand that nothing about this movie seemed quite right, but I thought there could be more. Background noise often seemed misplaced too. Maybe that was Tarry Gilliam's intent, but I didn't care for it.
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