Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
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Cast
as Dr. Gonzo
as Raoul Duke
as Carnie Talker
as TV Reporter
as Bumquist
as Hitchhiker
as Waitress
as Magazine Reporter
as Lucy
as Highway Patrolman
as Musician
as Road Person
as Hoodlum
as Judge
as Lacerta
as Human Cannonball
as Frog-Eyed Woman
as Reservation Clerk
as Clerk
as Dune Buggy Driver
as Wine Coloured Tuxedo
as Shopper
as Car Rental Agent, Los Angeles
as Wee Waiter
as Lizard Performer
as Clerk at Mint Hotel
as Bell Boy
as Maid
as Police Chief
as Man in Car
as Car Rental Agent, Las Vegas
as Lizard Performer
as TV Newsman
as Goon
as Reporter
as Cop in Black
as Trapeze Artist
as Uniformed Dwarf
as Lizard Performer
as Executive Director
as TV Crew Man
as TV Newsman
as Shopper
as Car Rental Agent, Las Vegas
as Shopper
as Dune Buggy Passenger
as Desert Room Doorman
as Stockbroker
as Dune Buggy Passenger
as Trapeze Artist
as The Black Guy
as Trapeze Artist
as Parking Attendant
as Desert Room Doorman
as Barker, the Clown
as Bazooka Circus Waitress
as Police Chief's Wife
as Lizard Performer
as Lizard Performer
as Lizard Performer
as Lizard Performer
as Lizard Performer
as Lizard Performer
as Trapeze Artist
as Trapeze Artist
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Critic Reviews for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
All Critics (65) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (32) | Rotten (33) | DVD (16)
It's certainly distinctive, looking at times like Richard Lester put through a postmodernist blender.
(Gilliam's) vision is too reflexively comic to evoke the shadows of dread in Thompson's writing.
Pic serves up a sensory overload without any compensatory reflection on the outlandish and irresponsible behavior on view.
A film of brilliant moments, but sadly less coherent - and, on senses, rather less personal - than most of Gilliam's work.
It's really a series of sketches on one theme.
Darn funny, but those moments of seemingly-inspired humor are more than offset by the rest of the movie, which is nearly unwatchable.
Audience Reviews for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
A surrealist portrait, characters lost and visually innovative, a ride to a psychdelic, coloful and Las Vegas from Hunter S. Thompson. Fear and Loathing is great. Fresh.
Super Reviewer
It's visually appealing and has Depp and Del Toro at their craziest, however that's all that is carrying the film. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is wildly senseless and the plot is just as hallucinating as the symptoms of this drug-induced tirade. 2/5
Super Reviewer
Into and/or in search of the heart of the American dream, Raoul Duke(Depp) and his attorney(Del Toro) take a road trip to Las Vegas from Los Angeles where sportswriter Duke(Hunter S. Thompson) is to cover some races in the desert. Loaded up with large quantities of just about every illegal drug, alcohol and even grapefruit for an experience worthy of writing about. Add an invitation from the national conference of district attorneys to attend a four day seminar on narcotics and dangerous drugs and it makes things that much more interesting. This means loads of cops and from all over which just means there will be more to write about. Let's just not worry about the paranoia, it's all part of the journey here. Basically, it's an out of control experience of running on mescaline, LSD, speed, cocaine, large quantities of alcohol among other intoxicants turning Duke and Dr. Gonzo into complete madmen in a town that never sleeps. So you'd gather that it would be a rather bad trip, and you'd be right. But when it comes to "Gonzo Journalism", you do what it takes to get a story, whatever it may be; even if it is a story of no importance. "Uppers are no longer stylish. Methedrine is almost as rare, on the 1971 market, as pure acid or DMT. "Consciousness Expansion" went out with LBJ...and it is worth noting, historically, that downers came in with Nixon." Hunter S. Thompson
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Quotes
| Raoul Duke: | "Wait. we can't stop here, it's a bat country. |
| Raoul Duke: | “No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted.” |
| Dr. Gonzo: | “No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.” |
| Raoul Duke: | The decision to flee came suddenly. Or maybe not. Maybe I had planned it all along, subconsciously waiting for the right moment. The bill was a factor, I think because I had no money to pay for it. Our room service tabs had been running somewhere between 29 and 36 dollars per hour for 48 consecutive hours. Incredible. How could it happen? But by the time I asked this question, there was no one around to answer it. That rotten attorney of mine, Dr. Gonzo, was gone. He must have sensed trouble. |