Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
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Cast
as Raoul Duke
as Dr. Gonzo
as Highway Patrolman
as Waitress
as Lucy
as TV Reporter
as Hitchhiker
as Lacerta
as Magazine Reporter
as Reservation Clerk
as Bumquist
as Musician
as Clerk
as Carnie Talker
as Road Person
as Frog-Eyed Woman
as Judge
as Hoodlum
as Uniformed Dwarf
as Car Rental Agent, Los Angeles
as Parking Attendant
as Bell Boy
as Reporter
as Dune Buggy Driver
as Dune Buggy Passenger
as Dune Buggy Passenger
as Desert Room Doorman
as Desert Room Doorman
as Wine Coloured Tuxedo
as Goon
as Wee Waiter
as The Black Guy
as Barker, the Clown
as Bazooka Circus Waitress
as TV Crew Man
as Stockbroker
as Clerk at Mint Hotel
as Police Chief
as Police Chief's Wife
as Executive Director
as Cop in Black
as Maid
as Human Cannonball
as Shopper
as Shopper
as Shopper
as Car Rental Agent, Las Vegas
as Man in Car
as TV Newsman
as TV Newsman
as Lizard Performer
as Lizard Performer
as Lizard Performer
as Lizard Performer
as Lizard Performer
as Lizard Performer
as Lizard Performer
as Lizard Performer
as Lizard Performer
as Trapeze Artist
as Trapeze Artist
as Trapeze Artist
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.
If you encountered characters like this on an elevator, you'd push a button and get off at the next floor. Here the elevator is trapped between floors for 128 minutes.
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: | My attorney had never been able to accept the notion, often espoused by former drug abusers, that you can get a lot higher without drugs than with them, and neither have I for that matter. |
| Raoul Duke: | I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous. |
| Raoul Duke: | All energy flows according to the whims of the Great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him. |
| Raoul Duke: | Nothing. Never mind, it was all a big joke. Actually, I'm poolside at the Flamingo right now, talking though a portable phone some dwarf brought out from the casino. I have total credit here. DON'T come anywhere near this place, you bastard. Foreigners aren't welcome. |
| Raoul Duke: | Nothing. Never mind, it was all a big joke. Actually, I'm poolside at the Flamingo right now, talking though a portable phone some dwarf brought out from the casino. I have total credit here. Don't come anywhere near this place, you bastard. Foreigners aren't welcome. |
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