Download this episode here.
Listen to F This Movie! on Apple Podcasts.
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
FTM 760: FEAR & LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS
Download this episode here.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Download this episode here.
Finally, somebody who doesn't care that much about that movie as much as me. And i love Gilliam, including Parnassus and Quijotte
ReplyDeleteThis movie was such a big deal to my friends in ‘98. One of them even dressed up as Raoul Duke for Halloween. But it never connected with me. And I had been editor of my college paper for two years at this point and loved Thompson’s writing.
ReplyDeleteOOOO looking forward to this ep.
ReplyDeleteAs for the movie...hrmmm....at face value i kinda adore its bananas sense of visuals and trippiness. Depps take on Hunter is incredible. The highway drive to vegas is perfect. But...otherwise...i dont think i connected as much as id hoped. Its a movie i always say "i gotta rewatch that soon' but never do. I think Hunter is best served by his preferred medium...print. Still, i very much respect what gilliam/depp and all involved set out to do with this weird crazy ass story.
Aw, I really liked this movie, after many watches years ago. I like Mashke's "banana visuals" description. Not knowing who Hunter Thompson was at the time, I wasn't connecting it to anything political or counter-culture. I imagine having a totally different set of expectations for the character, the INTENTIONS of the character, the story, and the movie, gave me a perspective I probably couldn't have had if I was comparing it with someone (like a hero) who was supposed to be trying to do something cool or smart. I just thought they were lunatics and the narration was a random element, definitely not supposed to be journalism. I think I also usually dislike drug/alcohol humor but it didn't register as that for me. I mean I know they're doing drugs in the movie but somehow the humor is landing as cutesy-zaney-nonsense. I have a high tolerance for nonsense if it's like really physical humor, slap-sticky nonsense.
ReplyDeleteHuge fan of the book, and I was a huge fan of Gilliam, but somehow, this movie never quite worked for me (and I've tried a few times).
ReplyDeleteWhat does work, and what I highly recommend, is the audio adaptation of the book with Jim Jarmusch, Harry Dean Stanton, and Maury Chaykin. Check it out!
I wanted to mention this on the show, but I forgot. Thanks!
DeleteOne wonders if historians may perhaps someday agree that the BFI's Sight and Sound Magazine 2022 poll naming of Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles as the greatest film of all time was the spark to a toxic wave of normie backlash that culminated in Cheeto's victory last November...
ReplyDelete