Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

[psychofiend]

It is one of the best movies of all time from it's beginning with the line "We were somewhere in Barstow at the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold" In my school people spout of lines from the movie all the time, lines like "don't take any [censored] guff from these swine" and "we had two bags of grass, two dozen amyls, some high powered blotter acid, a bottle of ether, a saltshaker half full of cocaine, a quart of rum, a quart of tequila, a case of beer and a whole universe of various uppers, downers, laughers screamers, but the thing thsat really worried me was the ether."
Sure it is sad that so many high school kids from a smal town school should hve a favorite movie wih so little morals and you know what? That meas [censored] all to us cause we don't give a [censored], we just wat mvies lik these and listen to Manson and hardcore!

[Efexeye]

/forums/images/icons/confused.gif Any one else lost here?

[TomHarrington]

Wow, what a bunch of mavericks. I can’t get my head around the fact that he likes Hunter Thompson. He’s one of my favorite writers, so I understand the appeal, but......he likes Hunter Thompson? I’m completely lost. I don’t know what’s what anymore.

[Dave]

Im not really sure that he knows that Hunter Thompson is a real person. By the way, to the starter of this post, check out A Clockwork Orange it should be right up your alley.

[Matt1]

I think this guy falls under the category of people who just like Hunter S. Thompson bacause he's a drug-addled fiend. I like that about him too, but there's really a lot more going on in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. It's kinda like the people who watch Chasing Amy just for the scene with Jay and Bob.

[DangerSeeker]

Yeah, it's the drugs. You don't see this kind of cult fandom for "Where the Buffalo Roam." I don't see it, anyway.

[psychofiend]

Hey, smart one, I read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas a Savage Jouney to the heart of the American Dream, and by the way I saw Clockwork Orange and read the book.

HAVE A NICE DAY!! /forums/images/icons/grin.gif

[TomHarrington]

Smart one? Oh, I’m sorry, I thought you were talking to me.

For what it’s worth, I’m impressed. The last couple of posts you made have shown a real willingness to play along. Not only that, but I kind of implied that maybe you weren’t real bright or cultured. I would’ve expected some kind of profane retort. But you handled yourself with class. The ‘smart one’ remark was a nice, subtle way of saying: “Who are you to judge me, you [naughty word here]?” A far more effective way too, I might add.

And you read Clockwork. I’m not ashamed to say that I struggled with the book. Although a lot of Nadsat can be figured out from the context, I still had to get a cheat sheet for some of the definitions. Then reading the book became even more cumbersome, so I quit. Well, I took a break……for eight years. I’ll finish it one of these days. Really.

So, I’m sorry for acting like a big, steamy turd and passing judgment on you. Appypolly loggy accepted, droog?

[NeoMaxiZoomDweeb]

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...but there's really a lot more going on in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

[/ QUOTE ] That's the impression I've always had. It's certainly not taking the same approach as a Cheech And Chong movie. I consider Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas to be an indictment of the 60's drug culture. It seems pretty evident in the film when it gets really quiet and Duke reflects on what has happened. He realizes that drugs have led his generation astray and sapped the energy away that could have helped them achieve and maintain their goals. The idea that someone would watch it and think "Damn, I wish I had some adrenochrome!" is rather ironic.

[jjcourtright]

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[naughty word here]

[/ QUOTE ] Chris, can we have this instead of [censored]? It is even funnier than [censored].

[Ryall]

I'm actually thinking about changing it to [mogz in that gulliver] instead.

[TomHarrington]

Even better, what if the off-color words were replaced by random, non-offensive words.

What the [noodle] is up with these [penguins] that keep talking [circus] about jay and silent bob?! You [calipers] make me sick. Why don’t you go [garden] yourselves? Better yet, you can all [siphon] my [grapefruit]!!! You [chimneys]!!!!

[DangerSeeker]

Now that was [really] uncalled for, you [sarcastic] [person]. Wow! just testing out this [exemplary] program, Profaity Translator 2000, and it [defeats others]! All the rest can just [share loving embrace]!

[Denyse]

I'm in Mad Lib hell...

[psychofiend]

I accept your humble appylogies and am proud to call u a droog, good luck finishing Clockwork, it really gets easy around half way through and you pick up the lingo.