Calm_A_Llama_Down said:

It's actually not. The movie uses vegas as a metaphore for America. It is shinny and loud And distracting. It operates on money and sequins and bravado. Just a block away though, there is a sad eyed middle aged woman with a knife scar on her throat, who spends her days serving pie to violent perverts who have been chased out of the strip. It uses the attitudes of 70's america to mock the naivete of the mainstraim. Thompson waxes nostalgically about "The essential decency of the white mans culture" then he goes on to categorically disprove the idea. Toby McGuire's character is also quite telling, a young idealist with a Mickey mouse t-shirt, out looking for the truth. When he finds it though, he runs off screaming into the desert.  It is a film about the decay of decadence, the death rattle of the American century. The police at one point in the film, mock anthropologists Margaret Meed, acusing her of a "private marijuana addiction", this is a reference to culture, it is meant to point out that you should be examining the movie and its events from a culturally critical stand point, the way an anthropologist does. The drugs is the movie are meant to represent the constant fading in and out of the American reality, a reality so surrounded by falsehoods and facades that it is impossible to recognize when you look for it. Early in the film Zeta has the radio on and it is talking about record high drug deaths of US soldiers in Vietnam, but he quickly xhanges the station to the song "one toke over the line", then he sings loudly while dumping cocaine onto his suitcase. He is burying the truth, trying to sing over it. It is an apocalyptic film, about riding the final wave of something, and riding ot as hard as you can because you're sure this is the end.

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Calm_A_Llama_Down said:

LOL!!!!!
Pinkey, you are a pretty funny person.

They don't give a fuck about what's happening because they have accepted the decay and learned how to thrive in it. They make many references to the booming 1960's with its utopian sense of growth and achievement, but then they return to 71, to show that the balloon has popped. 1971 is an america on life support. Thompson goes on a long monologue toward the end of the movie where he directly lays out the flaws of the 1960's mindset. The idea that you can buy enlightenment on little pieces of paper, the idea that hope is enough on it's own to change the world, the idea that god is real. He is saying all this while standing in a destroyed vegas hotel room. The lush carpet flooded over with toilet water. The walls ripped apart or plastered with filth. The place used to be the definition of luxury but now its a garbage dump. He walks around investigating the place, trying to figure out where things went wrong.

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I'm a funny person because I see through the BS in Hollywood?

Hollywood can change things on a grand scale.

Instead they delude YOU into giving up. You said it yourself:

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They don't give a fuck about what's happening because they have accepted the decay and learned how to thrive in it.

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Now tell me more about how wise you are at spitting half-assed intellectual reviews of movies, Lama. It looks so good on you.

Two things about Fear and Loathing:

They use VERY good looking actors with lots of fame and fortune. Creating a huge gap between them and very ugly and misfortunate people. Guess who becomes the hero? VERY good looking people. And the antihero? Very ugly looking human beings. Do you not understand ugly looking childen gets bullied in school because of movies where very good looking people get world renowned fame?

Budget and income of Fear and Loathing increases the gap between very rich people and very poor human beings. The actors in FaL surely got huge publicity from this movie, this paved way for their Hollywood-careers.

I.e Johnny Depp starred in:
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011), budget: 410.6 million USD.

Somalia national budget (2017): 260 million USD.

Do you get it yet? Hollywood is a trick of light.
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Calm_A_Llama_Down said:

LOL!!!!!
Pinkey, you are a pretty funny person.

Pinkerton, you are simply more aware than me. 

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Calm_A_Llama_Down said:I love Tpaul, she is like one of my fave star trek characters ever.

I actually like the Orville a lot. I look forward to it every week. It's not always great but it's always entertaining. I think it will really hit its mark in season 3. Its a lot of fun sometimes as far as shows go.

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