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jmg5
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Who else thought fear and loathing sucked?

#5115191 - 12/28/05 12:34 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

Am i the only one? :mushroom2:

:mushroom2:

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Krishna
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Re: Who else thought fear and loathing sucked?

[Re: jmg5]
#5115194 - 12/28/05 12:34 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

yes.

have you read the book?

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Krishna
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Re: Who else thought fear and loathing sucked?

[Re: Krishna]
#5115197 - 12/28/05 12:34 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

(yes to you being the only one, not to me thinking it sucked)

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OneMoreRobot3021

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Re: Who else thought fear and loathing sucked?

[Re: jmg5]
#5115198 - 12/28/05 12:34 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

Are you talking book or film?

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Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake.

-Erik Davis

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jmg5
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Re: Who else thought fear and loathing sucked?

[Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#5115206 - 12/28/05 12:36 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

the film

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Krishna
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Re: Who else thought fear and loathing sucked?

[Re: Krishna]
#5115229 - 12/28/05 12:41 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

Krishna said:
have you read the book?

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TheHateCamel
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Re: Who else thought fear and loathing sucked?

[Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#5115233 - 12/28/05 12:43 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

The film and book are verbatim.

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HELLA_TIGHT
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Re: Who else thought fear and loathing sucked?

[Re: jmg5]
#5115261 - 12/28/05 12:48 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

Probably.

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QuantumMeltdown
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Re: Who else thought fear and loathing sucked?

[Re: HELLA_TIGHT]
#5115266 - 12/28/05 12:49 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

Fear and loathing is the shit I tell you. The root bark real.

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-QuantumMeltdown

Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.
-Mark Twain

"The time has come the walrus said, little oysters hide their heads, my Twain of thought is loosely bound I guess its time to Mark this down, Be good and you will be lonesome
Be lonesome and you will be free
Live a lie and you will live to regret it
That's what livin' is to me
That's what livin' is to me"
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jmg5
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Re: Who else thought fear and loathing sucked?

[Re: TheHateCamel]
#5115268 - 12/28/05 12:49 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

TheHateCamel said:
The film and book are verbatim.

thanks, I won't waste my time reading it :thumbup:

:thumbup:

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Krishna
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Re: Who else thought fear and loathing sucked?

[Re: TheHateCamel]
#5115272 - 12/28/05 12:51 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

not quite, there are a few parts of the book that were left out of the movie.

plus books are always better.

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Re: Who else thought fear and loathing sucked?

[Re: jmg5]
#5115275 - 12/28/05 12:52 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

:cuckoo:

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jmg5
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Re: Who else thought fear and loathing sucked?

[Re: Krishna]
#5115278 - 12/28/05 12:53 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

Krishna said:
not quite, there are a few parts of the book that were left out of the movie.

plus books are always better.

books are always better, if I read it maybe I can get past the totally unrealistic depiction of the effects of drugs that the movie showed.

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TheHateCamel
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Re: Who else thought fear and loathing sucked?

[Re: Krishna]
#5115281 - 12/28/05 12:55 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

:orly:

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Cowgold
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Re: Who else thought fear and loathing sucked?

[Re: jmg5]
#5115286 - 12/28/05 12:56 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

What sucked about it?

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OneMoreRobot3021

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Re: Who else thought fear and loathing sucked?

[Re: jmg5]
#5115287 - 12/28/05 12:56 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

jmg5 said:
Quote:

Krishna said:
not quite, there are a few parts of the book that were left out of the movie.

plus books are always better.

books are always better, if I read it maybe I can get past the totally unrealistic depiction of the effects of drugs that the movie showed.

Being that all drug experiences are subjective and you can never know if someone experiences a drug, any drug, the same exact way you do...especially psychedelics...I dunno if you can say that about the film.

Especially since it had Hunter's seal of approval.

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-Erik Davis

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Cowgold
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Re: Who else thought fear and loathing sucked?

[Re: jmg5]
#5115293 - 12/28/05 12:59 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

Very realistic effects if you ask me...

Which drug's effects were unrealisticly depicted?

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jmg5
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Re: Who else thought fear and loathing sucked?

[Re: Cowgold]
#5115345 - 12/28/05 01:14 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

I guess there's no point in arguing. I just thought the movie was terrible, pretty much everything about it, the movie. I just followed the link above to the book and read a few pages and to be honest i'm interested in reading it now, but, to me, the movie was so annoying I could barely stand it. There's no way you can depict a drugs effect on film, so all the drug sequences looked like shitty special effects. Throughout the movie they just got fucked up, but I didn't buy that they were. It felt artificial. It was a piece of shit. (IMO :smile:

:smile:

)

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RESTLESS
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Re: Who else thought fear and loathing sucked?

[Re: jmg5]
#5115347 - 12/28/05 01:15 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

I didn't like Fear and Loathing so much I gave away the DVD.

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onetime
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Re: Who else thought fear and loathing sucked?

[Re: jmg5]
#5115387 - 12/28/05 01:26 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

jmg5 said:
I guess there's no point in arguing. I just thought the movie was terrible, pretty much everything about it, the movie. I just followed the link above to the book and read a few pages and to be honest i'm interested in reading it now, but, to me, the movie was so annoying I could barely stand it. There's no way you can depict a drugs effect on film, so all the drug sequences looked like shitty special effects. Throughout the movie they just got fucked up, but I didn't buy that they were. It felt artificial. It was a piece of shit. (IMO )

I know that sometimes when I am high on crack or shrooms or what ever drug I decided to eat on any given day. Parts of it can be totally anoying. Like once I droped 10$ worth of meth on the carpet and I spent 5hrs looking for it. I am sure in that five hrs I could have made 10$ some how and bought more dope. Another example of how drug induced lifes can sometimes be anoying is once when I ate some pink elephants The indains on the wall started fighting with the cowboys. So I watched that then all the sudden some one took me to some sort of white walled sancutary. I didnt get to finish waching the indains fight. A few seconds later some one knocked the door in the white room led to front door I ansewerd it an no one was there. Things like that happend all night and was rather anoying. Even more so that I knew that I was alone. My point beings that you mix drugs with more drugs and your bound ot be anoyed little bit. I mean how would you like to be driving down route 66 and all of the sudden a swarm of bats attacked you.

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Le_Canard
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Re: Who else thought fear and loathing sucked?

[Re: jmg5]
#5115396 - 12/28/05 01:28 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

I liked it. The Johnny Depp version was very true to the book, unlike "Where the Buffalo Roam"......

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Cowgold
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Re: Who else thought fear and loathing sucked?

[Re: Le_Canard]
#5115410 - 12/28/05 01:31 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

I didn't like Bill Murray in "Where the Buffalo Roam". That was annoying... But I admit, that's probably cause I watched Fear and Loathing first.

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Le_Canard
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Re: Who else thought fear and loathing sucked?

[Re: Cowgold]
#5115433 - 12/28/05 01:38 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

yes it does suck in comparison to Depp's version, especially if you saw the censored version where they cut ALL the drugs scenes, making him look like a total lush.....

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zSDMF
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Re: Who else thought fear and loathing sucked?

[Re: Le_Canard]
#5115614 - 12/28/05 03:12 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

i didn't really like the movie.. or, let me say i don't really worship it or claim it to be the best drug movie of all time.

the book, however, is great. i found the movie to be sort of.. cheezy? dunno the word i'm looking for

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TheDude
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Re: Who else thought fear and loathing sucked?

[Re: jmg5]
#5115653 - 12/28/05 03:26 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

I read the book first, then saw the movie and was very disappointed. It sucked.

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Re: Who else thought fear and loathing sucked?

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#5115662 - 12/28/05 03:27 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

I loved the movie and the book...

I know "The Rum Diary" was about to get filmed when HST died...Anyone have any knowledge of this?

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nonick
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Re: Who else thought fear and loathing sucked?

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#5115858 - 12/28/05 04:05 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

the movie sucked, hardcore

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Dety
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Re: Who else thought fear and loathing sucked?

[Re: jmg5]
#5116239 - 12/28/05 05:42 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

Good movie seen it many times. :thumbup:

:thumbup:

Dont have the book.

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Re: Who else thought fear and loathing sucked?

[Re: jmg5]
#5116244 - 12/28/05 05:46 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

You fail life. Please try again.

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QuantumMeltdown
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Re: Who else thought fear and loathing sucked?

[Re: Silversoul]
#5116246 - 12/28/05 05:47 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

Joe

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-QuantumMeltdown

Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.
-Mark Twain

"The time has come the walrus said, little oysters hide their heads, my Twain of thought is loosely bound I guess its time to Mark this down, Be good and you will be lonesome
Be lonesome and you will be free
Live a lie and you will live to regret it
That's what livin' is to me
That's what livin' is to me"
Jimmy Buffett

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Re: Who else thought fear and loathing sucked?

[Re: Madtowntripper]
#5116368 - 12/28/05 06:32 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

Madtowntripper said:
I know "The Rum Diary" was about to get filmed when HST died...Anyone have any knowledge of this?

No, but that was a damned fine book.

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Krishna
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Re: Who else thought fear and loathing sucked?

[Re: Madtowntripper]
#5116381 - 12/28/05 06:38 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376136/

should be out sometime in the next couple of years...

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Re: Who else thought fear and loathing sucked?

[Re: Krishna]
#5116735 - 12/28/05 08:31 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

I own the book and the film... both rock! I watch the movie once every few months.

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