Gonzo on Film

Fans of Hunter S. Thompson might want to keep their eyes peeled for local screenings of Breakfast with Hunter, a new documentary premiering at CineVegas:

"Directed by Wayne Ewing, the film chronicles Thompson?s political career interwoven with his struggle to bring his book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas to life as a feature film. Spanning 20 years, footage includes Johnny Depp, Benicio De Toro, John Cusack, Warren Zevon, artist Ralph Steadman and fellow journalists George Plimpton and P.J. O?Rourke." (Text from Film Threat.)

Comments

[Steve in CO]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a tour de force of cynicism, sarcasm, chemically-driven insight, and anti-authoritarian humor at its best!

🙂

PS Read it in my early 20's, I think I'll read it again to see how my aged perspective takes it in this time.

[Tommy_Grand]

The movie sucked.

[julian]

By the by, you can see an excerpt from the film on the Criterion Collection version of the Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas DVD.

[Hank]

Boooo Tommy,

That movie rocked. Funny, provocative, irreverent and offensive. One more could you ask for?

Well, okay, T & A, but it still rocked!

[Tommy_Grand]

maybe my expectations were too high

[Brian]

Maybe you weren't high enough.

[Will]

The Fear and Loathing movie was exquisite. But it's no Where the Buffalo Roam.

[twistedmerkin]

As a fan of Thompson and Terry Gilliam, I thought it was a major disappointment. Maybe my expectations were too high. I, myself, was sufficiently high.

[Bob bongaloo]

This movie was and is sick, anyone who begs to differ is gay.