![]() ![]() From time-to-time, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is darn funny, but those moments of seemingly-inspired humor are more than offset by the rest of the movie, which is nearly unwatchable. Gilliam, the American member of the Monty Python troupe, certainly has that quality, but his efforts here have met with what can charitably be called mixed results. It's always a risky endeavor to fashion a motion picture based on an "unfilmable" novel - even to try demands a director with a lion's share of chutzpah. Thompson's book (emphasis on "the bad and the ugly" part). ![]() It's too bad the title The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly was already taken, because it would have been the perfect moniker for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Terry Gilliam's adaptation of Hunter S. ![]()
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