Posted by moviegeek916 on March 22, 2012 · Leave a Comment
The Rum Diary (2011) – “You’re high, you fool! Drink some rum!” I have read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and I’ve read many essays and articles by the late great Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, but I’ve never actually read The Rum Diary. I know it’s an outright novel, meaning it was more invented … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on March 21, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) – “The only chance now, I felt, was the possibility that we’d gone to such excess that nobody in the position to bring the hammer down on us could possibly believe it” For seven too-brief decades, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson walked this planet. The man had issues, for … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on October 3, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Where the Buffalo Roam (1980) – Do not go into this movie expecting something along the lines of Terry Gilliam’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. While both films are based on source material by legendary gonzo journalist Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, they have very different approaches. Where the Buffalo Roam features Bill Murray as … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 25, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Freakonomics (2010) — Economist Steven D. Levitt and journalist Stephen J. Dubner publishes their books Freakonomics and Superfreakonomics to “explore the hidden side of everything.” Now with the aid of five documentarians they have urns that into a movie, finding connections where they aren’t readily apparent. The movie also sets to dunking theories that have … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 25, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008) — This is another documentary from Alex Gibney (Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer). While that other film was good about showing both sides of the story, the interviews in Gonzo all pretty much reach the same conclusion: Dr. Hunter S. … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 24, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (2010) — Okay, I’ll start with an attempt to evaluate this as a film. It’s clear director Alex Gibney has a perspective on the events discussed and that comes through clearly while presenting both sides of the argument in a fashion that allows the viewer to … Continue reading →
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Persistence of Vision 