Fear and Loathing Special Edition

[Guest MDH257]

DVD File reports that Criterion has announced they are releasing a 2 disc special edition of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". Unfortunately, they don't mention a release date.

 

Included:

 

Commentary by Terry Gilliam

Commentary by Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, and one of the producers

Deleted Scenes with commentary

An audio interiew with Hunter Thompson

A BBC docutmentary called "Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood"

Storyboards and Original Artwork

Letters from Hunter Thompson read by Johnny Depp

and more

[Guest Incandenza]

According to the Criterion website, the release date is scheduled for January. The love that this film gets astounds me....

 

Speaking of Criterion, they just released a kick ass 2-disc set of Jim Jarmusch's Down by Law. If only they would do the same for Stranger Than Paradise.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Oh, I'm all over this.

[Guest Dmann2000]

Fear and Loathing is a film you have to watch in one sitting. Whatever sense it maeks it only makes like that

[Guest MDH257]

I just glad I read tthe book before I saw the movie. I doubt I would have been able to figure out what was going on otherwise.

[Guest Incandenza]

I saw Fear and Loathing in one sitting, and I concluded it was the proverbial sound and fury.

 

Terry Gilliam is a strange bird. He's directed one of my favorite films ever (Brazil) and another film I absolutely love (12 Monkeys). Excluding Holy Grail, everything else ranges from fair (Time Bandits) to mediocre (Fear and Loathing) to incredibly fucking awful (The Fisher King).

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Has anyone else ever seen The Adventures of Baron Munchausen? That movie's a fuckin' trip. Another fun Gilliam movie.

[Guest Incandenza]

I forgot about that. It was alright, but the best part involved Uma Thurman and a clamshell.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Robin Williams was pretty funny in it, too.

[Guest El Satanico]

Well, that is great new. Good thing i haven't bought the old DVD of it. I just hope it's not one of the expensive Criterion DVDs.

[Guest C.H.U.D.]

Has anyone else ever seen The Adventures of Baron Munchausen? That movie's a fuckin' trip. Another fun Gilliam movie.

That's one of Gilliam's best films.

[Guest Dmann2000]

I just hope it's not one of the expensive Criterion DVDs.

Is there any other kind (Chasing Amy and Royal Tennenbaums excluded)

[Guest El Satanico]

Well a Chasing Amy and Royal Tennenbaums is the kind of Criterion release i'm hoping for.

[Guest J*ingus]

I've never liked Gilliam all that much. His main characters are usually unpleasant and unlikable, and almost all of his films' endings are real downers. Brazil was one of the most depressing things I've ever seen in my life. That being said, I loved Fear & Loathing, though yeah I was real glad to have read the book first.

[Guest MDH257]

I just hope it's not one of the expensive Criterion DVDs.

Is there any other kind (Chasing Amy and Royal Tennenbaums excluded)

January 28 or 29

Suggested Retail: $39.99

You should be able to get it for about 30 bucks.

[Guest converge241]

the way they did the audio is one of those great effects that really do wonders

 

i love falling asleep to this movie as well (i need the TV or radio on to fall asleep)

[Guest dreamer420]

this is outstanding news. fear and loathing is one of my favorite movies of all time and I cannot wait for the dvd.

 

me and a few friends once watched this movie 3 times during a muchroom trip one night and never laughed harder.

[Guest cabbageboy]

As my friend Chris once said: "Fear and Loathing is one of those movies best seen when you are fucked up."

 

Bah, I got my brother the old DVD of it for his birthday....he just turned 13! Yeah, my brother is 13 and he loves this movie.

 

It's one of those movies that you either love or hate, I'm one of the few who has a middle ground opinion. The first hour of it was really funny and great but after that I started realizing more and more than nothing was actually going to happen. It's a prototypical **1/2 movie: ***1/2 first hour and a *1/2 second hour.

[Guest dreamer420]

Have you ever read the book? After reading the book and then watching the movie I can't rate that movie anything less than ***1/2, just because of how similar to the book it is. The performances of Depp and Del Toro were so bang on with Thompson and Gonzo that they really deserved more recognition for this film.