Our final film in the Terry Gilliam series is Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the 1998 bad-trip road-trip Johnny Depp movie based on Hunter S. Thompson’s novel of the same name. Fear and Loathing has a a whopping 10% positive rating among Top Critics at Rotten Tomatoes and it effected wild responses among the podcasters. Chris Ervasti hated the film (HATED), while Christopher ZF mounts a heroic defense of the film’s unyeilding critique of the American Dream.
Terry Gilliam has always inspired varied and passionate responses with his film, and that’s never been more true than with Fear and Loathing. So whatever you think about Terry Gilliam, Johnny Depp, Hunter S. Thompson, uppers, downers and hallucinating Samoan lawyers with bowie knives, Fear and Loathing is destined to inspire fierce responses. Join us for one of our most contentious podcast episodes yet.
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Next week on The Stake Podcast, we kick of our February of Alfonso Cuaron, with Y Tu Mama, Tambien. Cuaron’s 2002 tale of sex on an adolescent road trip.
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