For those of you who haven't seen this movie need to. Hunter S. Thompson was an incredibly famous writer who invented Gonzo Journalism and wrote many books that have been recognized by many people. The movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is an adaptation to his book of the same title.
Hunter and his "attorney" Oscar Acosta which in the movie is referred as "Dr. Gonzo" go to Las Vegas to write about the "Fabulous Mint 400", a motorcycle race across the desert. It starts as him and Dr. Gonzo driving down a highway towards the city and just the beginning sucked me in. They are in this car and they are on different assortment of drugs and I quote ""...two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers [...] and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls." And from this point the movie just progressively gets more and more insane and ridiculous.
Through the rest of the movie the two get into a many different assortment of shenanigans and trouble. From the use of drugs and the crazy adventures of the two this movie is a cult classic and always favorite of mine.
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