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Posted 20 March 2004 - 06:42 PM

Any thoughts regarding this movie? I've only just recently seen it in full and I greatly enjoyed it. The ether-related scenes were howls.
And is it just me, or does Depp rip off his role in Fear And Loathing when he played Jack Sparrow in Pirates Of The Caribbean?

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Posted 21 March 2004 - 02:56 AM

If you've ever seen the real Hunter S Thompson, you know what an amazing job Depp did in that film. I still don't know why Gilliam wanted to do that book, though, apart from the visual fun he was able to have. It's so prose-oriented, the only way to make it work was to have Depp reading the book in voice-over through the entire film. Whish is fine, I guess, but every now and then he'd come upon an unfilmable moment, and the subject was compromised here and there.

A key missing scene was the discussion of where to go to find the American Dream, where Hunter starts actually asking people for directions. I guess, even thoguh the scene was written in screenplay form, it just wouldn't work in the movie.

I think Gilliam should go back to films like MUNCHAUSEN and BRAZIL. Hell, even THE FISHER KING and TWELVE MONKEYS, with or without all the moralizing.

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Posted 21 March 2004 - 04:17 AM

I heard that the actual guy, Depp played in the movie, was unhappy with Depp's performance.

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Posted 21 March 2004 - 12:43 PM

Well, he may have changed his mind, but I saw an interview with Hunter S Thompson where he praised Depp's performance. In an off-hand-I-may-be-drunk-right-now kind of way.

Anyway, whether he liked it or not, Depp nailed that part. Way better job than Bill Murray in WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM.

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Posted 21 March 2004 - 08:56 PM

I've heard so much bad stuff about this picture. I've seen it several times and greatly enjoyed it. I should reserve judgement until i read the whole book, but as it is, I can't pretend i don't like it.

I don't see any concrete comparison to be made between Depp as Thompson and Depp as Jack Sparrow

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Posted 22 March 2004 - 03:38 PM

It's just the way he walks and speaks, I saw a great deal of similarity.

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Posted 22 March 2004 - 08:12 PM

I was smashed out of my head when i saw it at the movies...

i must get it for DVD.

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