Ok I had no idea what the fuck was going on in that movie...
[QUOTE=mrryanchisholm;26633033]I showed my favorite movie "King Kong" to the class.
I looked at the reviews.
"Its black and whit an gay" was the first one I saw. About 5 people liked it though, so they aren't completely retarded, I guess.[/QUOTE]What age are your students?
My favourite movie is The Shawshank Redemption yet I dislike A Clockwork Orange and King Kong, both the new and old one(s)
Holy shit, I never knew it was Johnny Depp in this film.
[QUOTE=Coffee;26718608]Holy shit, I never knew it was Johnny Depp in this film.[/QUOTE]
I vaguely remembered hearing somewhere he was in it the first time I watched. I spent half the movie wondering when he was gonna show up before I finally realized he was Duke.
[QUOTE=mrryanchisholm;26627799]Was shown to my film class and literally nobody liked it.
Fuck, what does it take to impress these morons, we already showed them "A Clockwork Orange", "Night Of The Living Dead", "Psycho" and now this.[/QUOTE]
maybe thinks will get better once you graduate middle school
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btw, someone make a thread about the rum diaries, another thompson book-to-movie with depp in it
[QUOTE=Indyclone77;26711944]What age are your students?[/QUOTE]
It was film 12, but the youngest student there was about 16.
I'd say the majority were 16-17. Including myself, I was 16 at the time.
[editline]16th December 2010[/editline]
[QUOTE=Kalibos;26708955][img_thumb]http://www.harrisfellman.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/monkeys1.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE]
yes.
In my experience, most students just join film class to get out of other classes, not to actually study the movies, which was fine because our teacher would just fuck with them by showing us weird foreign shit.
I watched this with a girl a few nights ago and we both spent half the movie trying to figure out what the plot was, then realized that it was really just about guys taking drugs.
The part where he was walking around trying to figure out what the fuck happened while he had a lizard tail and whatnot was my favorite.
I honestly couldn't get through more than 30 minutes of this movie. My friend had pumped me up and said it was the best movie he had ever seen. Needless to say, I was in for a disappointment. It's just not for me. I couldn't tell what the fuck Johnny was saying with that cigar in his mouth and the whole mood was unpleasant.
If you know more about hunter s thompson you will have a lot more appreciation for the film. I watched this documentary about his life and it was pretty damn interesting [url]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479468/[/url]
Goddamn stinkin' animals...
[editline]16th December 2010[/editline]
In other words, I loved this movie. Rarely have I laughed so many times.
Look! There's two women fucking a polar bear!
I don't understand this movie. I watched it the entire way through without skipping any bits. I could hardly make out anything Johnny Depp said and I didn't actually know what the story was.
It's a savage journey to the heart of the American Dream
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;26734943]Look! There's two women fucking a polar bear![/QUOTE]
don't tell me those things
not n *hic* now man
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;26734978]It's a savage journey to the heart of the American Dream[/QUOTE]
He knows man, thats what gives him the fear.
[QUOTE=The DooD;26734971]I don't understand this movie. I watched it the entire way through without skipping any bits. I could hardly make out anything Johnny Depp said and I didn't actually know what the story was.[/QUOTE]
okay well very basically
depp plays hunter thompson's fictionalized alter ego raoul duke (a "doctor of journalism" [a journalist]) and del toro plays thompson's attorney dr. gonzo (oscar acosta irl) as they get really fucking wasted on all manner of drugs and go to las vegas to cover the mint 400 motorcycle race
This movie was an integral part of defining me during my developmental years. I was warped by Hunter S. Thompson and I loved every second of it.
I'm also really lookiing forward to the Rum Diary, which I also loved reading. I'm working my way through a monster of a book called the Gonzo Papers at the moment. I've not read a single bad book by HST, the Curse of Lono was a bit skeychy in places but I loved it all the same.
did they pay you to fuck that bear?
My Film class once showed The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Everyone in my class except me hated it because "nothing happened" and "it's too long and boring".
Yeah.
They're the same people who think Saw 3D will win an oscar fro best picture best it was the goriest saw movie.
:smithicide:
I didn't really know much about Hunter S. Thompson when I saw the movie and I still enjoyed it.
Also you people found Johnny Depp hard to understand? Really? I heard him just fine. Get a hearing aid.
Love this film with a passion. Brought the book to school one day and some of my friends thought I was a stoner when they read the part when Duke/Thompson was listing off the drugs.
[QUOTE=pie_is_good;26745103]I didn't really know much about Hunter S. Thompson when I saw the movie and I still enjoyed it.
Also you people found Johnny Depp hard to understand? Really? I heard him just fine. Get a hearing aid.[/QUOTE]
Yeah I read a few reviews saying he was hard to understand, but I guess half the population is deaf.
How much for the monkey?
Bump for great justice, because I just watched it again tonight.
My brother and I quote this movie ALL the time when we're with each other.
Oh god i didn't know that that was in the movie, i remember seeing the poster for rango and thinking that he looked just like Raoul Duke.
It's an intentional reference, there are tons of them in Rango.
[i]We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.[/i]
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