Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- brisk
- intense
- surreal
- signature
- intimate
Neutral, breathless, measured comedy / drama, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycle race. As their consumption of drugs increases at an alarming rate, the stoned duo trash their hotel room and fear legal repercussions. Duke begins to drive back to L.A., but after an odd run-in with a cop, he returns to Sin City and continues his wild drug binge.
Our read · Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) reads as a neutral, breathless, surreal comedy · drama · psychedelic entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
Availability in Latvia · via JustWatch
More info & search links
The shape of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a hallucinatory Vegas fever dream, Gonzo journalism, and Gilliam chaos.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if drug-trip nausea, paranoia, or surreal dread will wreck your night.
The reading.
Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.
Eight films that read most like this one.
Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
Discussion
What does your Movie DNA look like?
Rate a few films you've seen. We map your taste across the same twelve axes and find the films you'll actually want to watch tonight.
Calibrate yourself