why did critics hate this when it's so obviously a masterpiece?

because
>dude drugs lmao

>>84613946
used to drop acid or shrooms and watch this and Army of Darkness with friends in high school.

not sure it was really that good of a movie looking back.

>>84613946
because it's a mastershit

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I hate critics as much as the next, but they're right for hating it. Thompson was a meme sports writer who got lucky twice and went crazy by the time he died, hence why he blew his head off with a shot gun. Edgelord fedora fags will still defend this drug abusing douche by saying the government did it, as if he was ever that important to society to begin with.

>>84614165
>got lucky
>twice
Maybe it wasn't just luck, then.

Plebs.

>>84614165
>who got lucky twice
Hell's Angels
The Temptations of Jean-Claude Killy
Fear and Loathing at the Superbowl
Strange Rumblings in Aztlan
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Great Shark Hunt (the story)
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail
The Nixon coverage
...
Twice?
Sure, he lost it in the late 70s and became a parody of himself, but he still wrote some of the best journalism and fiction around.

>>84614574
Still went crazy and blew his own brains out. I used to love and want to be like Ernest Hemingway until my balls dropped when I was 15 and I realized I shouldn't look up to unstable people who blew their fucking brains out, since they probably made a decent amount of poor decisions in their life.

>>84614652
He was 67 and wracked by pain from chronic illness, jaded towards humanity, I don't think his marriage was going well. He invented a style of journalism. He's an important American writer just spouting lol he killed himself!! makes me think that's probably the only thing you know about him (not that I'm not skeptical of the cult worship pseudo-intellectuals give him now)

>>84614830
You are responding to a troll.

>>84614883
>anyone who disagrees with me is a troll
you're ruining this website.

>>84614165
Pretty sure he used a revolver.

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>>84614574
You literally listed off piles of shit.

>>84613946
Status quo.

>>84615063
He used a shotgun.

The definition of reddit meme flick.

>>84613946
Love this movie. Hunter S. was something else. Even his suicide note was a small masterpiece.

>>84613946
Where the Buffalo Roam was better.