Where the Buffalo Roam
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Movie Review: Where thd Buffalo Roam
Summary: 5 Stars
Love this movie. Got on time, when they said I would. I am very happy with this purchase & sellerMovie Review: This is an interesting film to watch about someone famous
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought this DVD about 5 years ago when I have not seen this movie until I brought it home and sliped it in my playstation 2. Because of 2 reason. 1) none of my local video stores don't have a copy of this movie on their shelfs and 2) This movie is not shown on any of the cable networks. This is not a bad movie. This movie is about Bill Murray playing a famouse person named Hunter S. Thomson who was a famous journlist who attended famous events and wrote a journl on the famouse events and coverage like the 1972 superbowl game and some on Richard Nixon. What make this movie so interesting is that like I said is its about Hunter S Thompson life and its shows you what his life was like and what he did when he was doing or writing any coverage. Like when he was at the hotel on the weekend of the 1972 superbowl game, he crash and distroyed the hotel room and invited everyone into his room and threw a wild party. Its like he invited you into his personal life when you watch this movie. I don't think that the real Hunter S Thomson wanted it that way or I don't that Bill Murray ever had the time to be with him or got to know more about him, or its has do with Bill Murray spending the summer at Camps white Pine& Towhee in Canada where they were filming Meatballs at the time,and he was too busy preparing for his Tripper role. I think that was problem. In 1997, Johnny Depp spend a year sleeping in Hunter basement so he can learn alote about Hunter so he can play him better when they were filming Fear and loathing in Las Vegas. Now some of you think Hunter S Thomson was off the walls or acting a little bit wild. Well thats because he was on drugs alote, and if they could do a PG rated verson of this movie without the bad laguage and the hard sex. This movie would set them straight and show them what kind of drugs can do to them. My faviort seen in the movie is where Hunter and Lazlo are in the car driving on some rocky road, Hunter is toppless and pick up this Hippy hitchicker, and the hitchiker gets in the car. And Then Hunter gets out the gun and ams at the hitchiker passenger and then shots out the car window. That Part made me laught. And as for the rest of the film. I give it a good laught and importain message. Buy this movie and it will keep you entertain for hours, and what ever you do, don't ever ever do what Hunter did in real life, and that is DRUGS.
Trivia
1.The scean where Hunter and Lazlo are driving on one the streets in San Francisco and you will see a wall that says Fear and loathing in Las Vegas written in graffitti.
2. Neil Young had a small role in the movie, he playes one of the jury members when Lazlo ahs to attend one of his trails.
3. Saddly in 2006. 2 of the stars in Where the Buffalo roam passed away. Peter Boyle who played Lazlo died of heart disease on Dec 12 at age 71. And Bruno Kirby who played Marty Lewis died of Leukemia on Aug 14 at age 57.
4. There going to be a third Hunter S Thomson book being made into a movie called The Rum Diary. Warner Bros should staring shooting some time beginning 2010
Movie Review: Lots of Drugs, Alcohol & "Bad Craziness" in the Nixon Era
Summary: 4 Stars
With the recent death of 'Gonzo' journalist/writer, Hunter S. Thompson I started going through my dusty book shelves and skimming through my ragged paperbacks, enjoying his anarchic works once again. In the same time period, I was also delighted to find that my local chain store was stocking widescreen DVD editions of "Where the Buffalo Roam", the (unfairly) unheralded 1980 movie, who's subtitle reads "based on the twisted legend of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson". For anyone, who dosn't know, the good Dr. pioneered the ideal of 'Gonzo Journalism' in which the journalist not only covered and wrote stories about news and events, but actually became an active participant and the focus of the writing. Since Thompson's career came to the forefront in the 'counter-culture' sixties and the 'Me-Decade/Watergate' seventies, his adventures were fueled by a massive intake of alcohol & drugs, which were most condusive to a mental state he termed "bad craziness". The episodic film comedy, "Where the Buffalo Roam" picks and chooses passages from various Thompson works. It mainly follows Thompson (played to a T by comedian, Bill Murray) as he views with a jaundiced, journalistic eye the various adventures of his lawyer and good friend, Carl Lazlo Esq (played with gusto by Peter Boyle). As the film begins, Thompson follows his crazy, radical lawyer as he tries to work within 'the system' to protect the rights of America's young counter-culture. With 'Wild Turkey' in hand, Thompson recounts how Nixon's right wing, "law & order" establishment beats down and rebuffs Lazlo's every attempt at true justice in the courtroom. The film then jumps to 1972 as we watch Thompson hilariously cover his deranged version of America's "greatest", sporting event, The Superbowl. After much drug & alcohol intake and hotel carnage, Thompson once again meets up with Lazlo, who has now abandoned 'the system' and is convinced that true change can only come through force by a bunch of looney gun-runners and half-baked, pseudo-revolutionaries he has hooked up with. The film finally ends with Thompson's view of the infamously corosive, 1972 Presidential campaign trail. We watch as Thompson goes up against the Washinton Press Corps and the Nixon administration. In the film's most hilarious (and frightening) scene, a disguised Thompson makes a a philosphical speech in which allegorically he describes America's underclass as "the Doomed". In probably the film's only semi-serious moment, Nixon's short retort is "F**k the doomed!" I think it is a very difficult task to transfering Hunter Thompson's ideals and writings to celluloid. Yes, sure the film may also owe little bit to Gilbert Shelton's 'the Fabulously Furray Freak Bros.' and even to the Three Stooges. But I think both the script and the actors get across the point of Thompson's critical view of American culture and it's politics of the time. To tell you the truth, the film's 'Us Vs. Them' view point my be more timely then ever with the way modern politics have been unfolding in the early part of this new century! Bill Murray is simply wonerful as he seems to almost channel Hunter Thompson's personality and mannerisms. (Only once or twice do you catch him going into his usual SNL schtick.) Peter Boyle also does a great job with the inspired lunacy of his character. This film is really a wonderful comedy that perfectly mirrors a recent, but now rapidly fading part of American history. In retrospect it is a wonderful, characterization of a talented writer who inhabited and made his stamp on that era. A very funny movie! Highly recommended!Movie Review: "As your attorney, I'd advise you to buy this DVD."
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie kicks butt...plain and simple. Don't be swayed by those who compare "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" with this film; they are two totally different movies about two totally different eras of Thompson's life and psyche.
This film deals with the exaggerated life and times of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson the journalist at the beginning of his nationally recognized career, circa 1967-1973. The movie moves in chronological fashion, pulling stories and situations from 4 or 5 books he wrote which chronicled his travels and findings during that time period ("Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail" is one of those books). The movie was made a t a time (1979) when few knew who this man was, so it was presented in a manner which would make the characters in the film easily accessible to movie-goers and fans alike. I read "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" for a book report assignment before I saw this movie, and immediately recognized the few, short moments attributed to stories told in the text.
Contrary to what other reviewers have written, Bill Murray played the character of Dr. Thompson very well. Bill & Hunter were very good friends throughout the 70's, and despite his assertion that he "signed off on the production rights" to the movie on day-one of shooting, Thompson was still on location for the entire filming (albeit, firing machine guns off set for fun), he still had some say so in the story. If you've read the books Dr. Thompson wrote about his travels from 67-73, you will enjoy this movie. The situations are hilarious, and just when you think Thompson is going to clean up his act, Lazlo (a character loosely based on Hunter's attorney friend Zeta Acosta), played obscurely by Peter Boyle, shows up and coerces Hunter into destructive, unreal situations.
Great scenes? 'The Superbowl.' Instead of attending (like he was supposed to), he has a wild, drug induced party-of-one in his hotel room, as s he sets his room up like a miniature football field. He gets a hotel bell boy and a maid to "play out" the game, as they continue to get high and drunk. 'The zoo.' Hunter is forced to ride on an airplane with the camera guys and other misfits instead of the regular plane for the writers. He slips what appears to be quaaludes or microdots into someone's mouth, gets super drunk thanks to his surgeon's bag filled with grapefruit slices and vodka, and ends up piloting the plane while singing "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds."
"The hospital." Lazlo comes and "rescues" Hunter, as he his held up in a hospital room with a vidka IV and a youing pin-striper that he almost has nude. Lazlo and Hunter take off in his convertable, crashing it into a religious statue and foutain out in fron of the building. the great scenes are endless.
Unfortunately, director Art Linson was a hapless mess on the set. The movie isn't epic; it's just another spoof style, slapstick comedy. but if you're a fan of Dr. Thompson, Bill Murray and comedies, this is a must have. Don't expect an intellectual mind journey...that was not the purpose of this film. This movie is nothing at all like Terry Gilliam's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas."
Movie Review: Good Cross Section of the True HST
Summary: 4 Stars
OK, so the soundtrack was remastered and apparently the glory of the original work has disappeared, but I wasn't one of the lucky few to experience the original work. The soundtrack was still respectable although horribly mastered, but enough of that drivel.
I like this movie because it gives the viewer a snapshot of the real HST and the looniness he lived in. It resides more on the non fiction side of things as compared to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, which clearly seems to be a work of fiction (although there is no doubt he lived it). This film dips heavily into Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 to draw its chief material from. It details the life of Thompson in the years between the late 60's and early 70's, seemingly at a time when he was writing for Rolling Stone (although the magazine is called "Blast" that he is writing for ).
Bill Murray gives a great performance as Thompson, and his physical mannerisms have gradually manifested themselves in my head and taken the place of Johnny Depp's performance in Fear and Loathing. He is highly believable as Thompson, and his performance seems highly underrated compared with the rest of his career.
Carl Laszlo, Esq. played By Peter Boyle obviously is Oscar Zeta Acosta, Thompson's lawyer in the late 60's and early 70's, and is in fine form as the intimidating, often crazy Latino activist and lawyer.
Overall, this is a great movie to enjoy with the proper atmosphere (hopefully with a full bowl of ice and bottle of bourbon nearby). It might not be for everyone, but any true fan of HST will have a good time with this one again and again - it is done in the true spirit of Gonzo.