CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Keira Brennan The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

Chris Nguyen Before Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas there was Where the Buffalo roam before Johnny Depp there was Bill Murray. A loose biography of Hunter S Thompsons filled with wild behavior fueled by drugs in the late 60s into the Nixon era. The stories are taken from when he was a journalist for the Rolling Stones.This movie does not have the visuals unlike Fear and Loathing known for the vivid hallucinations and images. More in depth about the late 60s turn 70s American culture. Its not all about HST but the relationship between him and his attorney.Opening scenes sets up the story with HST isolated with his dog in his cabin typing an article about his attorney. Peter Boyle plays his attorney Carl Laslo also loosely based on Dr. Gonzo from FNL. Simultaneously driving HST typing his views on America and the legal system. At the courthouse Carl Laslo defending a group of teenagers charged with minor possession of marijuana. After a ridiculous sentencing ( 5 years for a joint) an outrage Carl Laslo threw the judge across the bench telling HST to "tell the world". Few years later he is covering the super bowl haven't seen Carl Laslo since the incident Carl convince him to leave the super bowl. Talking about revolution and change Carl and his group of militants loads up a small airplane with weapons leaving for the revolution but HST doesn't leave. During the Nixon Campaign plane once again see Carl attorney turned revolutionary trying to convince him but decided that he is a "raving maniac". Back at his cabin finish his article and ends with one last monologue.From the beginning you can tell it was good choice to choose Bill Murray to play Hunter S Thompson copying his behavior and speech. His narrative voice-over throughout this movie displays his thoughts and views using his style that he known for. Not filled with wild antics and chaos like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas more of an insight on the gonzo journalist.

The_Great_Fausto This movie was great; it wasn't really as much a movie about Thompson, but more of a movie about his and Oscar Zeta Acosta's relationship as friends and partners. It gives a nice idea of what Thompson and Oscar Zeta Acosta's friendship was like, turbulences and all. Although "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" captures Thompson's writing, "Where the Buffalo Roam" gives more of a realistic insight on Thompson and Acosta. It also captures different stories from some of Thompson's other work, my favorite being the piece from "Fear and Loathing: On The Campaign Trail '72", Thompson's first hand account of Nixon's campaign for office. This movie is perfect for hardcore Thompson fans or just anyone wanting to learn about the legendary journalist. I give it an 8 out of 10.

johnnynitro37 Very interesting to see everybody's opinion on this film...from the Murray fan's who know nothing of Thompson to the Thompson fans who think nothing of Murray. To those who have seen both Buffalo and FnL, it should be apparent that either HST really acted like that, or Depp just copied Murray. Either way, this film falls just short of passable only due to Linson's mis-direction...The film seems to serve better as a pastiche of popular Thompson pieces rather than a cohesive succession of events...with no overarching direction, the movie dovetails into preachy idealism and disjointed plot angles that ultimately don't arrive at a narrative conclusion...Still, as has been the common disclaimer, the movie is necessary for anyone who considers themselves to be rabid HST fans...It should be noted, also, that several critics, and even HST himself, have hinted, if not completely insinuated, that his use of drugs in his work, to an extent, was exaggerated for numerous reasons, not the least of which is to expand and authoritative his voice as that of his disgruntled generation...I cringe when I see so many people who seem to be more fascinated by his drug use than his actual body of work...Obviously he used a fair amount of drugs in his life, but it seems to have cast a permanent, impenetrable shadow over his legacy, as if using copious amounts of drugs somehow solidified his credibility...I like drugs, but this misunderstanding of HST and his work is demeaning both to his family and his future...

JasonLeeSmith I saw this movie on TV before I'd read anything by Hunter S. Thompson, and even knowing virtually nothing about his work, I knew that the movie had been watered down in the extreme. Far too much was done to try and make the characters of Thompson and Lazlo palatable to movie-going audiences and make them more sympathetic characters when part of the charm of Thompson's writing is how unrepentant he was about all the various insane/illegal/antisocial activities which he described in his writing.Not only was this movie bland, but its production values were virtually non-existent. It looks like it could have been made-for-TV.It succeeds best in the scenes where Murray portray's Thompson's casual insanity. It fails by trying to turn Thomspon into some kind of lovable rogue -- which he certainly was not.