Hunter S. Thompson commits suicide

[Miss Modular]

He's killed himself.

I love his work, but I can't say I'm surprised by this. My condolences go to his family.

[Sacks]

I didn't see this coming at all... Jesus.

[McClain]

WTF? This sucks... I'm going to go read Screwjack again. Maybe it will make sense now that he's dead.

[Command Prompt]

This completely sucks, he was one of my favorite authors.

I'd trade all of your lives to have his back.

[Anonymous]

Command Prompt again shocks the world

[BlueOatmeal]

What a godamn pimp! He blew his damn brains out after having some rough sex! Thats a hardcore cocksuker!

[BlueOatmeal]

I wonder if there was anal?

[Dole]

Shut up, you're an annoying arse.


RIP Hunter

[James]

http://dvd.ign.com/articles/496/496425p1.html
The Movie: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Criterion Collection)
The Offense: Hunter S. Thompson is eating radishes, screeching and making threatening phone messages rather than providing a serious commentary which I found highly entertaining.

Thompson's track bored me. I know Thompson is still a drughead and a boozehound, but did he have to show up so blazed he could barely pay attention? I'm glad he wasn't alone, Anita probably helped keep him focused on the film.

It's also worth nothing that Thompson watches the film, based on a book he wrote, presumably about events he himself went through, yet tries to deny certain events like a suspect on a witness stand, trying to deny the person on the tape is him. Stuff such as denying he mistreated the hotel dwarf and lied about seeing lizards... it makes it hard to know what's supposed to be true about this film if the man who went through this can't even seem to remember. Truth be told, for a late surprise to the extra features of the Criterion disc, it came off as a real disappointment.

Yep, we truly lost a good one.

I'm glad he's dead. I just wish it'd happened sooner, before all these people had a boner for him and a movie based on his bullshit.

[Geggy]

holy shit.

espn.com wont be the same without him.

[Dole]

That commentary sounds fucking amazing.

Fear and Loathing is a fucking entertaining book, couldn't really give a toss about the movie.
Hells Angels was damn good too.

[Anonymous]

Where the Buffalo Roam.

[mburbank]

"Fear and Loathing on the campaign trail"

He'd been a shadow of his former self for quite some time, but this is a great loss.


A boner for his work. What an idiot you are. The number of people per generation who come along and do something new is very small. Here's a tip. If you're quite it will be harder for people to see how ignorant you are.

[Big McLargehuge]

Everybody i like dies before i get to meet them, RIP.

[Helm]

Seems like a fitting way to go.

[ziggytrix]

I can't imagine he wouldn't have written some elaborate suicide note. I'd really like to be privy to it, but I can understand that his family probably won't air something like that for a long time.

I think if there's no note (and by note I mean 12 page rant) then it was an accident, and not a suicide.

[soundtest]

i wish paris had shot herself and hunter's cell phone had been hacked

[Rongi]

he would have had more interesting numbers, if he even had a cellphone

i hated the movie but god damn that book was a classic. he will be missed

[Helm]

because Rongi is hardcore oldschool, and any movie is worse than the book it's based on, lest someone calls us a fag

[Rongi]

what that movie did suck

[Helm]

no, it was actually very good, I think.

[Stabby]

At least he outlived Nixon

[Rongi]

i thought the shining was a better movie than it was a book

i'll just shut up now kay

[glowbelly]

if this topic doesn't bring jaeger back, i don't know what will. :oldskool

on topic:
i have never liked hunter. i tried. i read the books and the rants, but his stuff just seemed so overshadowed with anger and drug use that i failed to see the brilliance in it. plus he beat his wife. that being said, it's sad that he's dead. if only because he hated george w bush so passionately.

also, i'm not surprised at all by this. any person who does that amount of acid in a lifetime is bound to have mental problems.

[ziggytrix]

I thought the movie was remarkably faithful to the book.