Re:This is nice, but... (Score 1)

I agree for the most part, but in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Terry Gilliam stays amazingly true to the novel. The reason this works so well is because the book text is in first person so it can be converted almost exactly into the overdubbed naration. It sort of falls apart near the end when a lot of scenes get cut out and compressed into random memories left over after the drug binge, but that makes sense to me because the movie would have been too long and drawn out otherwise.