Weekly Poll Results: Best Vegas Movie
The people have spoken, and Terry Gilliam’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas has been voted the best Vegas flick, according to Film Junk readers. A little unexpected, but a great choice nonetheless! Martin Scorsese’s Casino came in a fairly close second, while Ocean’s Eleven and Swingers were at #3 and #4 respectively. The remainder of the choices trailed pretty far behind the top 4, with Viva Las Vegas all the way down at the bottom. Where’s the love for Elvis?
1. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas — 32.8%
2. Casino — 25.6%
3. Ocean’s Eleven (Remake) — 14.1%
4. Swingers — 12.2%
5. Very Bad Things — 4.6%
6. Rain Man — 4.2%
7. Diamonds Are Forever — 1.9%
7. The Cooler — 1.9%
9. Leaving Las Vegas — 1.5%
10. Viva Las Vegas — 1.1%
Comments (2)
I completely agree with this poll. Fear and Loathing, and Casino were the best ones. After that i could care less. Although, i really did like the cooler.
“Raoul Duke: Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. But no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time in the world. Whatever it meant”
“We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers… Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get into locked a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge, and I knew we’d get into that rotten stuff pretty soon.
Posted by Rick on June 10th, 2009Ha a movie that didnt even take place in Vegas almost made the top 3. You cinedummies.
Posted by Me on June 10th, 2009Leave a Reply