Although not nearly as bitter, and certainly not as wild or as messy as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the conclusion of Albert Brooks’ 1985 comedy Lost in America (now available on a Criterion Collection Blu-ray) is very much the same as Hunter Thompson’s 1971 paean to excess: That the hippie generation, once optimistic and youthful and free, was doomed from the start.
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Just how violent has the beloved fighting game become?
