Easy Rider (DVD)

...remarks in film history. Easy Rider is one of the most complex and unlikely film hits of all time; it takes the role of an event rather than a film, it is in fact a moment in history perfectly captured. It is a relic, a symbol of the 1960’s attitudes and a benchmark for the Hollywood new wave. After the new wave got it’s legs in 1967 with The Graduate and Bonnie and Clyde, Easy Rider was the defining picture that got the ball well and truly rolling. ...
...At the time of Easy Rider Hollywood was buried under crippling debts; something which it looked like could pull down the entire infrastructure of the system. Hollywood had become hopelessly out of touch still employing the old guard, John Ford Westerns were still circulating and high cost musical flops were financially crippling studios. It got to a stage where they simply couldn’t afford a flop, but this gave rise to independent filmmakers being ...

stephen_logan 22.11.2004 · Read full review
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This film was made just as the 60's were imploding on itself and was filmed in the same year as the assassinations of Kennedy and Luther King and the build up to the Vietnam war, so the subject was controversial. Many have called this the ultimate road movie but I feel it is more a reflection of a man trying to escape from something or himself but yet he doesn't know where to start looking, so what better place that the seat of a Harley? The film ...
...(Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis Hopper) conducting a drug deal in the wastelands of an operating airport. Once the deal is done and they have the cash you get the first glimpse of the 'horses' that are going to take the two of them across the land. It is a metaphorical western which is why the bikes are the steeds and why the two main actors are name after famous western outlaws, Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid. Wyatt is seen stuffing rolled up dollar ...

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Easy Rider. Whoa. It took me twenty-five years to see it, but I finally did it. And it’s exactly like I thought it would be. Man, I really feel for those counterculture hippies now. I really wanna grab a bike and find… whatever the hell it is they’re trying to find… I think that perhaps I didn’t get it. Maybe it’s a generational thing, but as far as I could figure, Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper (who also directs,) ...
...Phil Spector, and then ride about a bit, have a trip with some prostitutes and then… the end. That’ll be it. I’m just too young to appreciate the undertones of just how dangerous this movie is, man. It’s making a statement about dropping out: Don’t do it in the South. Like Deliverance, this does for Louisiana tourism what goths with shotguns do for the ‘Stay In School’ campaign. I think it’s saying ...

revere 05.12.2001 (06.12.2001) · Read full review
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Easy Rider - the 1969 classic is the latest entry to my (rather small) video collection. After seeing Easy Rider a few days ago I can now see what all the fuss was about… Two motorcyclists set off on a coast-to-coast road trip in hope of discovering and experiencing the real America. Along the way they pick up hitchhikers, smoke a joint here and there, get pissed every now and then and even visit a hippie commune. The two "hippie" motorcyclists ...
...The other famous star of Easy Rider is Jack Nicholson whose magnificent performance won him worldwide attention. Remember, Easy Rider was the film that made Jack Nicholson. Easy Rider is a significant film that reflected the feelings and attitudes of the youth of the 60's, that is why Easy Rider was such a cult film. Easy Rider represented the hippie culture of the 60's, it was made in the heart of the hippie era and even its director/actor Dennis ...

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...a film that was cutting edge in its time and whose quality still shines through then find it and watch it. I’ve got the video, will almost certainly buy the remastered DVD, and have watched it many times. Easy Rider is a landmark in the history of cinema. ...

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A few things about this before the actual review. I don't think Peter Fonda was a very experienced rider at all. He wobbles & jerks a lot on the chopper. He looks like he could have done with a lot more practice riding it. Hopper looks the more natural biker of the two. I didn't fancy staying up to watch this so I taped it. And as is always the way the damn thing started early so I missed a little of the start, Fonda & Hopper were already in the ...
...about the what's and why's of the start. The film is a very psychedelic look at late 60's America, It's almost like someone read some Jack Kerouac and decided to make it into a film. The film makes a very definite statement from the moment Fonda drops his watch before they set out on the road. They have no need to measure time or to know anything exact. They trip happily along having small things happen, A flat tire, picking up a hike-hiker (I almost ...

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...have had the video of Easy Rider for about two years. I picked it up for about £2 in one of those catalogue bargain shops. What a bargain. I longed to ride one of those beautiful bikes after seeing this film. I could relate to the trippy hey man stuff, having once been a student ( "hey man, I think I'm really gone ... see the colours ... wow...the ceiling is so real" "don't be so daft - that's a bit of tinsel left over from last christmas"), but ...
...plot is the journey across America to New Orleans for Mardi Gras by two hippies, played by Dennis Potter (love the hair, but have you ever tried Pantene?) and Peter Fonda. The outcome - I can't tell you that, but it is a shock. Watch it it's great. ...

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This must have been a fairly controversial film when it was first released back in 1969. It's central story of alienated youth is very low budget but still strikingly imaginative in places. In particular the 'trip' sequence which epitomises the film's theme of the release of the spirit and mind from the 'system'. Vaguely abstract imagery beloved of director Dennis Hopper are dotted throughout the film to keep the slightly spaced out atmosphere prevalent. ...

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magickat 19.07.2001 (15.08.2001) · Read full review
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Dennis hopper plays the leading role as a dirty long-haired biker, who has many different experinces on his drug fuelled journey to nowhere. Soon after causing havoc, drunken Hopper and his friend end up in a jail alonside Jack Nicholson. They are both eventually freed from prison because of Jack Nicholsons high status in the community, and yep! you guessed it! he joins Dennis Hopper and his friend on thier crazy bike journey wearing a baseball ...
...crazy characters throughout their journey, whom take part in the drugs session around the campfire at night when they decide to stop for rest. Jack Nicholson proves to be very funny when he takes a drink from his hip flask! Overall this film is brilliant but the blurred screen drugs effects can be long and irratating, but hey who cares!? this is a film to watch drunk anyways! ...

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This has to be one of the best movie soundtracks of all time. The movie contains all the original tracks that the subsequent CD did not. Seen as a DVD this exceptional escapist movie excells when viewed and listened to in true Dolby. You can smell the Gas each time the bikes move off. much slated in the US at the time, has become a cult classic as it trys to show the real need for escape in modern society, and society's need to curb that desire. ...
...the dreamier side of the weed, without the relevent illegalities. Obviously a movie whereby all us Brits, would like to be able to drive such machines in the UK, but weather and driving surfaces would make this impossible. All the same, a must for the collector of good movie soundtracks. ...

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ever what would happen if yoda and ET had a bar room fight? apparently so was Sergio Leone when he thought up this idea for a film, you see, because ol' Serge was perpetually tripping and watching Indian B movies, he had previously looked to his vegetable patch for movie inspiration, but this time, it was friendly Mr.Owl who showed him the light. Leone confessed in an interview that "Mr.Owl said hoot hoot, yoda would kick some ass wouldnt he? which ...
...little beauty, it was all friendly Mr.Owl" right nice one serge. either way, he showcased this award winning short for the first time in an elevator in Denver to a crowd of 2. they thought he was a tad crazy but still recomended his work to the good people at 20th century fox, who gave a feature length production the greenlight with Ving Rhames and Spud out of trainspotting in the titualr roles. the film plumetted like a slapped arse at the box office, ...

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Easy Rider is the best film ever in my opinion. Now I can't say i've seen every fim but I do know a good film and Easy Rider certainly fits the bill. I have actually bought the soundtrack to this film (avaliable on CD/vinyl) which is also really good. Some classic songs there. The film is a must see film and should be watched by everyone at least once. It shows that the world doesn't really have freedom at all and is as moving as it was when it ...

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