Well..what can I say..this has to be one of my all time favourites - for me coming from Britain,even just the scenery as they are cruising through the desert is fantastic.I got hold of alot the music the other day from allofmp3.com - the ballad of easy rider is beautiful.Jack Nicholson makes his debut performace and delivers the immortal words 'ahhhh..injuns!.....nip!...nip!....nip!' - I am at work at the moment and am tempted to impersonate him right now!Then of course theres the bad acid trip in the cemetry which freaked me out when I was younger.But yeah man - I dunno probably for tens of scores of thousands of bikers and travellers of one kind or another it must have been an influence.And I've found that there is something especially great about cruising on a sunny morning in Autumn - that bright sunlight you don't get any other time of year,and sharing in a beer with your best mate - not necessarily getting wasted but you know wot I mean.But of course the conclusion of the film is quite a poignant one - certainly makes you think about the morals behind being 'free'.Seems in the end they felt like they'd failed.Oh and Jimi Hendrix's Ezy Rider aswell as 'if one were six' are classics too.
Yes this movie was far out . I know what you mean i come from the netherlands and no desserts as well here. I wish i could take that tour. Seems groovy. I liked the part most where they made love to that two women, they were in a trip. It was a bit confusing in the end, when they both got killed. But graet to watch over and over again, dreaming away in time . Too bad they don't make movies like that anymore. peace and love...sunflower76
A lot of Easy Rider was filmed in my home state .. Arizona. The "Wasn't Born To Follow" sequence was filmed in Sunset Crater Nat'l Monument, up near Flagstaff. Been there many times. Magnificent country.
This is my absulute favorite movie. I have it on DVD.Love the soundtrack and the scenery. The personalities are so different between Billy and Wyatt. Billys just we gotta get there man we gotta get there to Mardigra and to Wyatt the journey is the ride itself not the destination, he wants to check it all out. He picks up the hitch hiker, he takes the girls over swimming. Thats who I identify with Wyatt. I bought a scooter aftetr watching this the first time. big one I can run on the highway with not a little one. Ride everywhere I can every chance I can. I want to strap a sleeping bag on it and just go...see what I can find... Theres a quote here from George Hanson I like. I belive that there is a lot of truth to it even today. Probobly more so with whats going on here in the US. Billy → What the hell's wrong with freedom, man? That's what it's all about. George Hanson → Oh yeah, that's right, that's what it's all about, all right. But talkin' about it and bein' it - that's two different things. I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace. 'Course, don't ever tell anybody that they're not free 'cause then they're gonna get real busy killin' and maimin' to prove to you that they are. Oh yeah, they're gonna talk to you, and talk to you, and talk to you about individual freedom, but they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em. R.I.P Billy Tig
I rented it years ago, and was hooked immediatly...the landscape, the mindsets back then, the terrain...the transition from one part of the country to another...and the taboos...and of course the ending... I love that one rare song they play by Hendrix, as their riding into that Southern town... It must be a side B song by Hendrix...but I love it...I've never heard that song played any where else...
I give it about a 7/10 Definitely worth seeing and there is some great dialogue and gave me a different perspective on the culture of the 60's then the mass gatherings of Woodstock, love-ins, and the acid tests. Having been raised on special effects and drama in movies I found parts of it to be a bit slow and dull. I do enjoy the acid scene at the end though it captures it fairly well considering they didn't use any of the computer graphic distortions that more recent films use for the experience.
easy rider the movie, what can i say about this classic and legendary film from the 1960's., iam in aww of this brilliant masterpeice, i do remember quite a number years ago that a friend of mine had shown me the film and instantly i was hooked thi legenday body of work that is easy rider. best movie ever made in my opinion!!!
It certainly was a mind-blowing experience when I first saw it. (Even more so when I went back to the theatre the next night after dropping acid.) But that was 1969. I saw it again a few years later but not since. I'm not sure what I'd think if I saw it today. Hmmm...guess I'd best get around to renting or buying it and finding out.
I hated this movie when I saw it years ago. I really want to see it again, but I don't necessarily expect to like it.
