Easy Rider

IUt is my favorite movie of all time. I watch it often and always love it more each time. What do you think of it?

 

One of my faves

 

yeah, i saw it this summer. or last summer... watever. anyway, it is a REALLY good movie. and especially in the way its so shocking, and not just for the sake of being shocking. just showing the mentality of people. yeah, that last scene is (im repeating myself), just SO SHOCKING!!!! It was like "Holy Shit!!". Makes you think a lot. Very depressing about life, but still and thus, an excellent film.

 

watch this alot........brilliant spiritual journey with a great sound track man....you could be a trifle polite..../peace/

 

I saw it for the first time a couple of days ago. It's one of those old movies you always mean to see but somehow never get around to but I eventually did.

I liked the soundtrack a lot and although the storyline and the message were simple, it didn't get too heavy handed.
The way they were treated depressed me, especially when Jack Nicholson gets beaten to death in the forest.
The scene where they take acid is well done, the tone of panic, desperation and confusion is really well captured.
I enjoyed it

 

i have been watching it for years, but i saw it on a big screen last summer and it was awesome!!

 

hm.. I thought "Easy Rider" was only Janis Joplin's song
What about is this movie?

 

Someone told me once there's a huge directors original edit that's seven hours long sitting in the basement of a university in Holland somewhere...
Anyone else heard this??


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I think its pretty cool movie, I always wanted to take roadtrip like that.

 

i thought it was pretty good, it got sort of boring though. the ending just pissed me off cause, well that old redneck w/ a shotgun, it just seemed really randomly brutal. "Parading without a license?!" haha, i loved that. ooh, i dream of taking a road trip some day, just forgetting everything & driving.

 

i think it is a great film, and the number of threads about it every week shows that

 

I've heard the story of the post production of the film which involved several excessively overlong rough cuts, but I've heard a figure more like three hours (the final cut is half this). Originally each of the extended motorbike sections would last several full songs rather than just one. Whether any of these original versions actually exist anywhere, who knows...

 

i didnt understand the ending of the movie

 

i think the end was just something that reflects the negative veiw society has had on hippies

 

it's really great... especially jack nicholson was playing very well...

 

I love the movie. I watched it for the first time last year. I was sitting in my living room thinking it was a great movie while I was watching it but when it go to the end it made me jump up and scream "What the f*ck?!" The ending totally pissed me off but I can see how it would be reflecting "the negative veiw society has had on hippies".

 

Yeah, the original cut was three hours long. From what I've gathered over the years, this is one of the few films to actually benefit from being edited down from a much longer running time.

 

Definitley one of my favs, and given the renewed struggle between liberalism and conservativism, it really shows how little America has changed in terms of social mores in the 36 years since the film debuted.

 

I have that shirt, man! I bought it for eight bucks in the hugest size (the only size they had left) and I sliced off the sleeves, collar, and stitching at the bottom, and put metal studs 'round the top. It's one of my favourite shirts!

Anyway, Easy Rider. What a fantastic movie, I saw it for the first time... in grade nine, maybe. Then my sister bought it for me for christmas, and if you dig this movie, I really suggest picking up a copy of the 35th anniversary edition. It comes with a book from the British Film Institute with a few thoughtful essays on the film, (and pictures heheee) and a songtrack of the movie, which isn't the soundtrack, but it does have a few of the memorable songs off the soundtrack as well as San Franciscan Nights by the Animals, Nights in White Satin by the Moody Blues, maybe 7 or 8 songs in total and they're all fantastic. Along with, of course, the film.

I still remember how I felt the first time I saw this movie. I loved it, it sucked me right into the story and I fell in love with the characters. I cried and mourned for them at the end. I think this film is one of Jack Nicholson's finest performances, and that is really saying something. And Terry Southern is one of my all time favourite writers, and he really works his magic on this film. The ending of the film is so powerful, and the soundtrack also comes into play. After the audience is shown this atrocity, The credits roll and The Ballad of Easy Rider comes on. I love it, I love the contrast, because when I first saw it I was like, "WTF?!?!" (to put it simply) and this simply soothing but beautiful song comes on <i> wherever that river flows that's where I want to be</i> when I was so shaky from the end. So powerful. I have the soundtrack on vinyl, its one of my most frequently spun. If you wanna be a bird...
Lindi

 

when the hippie gives peter fonda the acid n says if your ever in a good place and time , takes it and that this may be a good time ...he says "im hip about time " now watch "love and a 45 " and find the same line ..