orsonmotherfuckerwelles
5Apr12
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Steve Pulaski
8Apr12
I hate to admit it, but I really didn't care for this. I can appreciate the fact that it developed so much praise, and respect the performances and the simplicity of the entire film, but the fact of the matter is that I'm a teenager, and the overall quality is dated. Still, it is a nice time capsule of the sixties culture, and Jack Nicholson is great here as well.
Ace Craven
12Aug11
"When I was a young man, I was headed to california, but, well you know how it is." This movie is an absolute miracle. I do not associate it with drugs, as i so often the conversation about it. It is a film about the american existence, and what a damned bastard it is. I love the way this is shot & plays. I love the characters but Nicholson's may be my favorite of all time. This is a bloody valentine to truth.
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Ben Wheeler
19Jul11
For the longest time and for some unknown reason I associated this movie as being a "tough guy" movie. It's not. It's a beautifully shot road trip, complete with drugs, sex and motorcycles, with folk rock medleys painted over every frame. Easy Rider begins on a high and ends in tragedy; a modern myth, a dying of a legend. The end of an era: Goodbye to the 60's and everything that it stood for.
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Peter Barlow
17May11
Fuck time, fuck society, fuck God, fuck working, fuck normality. Live your life, live it to its fullest, and live it as an individual. Or at least give it a fucking shot.
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Diego Gatto
2Apr11
Uma grande estréia do diretor Hooper. Encarna, junto com o literato Kerouác, o "zeitgeist" da geração de 60!
Graveyard Poet
18Mar11
The road movie every road movie tries to be. The quintessential '60s film. Killer soundtrack, especially "Kyrie Eleison" from the Electric Prunes' Mass in F Minor (scored by genius David Axelrod).
Michael Gildea
9Feb11
After multiple viewings, Easy Rider loses some of its lustre but that's not to call it a bad or even just a good movie. It's definitely a classic, just not the mass of brilliance I throught it was after the first time I saw it. I noticed it seemed to toggle between scenic music videos and a downward spiral of American real-life horror. Great regardless, just lightning in a bottle.
Art Vandelay
27Jan11
The reason why Easy Rider refuses to become a Sixties relic is because it was never about its own time so much as it was about freedom, in every sense of the word. As prescient now as it ever was.
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AntioneOscar69
13Jan11
a relic of the 60s that somehow remains very entertaining today, one of the best road movies of all time
Danny Kana
10Jan11
I'm stunned. My roommates aunt was good friends with Dennis Hopper. I had no idea what a masterpiece this was. It pretty much sums up our society, and how people are shunned for being different and not conforming. Indeed a landmark experimental film.
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Beau
20Sep10
"Don't tell anybody that they're not free, because they'll get busy killing and maiming to prove to you that they are." disturbing
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Dean Fernando
30May10
R.I.P. Dennis Hopper.. Hopper along with Peter Fonda changed the landscape of American cinema in 1969 forever, with Hopper winning best new director at Cannes, got Jack Nicholson his first Oscar nomination, and was the highest grossing film in the world that year, but the true achievement of this film was it reflected a culture of America that had never had been shown before, and tested what is "freedom" in America... R.I.P. Dennis Hopper
Ryan Estabrooks
27Apr10
Oddly prophetic in some ways, they pretty much nailed what the were trying to get across with this film. It undoubtedly arrived at just the right time and I'm not sure if this type of film will ever be captured as complete as this is.
catch_33
17Mar10
The last 15 minutes of this film is one of the most incredible things ever filmed. Along side "Gimme Shelter", "Easy Rider" is the ultimate capturing of the demise of counter culture. Inspired, chaotic film making, I'm kicking myself I didn't see this earlier than I did. "We blew it man"...
chiefsreepyeyes
27Dec09
this is a great, great, highly underrated movie. it's beautiful, colorful, and i am pretty sure it is the only movie which has jack nicholson in a role where he isn't trying to fuck some old lady while he arches his eyebrows and says something coy. then again, i haven't seen one flew over the cuckoo's nest yet, but i won't rule anything out.