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Best 60s Movie of All Time

This movie is essential to the collection of anyone who is interested in the 60s revolution. On their epic journey from coke deal to Mardi Gras, the unraveling social fabric of 60s America is unfolded layer by layer. Hippie ideals and a peaceful lifestyle are contrasted with the hate-filled resistance of the powers-that-be. This film is cinematically stunning, backed by a superb soundtrack and top-notch cast (Jack Nicholson's first major role). Hopper ices the cake with a masterfully edited psychedelic scene that remains unsurpassed in realism and intensity, and then hits us with a chilling ending . . .

The 60s has never been portrayed with such relevance or eloquence.

Excellent

Great for people who are nostalgic for the 60's; even if you wern't alive back then (I wasn't). Great music adds just the right touch to this excellent film.

easy - but not to forget!

Easy Rider is one of those movies that lurks somewhere in your past like the slap of an abusive parent! Where living for the moment become an obsession, your life's work! Of course you know the end is just around that corner! When the "Vacancy" sign will be turned off in your face for the last time!

Great sound on DVD

Just listened to the DVD on my Dolby Digital (5.1) system, and the remastering is sensational. I have most of the soundtrack cuts on CD, but the versions here are much better. Excellent cinematography is more apparent on DVD than on video, as well. Documentary on the making of the film is very interesting... don't miss it. Didn't have time to listen to Hopper's commentary (other than a few minutes), but am taping it now and will check it out later. Great package!

Easy Rider is Okay in my Book

I don't know where the previous review supposedly written by Ken Kesey came from but I can state categorically and totally qualified, I never wrote that review and I have always spoken very highly of the movie; loved Dennis Hopper and Nicholson and Fonda. The ending was a bummer but "don't bogart that joint" will forever be a part of American jargon. "Going down the highway, looking for adventure . . . born to be wi--ld, born to be wi-ld." Great stuff. A 60's classic.

really good

I was too young to watch it first time round. I watched it twice this weeek on dvd, and am sort of hooked on it. It has the same effect on me as 9 1/2 weeks. Weird scenes, great music, and adventerous. I liked Fonda. It makes you want to hire a Harley and blow a small fortune for a month in the west. The ending was terrible. What is the point they were trying to make with this ending ?

The movie that defined the "60's"

This movie is one of those movies that just freezes a moment in time! Three legendary actors in one of the most socially honest movies ever written. I just didn't like the ending!

Easy Rider is the best movie that was made before I was born

This movie is about two guys who get a lot of money from a drug deal and decide to take a tour of America on two Harley Davidson motorcycles circa 1969. They get into a lot of adventures that include meeting a hick Jack Nickolson. This movie was wierd and that is why I liked it so much. It wasn't wierd in a dumb way. It made you think. Not a lot of movies do that to me, but this one did. The movie had a message when it was released for it's time. Now it's just a great movie. This movie has lots of grass smoking and an acid trip and they did it all in a cool way. Not blatantly like some movies do with drugs. If you have an open mind and don't mind seeing how the other side think and live then you will like this film. I've seen it three times. One last thing. Great music. From Jimmy Hendrix to The Byrds they have a lot of killer rock tunes.

Those who don't get it...can't get it.

I shall not bore you with polysyllabic puffery. Easy Rider is a small documentation of what life was like in the 60's. If you are one to question the very basis of our culture and the system, check this movie out! Never again will a movie be so unprecedented in its truth that it emulates fiction. Hint, hint Blair Witch.

So Bad it's good

This film should be purchased to play in the background at parties. It is a strange fantasy film with some good music. Terrible acting and as far from reality as you could get. But for some reason I like the film.

laughably bad!!

This is one of those wierd-ass sixties films where you would have had to have been there to really care.

The plot; two guys riding on a motorcyle. Well, whoopty-doodily-ding-dong......

Just gettin my thing together

First saw "Easy Rider" when I was but a small child. Since that day, I dreamed of riding a motorcycle...my dream eventually came true with a new Harley many years back. "Easy Rider" is more than just a film, it is a statement of a time and place, a belief system that has been passed over. It is one of the few American films that encompasses an entire collective viewpoint of the turbulent time period of the 60s. I strongly suggest any fans of this film seek out the Laserdisk as it contains running commentary from both Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda. This commentary is insightful to the time as well as the various filming issues, and probably hard to find. "Easy Rider" is easily one of the ten best films ever.

Still an entralling movie for today's youth

This classic 1969 film, directed by the at times brilliant Dennis Hopper and starring the flippant Peter Fonda in a dazzling performance, represents many issues that are still relevant today. A young Jack Nicholson poignantly displays an intelligent man living in a simple minded society. Through rose colored glasses, many truisms about society then and today are represented. So in all an enthralling film displaying the drug culture of the 60's and the ignorance in society that will in a majority of cases turn to violence.

Classic b-picture.

Classic b-pictue about 2 guys searching for "the real america". Classic, i love it!

Definitely Born to Wild

Great Biker Film. Peter Fonda and Dennis Hooper are just to cool for words. Jack Nicholson works great a comedy relief.

The definitive 60's counterculture movie

This movie is not dated, it is a brilliant relic of it's era that should never be looked down upon. It remains an honest retrospective of the way many people viewed the hippies at that time. The campfire scenes and of course the scene with Jack Nicholson on the motorcycle with "Born To Be Wild" in the background are some of the cinema's greatest moments. The acid trip scene towards the end has been lately looked down upon, but it is truly imaginative and a great example of some of the greatest psychedelic cinemotography. Every film enthusiast should own this.

CLASSIC 60'S CULT MOVIE

I have the video, I have the CD (available in Australia) and my original vinyl. Yes it's dated but the music is as great as ever and fits the film perfectly. Jack Nicholson was head and shoulders above Fonda and Hopper in acting ability and also has a couple of the best lines (Oh,I've got a helmet).Most people in Australia had never seen a Harley before this movie and it gave the oldies one more thing to be suspicious or afraid of.(Now every second lawyer and accountant rides one at the weekend reliving his wanna-be dreams from the 60's) Still worth watching, if just for the music and to relive your youth!

If you love your freedom, You'll love this flick...........

Although it is dated, and it is the epitome of the slacker lifestyle, it is the staple flick of freedom. From the motorcycles to the drugs to the mysticism of "Mardi Gras", it is simply good times personified. Great actors, great vibes and a great beginning to the success of the independant film, it's a movie worth watching..... if you have the patience and sense of humor to accomodate the idea of hitting the road with no other thought on you're mind than living free and what it may or may not bring.

One of the finest movies in American Cinema, period.

Why is this film the definitive American statement? Simply check out the moral of the story: Freedom dies (in this case, quite literally) at the hands of bigotry and ignorance. Favorite line? Nicholson's uproarious, "Oh, yeah--I've got a helmet!" The soundtrack is uneven given the era (Jimi's "If Six Were Nine" is spot-on, though) and the acid trip sequence a bit hokey, but the balance of this motion picture is worthy of considerable praise.

HEADACHE!

I don't know what to say. In my last life I was Marrianne Faithful (Slut to the Rock Stars!), so I geuss I should like this movie but I really don't. I really don't understand what's going on. And the bizarre cineamtagrophy just gives me a headache. Music is OK. Why did they get blown away? I really don't get it? It just seems sad without reason.