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Easy Rider
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| Release Date: |
01 January, 1969 |
| Director: |
Dennis Hopper |
Staring: |
Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson |
| Studio: |
Columbia/Tristar Studios |
| Rated: |
R (Restricted) |
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Amazon.com Customer Reviews
 Rated 5 out of 5!
Outstanding ! The Road Movie that you will never forget !
How to make a movie with almost no money ? Watch Easy Rider ! It’’s a terrific journey ! The story is simple but the actors (if they really are ;) are really fantastic. The Nicholson performance is unforgettable. EASY RIDER is a CULT movie and it still explains very well how the US society was in the 70’’s. Try to get the 30th anniversary remastered version including a very funny retrospective documentary to better understand the whole concept of Easy Rider.A once in a life ! Rated 2 out of 5
"This used to be a helluva good country."
A film reel of Dennis Hopper’’s "Easy Rider" should be in every time capsule buried in 1969. You would be hard pressed to find another film made during the Sixties that so vividly captured the essence, lingo, spirit, and rebellion of that era’’s counterculture. Every viewing of this film is a voyage in a time machine back to a time when society was undergoing a significant cultural transformation. However, that is part of the problem with "Easy Rider." Due to the fact that it so effectively captures a moment in time, it feels tremendously dated when looked at in the present. After Wyatt (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis Hopper) make a drug sell in Los Angeles, they head toward New Orleans. They stop at a commune along the way and then hook up with a lawyer named George Hanson (Jack Nicholson) after spending time in jail. Hanson decides to join the duo in their journey but is brutally killed when all three men are attacked by intolerant locals. Wyatt and Billy press on and eventually make it to Mardi Gras. However, death awaits them on the road after they leave New Orleans for Florida. "Easy Rider" will always be an important film because its success helped make it possible for more and more independent films to be made. Yet in terms of entertainment value, "Easy Rider" no longer gets the job done. Its narrative is disjointed and lumbering and its famous psychedelic sequence has lost all of its punch. There is still something liberating about watching Fonda and Hopper thumb their nose at everything conventional but their performances are the only aspect of the film that continues to endure. Everything else about "Easy Rider" just feels old. Time simply has not been kind to it.
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