Easy Rider: bad movie

Well OP -- I'm sure Gigli and The Love Guru are streaming. Have fun.

Come the fuck on, man. I have some taste you know. Watch a wide variety of films and have for decades. Just missed this one when I was in college - back when I would have bothered to pretend to like it.

But I am 47 and this is a bad movie.

Fuck you!

Does anyone else care to comment on Easy Rider? I found Hopper’s menacing giggles such a bore.

Karen Black said the experience of filming was so unprofessional, odd and chaotic she thought she'd have to leave it off her resume'.

It’s not a great movie, and aged about as well as milk left outside during an August heatwave, but I think it’s still memorable as a time capsule, and some of its elements have an iconic quality to them (that movie owns “Born to be Wild,” even though it has to be the most overused pop song in living memory).

I think of it like so many awful eighties movies people still love because they saw them when they were young. It’s a nostalgia piece for Boomers, elevated by Jack Nicholson as he was about to enter his prime, and well before he became a caricature of himself.

It’s a boomer flick.

Well, it's not as good as The Trip.

Yeah Easy Rider is a little hokey in 2020. But back when it was released it really was revolutionary in both its depiction of the counterculture and the soundtrack

I'm a boomer, and I thought it was bad when it was released. A lot of Boomer iconography cannot be understood without being young, stupid but overeducated, and on a lot of weed (or alternatively hallucinogenics). Oh yeah, and as R8 said, deeply respectful of the music. This combination evidently allowed one to attribute daring to youthful self-indulgence, and tragedy to basic Darwinism.

Jack Nicholson was a bit of fun in it, for a short time.

Haven’t seen it, but did see Apocalypse Now starring Hopper. His “acting” was awful.

Hopper was to acting, as David Crosby is to singing.

I was a kid at the theater to see 101 Dalmatians in rerelease and the trailer for Easy Rider was shown.

I of course was not allowed to see it.

Fast forward to college. Saw it. It sucked. The ending was disturbing and for what exactly.

Have always hated Born to be Wild. Ugh.

It’s a terrible movie.

Someone I know said it changed his life when he saw it. We were both in college at the time of its release, but I never bothered to see it until about 20 years ago when it became available on DVD. I couldn't believe what a crappy movie it actually was.

You were better off with [italic]One Hundred and One Dalmatians[/italic] then and now.

I actually really like Dennis Hopper, 98 percent bullshit and all

Peter Fonda went to the Robert Culp School Of Acting.

[quote]Peter Fonda is hot. Dennis Hopper has pretty hair.

This scene?

I didn't like Five Easy Pieces, either. Couldn't sit through Easy Rider.