Easy Rider on AMC today

[DAB]

AMC cable channel showed Easy Rider this evening. Wondered what impression it makes on anyone who didn't grow up through the late sixties/early seventies like I did.

I still like the parts where they're riding across America. That's what first got me interested in motorcycles - and moving to the States from England.

 

[PaceMaster]

I saw it at the movies when new...crazy flick--i was like 15 at the time.
Believe it or not..Have you ever heard of a HD aftermarket company Paughco..Me and my Swedish
friends got to tour the factory in 04--met the owner and he said come into my office--He showed us a picture of Peter fonda sitting on the Captain America Bike--which was in his office and claims it's the one and only....like others have said...might be the one..fun anyway

As for inspiration to ride two wheels....a certain Suzuki 90 step thru started it all when i got my learners permit. Then later in Sweden watching guy's practice ride Moto Cross..is was Hooked.
66-to present.. now 53 and loving bikes still...dirt and street. Pace

 

[WWJD]

Reguardless of how lame it will grow over time for the generations, EASY RIDER will always remain the quintessential first/best biker movie. yeah the plot kinda plods along and the ending sucked, but the riding parts are really good - even if they don't 'say' anything. Just seeing raw, naked american landscapes with the bikes rolling, and the freedom it represents for ALL types of cycle riders is PRICELESS. I bought the DVD as soon as I found it. I really enjoy seeing the locations before they got all built up with sky scrapers, malls, and hotels.

As far as impact on me being someone who grew up CLOSE to that area but not in it, I am guessing the movie IS a good approximation of the state of society for that particular crowd. I avoided the whole drug scene stuff but was aware of it's existance. That part doesn't bother me either way as I see it as merely a time capsule for that period. It may strike closer to home for people who have done acid. Orange flavored vitamin-C chewables was about it for me

I wish they would make a Biker movie like EASY RIDER for TODAY. The new ones had to much plot and not enough riding connection. They could cover all aspects of bikers AND make it humane and attachable - say the life of some guy growing up thru the additions of his life: a child watching EASY RIDER at 7 and starting inerested in dirt bikes, moving up thru teen years with girls and stunting on sportbikes, then the rebelous part when he get a Sportster, works 9-5 and rolls with that gang, then move into the chopper era, then get s back to a Hayabusa for some responsible, comfotable canyon carving, tops it off with his family of four cruising on a goldwing with his wife, and his son and daughter riding a sportbikes with them... ending with his son's son watching easy rider. very thin plot, LOTS OF BEAUTIFUL RIDING, CRUSING, RACING cycle action. THAT would be a movie for the times.

For 'B' cycle movies from the 60's, there are a pack of them. Bruce Dern's in one, as is Peter Fonda. They are lame, and hokey, fun and timeless -- again snapshots of a time gone by. I found them at Best Buy in "Midnight Movie" DVD collections:
The Wild Angels, Hell's Bells, Angel Unchained. No sport bikes found here, but lots of 60's biking, hippie commune action!

LONG LIVE THE UN-REMADE CLASSICS! Lucas: BACK OFF!!!

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[pure_ego]

I wish they would make a Biker movie like EAST RIDER for TODAY.  The new ones had to much plot and not enough riding connection.  They could cover all aspects of bikers AND make it humane and attachable - say the life of some guy growing up thru the additions of his life:  a child watching EASY RIDER at 7 and starting inerested in dirt bikes, moving up thru teen years with girls and stunting on sportbikes, then the rebelous part when he get a Sportster, works 9-5 and rolls with that gang, then move into the chopper era, then get s back to a Hayabusa for some responsible, comfotable canyon carving, tops it off with his family of four cruising on a goldwing with his wife, and his son and daughter riding a sportbikes with them... ending with his son's son watching easy rider.   very thin plot, LOTS OF BEAUTIFUL RIDING, CRUSING, RACING cycle action.   THAT would be a movie for the times.

boring... sorry, but boring. I wouldn't watch it...

course I thought easy rider was crap the first time I saw it, and still do.

course i don't ride for all that scenic/connection with the world/spiritual "find myself" crap some riders talk about either.. haha

 

[WWJD]

ok.. so what would YOU want in a biker movie? or perhaps skip biker movies altogether? Biker Boyz and Torque were 'nice' wastes of time but what I heard form bike people and even non bike people is they missed their mark. EASY RIDER sucks but that will never change it's standing.

 

[pure_ego]

hmm.. didn't mean to sound like I had a better plan.. haha I'm not much on movies anyway.

 

[MrGxr]

EasyRider is a great movie and yes I watch as much as possible. It's the movie that started me cruising around on two wheels. The movie showed the FREEDOM of riding in the wind with no worries and no real destination in mind...

 

[DAB]

Reguardless of how lame it will grow over time for the generations, EASY RIDER will always remain the quintessential first/best biker movie.  yeah the plot kinda plods along and the ending sucked, but the riding parts are really good - even if they don't 'say' anything.  Just seeing raw, naked american landscapes with the bikes rolling, and the freedom it represents for ALL types of cycle riders is PRICELESS.  I bought the DVD as soon as I found it.  I really enjoy seeing the locations before they got all built up with sky scrapers, malls, and hotels.  

LONG LIVE THE UN-REMADE CLASSICS!   Lucas: BACK OFF!!!

I'm with you.

Imagine what Lucas or Speilberg would do to it if they did a remake.

 

[WWJD]

... [shudder].. I don't even wanna think about it