Just watched Easy Rider for probably the 30th time, and it sure is sad seeing young Dennis Hopper knowing he is now dead. But this scene will always be priceless:
INDIANS!
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Just watched Easy Rider for probably the 30th time, and it sure is sad seeing young Dennis Hopper knowing he is now dead. But this scene will always be priceless:
INDIANS!
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freelancer
Love that movie. Can’t say I’ve watched that many times though. When I watch it, my blood boils a little bit and my inner William Tecumseh Sherman comes out and all I can come up with is “Fuck the South!”
Some Guy
I cannot watch that movie again. It makes me too sad. Terrific film but I cannot relive it. Seems kind of pathetic, writing it out, but true. I have a lot of great films that way. Even ones with hopeful endings, it is hard for me. For example, Lives of Others. Best film I think I have seen in a decade. But the claustrophobia and sadness keep me from watching it again. Weird.
Joey Maloney
Dancer In The Dark, despite being David Morse’s best work ever, and Bjork’s quirkilicious star turn – can’t ever watch it again. The moment where he steals her wad from right under her nose, knowing everything that’s going to happen next…just no.
piratedan
for me it’s the last 30 minutes of the remake of Last of the Mohicans, always tear up but I’m sure that at least 60% of it is that damn soundtrack from Michael Mann.
NotMax
At the time it originally came out, my nearly no longer a teenage self thought “Easy Rider” was a crappy movie with a killer soundtrack.
Now, 43 years later (and having seen it since then, including recently), have modified that to thinking it is a really crappy movie with a killer soundtrack.
Chacun à son goût.
David Koch
How did Peter Fonda become a teabagger?
NotMax
Large scrotum?
Bago
It’s anti hippie, anti redneck. It’s anti anti in the USA. So punk rock.
moderateindy
Easy Rider was financed in part by the money Nicholson made by writing the Monkees feature film; “Head”, a movie so bad it almost comes all the way back around to good. Almost.
Marcellus Shale, Public Dick
how’s your joint, george?
loved the movie, meh, the soundtrack.
RadioOne
It was before my time, but from my perspective the only thing about Easy Rider was “It’s Steppenwolf: Born to be Wild, but the song as a movie format.”
The prophet Nostradumbass
Al Franken was at some weird function, back in the 90s, where he happened to be standing next to Newt Gingrich, and this happened:
The prophet Nostradumbass
@David Koch: got stung by too many bees?
Raven
Sheeet, you haven’t live until you’ve seen Jack in Hell’s Angels On Wheels!
chopper
@Joey Maloney:
that was the saddest fucking movie ever.
mary
I saw the movie once in the theatre. I don’t know if I’ll ever watch it again. It really seemed to reflect the despair and cynicism of the times in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. The ending seems almost prophetic to me now.
Mr Stagger Lee
My favorite Dennis Hopper scene was when he asks Martin Sheen about Col. Kurtz. In the movie Apocalypse Now
Enjoyed that manic performance.
Svensker
Dennis Hopper’s dead, Peter Fonda’s a Teabagger, and Jack Nicholson is a weird old creep. Aging is the shiz, ain’t it?
patroclus
I’m not sure if I can ever forgive Jack Nicholson for what he did to the Monkees.
skippy
talking about geat movies we can no longer watch:
i can never watch “network” on tv. howard beale makes too much sense. when he rants “get up, turn off your tv!” i invariably do.