comment #1

Tom Reagan says ...

With the exception of Nicholson's performance, I hate everything about Easy Rider. It is an endless collage of stoners, bike riding sequences, and Hopper trying to be Antonioni/Godard with that terrible acid trip scene at the end. The whole thing is horrifyingly dated 40 years later. I had to watch it for class and although I approach everything with an open mind, I could not believe that this piece of shit film still gets critical acclaim after so many years.

comment #2

York "Budd" Durden says ...

Wrong, Mr. Reagan. Easy Rider may feel dated to some doofus forced to watch it in a class, but the truth remains that the film is lightning in a bottle, indelible, audacious, captivating, and one of the most important landmarks of American cinema.

comment #3

Howlingman says ...

I like Easy Rider, I like The Beatles -- and I've had my fill of hearing about both of them. Landmark, yes, lightning in a bottle, definitely, but too often it's hammered into everyone that culture stopped sometime in 1969.

[But that's probably the surly Gen X-er in me talking]

comment #4

Neil says ...

Need that BD, but also grateful for my 35th anniversary SD that comes with an out of print BFI book and a fairly useless soundtrack sampler .

comment #5

George Prager says ...

After watching the Lazlo/Vilmos doc. last night, and reading Troll Reagan's tone-deaf critique (wow, it must really suck to be you), I'm really pumped to watch EASY RIDER again.

comment #6

reverent and free says ...

Reagan is right that if not for Nicholson it probably wouldn't remain a classic.

comment #7

BurmaShave says ...

What Tom Reagan is probably saying is "I'm in High School, please don't listen to me"

comment #8

DeeZee says ...

The Fairfax Regency is screening the flick this Friday @ Midnite.

comment #9

Anthony Thorne says ...

I know a great, dirty, Hopper / Nicholson story that Hopper told the crew behind-the-scenes a few years back during a shoot in Queensland, but I probably shouldn't fucking tell it!