Easy Rider

Pros: Acting and directing......
Cons: A little unsettling

Sex, drugs, hookers, bikers, prejudice, death ~ in six words I summed up this movie.

When released it caused quite a stir. We were just dipping into that pot known as sex and drugs. Still somewhat virgin territory. I suppose to the young...

Pros: Nicholson, Hopper , Fonda in his best role, Sound track
Cons: You can't film an acid trip, and it is depressing

This low budget Independent Film , released in 1969 marked the beginning of one era..and the close of another. It was the beginning of independent movies that made it to the box office without the full Hollywood treatment, and it marked the end of an...

Pros: Powerful movie, with lots of meaning
Cons: rampant drug use could upset some.

Easy Rider-the ultimate drug, motorcycle, and rock and roll movie. Made in an era when drug and motorcycle movies were at their peak. Well, I have no great interest in motorcycles, I had no desire to see grown men getting stoned and staying stoned, and...

Pros: Acting, Soundtrack, Script!
Cons: Subject makes it's viewing audience less.

Easy Rider starring Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson is rightfully named one of the ...

Pros: Road tripping at its finest
Cons: The end kinda bums you out

This is one of those movies you hear about from your parents that you actually want to see but don't tell them you want to see it. Most people will probably watch it in a big group at college like i did and then have this big philosophical...

Pros: It was the most honest movie of its time
Cons: The truth was so ugly most people denied it

Take a couple who has just returned from Redneck land. The couple, though "straight" in California, is "damsure Hippy freaks" to the people they meet on their journey. The couple wears SF-trendy clothes, he has a beard and...

Pros: good acting by Nicholson
Cons: hopper's performance was a little over the top, plot lags at points

As I sat down to watch Easy Rider, I prepared myself for a loose, unrestrained wanderlust road trip. I now know better. The Easy Rider experience is one which left me empty and depressed, but perhaps a bit more in tune with the 1960’s hippie...

Pros: Special Features includes a documentary as good as the movie itself.
Cons: Retiring to Florida?

Easy Rider was a kind of snap shot of America as the sixties came to a close. The music, the color, the freedom all froze a place in time. Who grasped the symbolism of the Money and the American flag teardrop gas tank?

Not only did Easy...

Pros: Classic Soundtrack - Artistic photography - DVD Feature "Shaking the Cage"
Cons: none

This movie was the surprise hit of 1969. Besides being one of the first independently made low-budget flicks to be released by a major studio it also has the distinction of being the first movie with a made to order original soundtrack that is a time...

Pros: An American classic, gets better each time you watch it
Cons: none...unless you got something against pot smoking.

"Easy Rider" is an American classic, mixing together the elements of the traditional road picture with the concerns and fears of the turbulent era of the late 1960's.

It's a powerful, almost mythical film that seems to reveal...

Pros: Important Historically, Youthful Spirit
Cons: Dated Today

When "Easy Rider" was released in 1969, it marked a turning point in the history of the American cinema. It took the independent film movement--practiced for so long by Roger Corman and others--and thrust it forward into the spotlight and,...

Pros: taste of 60's culture, soundtrack and Nicholson
Cons: tripped out parts don't work out

Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll. Maybe a tired old cliche today but when Hopper set out to make this cinematic masterpiece he definitely captured it on a piece of plastic anyone can rent. This movie defines the 60s lifestyle; rife with cultural turmoil...

Pros: Great movie.
Cons: Might not like it if you don't like motorcycles.

This movie is a great movie. Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper play as two motorcyclists driving across the country to get to Mardi Gras...... but they don't know what they'll do after that. On their way to Mardi Gras they encounter a lot of different...

Pros: Shows how jealous Americans are when others "do their own thing"
Cons: Nicholson had too short of a part.

This movie is a classic! It makes you wonder who to feel more comfortable around: people who pester others to obey the rules and "do what everyone else does" or be around some guys that don't give a care what you think and will do as the want. Humanists,...

Pros: Jack Nicholson
Cons: virtually everything

The only thing good about this bike flick is the refreshing and surprising eruption of Jack Nicholson on the screen in this snore of a movie. Unfortunately Nicholson does not stay long and the audience is allowed to go back to sleep for the rest of the...