Easy Rider (Special Edition)
35th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
Experience the real, uncensored '60s counterculture in this compelling mixture of drugs, sex and armchair politics. Academy Award®-winner Jack Nicholson (Best Actor, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, 1975; Best Supporting Actor, Terms of Endearment, 1983; Best Actor, As Good As It Gets, 1997) stars with Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper (who also directs) in this unconventional classic which Time Magazine hails as "one of the ten most important pictures of the decade."
Nominated for an Academy Award® (1969) for Best Screenplay (written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Terry Southern), Easy Rider continues to strike a chord with audiences of all ages.
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Existentially Ambiguous - ianmack
I suppose I expected a lot from this film. In some ways it surpassed my expectations: Jack with his monologues on aliens, government control, freedom, were remarkably interesting and in many ways, still topical. The Mardi Gras scene was a highlight as well, more like an art school project than a commercial film. The grainy film and editing lent itself well to their 'acid' sequence.
Yet at the end of it all, I found the ending too ambiguous to properly convey what I think they were trying. Is it a tragedy? I guess, but not in the way you'd expect from a film. I'm generally fond of 'anti-climaxes' but this felt too empty to really mean anything at all.
Still...fascinating snapshot at the end of the 60's, a decade I know very little about but find admiral in its pioneers.Rougher than I remember - michael3
I saw the original in '69. I was 13 and this movie had a huge impact on my sense of movie going.
This movie dealt with "real, relevant" issues for us at the time, and forced us to ask some difficult questions..
But that was back in '69.
The film and production of this movie is much rougher than I remember. Perhaps our expectations were less sophisticated or perhaps at age 13, anything with a motorcycle and rock and roll sound tracks were Groovy... But this one is rough.
Look beyond that and enjoy the message to Amerika in '69.
Nicholson is amazing.
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Existentially Ambiguous - ianmack
I suppose I expected a lot from this film. In some ways it surpassed my expectations: Jack with his monologues on aliens, government control, freedom, were remarkably interesting and in many ways, still topical. The Mardi Gras scene was a highlight as well, ...Rougher than I remember - michael3
I saw the original in '69. I was 13 and this movie had a huge impact on my sense of movie going.
This movie dealt with "real, relevant" issues for us at the time, and forced us to ask some difficult questions..
But that was back in '69.
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