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Two young "hippie" bikers, Wyatt and Billy sell some drugs in Southern California, stash their money away in their gas-tank and set off for a trip across America, on their own personal odyssey looking...( read more 
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MCT:August 31, 2008Dennis Hopper's SOLE legendary film,a hippie manifesto or the misfits' blues.Breathtaking,culminating road trip experience.Soundtrack is seminal,mother nature never so vengeful.
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MCT:August 30, 2008Good Old 60s, MC, Hippies, and Drugs good times.... Not. But a great Movies, about 2 MC who travel around the country with no Meaning. Its was funny with Jack Nicholson as always, with his stupid helmet. hahaha
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MCT:August 19, 2008
I was always told to watch this movie, and I finally have. Makes you despise the south and their lack of intelligence, and sadly I know first hand, having been forced to live in that area for a several year span in my life. I don't recommend living in the deep southeast, the ignorance is rather alarming.
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MCT:August 18, 2008Terrible editing, poorly acted, silly dialog and pointless movie. I don't understand why people like it, maybe because when a movie gets old it gets more respect?
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MCT:July 30, 2008
A defining film of the 60's generation, looks maybe a little dated now but it carries the same spirit it always did, the grandaddy of all road movies, i think its really a tale of growing up and learning the fact that good guys finish last and of course one great scene about the illusion of "freedom" a lil piece of American commentary P.S. ignore the UFO bit P.P.S. finding out just how defining this was to a sense of freedom recently revieled that there were huge chucks improvised, actors were directors and Jack Nickleson's role was decided all on one simle in his audition, this was truely innovative and free in film making terms
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MCT:July 25, 2008a defining film for 60s counterculture. really depressing in the sense that the spiritual journey and search for freedom ends so tragically. poignant realism combines with trippy, unusual editing in a style strongly influenced by French New Wave, but still uniquely American. awesome soundtrack as well. overall pretty good movie, but I can't say it did much for me.
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MCT:July 21, 2008
While it's not a great movie. It is an important movie. This movie is responsible for the the New Hollywood of the 70's.
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MCT:July 12, 2008I applaud counterculture when it reaches such intensity, veracity and boldness. A landmark film that cleverly showed the middle finger to an entire era, and still does.
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MCT:July 9, 2008
Why??? There is NO POINT in this movie. Unless the point is supposed to be that drug dealing hippie bikers are all model citizens and everyone else is judgmental, and generally evil. I mean, it was very well acted, but there was no back story, no connection to the characters... I was sorely disappointed. And I'm one who loves biker movies and hippie movies, I just didn't see that point.
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MCT:July 6, 2008
hmm... i've given it a 3 for shock value. i did not expect it to end the way it did! most of the film is just two guys riding their motorcycles on the highway, and then there's a drugged up part and finally a brutal violent part. although it shocked me i didn't think it was good. maybe good for a first viewing but after that you will only find it disappointing at the end... as the three characters (including nicholson by then) don't really put up much of a fight. they just run away from everything. i guess that's the stupid hippy peace ideal coming through. watch it once! and then never again!
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MCT:July 4, 2008
one of the legend films ..a unique road movie ...a poem about lost innocent , about earth ,about freedom
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MCT:June 29, 2008
Laszlo Kovacs, a Hungarian cinematographer who fell in love with the American landscape on a cross-country bus ride and then used light, shadow and imagination to give visual shape to seminal films like ?Easy Rider,? died on Sunday at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 74.
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In films like ?Easy Rider? (1969), Laszlo Kovacs blended a love of landscape with an innovative filming style.
His death was announced by the International Cinematographers Guild. James Chressanthis, a cinematographer who is preparing a documentary on Mr. Kovacs and his friend and fellow cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, said that the cause was not known but that Mr. Kovacs had earlier had cancer.
Mr. Kovacs came along in the 1960s when the old studio system was sputtering and a new independent cinema was rising. Filmmakers emerged from film schools and work on B movies to challenge traditional themes and techniques and create what has been called ?the new Hollywood,? or ?the American new wave.?
Production moved from the studios to the streets, and the new breed used small crews, lightweight equipment and innovative means of coping with low budgets. Improvisation was both artistic goal and hard necessity. In ?Easy Rider? (1969), Mr. Kovacs used a 1968 Chevrolet convertible as his camera car, making the platform for his camera from a piece of plywood on the trunk held in place by a sandbag.
In that movie, he wanted to portray something hopeful after the fiery demise of the character played by Peter Fonda. A rising helicopter delivered a panoramic view of the horizon, but only after Mr. Kovacs balanced a camera on one skid and counterweights on the other to keep the helicopter from tipping over.
In ?Five Easy Pieces? (1970), Mr. Kovacs memorably matched the color of Susan Anspach?s blue eyes and the sky. In another scene, he shot Ms. Anspach and then let his camera drift elsewhere; she scurried behind the camera and he arrived back at her face, giving the illusion that the shot had gone all the way around the room.
His tricks included using flashing lights and other techniques to create the impression of psychedelic hallucinations. His goal was to let the environment make statements about the characters. He intended for the foggy islands of the Pacific Northwest to explain the tight little family in ?Five Easy Pieces.?
Most of his major works are clustered at the start of the 1970s, including ?That Cold Day in the Park? (1969), Robert Altman?s third feature as a director, and ?The King of Marvin Gardens? (1972), which, like ?Five Easy Pieces,? was directed by Bob Rafelson. He did six pictures with the director Peter Bogdanovich, including ?Targets? (1968), ?What?s Up, Doc?? (1972) and ?Paper Moon? (1973).
His range grew wider, with credits including Martin Scorsese?s movies ?New York, New York? (1977) and ?The Last Waltz? (1978) and Hal Ashby?s ?Shampoo? (1975). Other movies included ?Ghost Busters? (1984) and ?My Best Friend?s Wedding? (1997).
Mr. Kovacs was born on May 14, 1933, in Cece, a farming village about 60 miles west of Budapest. During the Nazi occupation, he distributed flyers for the propaganda movies shown each week in a school auditorium. His pay was a free seat, and he was fascinated by the flickering images.
In 1945, he was accepted into the Academy of Drama and Film Art in Budapest, where students watched Western films surreptitiously. He was swept off his feet by ?Citizen Kane,? saying it ?changed my visual vocabulary.?
In the uprising against the Communist regime in 1956, he and Mr. Zsigmond shot 30,000 feet of film at great risk to themselves. They escaped with the film, and some of it eventually became part of a documentary a few years later.
They both bounced among odd jobs. Around 1957, Mr. Kovacs, who had arrived in the United States speaking no English, moved from New Jersey to Seattle, taking the memorable bus ride that found echoes later in ?Easy Rider.? In 1959, he took another bus to Los Angeles, where he reunited with Mr. Zsigmond.
Mr. Kovacs did movies like ?The Notorious Daughter of Fanny Hill? (1966), often working with the B movie producer Roger Corman. After he shot eight biker movies in one year, Dennis Hopper asked him to do another. Mr. Kovacs?s reluctance to repeat himself vanished after Mr. Hopper acted out the script. ?Easy Rider,? with a budget of $340,000, was a sensation at Cannes and made $60 million.
Mr. Kovacs is survived by his wife, Audrey, and his daughters Julianna and Nadia.
He prided himself on spontaneity. He and the other crew members had no preconceived idea where they would shoot the classic scene in ?Five Easy Pieces? in which Jack Nicholson orders a chicken salad sandwich without the chicken salad just to get the toast he wants.
?Approaching the freeway, we saw a little rise, and there was the cafe,? he said in an interview with American Cinematographer magazine in 2005. ?I think we shot that scene in two hours, and then we moved on.? -
MCT:June 21, 2008
directed by hopper and starring him self, a film very influential in the list of films that brought independent filmmaking into the 70s, and paved the way for many, scorsese spielberg, and so on, a good solid road movie, with great performanbces from hopper, fonda, and a exelklent nicholson, this is where the 60s ended
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MCT:June 11, 2008
Seriously, what a depressing movie; but a great one with that. All three actors do fantastic jobs, but it's Jack Nicholson who (once again) steals the show. The plot is very simple and has been copied HUNDREDS of times throughout the years. Overall a very good film.
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MCT:June 7, 2008
Pretty freakin funny... but the ending was sooo messed up. Jack Nicholson is awesome in this cus he's as normal as I've ever seen him in a movie even though he's a crazy drunk. I loved the music... cept for the weird country one about "bogarting joints"... but ya, this was pretty cool. I don't do drugs...
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MCT:June 7, 2008
What a depressing character study and an awesome cast. You sink simultaneously with the film; what a grand direction.
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MCT:June 6, 2008
Wow! This film can look a lottle simple minded for some but they've got it all wrong, Easy Rider is a work of art, the western of motors and the motor of westerns. Think about that.
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MCT:June 6, 2008Don't see what all the fuss is about. It's cool as a portrait of a certain time & place, but the movie itself is below average. It had no plot that I could find.
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MCT:June 4, 2008
After much anticipation to see 'Easy Rider', I must say it was a bit more trippy than I was expecting but very interesting to say the least. The most disappointing parts of the film were Jack Nicholson's short lived turn as George Hanson and the abrupt ending, which both seem to be frequent complaints. Hopper and Fonda both did a terrific job, and the soundtrack fit perfectly. This picture is far from flawless, but you can easily see it it's inspiration in many other films following it. Time is taking, and will continue taking it's toll on this picture but this will always be a blueprint for 60's pop culture...
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MCT:May 29, 2008
wow. the quintessential counter-culture mixed with road trip movie. kind of have to be/have done drugs to get this one. To quote the hip-hop group Clipse, 'tomorrow ain't promised so we live for the moment.'
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MCT:May 26, 2008
It's hard to believe one of the most significant, most iconic road movies was directed by an amateur (Dennis Hopper) - well, it was. Easy Rider is not just about flower people, or the matter of subcultures. For me it deals with the idea of minority, of being against in general. Fantastic soundtrack and unforgettable supporting role from Nicholson.
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MCT:May 16, 2008
It's mantra is profound, and it's influence: undeniable. Whilst is has moments of haunting brilliance and a memorable performance from a young Jack Nicholson, it is ultimately too inconsistent in exectuion to be considered a great 'film'.
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MCT:May 14, 2008
Kinda plays like a looong music video until that disturbing post-mardi gras sequence, which I kind of liked.
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broadwaymoposted 72 days ago -
"No, man, like hey, man. Wow. I was watching this object man, li-like the satellite that we saw the other night, right? And, like, it was going right across the sky, man, and then... I mean it just suddenly, uh, it just changed direction and went whizzin right off, man. It flashed..."
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This film was amazing. It's from people who were really part of the 60's drug scene so you know it's truthful. This is a truly timeless movie. I love it!
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