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A memorable look into the viscous cycle of freedom, where it seems death catches up no matter how free we are. It's also anti-establishment, 60s and 70s counter-culture at it's best, but it goes a little further because it's bleak and morbid. It succeeds by digging deep into the reactions of how people see freedom, and what they do when it makes them feel threatened, and the extraordinary lengths that they will go to preserve what makes them feel comfortable.

Easy Rider, you know, led the young director's march towards the studios. It's the most important american movie of its decade and a prelude to the great 1970s. A relic, but a masterpiece with some flaws, that you easily forget when that avant-garde, Bergman's Persona-like, psychedelic finale hits you like any song from the late 1960s, from Jimi Hendrix to The Velvet Underground.

I guess you can appreciate it for trying to capture the zeitgeist of the late sixties/early seventies, but Easy Rider hasn't aged well at all. Meandering, terribly edited and ugly. Nicholson is the only bright spot in this.

A really cool biker movie with Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson.

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I'm so happy for Hopper's success with this film. An odyssey for an era revolved around sex, drugs, and rock n roll. So easy and carefree; the actors didn't have to do much convincing to pull the viewer into their lifestyle.

A great western and a game changing film.

A road trip movie with more introspection and philosophy than most.

A historical landmark - one of the movies that kicked off "New Hollywood" by proving to major distributors that giving more independence to young talent from outside of the studio system can be profitable - but it's also a good movie, better than some of the other harbingers. It's a road movie in which the landscapes that the biker protagonists speed by are of as much importance as the dialogue scenes in the different stops they make. It intakes and holds 60's America in the lungs...

I liked how this movie sort of made me think "man, I kind of wish I was alive in the 60s" until the last 10-15 minutes which are just TERRIFYING.