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Finally got around to watching Easy Rider.
A supposed classic that I found to be a little ridiculous and vastly overrated. Primarily about culture clash in the 1960's across the southern United States (From California to Louisiana). It was a little before my day, but I still found the reactions and behavior of people towards the protagonists hard to buy. There is little effort put forth to help the audience suspend disbelief - that the antagonists in the movie (nondescript western-style males) have never seen people with long hair and think they can get away with everything they do is asking too much of the viewer. These people weren't sheltered backwoods hillbillies living in the mountains of West Virginia, they live right off the highway for crying out loud!
Anyway, this movie helped put Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Jack Nicholson on the map. Fonda and Hopper also wrote the screenplay. Probably the most interesting moment in the movie is when Nicholson, a small southern town lawyer, describes how aliens (who have a perfect utopian civilization on their home planet) are disguised as humans and living amongst us. Personally, I think I could have done better with the theme and moral than they did in the script!
This film has 85% approval on Rottentomatoes and a 7.3 on IMDB.
Personally, I give it a D (6/10) overall.
A supposed classic that I found to be a little ridiculous and vastly overrated. Primarily about culture clash in the 1960's across the southern United States (From California to Louisiana). It was a little before my day, but I still found the reactions and behavior of people towards the protagonists hard to buy. There is little effort put forth to help the audience suspend disbelief - that the antagonists in the movie (nondescript western-style males) have never seen people with long hair and think they can get away with everything they do is asking too much of the viewer. These people weren't sheltered backwoods hillbillies living in the mountains of West Virginia, they live right off the highway for crying out loud!
Anyway, this movie helped put Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Jack Nicholson on the map. Fonda and Hopper also wrote the screenplay. Probably the most interesting moment in the movie is when Nicholson, a small southern town lawyer, describes how aliens (who have a perfect utopian civilization on their home planet) are disguised as humans and living amongst us. Personally, I think I could have done better with the theme and moral than they did in the script!
This film has 85% approval on Rottentomatoes and a 7.3 on IMDB.
Personally, I give it a D (6/10) overall.
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