That's some bad weed..
Posted on 07/12/2019 12:05:43 PM PDT by Red Badger
JOE: "So on the day that Christ rose from the dead, they're out there groovin' and screwin'."
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LOL. Yeah Billy Jack, a fake indian too.
The very first Bill Jack was an unintentional hoot. It was called "Born Losers" about a motorcycle gang who chases after some wholesome girl tooling around on a Honda 50 putt-putt (or maybe it was a Vespa). Really a grade-Z movie, good for the the unintentional laughs …
“I saw it for the first time about five years ago. I thought it was unbelievably lame.”
Wisdom. It would be cruel and unusual punishment to be forced to watch it again.
That's some bad weed..
Roll call would be!........................
Girl was played by Elizabeth James, she looked good in that white bikini, but I never understood why someone would ride a motorcycle in a bikini.
Marxist blowhard.
Democrats are scum.
I didn’t see it when it came out in the theaters, but I finally saw it on Z-Channel in L.A. in the mid 1980s. It was OK. Not great. Not all that bad.
I imagine that most people would be astounded to discover that despite his being regarded as a cultural hero by the left, that Jack Kerouac ended up being rabidly anti-Left. He would have fit in here at FR.
Vanishing Point was GREAT. A lot of the other movies listed and this one (Easy Rider) were all really depressing. They made for great social commentary, but really lousy entertainment. And since most people go to movies to be entertained... glad that particular desire of Hollywood, trashing traditional values and anything non-progressive, got a little more sophisticated over the years.
Of minor interest is that the "death blow" to the Woodstock Mentality took place within ten miles of where Easy Rider was filmed..I refer to the "Festival of Life" which took place in McCrea, Louisiana. Naked hippies wallowing in mud, being eaten by mosquitoes, and drowning in the Atchafalaya River. The "cafe" scene was shot in Morganza, LA, and featured a couple of gals I went to school with.
Out of nostalgia about a year ago, I rented the DVD from Netflix and watched it. Actually a pretty crummy flick.
There always was a lunatic fringe in every generation. The Angela Davis types were very few and not part of any real movement then. Antifa and the Democrat party are many. That is today's movement.
Dropping out was a personal decision, not some kind of forced socialism we are facing today. Robert Kennedy reflected what was a young movement then and would never get the Democrat nomination today.
LOL!
Whoa! You mean all this time I was mistaken in thinking the hippie dope fiends in Easy Rider were the bad guys who finally got what they had coming?
Heavy man!
I remember mentioning “Two Lane Blacktop” to a pal back at Iowa in ‘69 or ‘70.
He thought it was a movie about a university in Louisiana...
Dropping out was a personal decision, not some kind of forced socialism we are facing today.
Back in the day, I tuned in, turned on, and still had to make a living. Nixon might have called it a modified, limited dropout. LOL
Sorry, but it was not that good a movie. I am sure it has a cult following and it certainly was successful, but really it just isn’t all that and a bag of chips. Give me “Star Wars” or “Indy Jones and the Lost Ark” any day.
It is not worth analyzing. I mean, OK, they are changing a tire while the horse is getting s horseshoe changed. I get it.
Hippy movie. I think you need to be stoned to watch it and have it be some kind of religious experience.
Worth watching. I liked it. Had some great motorcycling shots of the wide open road, which is why I loved touring on a motorcycle. But the whole hippy drop-out anti-establishment theme hasn’t aged well.
Kudos to those whose favorite movie is Easy Rider, but it just not that good of a movie. Not even in the genre. I will go with “Vanishing Point” over “Easy Rider” any day. Even “Five Easy Pieces”.
It is the only way any such movie can end. They are not trying to opine on the meaning to life of to show life has purpose and define it. In all these movies, the protagonist is futilely searching for meaning and purpose in his life and never finds it, leaving nothing left but useless, purposeless death.
It would be a long movie to have them die naturally at 70 years old, so to cut to the chase that death is the only reality, they all have to end with the protagonist’s violent and meaningless death, often at the hands of the “evil” establishment or some other group or organization the protagonist feels is the root of all evil in life. That a can be the FedGov, a church, the military, a strict father, a school principal — whatever represents a moral authority being imposed on the character, who is seeking meaning in chaos and lack of moral boundaries.
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