This 20:20 is a humdinger!
Are those two guys on motorcycles? Easy Rider?
I couldn’t believe it hadn’t been done yet.
We talk a lot about the 70s renaissance; this is the one that started it all.
By the way, fun fact; the last 3 films have had László Kovács as Director of Photography. Talk about impact…
The Olde English 800 (a Forty):
The Rger Maris (61):*
“It gives you a whole new way of looking at the day.”
“Well, I sure could use that!”
The 1hr21min20sec:
Oh when the saints go marching in!
But I never touched nothin’ that my spirit could kill, @Woolen_Horde!
I have to admit I’ve never seen Easy Rider. It just looked like it would be self-indulgent and annoying. That’s probably goofy, but I could never get up for it.
-xtien
Do it for the visuals and the editing. Plot…well…
Forget that it opened the doors for the star system and the new auteurs. Look at it in terms of pure cinema language.
Look at that last YT video (The Pusher). Looooong montages of quality, gorgeous shots mixed with popular music. Revolutionary when it came out. A close precursor? Bob Rafelson directing this in 1968:
But it was the Monkees, and was seen along the lines of a “Band Film”, so of course it had music in it for promotional reasons. Oh, and it was the Monkees. And it was Rafelson (TV Guy), and all the people around the production were “TV People” or “Corman B Movie people”. Oh, and it was the Monkees. So critics savaged it. It only started to get it’s props 30 years later.
I think it is a simplistic, reductionist argument to say that one film, Easy Rider, singlehandedly changed how films were made in the late 60s, and ushered in the 70s renaissance. A doctoral thesis could be written around that statement. In terms of American films made in the late 60s, it certainly had something to do with it (probably along with Head, Bonnie and Clyde, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and some others my brain tells me I shouldn’t bother to list here. :) ).
Let’s keep this party going.
20:20
I’m getting the vibe you are trolling with something filled with cheese. Supercross?
Nope!
I remember liking Jack Nicholson in it, but I’m not sure it’s worth watching the whole thing just for him.
Oh yeah, this song is the other good part.
This whole discussion makes me want to see Five Easy Pieces again.
However, as I said to Poster 10 from Navarone, I’m going to endeavor to watch the other “easy” movie with an eye toward what he suggests is worth watching in the movie.
-xtien
László Kovács again as Director of Photography…
40:40
I can never see Easy Rider without thinking of Albert Brooks’ Lost in America (starting at about the 29:00 mark):
I’ve never seen that, and need to. Looks hilarious.
My favorite Albert Brooks film and one of my favorite 80’s comedies, right up there with Local Hero.
I missed this. The shirt is French and so is the van. But I have no more than that.
It’s hilarious and heartbreaking. Also, Gary Marshall is actually good in it. Which is weird.
I have to go with Defending Your Life on that one. But that’s based more on my experience of seeing it.
-xtien
“Maybe I just didn’t explain the nest egg well enough.”
The scene with Marshall as the casino boss is probably the best in the movie.
“I’ve seen the future! And it’s a bald-headed man from New York!”
60:60, cause ya’ll are obviously oblivious and discussing things other than the movie in question
French Army fatigues and Load Bearing Equipment (LBE). Modern (post-2010), European Woodland Camo (Europe usage). Other than that, I got nothing.