Blu-ray Review HTF BLU-RAY REVIEW: Easy Rider (1 Viewer)

[Richard Gallagher]

 

[James L White]

Nice review Richard
I love this movie but I'll hold off until the disc can be had for under 20 bucks

 

[Michael Reuben]

Rich, that's a wonderfully astute evaluation of Easy Rider. I was the target audience (as, I suspect, were you), and even as I was bowled over at the time by the raw power of some of the most famous scenes (mostly ones you've wisely avoided describing), I was troubled by the lack of narrative coherence and the intellectual laziness that accompanied it. It's ironic, but already in 1969, Hopper had managed to foreshadow in a single film almost everything good and everything awful in the coming decade's rebellion against the old Hollywood style of movie-making.

 

[Richard Gallagher]

Thanks, Michael. My reaction on seeing it again is that it's a significant artifact of that era, but as a friend commented "It's a road movie which leads nowhere."

 

[Felix Martinez]

I still find it relevant. Whether it's in big-business, big government, or in everyday life, the credo of "score and disappear" - no matter what the consequences are to those around you - still surrounds us.
Fonda's introspective character realizes in the end that they blew it and squandered their potential, but by then, of course, it's too late.
The youth of the '60s were notoriously critical of what they perceived to be the previous generation's war-mongering, superficial, materialistic ways. Two generations later, where are we and what has happened along the way?

Nice review, Richard. I do miss the laserdisc commentary with Fonda and Hopper (on speakerphone?). It was quite funny, compared to Hopper's solo, dry track on the DVD (and now Blu-ray).

 

[Robert Crawford]

Thanks for the great review and just a note, this excellent BRD can be purchased from Amazon for 20.99 which is a dollar higher than James pricepoint.





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