Easy Rider (DVD) Reviews

note: also appears on The Student Room in part Easy Rider is one of the most culturally significant films of the 1960s, but it's also a rather self indulgent and self consciously over-stylised effort that's got some decent insight, but is so often suffocated by the intrusive direction by Dennis Hopper, who also co-stars in the film with ...  Read the complete review

A few things about this before the actual review. I don't think Peter Fonda is a very experienced rider at all. He wobbles & jerks a lot on the chopper. He looks like he could have done with a lot more practice riding it. Hopper looks the more natural biker of the two. I didn't fancy staying up to watch this so I taped it. And as is ...  Read the complete review

“We blew it” one of the most confusing but ultimately one of the most accurate remarks in film history. Easy Rider is one of the most complex and unlikely film hits of all time; it takes the role of an event rather than a film, it is in fact a moment in history perfectly captured. It is a relic, a symbol of the 1960’s attitudes and a benchmark ...  Read the complete review

In what's widely regarded as THE counter-culture movie, hippies Wyatt (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis Hopper) go on a motorcycle trip across America. Along the way, they meet everyone from violent rednecks to stoned freaks, and also hook up with disenchanted lawyer George Hansen (Jack Nicholson). Not everyone lives happily ever after. ...  Read the complete review

'Easy Rider' is the best film made in the Sixties. I'm just throwing that one in to make sure I get some comments from fellow film fans. I will accept votes for 'The Wild Bunch', 'The Manchurian Candidate' and 'Lawrence of Arabia, but 'Easy Rider' is the one that makes it for me. It's a fairly ...  Read the complete review

Easy Rider – the 1969 classic is the latest entry to my (rather small) video collection. After seeing Easy Rider a few days ago I can now see what all the fuss was about… Two motorcyclists set off on a coast-to-coast road trip in hope of discovering and experiencing the real America. Along the way they pick up hitchhikers, ...  Read the complete review

'Easy Rider' clearly deserves to be classed as a classic, providing a valuable glimpse into the values and ideals of its era. The film takes us on a journey across parts of America with Fonda and Hopper by motorbike and we encounter with them many extremes of their society. Some of the scenery is amazing and some of the attitudes ...  Read the complete review

Easy Rider is one of the all-time classic films. On wayching it for the first time you may not think anything of it. That's understandable but if it weren't for this film we may not have seen many of the original and thought provoking films that followed in the years after. The film is a rebellion and a tru sign of what was ...  Read the complete review

Easy Rider is the original road movie, there were others before it, but in terms of the expression of the restless questing of a gneration it has no equal. The later part of the 60's was a time of social unrest and upheavel across the western world. It was a time when, for a brief while, young children believed that the world was changing ...  Read the complete review

Although perhaps not as shocking as it was at the time of its release Dennis Hopper’s consummate road movie about a youth culture at odds with the conservative adult world stands the test of time with style. Hopper and Peter Fonda star as a pair of hippies, figures of loathing to middle America at the time, who embark on a ...  Read the complete review

Have you ever wanted to cruise the highway, through a never ending landscape, with no sense of time? To feel the wide open road hug you to it's breast and the wind torrent, like a bursting river through your hair? If so, you'll warm instantly to the characters in this classic film. From the cool and sublimely relaxed Peter Fonda to the ...  Read the complete review

This story line is spread out thinley over spectacular sequences of scenery, but the story line of this film is not what its about, this film is a disscussion of the new way of living and the old way of living and the pros and cons of the two back in the 60s. The film trys to capture both bohemian and conservative life at the time, and also ...  Read the complete review