Easy Rider? Haven't seen it.

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Brackstone · Sun Jul 26, 2009 6:50 pm

Is it sacrilege that I own a motorcycle but I haven't watched Easy Rider and

#2 Unread post by **jaskc78** » Sun Jul 26, 2009 7:10 pm

first vote. woot.

i haven't seen it either and my current count is three motorcycles. hopefully the madura sells this week and then the ninja moves up to Phoenix this next weekend. should be good for it, my buddy's gonna make payments on it so he can ride it back and forth to work and such and his girlfriend can learn on it.

#3 Unread post by **Wrider** » Sun Jul 26, 2009 7:10 pm

Nah I haven't either. And the worst part is one of my instructors owned the bar that's featured in it.

slimcolo · #4 Unread post by **slimcolo** » Sun Jul 26, 2009 8:12 pm

Who cares about Easy Rider, Have you read Pirsig's book?

jstark47 · #5 Unread post by **jstark47** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 1:13 am

Saw it. In the theatre, in 1969. I was 13. Dad took me (surprised me)....... I'm not sure we ever told Mom what kind of movie it was.

Kind of raw for a 13-year-old in 1969 (those were more innocent times), but I guess he figured it was stuff I was going to find out sooner or later...

MTexile · #6 Unread post by **MTexile** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:29 am

I remember seeing bit of it as a kid, picked up the DVD a few years back. If you see it today for the first time, you might stop watching it after 20 minutes of so. It's no "Casablanca" or "Citizen Kane", but it's worth watching IMHO. You just have to put yourself in a 60's mindset (and you can read into that whatever you want to

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#7 Unread post by **Wrider** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:55 am

MTexile wrote:I remember seeing bit of it as a kid, picked up the DVD a few years back. If you see it today for the first time, you might stop watching it after 20 minutes of so. It's no "Casablanca" or "Citizen Kane", but it's worth watching IMHO. You just have to put yourself in a 60's mindset (and you can read into that whatever you want to )

Whoa man, stop typing so fast, I can't keep up with that!

Johnj · #8 Unread post by **Johnj** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 6:59 pm

Check out "The Wild One". sometime.

Wed Jul 29, 2009 6:36 pm

Johnj wrote:Check out "The Wild One". sometime.

I like Wild Hogs.

slimcolo · #10 Unread post by **slimcolo** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 9:17 pm

A friend of mine is acting as a technical adviser for this. (for the last 4 years I thought it was BS but looks like He was for real with this) I read an official release the other day and now cannot find> They are also using his WLC but are passing it off as a WLA. They are also planning heavy advertisement at Sturgis.

http://www.cinematical.com/2009/05/19/a ... el-coming/

I really liked Quentin Tarantino's Hell Ride, I also liked FreeBird.

But the one movie that seemed like real life was Mask. W/ Sam Elliot http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089560/ (I could actually relate to the characters, they seemed like real people and not Hollywood creations like ER or Wild Hogs)

The only other motorcycle movies that had a truthful presentation of the motorcycling world were On Any Sunday http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067527/ ,Offerings to the Gods of Speed http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0877328/ and Hells Angels Forever http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085665/fullcredits#cast . (interesting that all three are documentaries)