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Tweekums Having made a decent amount of money on a drug deal two Californian friends, Wyatt and Billy, take their motorbikes and set off from Los Angeles and head for New Orleans to attend Mardi Gras. Along the way they meet a group of hippies in a commune in the South West where they are struggling to grow crops in the arid soil, an alcoholic young lawyer in a town jail, threatening southern rednecks and a pair of prostitutes in a New Orleans bordello.This classic film is almost fifty years old now but still feels surprisingly fresh. There isn't really much in the way of a story; it is all about the journey and the contrasting people that our protagonists meet. Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper do a fine job as Wyatt and Billy; characters who spend much of their time getting stoned. Jack Nicholson also impresses as lawyer George Hanson a man who in introduced to American counterculture when he meets Wyatt and Billy. The film certainly isn't bogged down with excessive dialogue; in deed quite a lot of the film is dialogue free as the protagonists ride through some spectacular scenery. This scenery, and some of the characters they meet, contrast with the bigotry and brutality of some of the people they encounter. This brutality isn't bloody or prolonged but it is shocking in its suddenness and the pointlessness of it. The soundtrack is also great and fits in perfectly with the story being told. There is of course a lot of drug use; which is almost certainly the main reason for its UK '18' certificate; without this it would probably be a '15'… but it would also have been a very different film. Overall I'd certainly recommend this to any fans of classic films or those fascinated by '60s culture in America.

Uriah43 This movie essentially begins with two motorcyclists by the names of "Billy" (Dennis Hopper) and "Captain America" (Peter Fonda) journeying to Mexico to procure cocaine and then selling it for a hefty profit when they return to the United States. It's at this time that they decide to ride their motorcycles from Los Angeles to New Orleans in order to attend Mardi Gras. Along the way they meet a number of people with various philosophies and cultural norms. Some of the people are kind and generous while others are mean and intolerant. And one of the main factors behind the disconnect between these two groups is the acceptance and use of illegal drugs. At the same time this film also manages to combine some beautiful scenery on the way to New Orleans with an expression of freedom on the part of the individuals involved. On that note, however, it should be mentioned that this film is rather dated and presents a point-of-view which is admirable in one sense but also rather naive as well. Be that as it may, this is a rare and thought-provoking film with certain strengths and weaknesses which most viewers will probably find both interesting and entertaining. I have rated it accordingly. Above average.

jimbo-53-186511 When watching a film I can sometimes ascertain how much I will like it within the first 5 or 10 minutes; I hated Easy Rider from the start and given its 'classic' status I hoped that it would improve as things progressed. Sadly, it remained bad from start to finish...Let's look at the plot for a minute; 2 hippies pull up at a petrol station, do some coke and move on, they then pick up a hitchhiker and stop at some random place and have some food and then move on again.Later in the film our 2 hippies pick up lawyer George Hanson (Jack Nicholson) who decides to tag along on their road trip to get to the Mardi Gras. At this point the boredom and pointlessness of the film had almost wore me out, but I persevered hoping that it would improve as it went along, but sadly it never did.The general narrative showed Hopper and Fonda in a drug-induced stupor and after watching this film I couldn't help but wonder if they were in the same state when they produced this mess. To me this just felt like a private joke between Fonda and Hopper that just didn't transfer well to audiences. The film seemed to veer from one pointless scene to another without offering any humour, insight or good dialogue. Most of the film was painful and boring to sit through and I struggled making it to the end (even though it was only 90 minutes long). What makes it worse is what follows later in the film; Nicholson's character gets beaten to death and although attempts are made later to 'make' something of it, it still strangely felt rather unceremonious. The scenes after this are just plain bizarre and Fonda's glib comment at the end explaining the pointlessness of everything that they had endured might have worked better if the whole film hadn't have felt so pointless - for me there was an unintended irony here.Despite reasonable performances from Hopper, Fonda, and Nicholson this to me felt like a really bad private joke between Fond and Hopper and the whole film was just an embarrassment from start to finish. The bizarre narrative, lack of insight into any of the characters and mind-numbingly boring story made this a rather challenging 90 minute viewing experience. It's cult status and its grandiose status amongst critics and IMDb members alike is something that is as much of a mystery to me as the film itself.