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  Review by Matt Singer ★★★★½ 8

  “This used to be a helluva good country. I can't understand what's gone wrong with it."

  “Man, everybody got chicken, that's what happened. Hey, we can't even get into like, a second-rate hotel, I mean, a second-rate motel, you dig? They think we're gonna cut their throat or somethin'. They're scared, man.”

  “They're not scared of you. They're scared of what you represent to 'em.”

  “Hey, man. All we represent to them, man, is somebody who needs a haircut.”

  “Oh, no. What you represent to them is freedom.”

  “What the hell is wrong with freedom? That's what it's all about.”

  “Oh, yeah, that's right. That's what's it's all about, all right. But talkin' about it and bein' it, that's two…

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  Review by Ben McDonald ★★★ 5

  ashamed to say I thought Peter Fonda was Jack Nicholson for 45 minutes.

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  Review by maria ★★★½ 13

  i have a thing for jack nicholson in this movie and i hate myself

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  Review by fran hoepfner ★★★★

  people used to be so mad at you if you didn’t get a haircut

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  Review by Wesley R. Ball ★★★★★ 4

  A sweeping portrait of the American landscape through the eyes of two 60's counterculturists, Dennis Hopper's Easy Rider is a gorgeous ode to the open freedom of the American way. It's the ultimate road trip film, simultaneously developing its two protagonists and the characters they meet while intermittent segments of folk rock play backstage to colorful shots of the western countryside. Hopper displays an appreciation for the simple lifestyle that many Americans represent, from the mild-mannered farmer to the typical small town residents. The hippie movement that dominated the 60's thought process is also observed here, offering a fascinating inside look at a culture of peace, love, and a ton of unidentified substances.

  The counterculturist movement of the 60's played…

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  Review by Joe ★★★★ 2

  I hate this expression but in this case it happens to be the truth: Time has not been kind to Easy Rider. So much of its aesthetic, its depiction of freedom and adventure, even specific shots of our two heroes flying down the road on their motorcycles, have become fodder for commercials for banks and life insurance. But what the commercials miss is the heavy cloud of doom, gloom, and fatalism that hangs over almost every scene, with the possible exception of the one featuring Jack Nicholson as straight man to Peter Fonda's world's most laconic marijuana infomercial host.

  Unfortunately, even though there are now 45 years of progress standing between us and Easy Rider, it's still the pessimism that…

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  Review by 🇵🇱 Steve G 🇵🇸 ★★ 11

  To be honest, I had always avoided this because it sounded to me like a boring drugs film and I fucking hate boring drugs films. And I also find motorbikes about as exciting as an M25 traffic jam.

  So imagine my surprise....

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  Review by Underground Opera Singer ★★★★★ 6

  Nothing like an ending to leave you in a completely stunned silence, every time.

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  Review by siobhan ★★★

  it’s ok i’ve already seen lana del rey’s ride music video

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  Review by luvi ★★★★

  Guess you could say I'm very FONDA this

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★ 1

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  What remains provocative about Easy Rider is whether its looming, desperate fatalism and study of the late-60s is performative. Regardless of any context, Dennis Hopper's film exists in a sideways place of unfulfilled promises, broken dreams, and long, winding roads, leading to passages where fiction and non-fiction are littered with meaningless details. Is Hopper even acting? Probably not. Does it matter? I can't say if it does. Easy Rider could never be classified as forced, but it ends up along that plane of existence by the end, pre-planned or not. Still, my heart overflows for the soundtrack, which my dad basically copied song-for-song and put on a mixtape titled 'America'. It still makes me laugh.

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  Review by Ben Hibburd ★★★★★ 12

  *There are some spoilers for the film later down in the review*

  
  There are a few key films that changed the landscape of American cinema in my opinion. The first being Arthur Penn’s classic “Bonnie and Clyde”, the second; John Schlesinger’s “Midnight Cowboy” and finally Dennis Hopper’s “Easy Rider”. Sure, there were a few more notable films from the late 60’s that ushered in the Hollywood auteur era such-as: “The Wild Bunch”, “The Graduate” and “In the Heat of the Night” but the three mentioned, I feel, have had the biggest impact in producing a cultural shift in how film making was approached.

  "Easy Rider" is a film that I wasn’t ready for when I watched it in my teens,…