Yes I know, Easy Rider is a classic and a reflection of the youth counter-culture of the 1960s. But to quote Brad Dexter's character in "The Magnificent Seven"; "sure, sure, that's all on top. But what's underneath?" The answer: Nothing.
POSSIBLE SPOILER Two scum bag drug smugglers, who deal dope because they're too lazy to work and have no regard for the pain and suffering their enterprise causes, get a big payoff from a crime boss and spend the next few days/weeks/months biking across the great Southwestern Desert of America and meander their way to New Orleans. One of these clowns even has the audacity to drape himself and his chopper in the Stars & Stripes motif. All this while thousands of upstanding young men were fighting and dying in Vietnam to defend the rights of these two ancestors of Beavis & Butthead.
And since America isn't beautiful enough by itself, they enhance their metaphysical surroundings by constantly toking joints all along the way. Hope they don't crash into any school buses or other "regular citizens" who might trespass on their private DUI highways.
Pete and Repete mooch off hippie communes or sit in road side cafés, bewildered because the locals are disgusted by what they are, scum bag drug smugglers.
Their "holier than thou" attitudes eventually get them what most arrogant bad guys deserve. These two mental midgets get schwacked dead because they didn't have sense enough to stay away from people who hate idiots.
I saw this waste of celluloid when I was young and in college. It didn't impress me then and it doesn't impress me now.
POSSIBLE SPOILER Two scum bag drug smugglers, who deal dope because they're too lazy to work and have no regard for the pain and suffering their enterprise causes, get a big payoff from a crime boss and spend the next few days/weeks/months biking across the great Southwestern Desert of America and meander their way to New Orleans. One of these clowns even has the audacity to drape himself and his chopper in the Stars & Stripes motif. All this while thousands of upstanding young men were fighting and dying in Vietnam to defend the rights of these two ancestors of Beavis & Butthead.
And since America isn't beautiful enough by itself, they enhance their metaphysical surroundings by constantly toking joints all along the way. Hope they don't crash into any school buses or other "regular citizens" who might trespass on their private DUI highways.
Pete and Repete mooch off hippie communes or sit in road side cafés, bewildered because the locals are disgusted by what they are, scum bag drug smugglers.
Their "holier than thou" attitudes eventually get them what most arrogant bad guys deserve. These two mental midgets get schwacked dead because they didn't have sense enough to stay away from people who hate idiots.
I saw this waste of celluloid when I was young and in college. It didn't impress me then and it doesn't impress me now.