Sayin'.
THE WILD ANGELS Is Way the Fuck Better a Biker Movie Than EASY RIDER
I liked it better too.
It's lke everone just remembers the good scenes in Easy Rider with Jack Nicholson and forgets the rest of the boring shit. Wild Angels as I remember was pretty scary even though the bikers didn't really look realistic. I think the best biker movie is Mad Max.
and mad max is even mostly about cars
I just watched MAD MAX on VHS again a week or so ago. It is one of those few movies that not only holds up over the decades but is better than you remember it was. What is it that the Australians have got that the rest of us have not got. George Miller is like the great lost action director along with Don Siegel, the guy everybody rips off but nobody talks about. It took watching DEATH PROOF to remind me that directing a car chase is a transparent skill that Tarantino does not have. I am not sure that there is any such thing as a realistic biker. The whole point of being a biker is to be unrealistic. I don't hate EASY RIDER and in fact I sympathize with it, I just think it is fantastically overrated and that other biker movies that weren't trying to Mean Something were better. Once you are trying to Mean Something it is all over.
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