Easy Rider
As an elegy for the naïve, easily-curdled optimism of the ‘60s, Easy Rider only barely worked when it came out, and it doesn’t work at all now. It is, in fact, aggressively interminable and damn near unwatchable. If you want to pay tribute to Peter Fonda (RIP), skip this self-indulgent bullshit and see if you can rent a copy of Ulee’s Gold from Movie Madness and watch that instead. Oooh! Wait, while you’re there, also rent The Limey, where Fonda really digs into being a bad guy in one of Steven Soderbergh’s very best movies.
by Bobby Roberts
