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Easy Rider (Widescreen) [SPECIAL EDITION] | ![Easy Rider (Widescreen) [SPECIAL EDITION]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51LPGzbN0tL._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: Dennis Hopper
Actors: Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Antonio Mendoza (ii), Phil Spector, Mac Mashourian
Studio: Columbia TriStar
Category: DVD
List Price: CDN$ 16.95
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Rating:  87 reviews
Sales Rank: 1816
Format: Ac-3, Ntsc, Special Edition, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Georgian (Subtitled), Chinese (Subtitled), Thai (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
DVD Layers: 2
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: COLD01749D
ISBN: 0800141784
UPC: 043396017498
EAN: 9780800141783
ASIN: B000022TSY
Theatrical Release Date: 1969
Release Date: March 16, 2004
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Amazon.com essential video
This box-office hit from 1969 is an important pioneer of the American independent cinema movement, and a generational touchstone to boot. Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper play hippie motorcyclists crossing the Southwest and encountering a crazy quilt of good and bad people. Jack Nicholson turns up in a significant role as an attorney who joins their quest for awhile and articulates society's problem with freedom as Fonda's and Hopper's characters embody it. Hopper directed, essentially bringing the no-frills filmmaking methods of legendary, drive-in movie producer Roger Corman (iThe Little Shop of Horrors/i) to a serious feature for the mainstream. The film can't help but look a bit dated now (a psychedelic sequence toward the end particularly doesn't hold up well), but it retains its original power, sense of daring, and epochal impact. I--Tom Keogh/I
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The song-track is disappointing January 10, 2005
Lelani Arris (Dunster, British Columbia Canada)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Well, I hadn't seen this movie in ~20 years, never owned the video OR an earlier DVD, so it was worth purchasing. But I WAS disappointed in the song-track (as a previous reviewer so aptly put it), why wasn't the other music from the movie, and especially Ballad of Easy Rider (a personal favorite) included? And the book is a little dry for my liking - focused too much on the film-industry aspects and not enough on the times that generated the movie and what it meant to all of us who lived (even partially) during those times.pOn the positive side, I'd never seen the documentary about the making of the film, and it was affirming to learn that most of the actors really were stoned out of their minds while they were making the movie...one always wonders about these things.pOverall, I'm happy to have finally added this to my collection, and to be able to share it with all my similar-generation friends.
 Rip off or best buy. depends December 9, 2004
Alexis PONCHARD (Sherbrooke, Quebec Canada)
If you already have the 30th anniversary edition don't buy this one. It's a rip off !! it's the same exact thing that the previous version same menu and same extras. You get a cd SONGtrack not SOUNDtrack so you don't have all the movie's songs and the short book by Lee.brSo if you don't have a dvd version of Easy Rider go for it you won't regret it and if you already have the 30th version then wait till the 40 th maybe we will have the three full hours uncut or at list part of it.
The best portrait of a hopeless generation! June 27, 2004
Hiram Gomez Pardo (Valencia, Venezuela)
Dennis Hopper made a cathartic movie. I 've always recognized his talent as actor and film maker . He's an outsider artist , in all the sense of the expression.brThis picture, is reflect of his own character. The tale about two renegades , every one of them trying of seeking his destiny, decide to make a journey (the mythical approach) to New Orleans Mardi Grass (evasion once more) , in his powerful motocycles .brThis journey will allow Hopper to express the alienated existence of these guys and the people who surrounds in every point they decide to rest. The violence is free ; and you watch in the visual language of the people who simply don't accept their way of living , the way they dress ; they establish a spiritual rapport with that hippie community in the middle of the road, where the psichodelia images suggest you what's going on. brThis film was a low budget . 394.000 bucks , but the script depicted as any other american film of its age the sense of going to nowhere abaout a generation tired of waiting for a change.brThe increase dark shadows will cover the landscape and will carry to that magnificent and poetic ending.brI still have the original vynil soundtrack of this picture. If six was nine of Hendrix, Born to be wild and the Pusher of Steppenwolf , or the weight were emblemeatic songs of its age which reflected wise and sincerely , the expecatations of a generation just in the year in which the man reached a superb scientific and technological triumph in Jul 29 1969 .brIn a certain way this outlaw couple behaves in similar terms that Butch Cassidy (Western) , Scarecrow (existential mood city) , Midnight cowboy (outsiders in New York).brMay be the film age a bit but its descriptive script from its release became in a cult movie.!
Still an Important Film June 21, 2004
M (new jersey)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Every reviewer who has commented on the dated-ness of this film is accurate. However, just because the film cannot be enjoyed in its original context does not mean that it cannot be enjoyed in another -- especially by people who did not live during or do not remember the late '60s. There are different battles to be fought, but the film is still pertinent in this current era of engaging the amorphous war on terror and its subsequent erosion of our civil rights, and the continued corporatization of America. Everybody who said that this film doesn't really have a plot is also accurate, but so what? The point isn't to give the viewer a story with a bunch of twists and turns, but to simply show the lives of two cultural rebels (who probably seem quite tame by contemporary standards) as they trek across the southwest to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. The cinematography is excellent, especially considering the age of the film and its budget. The acting is really good and Jack Nicholson gives one of the best performances of his long career. He would have completely stolen the show had his character's screen-time not been cut short.pHere's why the film is still important: despite there no longer being a widespread, vicious divide in the nation between people like Fonda and Hopper and mainstream America, the themes of the film (freedom, freedom of expression, and how some are more free than others) remain totally relevant and Fonda and Hopper's characters can be seen as even more iconic than they were in 1969, because now that they don't actually represent you or me (as they could in 1969) they achieve larger-than-life status. pThe scenes at the commune may elicit confusion or even a giggle from younger members a contemporary audience, but hopefully these people will look a bit deeper than the long hair and the funny clothes to realize that these characters represented a very real subculture in the late '60s; a movement that not only decided that the ballooning consumer culture was eroding their freedoms, but who also decided to do something about it. How many people today would be brave enough leave behind most of their possessions and live off the land, to protect the values they hold dear? Virtually none. pThey're gonna make it, declares Fonda about the food-strapped commune, and in 1969 it was possible for this line to be legitimately optimistic and to have enough strength and resonance to encompass the entire countercultural movement. Today, we know that they didn't make it. What did America lose by Fonda, Hopper, Nicholson and the commune not making it? That is for the viewer to decide, and that is why the film remains very important. In its day, the tragedy that befalls Fonda and Hopper could have been intended as a rallying cry. Today, it is reason to pause for introspection on the larger issues: What is important to us? What has been taken away? How much have we willingly sold away? And, most importantly, what would we sacrifice to get it back?
Two for the road May 26, 2004
JLind555
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Revolutionary in its time but appearing somewhat dated now, Easy Rider was the ultimate road trip: two bikers on a cross-country ride from the west coast to Mardi Gras in New Orleans after scoring big in a drug deal. Produced and directed by, and starring Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda, and almost stolen by a then-unknown named Jack Nicholson playing a hippie lawyer, Easy Rider follows its two heroes across some of the most stunning scenery in the Southwest as they head towards Louisiana in search of freedom, whatever that means. Easy Rider not only brings us two (or three, counting Nicholson) of society's dropouts, we also meet a community of hippies, some narrow-minded small-town lawmen, and some rednecks in Louisiana who seem to have a more-than-passing relationship to Neanderthals. We wonder if the film's perhaps unwitting message is that the search for meaningless freedom results in meaningless and wanton death and destruction. More than any film of its time, Easy Rider caught the mood of the late 1960s in America and the fear of the establishment for society's rebels. It may be of its own time, but its timeless rejection of mindless conformity echoes down to us.
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