I saw, for the first time, the movie classic "Easy Rider". If you saw it, what did you think of it?

It was a classic when it first came out and was Jack N.‘s first part. The movie reflected the “do drugs,” “drop out, ” “make love, not war” ethos of the times. Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper were also newbies, if my memory holds. Check out the imdb site for story line details.

If you didn’t see Jesus you weren’t paying attention. I suppose that means I wasn’t either because I certainly don’t remember seeing Jesus in that movie.

I watched Easy Rider in my mid-20’s and I thought it was so ridiculously cool I could hardly stand it. The parts that stand out for me are Jack Nicholson saying “I got a helmet” and them being arrested for parading without a permit. Of course the most intense scene is the final scene, I cried and cried.

Next maybe you should check out Midnight Cowboy. That movie has some classic lines; “hey, I’m walking here!” and of course “I’m a stud!”

It was perfectly evocative of its time.

I saw this movie in one of my film classes about the end of the old-fashioned Hollywood studio system and the rise of the New Wave of American cinema, and this film is one of the progenitors of “personal” auteurist films of the 1970s. Never let it be said that I don’t remember my stuff from uni!

I liked it then, because the embodied a rebelliousness that I hadn’t had the guts to try (despite what happened), but I haven’t seen it in 15 years now. Or Midnight Cowboy. Maybe I’ll have my roomie put them on her Netflix queue and see if I feel any differently about those pictures now.

you have to see it within the context of the time it was written. I think that, whatever one thinks of it as a film per se, it was an important event of 20th c popular culture.

Not Jee-Zus, Hay-Zoos was a character in the commune.

Son of a gun! It wasn’t the first guy they picked up, was it?

No, that was Luke Askew, still going strong as the elder Greene on HBO’s “Big Love.”