Easy Rider

Top 100 (#88/84); Stars - Peter Fonda (Current); Songs - Born to Be Wild (#29)

The idea of taking your motorcycle (or car, or RVF, or what have you) and hitting the open road has always been an appealing one to me. Just being carefree, seeing the sights, meeting people along the way would be the kind of adventure I'd love.

That part of the movie wasn't so bad. What I didn't like is the whole '60s counterculture thing. These guys are so anti-America, anti-establishment, that they don't realize that the whole reason they have the freedom to go off riding like they do is because they live in the United States.

Jack Nicholson is great. Dennis Hopper is annoying. And, for Pete's sake, Peter Fonda looks just like his dad.

Oh, and Born to Be Wild is a great song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW2e8cPQBTk