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  1. 1.

    freelancer

    Love that movie. Can’t say I’ve watched that many times though. When I watch it, my blood boils a little bit and my inner William Tecumseh Sherman comes out and all I can come up with is “Fuck the South!”

  2. 2.

    Some Guy

    I cannot watch that movie again. It makes me too sad. Terrific film but I cannot relive it. Seems kind of pathetic, writing it out, but true. I have a lot of great films that way. Even ones with hopeful endings, it is hard for me. For example, Lives of Others. Best film I think I have seen in a decade. But the claustrophobia and sadness keep me from watching it again. Weird.

  3. 3.

    Joey Maloney

    Dancer In The Dark, despite being David Morse’s best work ever, and Bjork’s quirkilicious star turn – can’t ever watch it again. The moment where he steals her wad from right under her nose, knowing everything that’s going to happen next…just no.

  4. 4.

    piratedan

    for me it’s the last 30 minutes of the remake of Last of the Mohicans, always tear up but I’m sure that at least 60% of it is that damn soundtrack from Michael Mann.

  5. 5.

    NotMax

    At the time it originally came out, my nearly no longer a teenage self thought “Easy Rider” was a crappy movie with a killer soundtrack.

    Now, 43 years later (and having seen it since then, including recently), have modified that to thinking it is a really crappy movie with a killer soundtrack.

    Chacun à son goût.

  9. 9.

    moderateindy

    Easy Rider was financed in part by the money Nicholson made by writing the Monkees feature film; “Head”, a movie so bad it almost comes all the way back around to good. Almost.

  10. 10.

    Marcellus Shale, Public Dick

    how’s your joint, george?

    loved the movie, meh, the soundtrack.

  11. 11.

    RadioOne

    It was before my time, but from my perspective the only thing about Easy Rider was “It’s Steppenwolf: Born to be Wild, but the song as a movie format.”

  12. 12.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    Al Franken was at some weird function, back in the 90s, where he happened to be standing next to Newt Gingrich, and this happened:

    • “Then Dennis Hopper walked up. ‘You, sir, are a great man. You are doing great things.’ He wasn’t talking to me. Newt told Hopper how brilliant his performance was in Blue Velvet. How he loved Hopper’s intensity. I started to feel like I was in Blue Velvet.”

  16. 16.

    mary

    I saw the movie once in the theatre. I don’t know if I’ll ever watch it again. It really seemed to reflect the despair and cynicism of the times in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. The ending seems almost prophetic to me now.

  17. 17.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    My favorite Dennis Hopper scene was when he asks Martin Sheen about Col. Kurtz. In the movie Apocalypse Now

    Was he wise man? Was he a Good man?

    Enjoyed that manic performance.

  18. 18.

    Svensker

    Dennis Hopper’s dead, Peter Fonda’s a Teabagger, and Jack Nicholson is a weird old creep. Aging is the shiz, ain’t it?

  19. 19.

    patroclus

    I’m not sure if I can ever forgive Jack Nicholson for what he did to the Monkees.

  20. 20.

    skippy

    talking about geat movies we can no longer watch:

    i can never watch “network” on tv. howard beale makes too much sense. when he rants “get up, turn off your tv!” i invariably do.

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