Easy Rider 2?!

Great movie. I first seen it about ten years ago when one of my mom's boyfriends had bought a bunch of used movies from a video rental place that was going out of business and didn't care for any of them so he gave them to me. The bag had about 6 movies in it, and all were ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE except for this one, and I think that if I hadn't watched it first I wouldn't have gotten to it before throwing them all away. That may be what he did.

But I fell in love with it and a couple years ago I was watching it and the tape broke on me so I called everywhere and found one copy at a video store so I ran up and bought it. I still got it, but I'd love to get it on DVD.

This may sound odd, but when I watch this movie nothing can bother me. I get taken away by it. I really wish they had made a sequal to it, but I see where you're coming from too. It is kind of like a sequal to Easy Rider, at least a direct reference to it. Even Dennis Hopper has that line in it. What was it? "It takes more than going down to your local video store and renting Easy Rider to be a rebel"? Something like that, but I thought it was cool cause it was Dennis Hopper saying it. Great movie, and my favorite of all time.

I actually don't see that many similarities between Easy Rider and Flashback, other than Dennis Hopper playing a hippie/ex-hippie. Maybe I missed the whole point of Easy Rider? But to me it was two guys who go off in search of freedom and peace and love, do some drugs along the way, and find the opposite is true, that the world is an unaccepting place for anyone who is different and they end up dead.

To me, Flashback is humorous and uplifting, and maybe I do see the parallel that people who are different (the ex-hippies) are still unaccepted, but unlike in Easy Rider, Buckner is a good, redeemable guy and in the end he knows that the hippies were good people, people that he loves, and they were not just long-haired freaks.

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