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Who the hell could this movie possibly appeal to?


Let's look at this logically:

1) Easy Rider is a classic film, but it was made in 1969. The mainstream moviegoing audience and the audience that watches & knows about classics from 40 years ago are vastly different, and the latter is vastly smaller. If Easy Rider got a re-release with legit marketing, it'd still struggle to pass $2mil. Even if it wasn't available on home video, it'd have a hard time passing $20mil, just like other critics' darlings.

2) Almost the entire audience of people who have seen Easy Rider will be slamming the idea of a prequel into the ground. So if Easy Rider would make so little money with a re-release, you can imagine a prequel would be lucky to even get a 1/10 of the amount. It wouldn't even be worth it to release in theaters.

This is not a comment on the sacrilege of doing a prequel to Easy Rider; I haven't actually seen Easy Rider, so I can count myself neither a fan nor a foe. I'm just commenting on the utter unmarketability of such a film.


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Don't worry, this turd will sink. The only people on here defending it is the filmmakers, and judging by that god-awful trailer,.....they obviously didn't "get" Easy Rider.

The movie itself looks like the type of amateurish garbage that you would see on cinemax late at night. Think of this as "The Bare Wench Project" with Easy Rider's "The Blair Witch Project." It not a REAL prequel, sequel, or anything but a cheap parody by some egocentric filmmaker who thinks he can make a name for himself by attempting to capitalize off the fame of a movie made almost 40 years ago. Did you see the hippie costumes?? LOLOLOLOLOL!!! It looks like they went to the nearest costume store and raided the "hippie" isle.

Fans of the original should pay no attention. It's not like this is a REAL movie.

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Movie was dreadful and just awful. Made it about 45 mins last night and thought why do I still have this on?? Turned it off and went to sleep.

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