Easy Rider: The Ride Back

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Audience Member This movie is so bad on so many levels. Rarely does one find a film that is painfully difficult to watch because of how terrible it is. It's one thing if a film is tongue-in-cheek bad like Sharknado, but the sad thing is, this is attempting to be a serious movie. This is not the type of bad that makes one angry because of its message, or plot, or character, etc. This is bad because on every single aspect of film-making, this movie has literally checked every box to ensure that every single item has been delivered the utmost worst outcome. Poor sound. Check. Terrible acting. Check. Pathetic script. Check. Awful soundtrack. Check. Horrible direction. Check. Bad cinematography. Check. Low production quality. Check. I was thinking to myself while watching this, of how a film school might dissect this into its separate components, to demonstrate how each of the above goes above and beyond the realm of failure. I feel bad for Jeff Fahey and Sheree Wilson for having reached a point in their careers to sign up for this. I watched this because like so many others, I was a great fan of the 1969 original. I found the Fonda/Hopper version unique, straightforward and groundbreaking. The only thing this film shares is the name, which I can't believe was acquired by such an amateur production. Why Dennis Hopper would allow this to happen is a mystery. Perhaps a better movie can be made describing how these film rights were acquired. Talk about brand destruction. An analogy would be if the sequel to The Godfather (1972) would be Bugsy Malone (1976), marshmallow gun fight and all. This movie contains swearing and cheap nudity that the original did not have. There was nude intercourse and even a castration. What on God's earth were these writers thinking? F%#k this and f&#k that! Was this necessary? The very last line contained F#@k! It's truly unbelievable how sad this script is. I compare this to how I felt after watching Caligula (1979) and the last 10 minute pornography scene. Confused, disappointed, baffled, and shocked at how bad a film could devolve into. Caligula was far better than this film, for it at least had A-list actors. Lines like "you'd better be ready to drink whiskey!" or "yahoo!" are right out of a dumbass redneck playbook. In the original Easy Rider, you were drawn to the characters and built an empathy towards them, so that when they died, you felt disturbed and angry. Here, this was none existent. I didn't care whether the protagonists were dead or alive because I really never had a chance to know them, nor did I want to. This is the worst sound production ever committed to film. The sound crew should be noted and banished from the film industry for life for this audacity. We all take sound for granted, but will never again after watching this film. Warning to all - this film is extremely damaging to batteries. Most of the dialogue is inaudible. The moment you raise the volume to compensate, the soundtrack starts blaring! So you reach for the volume control to reduce the sound. You then cannot hear the dialogue. This vicious cycle repeats itself until the batteries in your remote control deplete! The 1 star is for trying. It seems like an effort was put into this, but let this be an example of the fact that true talent or lack thereof, often has a way of shining clearly through. Unfortunately, some people just don't belong in their chosen craft, and no matter how much effort and time they invest in it, they never become great, or even good. Producer, director, writer Dustin Rikert may have had more success in pursuing another trade, such as working in a sheet metal factory, because film-making is definitely a craft he has no talent for. He has taken away 2 hours of my life that I can no longer retrieve. Don't let him take away yours. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Audience Member There is a sequel to easy rider and it is turrible!! So bad it is hilarious. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member What the fuck did I just watch? Something horrible for The Flop House and HDTGM?, something so very awful that I can't explain it even though I watched it. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Bizarre and unnecessary. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Seemed much shorter than the first, pretty much knew where I was going Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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