Best Bike Flick?
Motorcycle Reference MaterialDiscuss Best Bike Flick? in the Harley Products & Services forums; I feel most bike movies were pretty bad - especially all the Roger Corman crap from the 1960s with all the badass bikers taking over towns and trashing the place.
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I feel most bike movies were pretty bad - especially all the Roger Corman crap from the 1960s with all the badass bikers taking over towns and trashing the place.
But there were some really good ones - like Worlds Fastest Indian, The Motorcycle Diaries, On Any Sunday, and others.
What do you think are the two or three best?
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I'd like to add my comments on a few that are regarded as good Motorcycle films:
1. Wild One -- In my mind Marlon Brando can do no wrong, but this film is unfortunately way too dated in dialog, plot, and style.
2. Ghost Rider -- So far out it is enjoyable, but the actual motorcycle content is pretty negligible. When he is doing his Evel Kneivel-like jumps he looks more like Mary Poppins floating through the air than Evel-man. That kind of spoiled the whole movie for me.
3. Wild Hogs -- More cutesy than anything else. The movie squandered some real acting talent. It was mostly just broad caricatures all around.
The ones mentioned in posts above are all top notch.
I can't pick Easy Rider. I loved the bikes and the riding scenes. The freedom was awesome. But the freedom from any sense of responsibilty or moral obligation made me sick to my stomach.
Hog Wild I can watch over and over again because it's mindless and funny and there is TONS of eye candy. I'm talking about the bikes, of course.
The World's Fastest Indian was outstanding. A great flick about a guy's commitment to his passion.
Mad Max had some pretty decent bike scenes in it, but I wouldn't call it a motorcycle movie.
I WILL support Wrightturn in his choice of the Great Escape. Also not technically a motorcycle movie, but what a great scene.
How could NOBODY have picked Brian Bosworth's 1991 MEGA hit Stone Cold? Or who could forget 1981's armor-clad memory maker, Knight Riders?
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__________________ ===================== Rob 2007 FXDB San Diego, CA
John 1:14
It is the duty of nations, as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the LORD. ----Abraham Lincoln
Worlds Fastest Indian is great (can't get over Anthony Hopkins playing a likable character).
Motorcycle Diaries is good to but some days I'm just not in the mood to read the subtitles.
Easy Rider is good to.
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