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Most bike films are crap. (That's a technical judgement.) I like my films real. Here are my two all-time favourites:

The Loveless (early 1980s)
The Leather Boys (Mid 60s)

The Loveless is hard to get hold of, but if you ever find it, pay what you have to and grab it (and send me a copy). It has an amazing sound track and some incredible shots. It focuses close-up on a few days in the lives of a group of bikers. It's very, very raw and bitterly real. You come away from it feeling totally sore inside. Amazingly the director is a woman, Katheryn Bigelow.

The Leather Boys is a British, slice-of-life film. Pure down-beat, British working-class Realism, set at the Ace Cafe in the heyday of the cafe racer cult with a lot of real 'Rockers' (British teenage bikers from the 50s and 60s) playing themselves. Again, it's an up-close look at the fairly hopeless lives of these kids in post-war Britain. The only thing they have in their life is their bike and their 'Rocker' identity. It's an exploitation film but bloody good for all that.

I like bike films where you get to smell the exhaust fumes and the frustration.

earwig wrote:

Twisty13 wrote:Way to go Hollywood!

Don't blame Hollywood, blame the "exceptional people" who try to copy what they see on TV.

What do you mean "exceptional people"? Those are "special" folks. They ride the little bus.

The World's Fastest Indian was a great movie. I loved it. And now i want to go see it again...

Here's a new one for ya'll



http://wildhogs.movies.go.com/

Apitoxin wrote:The World's Fastest Indian was a great movie. I loved it. And now i want to go see it again...

I thought that was a totally cool movie. . . Yes I bought the DVD.

daviking wrote:Here's a new one for ya'll



http://wildhogs.movies.go.com/

Looks like a funny movie. Cant wait to see it.

BRUMBEAR wrote: the only biker movie ever made was and is EASY RIDER

Yea, a couple of guys riding across America selling drugs!???? That's REAL Good for Real Riders image......... NOT!!!!!!!

They do a drug deal at the beginning of the movie. They also get their just rewards and DIE at the end!

Now go watch Electra Glide In Blue.

Johnj wrote:They do a drug deal at the beginning of the movie. They also get their just rewards and DIE at the end!

Now go watch Electra Glide In Blue.

I haven't seen Easy Rider yet.
And you just ruined the ending.

Apitoxin wrote:

Johnj wrote:They do a drug deal at the beginning of the movie. They also get their just rewards and DIE at the end!

Now go watch Electra Glide In Blue.

I haven't seen Easy Rider yet.
And you just ruined the ending.

I think that the statute of limitations runs out on that after the first 30 years....