I call these biker films "Drive-In Movies." They were the films you saw at the drive-in on a summer evening, hopefully with a date you could make out with in the back of a car, so you didn't have to actually pay attention to the plot of any of these films.
Now I'm older...I'm watching this film in the cold light of day in my living room...alone. You know, it really is only by the grace of God that Jack Nicholson ever became the renowned actor he is today, considering the incredibly bad movies he made during the 60's. Okay, Jack might disagree with that statement, and say it was talent and persistence....but he is one lucky fellow to have escaped the hellhole of these incredibly poorly-made films. In this movie he gets to leer at the chicks as they strip to their underwear (a prerequisite for these cheap films), and get body paint smeared all over their skin by drunken, laughing hooligans (Jack being one of them...sort of....only he's really a nice guy underneath...). Sabrina Scharf is the sad free-spirit he hooks up with...she's also one of the hippie chicks in Easy Rider. All in all, this movie has an atmosphere of smarmy sixties sexuality....very juvenile in its flaunting of the Establishment....and nothing ever really happens. You dig?
Now I'm older...I'm watching this film in the cold light of day in my living room...alone. You know, it really is only by the grace of God that Jack Nicholson ever became the renowned actor he is today, considering the incredibly bad movies he made during the 60's. Okay, Jack might disagree with that statement, and say it was talent and persistence....but he is one lucky fellow to have escaped the hellhole of these incredibly poorly-made films. In this movie he gets to leer at the chicks as they strip to their underwear (a prerequisite for these cheap films), and get body paint smeared all over their skin by drunken, laughing hooligans (Jack being one of them...sort of....only he's really a nice guy underneath...). Sabrina Scharf is the sad free-spirit he hooks up with...she's also one of the hippie chicks in Easy Rider. All in all, this movie has an atmosphere of smarmy sixties sexuality....very juvenile in its flaunting of the Establishment....and nothing ever really happens. You dig?