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Best movie ever!
FirstWitch
A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
Allison Davies
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
Claudio Carvalho
In Venice, California, the leader of Hell's Angels Heavenly Blues (Peter Fonda) tells his friend Joe 'Loser' Kearns (Bruce Dern) that he had located his stolen motorcycle in Mecca. While trying to retrieve the bike, Loser is shot on the back by a police patrol end goes to the hospital. After the surgery, Blues and the Hell's Angels take Loser from the hospital and he dies. The troublemakers prepare his funeral at Sequoia Groves with a wild party."The Wild Angels" is among the worst movies I have ever seen. This trash directed by Roger Corman is a dated mess with terrible performances, unlikable characters completely lost and a pointless screenplay. The bikers request the service of the preacher to destroy the church? Blues interrupts the preacher's speech to say shallow words but when the Hell's Angels are ready to bury Loser, he says no words to his best friend. The story has the only objective of shocking the audience with rapes, sacrilege and stupid and senseless violence. My vote is one (awful).Title (Brazil): "Os Anjos Selvagens" ("The Wild Angels")
kuciak
At the beginning of the film, we are told that Hells Angels had participated in the making of the film. This is a surprise, as the film seems to be a denouncement of this kind of lifestyle. This was a surprise to me, as I was thinking that we would be rooting for the motorcycle people against "the man". Perhaps however, 1966, when the film was made, would be different from 1968.The first time we should realize that we should not be for Heavenly Blues (Peter Fonda) and his gang is when they attack some Mexican youths in a garage. Roger Coorman emphasizes the size differences between the two groups, the all white gang being much bigger than the Mexicans, with Heavenly Blues using racially derogatory comments towards the Mexicans. Later, one of his gang members will try to rape an African American nurse, with Heaveny Blues intervening not out of honorable reasons, but just to get the hell out of the hospital and not get caught.The police in the film are portrayed rather decently. In the hospital, the officer guarding the Loser (Played by Bruce Dern) is portrayed as a caring person, polite to the African American nurse, and concerned about the so called Sister of the Loser (Played by Nancy Sinatra). The police are never shown as being brutal authority figures, but just as people trying to keep things in a peaceful way.Bruce Derns name in the film (The loser) is apt for the whole group. They are in fact portrayed as losers. They're only goal In life is to ride free, and get stoned. They are shown to be able to be exploited by unscrupulous people, such as the Funeral arranger. When at the end the police are on the way, Nancy Sinatra tells Fonda's character, lets get away, He responds for the first time with any real sense of his own life, "there is no where to go". They all leave, but he continues to dig the grave for "The loser", he could be actually digging his own grave.It is during the church scene, where the audience will find these characters repugnant. You don't have to be religious to do so. At the end of the film, you are going to be rooting for the townspeople, watching the ridiculous funeral procession, to attack the motor cycle gang. Coorman bookends the film interesting here. At the beginning, we saw a young boy on a tricycle. At the end of the film, as I recall, it is a young boy who throws an object at the motor cycle gang in the cemetery.I happened to watch the film by chance, on one of those on demand free cable stations. I can't say I was totally entertained by the film. It seems somewhat dated now. But it did surprise me, and I would have to suggest that their was a message in the film, and a rather strong one.
toondaddy
This is a good, old biker trash drive -in flick that you can enjoy if you just sit down with a 12 pack and look thru the BS. The old school Motorcycles are nice, and the Southern California scenery is really cool. Bruce Dern does a pretty good job, but Peter Fonda is really cheesy. I felt the same way about Marlin Brando and Lee Marvin in the Wild Ones. As a Biker myself, I can relate because the ideas haven't changed much. As Fonda states in this movie, we "just want to be free to do what we want and we want to get loaded". Don't take it too seriously, just sit down and get loaded and enjoy the movie. its fun to watch.
Scarecrow-88
Indie Corman flick about how the lives of a group of Hell's Angels, particularly leader Blues(Peter Fonda), change when one of their own(Bruce Dern) is harmed after stealing a police officer's bike.More of a curio regarding neo-nazi riders living by their own rules and partying non-stop, but I kind of felt there's not a lot here except that. This is obviously made for a certain crowd who probably worship it, but I felt it was just dated and silly. It does kind of get disturbing how reckless they live and that mantra of doing things their own way while thumbing nose at "The Man" was probably certainly embraced at that time when the world was changing because of Vietnam. Their behavior is questionable, but I found their chosen symbol of the Third Reich more artistic dressing than representing Hitler and his evil path. Has an interesting cast such as Nancy Sinatra as Mike, Blues' love interest and Diane Ladd as Gaysh,the lover of Loser, the one badly wounded.More for those who love seeing a group of rowdy roughies getting wasted, dancing gleefully to silly beach pop tunes, and living it up in depravity.
