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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: kballowe on March 18, 2020, 09:37:39 PM
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I was always fond of
The Motorcycle Diaries - a 2004 biopic about the journey and written memoir of the 23-year-old Ernesto Guevara, who would several years later become internationally known as the iconic Marxist guerrilla leader and revolutionary Che Guevara. The film recounts the 1952 expedition, initially by motorcycle, across South America by Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado.
It's in Spanish, subtitled in English.
Anyone ever seen Electra Glide In Blue ?
Wild Hogs ???
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^^^What he said.
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On Any Sunday
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The Wild Angels
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My favs.
1 World's Fastest Indian
2 On Any Sunday
3 One Week
4 Hogslayer
5 Electra Glide in Blue
6 Easy Rider
7 The Motorcycle Diaries
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Harley Davidson and the Malboro man.
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Without doubt, "One Week" Here's a trailer: https://youtu.be/o_8190skpLw (https://youtu.be/o_8190skpLw)
Nick
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Then came Bronson is my favorite. :bike-037:
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I like Big Fauss and Little Halsey.
Electra Glide in Blue was good, too.
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"Gumball Rally" just for Lapchick the Mad Hungarian and his Kawasaki triple .....
Lannis
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The 1st. On Any Sunday & Easy Rider
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Mad Max
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Cycles South .
Dusty
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Without doubt, "One Week" Here's a trailer: https://youtu.be/o_8190skpLw (https://youtu.be/o_8190skpLw)
Nick
Wow, I am going to have to find this one. The trailer was very compelling.
Skippy
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Fast Charlie the Moon Beam rider. DonG
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I’m siding w/brides Little Faust’s & Big Haulsey even if just for opening sequence!
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"The mouse and the motorcycle" of course :thumb:
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Faster, the original.
https://youtu.be/tEMmKyR11yM
Pete
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The Unrideables.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiYIS7fL3Wc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiYIS7fL3Wc)
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La Linea di Fuoco. Harsh war movie set in North Africa. The very first 'voice' one hears is a Moto Guzzi. Spoiler alert, at the end it is again Moto Guzzi who rescues our protagonist.
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Harold and Maude. Because the police chase scenes take place on the old Dumbarton Bridge causeway and mostly it is Moto Guzzi doing the chasing. I took Bruce Baille to the moto 'theft' location.
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Patrick Hayes
Fremont CA
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Here is a link to Little Fauss & Big Halsy opening scene with Italian dubbing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsGWPJQmhbk
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I don't know how you get any better than On Any Sunday. But I always wonder why the camera crew didn't help the dude put out his burning motorsickle :angry:
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Harold and Maude was a classic, i don't even remember about the bikes.
Fauss and Hausely was good one too. Pollard & Redford. I'll still stick with Burt and the Indian. But Easy Rider and plenty more were good ones. If it wasn't for bike movies where would Jack Nicholson be?
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One Mans Dream
https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/britten-backyard-visionary-1993
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I like Big Fauss and Little Halsey.
Electra Glide in Blue was good, too.
Is that a remake of Little Faus and Big Halsey..?
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:gotpics:I love The Long Way Round and The Long Way Down. Excellent series.
Followed by The Fastest Indian.
Somebody mentioned the Gumball Rally, I love that one too.
The Blues Brothers. Not a motorcycle movie? Well there WERE motorcycle cops, so it counts!
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Both of the REAL “Long Way” movies..
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Is that a remake of Little Faus and Big Halsey..?
naw, Electra Glide in Blue was about a Motorcycle Cop with that actor that shot his girlfriend.
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Ya'll are forgetting 'The Wild One' with Marlon Brando.
But...I gotta go with Patrick's 'Harold and Maude'. While motorcycles aren't the focus, that is just a dang good movie.
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Without doubt, "One Week" Here's a trailer: https://youtu.be/o_8190skpLw (https://youtu.be/o_8190skpLw)
Nick
I just re-watched One Week last week!
I love this movie. It's a great Canadian travelogue. A very well crafted story with all sorts of thought provoking moments. Joshua Jackson did a great job. And as a nice bonus it's fantastic that there is a Norton Commando throughout.
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I just re-watched One Week last week!
I love this movie. It's a great Canadian travelogue. A very well crafted story with all sorts of thought provoking moments. Joshua Jackson did a great job. And as a nice bonus it's fantastic that there is a Norton Commando throughout.
I haven't since it, it looks like a tear jerker. :sad:
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The World's Fastest Indian was a good movie even though there were a lot of liberties taken. The book is a must read and really goes into why he did some of the things he did. Such as Burt made a lot of his parts from plow shares not because he couldn't afford to buy steel but the steel in plow shares was of very high quality. He used second hand tires not because he couldn't afford new but 2nd hand were mostly bald and would have less drag. The book is one of my favorites. Again it is a great read.
kk
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Cycles South .
Dusty
I just finished watching Cycles South on YouTube, having never heard of it. It was really enjoyable! I had many of the same experiences about the same time (1971), at least the ones north of the border. It was almost like living it all again. Thanks for the mention of it.
Here's the link: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlffbM2qcqhJbJLwVJRaBiWXdkmCEy5UR (https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlffbM2qcqhJbJLwVJRaBiWXdkmCEy5UR)
Moto
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I just finished watching Cycles South on YouTube, having never heard of it. It was really enjoyable! I had many of the same experiences about the same time (1971), at least the ones north of the border. It was almost like living it all again. Thanks for the mention of it.
Here's the link: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlffbM2qcqhJbJLwVJRaBiWXdkmCEy5UR (https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlffbM2qcqhJbJLwVJRaBiWXdkmCEy5UR)
Moto
Next to OAS it is my favorite . Low budget , and at times a little silly , but it is a movie that is actually about motorcycles and motorcycling . *The Thrill is on* is another little known movie about the sport .
Dusty
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The World's Fastest Indian was a good movie even though there were a lot of liberties taken. The book is a must read and really goes into why he did some of the things he did. Such as Burt made a lot of his parts from plow shares not because he couldn't afford to buy steel but the steel in plow shares was of very high quality. He used second hand tires not because he couldn't afford new but 2nd hand were mostly bald and would have less drag. The book is one of my favorites. Again it is a great read.
kk
The DVD version also includes the original documentary. So the real vs movie stuff is all there.
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Australian Movie from 1974 Stone
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My first pick is the film "The Black Rider" released in 1954. It's not my favorite bike movie but it's got British bikes, smugglers, haunted ruins and a love story. What more could you want. They would even have got away with it if not for those meddling kids.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2AHv8pKsvA&t=576s
My second pick is "The Girl on a Motorcycle" released in 1968. This is a British - French movie starring Marianne Faithfull. It was the first film to receive an X rating in the United States where it was released as "Naked Under Leather".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30ObFI6LXwo&t=952s
Popular culture certainly changed dramatically in just 14 years :laugh:
Mike
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1 Easy Rider
2 Oil in the Blood
3 The World's Fastest Indian
4 Wild Hogs
5 TT: Closer to the Edge
6 The Wild One
7 The Motorcycle Diaries
8 Biker Boyz (cheesy, but... MORPHEUS!!! SUZUKI HAYABUSA!!! WEST COAST RAP!!!)
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"One Week"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpyy8EIU8hg
Thanks for the link. I went looking for it last night. Netlix, nope. Amazon Prime, i could have bought it or rented. Then I thought to check youtube. What was comical was that the purchase one came up first but right below was the same one you sent.
I enjoyed it. The riding kind of reminded me of my own road trips since a rarely ride with anyone. The road side photo scenes gave me a chuckle for the same reason, though he did take more photos than I typically manage, much to my wife's annoyance.
Skippy
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Slightly surprising that no one has mentioned "Mask" .
Dusty
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Thanks for the link. I went looking for it last night. Netlix, nope. Amazon Prime, i could have bought it or rented. Then I thought to check youtube. What was comical was that the purchase one came up first but right below was the same one you sent.
I enjoyed it. The riding kind of reminded me of my own road trips since a rarely ride with anyone. The road side photo scenes gave me a chuckle for the same reason, though he did take more photos than I typically manage, much to my wife's annoyance.
Skippy
Glad you enjoyed it. I thought the whole thing was there but overlooked it when I posted the trailer link. Glad you were able to find it. It's time I watched it again.
To reiterate Skippy's post, the full movie 'One Week' is available here (free). https://youtu.be/Xpyy8EIU8hg (https://youtu.be/Xpyy8EIU8hg)
Nick
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Wow, I am going to have to find this one. The trailer was very compelling.
Skippy
I watched the trailer and the next one up was the whole movie on you tube. I paused it but I'll have to go back and see the whole thing.
I second "on any sunday" and "the world's fastest indian" I still have a mental image of Malcolm with his bike nearly vertical on a big bolder and then backing up to make the turn and going on without a second thought.
Update:
I plugged the laptop into our 55" Toshiba, turned on the big sound, and watched "One Week" with my wife and then looked for "On any Sunday" and watched that too. BTW, It was a dirt bank and not a bolder Malcolm half-climbed and backed down from.
Thanks for the idea for a nice time on a dull, grey afternoon.
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Glad you enjoyed it. I thought the whole thing was there but overlooked it when I posted the trailer link. Glad you were able to find it. It's time I watched it again.
To reiterate Skippy's post, the full movie 'One Week' is available here (free). https://youtu.be/Xpyy8EIU8hg (https://youtu.be/Xpyy8EIU8hg)
Nick
Rented it at our Hastings records and book store when it became available , how quaint that seems now . Same with World's Fastest Indian , which honestly I thought was about Jim Thorpe .
Dusty
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"Then came Bronson",the movie and television program had a big influence on me a 14 year old kid,(riding my first mc a Honda Mini Trail 50,) when it came out in 1969.Made me think seriously about traveling cross country on a motorcycle and all the adventures you could have.Still doing just that 50 years later,I still love the show,but my copy of the TV show and movie were recorded off TNT and are not very good quality.Does anybody know where to find the movie and TV series in HD? :popcorn:
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I'm just glad no one said "Billy Jack". :evil:
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I was always fond of
The Motorcycle Diaries - a 2004 biopic about the journey and written memoir of the 23-year-old Ernesto Guevara, who would several years later become internationally known as the iconic Marxist guerrilla leader and revolutionary Che Guevara. The film recounts the 1952 expedition, initially by motorcycle, across South America by Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado.
It's in Spanish, subtitled in English.
This gets my vote. And of course a more American film, Easy Rider.
Joe
Anyone ever seen Electra Glide In Blue ?
Wild Hogs ???
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Not “Stone Cold”. Brian Bosworth was horrible.
Not “CC Rider”. Joe Namath was a good QB
Worlds Fastest Indian
On any Sunday
Gumball Rally
Every Which Way but Loose (Them’s Black Widows)
Magnum Force
The Gauntlet.
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"I Fidanzati Della Morte" (Engaged to Death). An Italian film from 1957. Not my favourite motorcycle film (that's probably Stone from 1974 and mainly because Rebecca Gilling takes her shirt off) but a beaut curiosity. It's a convoluted story about cheating husbands, the Monza Moto GP, the 1300km Milan to Taranto race and the development of the Moto Guzzi V8 engine. Many of the famous riders of the day appear in the film and lots of it was shot in the Guzzi factory and their famous wind tunnel. The print was restored in 2017.
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Faster, the original.
https://youtu.be/tEMmKyR11yM
Pete
That whole series of documentaries are excellent.
1. Faster.
2. Fastest.
3. the Doctor, the Texas Tornado, and the Kentucky Kid.
4. Hitting the Apex.
but perhaps the best, other than On Any Sunday is The John Penton Story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsDLrdryBfY
oh yeah, also Billy Jack, the Born Losers!
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I've heard V-Four Victory is great but have not seen it.
the documentary about racing electric motorcycles at the Isle of Mann, Charge is well worth watching.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rogV80QfLYQ
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Okay not a motorcycle movie but the naked gal with the long blond hair gently tooling around on a small dirt bike was hard to beat (no pun intended) in Vanishing Point.
GliderJohn
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OK, not really a "movie" per se, but still the 2014 doco "Road" is a firm favourite. It documents the last, dying (literal) vestiges of genuine Road Racing in the world: that of the Ulster & Manx road races, and the vainglorious madmen who dice with death in a very real & visceral manner.
These few genuine lunatic heroes, not just the extended Dunlop family, not even the motley crew of locals & daredevils, but those generations that have come before, have balls so big that I'm amazed they can still fit behind their fuel tanks! Try some random YouTube IOM TT "dashcam" footage for a genuine dose of sheer terror. It's not known as the world's most dangerous racetrack for nothing.
For sheer entertainment value, I think that the fictional "Stone" (1974) & "Mad Max" (1979) also have a nicely unsanitised & unglamourous take on the thrills & spills of biking.
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I haven't since it, it looks like a tear jerker. :sad:
Not a tear jerker. Just a good thoughtful movie with just a bit of B movie vibe to it.
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Not a tear jerker. Just a good thoughtful movie with just a bit of B movie vibe to it.
I assume the guy is still stick or dead in the end.
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All that have been mentioned and the Kindness Diaries https://www.netflix.com/title/80156137
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The Clint Eastwood movie “Cougars Bluff” had the motorcycle chase scene that equals the car chase scene in “Bullit” those guys riding those Triumphs were great.
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Once a Jolly Swagman , speedway racing in England after the war .
Dusty
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Just an ad, not a movie, but with major Guzzi content:
https://youtu.be/fYQ-uiKbk6E
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1.Mondo Enduro.
2. Terra Circa.
3. Cycles South.
4. Riding Solo at the Top of the World.
5. One Crazy Ride.
Honorable mention: Pink Angels and Easy Rider.
I must be in the minority but I disliked both Long way around and Long way down.
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Fast Charlie the Moon Beam rider. DonG
That one is a fun movie!
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Magnum with Clint Eastwood. Extensive footage of police on Guzzi's around the Bay area!
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1.Mondo Enduro.
2. Terra Circa.
3. Cycles South.
4. Riding Solo at the Top of the World.
5. One Crazy Ride.
Honorable mention: Pink Angels and Easy Rider.
I must be in the minority but I disliked both Long way around and Long way down.
#4 Sounds good.
What did you not like with LWR ?
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And for something completely different.......... ..
Kino's Beautiful Journey
Traveling by Brough Superior SS100 motorcycle
Talking to your motorcycle and it talking back
Using revolvers
What could be better?
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yes I admit it, in my old age I'm devolving and becoming more childlike (until the curmudgeon reappears)
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Worlds Fastest Indian
Little Fauss and Big Halsey
On Any Sunday
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And for something completely different.......... ..
Kino's Beautiful Journey
Traveling by Brough Superior SS100 motorcycle
Talking to your motorcycle and it talking back
Using revolvers
What could be better?
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yes I admit it, in my old age I'm devolving and becoming more childlike (until the curmudgeon reappears)
What a great suggestion. We love anime around my house, and Hulu has the series, called "Kino's Journey." Time for a free trial subscription!
Thanks!
Moto
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1) Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man.
2) Timerider. Saw this at the age of 12. I don't know if I would enjoy it today.
NC
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#4 Sounds good.
What did you not like with LWR ?
Both of 'em were a bit contrived/staged IMO. Ted Simon was literally flown in for his scene in Mongolia. Stuff like that just rubbed me the wrong way. LWD was much better after they stopped trying to ride those really long days to reach that ferry. It also had a bit of a reality show/ manufactured drama aspect to it. Ewans unending cussing was tiring. They didn't seem to having much fun through most of it.
Both movies by Gaurav Jani ('Riding Solo at the Top of the World' and 'One Crazy Ride') are absolutely exceptional. Watch these and both LWR and LWD will look like an episode of 'American Chopper'. These are gritty films. I loved the Enfeilds which were used. Both movies are immersive and well filmed. I had to find these movies used.
I'm currently reading Mondo Enduro. This was the daily diary the guys kept as they rode around the world. What was in the 2.5hr movie was only the tip of the iceberg. I highly recommend the book in addition to the movie.
I know there's a book version of 'Long War Around'. Maybe I'll read that one day as well. Maybe this trip wasn't quite as contrived as it appeared on film.
'Pink Angels' is on the list because it's cinematic rubbish. It's a cheese burger and chili fries. It's good, but also no good. Appreciation of the highs requires knowledge of the lows. Also, I just like Michael Pataki. He was in this movie as well as 'Easy Rider'. Dan Haggarty is also in it. The movie has more than a few tie-ins with 'Easy Rider'. I find it hilarious that Easy Rider has been preserved by the Library of Congress for future generations and a year later 'Pink Angels' was made with many of the same people.
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Not a Guzzi and not a motorcycle movie but at 1hr 48min of the Netflix movie THE MASTER, they ride a 50s(?) Triumph single hard on a dry lake bed with good moving camera shots.
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Magnum with Clint Eastwood. Extensive footage of police on Guzzi's around the Bay area!
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I also liked Worlds Fastest Indian and Wild Hogs. Not a movie but as a kid watching Steve McQueen in The Great Escape I was in awe (I know he didn't do the fence jump).
I really liked The Best Bar in America.
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Glad you enjoyed it. I thought the whole thing was there but overlooked it when I posted the trailer link. Glad you were able to find it. It's time I watched it again.
To reiterate Skippy's post, the full movie 'One Week' is available here (free). https://youtu.be/Xpyy8EIU8hg (https://youtu.be/Xpyy8EIU8hg)
Nick
Thanks for the link mate!
I'd never heard of it before and just watched it.
Brilliant.
Cheers Guzzler
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Not a Guzzi and not a motorcycle movie but at 1hr 48min of the Netflix movie THE MASTER, they ride a 50s(?) Triumph single hard on a dry lake bed with good moving camera shots.
That IS a good motorcycle sequence. I knew that Triumph hadn't made a single since the 20's or 30's, so (since I actually have Netflix of all things) I pulled it up to have a look.
The bike there has a Norton tank and is made up to look like a Norton single, but the actual engine, frame, and front end is a BSA M20 (I'm pretty sure because I have one and am familiar with it).
That's fairly rough ground to hammer a rigid-frame, girder-fork bike over, but if the sound track is actually coming from the motorcycle (and I don't know that it is, for some reason movie-makers seem to always use the sound from some other bike rather than the bike they're filming), then you can hear him change from the top of third gear to fourth, which with a modified engine geared for the track would be about 60 MPH ...
Lannis
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This one started the “Bad Boy” biker movies and put Tom Laughlin in the spot lite for several years to come.
I saw it as a kid, love the ending when the Springfield split the white sunglasses.
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Without doubt, "One Week" Here's a trailer: https://youtu.be/o_8190skpLw (https://youtu.be/o_8190skpLw)
Nick
I agree great movie.
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Funny how the hero is on a classic Norton or Harley and never on a Honda. Never a break down on the old iron.
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Funny how the hero is on a classic Norton or Harley and never on a Honda. Never a break down on the old iron.
Apparently you didn’t see Purple Rain😂😂😂🤣
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My favs.
3 One Week
5 Electra Glide in Blue
Just watched One Week. Good movie, thanks for the recommendation.
And Electra Glide In Blue is just a damn good movie-- even if it didn't have bikes, it would be good.
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On Any Sunday is in a class by itself, but I also really like Why We Ride.
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The one that started it all for me..."Easy Rider!"
When I saw this in the theater, I was 15 years old, and riding my 2nd motorcycle, a 1967 black and chrome Honda S-90!! :thumb: :cool: :smiley:
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The Clint Eastwood movie “Cougars Bluff” had the motorcycle chase scene that equals the car chase scene in “Bullit” those guys riding those Triumphs were great.
Coogan's Bluff. Close :grin: Don Stroud playing Ringerman. Grew up in Waikiki. He was a beachboy/surfer before getting into acting. He was also in Joe Kidd again with Clint Eastwood.
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Many good motorcycle movies out there, but there is still room for someone to make the perfect motorcycle movie.
It must meet the following criteria, IMO:
1. Star a Vintage Moto Guzzi, of course.
2. Use authentic sounds.
3. Show extended authentic roadside maintenance scenes
4. Show emotional bonding with bike.
5. Include high speed scene.
What else?
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Worlds Fastest Indian comes closest. I could start shooting with black and white 16mm whenever funding comes available. I can save money developing film in a washtub.
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The one that started it all for me..."Easy Rider!"
When I saw this in the theater, I was 15 years old, and riding my 2nd motorcycle, a 1967 black and chrome Honda S-90!! :thumb: :cool: :smiley:
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I saw the movie when I was 16, as a school assignment a CDP class. I’ll never forget the teacher, a young female, told us it would be an America classic. We had to do a report on it afterwards. She ask us what was the most sufficient moment or theme of the movie in our opinion.
I responded for me it was when Captain America removed his watch and threw it away. I received an A
for the assignment. Thanks for bringing the memory back👍
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On Any Sunday
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The one that started it all for me..."Easy Rider!"
When I saw this in the theater, I was 15 years old, and riding my 2nd motorcycle, a 1967 black and chrome Honda S-90!! :thumb: :cool: :smiley:
Never have seen "Easy Rider", never have had any desire to watch it. Not sure why, I enjoy lots of cheesy and weird movies otherwise ....
Lannis
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I saw the movie when I was 16, as a school assignment a CDP class. I’ll never forget the teacher, a young female, told us it would be an America classic. We had to do a report on it afterwards. She ask us what was the most sufficient moment or theme of the movie in our opinion.
I responded for me it was when Captain America removed his watch and threw it away. I received an A
for the assignment. Thanks for bringing the memory back👍
My old neighborhood buddy Mike, had a black & chrome Honda S-90, just like me, back in the day.
We were both so upset at the movie's ending, when they killed Captain America and Billy, we came home, took off the exhaust pipes on our diminutive S-90's, and ran up and down the street making a lot of noise, in protest to that scene :laugh: :grin: :wink:
I can attest that a Honda S-90 with just the header pipe is one loud little bike! :laugh: :grin: :wink:
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Back when that one came out it was the counter culture and I guess I was on the other side of the whole idea choppers and all.
Never had the desire to see it even to this day.
Kirby1923
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That IS a good motorcycle sequence. I knew that Triumph hadn't made a single since the 20's or 30's, so (since I actually have Netflix of all things) I pulled it up to have a look.
The bike there has a Norton tank and is made up to look like a Norton single, but the actual engine, frame, and front end is a BSA M20 (I'm pretty sure because I have one and am familiar with it).
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Lannis
Triumph had singles in the 70's.
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Triumph had singles in the 70's.
They did. BSA and Triumph sort of badge engineered their unit construction singles together starting mid sixties up to 1972. But this movie one was a pre unit old timer, and Triumph stayed out of that business...
Lannis
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I must confess I don’t watch a lot of bike themed movies, mainly because there aren’t a lot around. But every time you see someone working on a bike in a movie or locked in dialogue, they always blurt out some poorly researched or inane drivel that just makes me squirm.
You know, something like the bloke who just tightened up the axle nut on a Z900 (in the wrong direction) and commented that he’d set the adjustment on the turbo or something equally cringe worthy.
At least the LWR boys didn’t overtly present themselves as greater than they actually were, I thought it was mildly inspiring as a series. It was not completely impossible to put yourself in their place, albeit a bit less grand but the driving motive behind their trip was enthralling for the most part..
I watched Stone on You Tube the other day and could not believe how corny it was...
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I really enjoyed Faster. It's a documentary on the 2002 MotoGP season with Rossi & Biaggi rivalry.
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For a story I enjoyed World's Fasted Indian. For fun I still go back to On Any Sunday. Saw that as a kid and it has an emotional hook I can't spit.
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I really enjoyed Faster. It's a documentary on the 2002 MotoGP season with Rossi & Biaggi rivalry.
And I think Biaggi is still bitter about it.
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<------ The Wild One. :bike-037:
Easy Rider is second and Motorcycle Diaries is third.
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TT closer to the edge
Stone
The original Mad Max although primarily a car film is a better bike film than Easy Rider.
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<------ The Wild One. :bike-037:
Easy Rider is second and Motorcycle Diaries is third.
<------ Yeah, that's right, The Wild One.
Been havin' yerself a time, eh Johnny?
Lannis
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<------ Yeah, that's right, The Wild One.
Been havin' yerself a time, eh Johnny?
Lannis
:thumb:
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Yes...then of course, there is THIS ridiculous Hollywood classic.... :laugh: :grin: :wink: :rolleyes: :shocked: :huh:
"We just want to be FREE...Free to ride our machines and not be hassled by THE MAN!!" :rolleyes: :shocked:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnGzl-OEyGE
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Yes...then of course, there is THIS ridiculous Hollywood classic.... :laugh: :grin: :wink: :rolleyes: :shocked: :huh:
"We just want to be FREE...Free to ride our machines and not be hassled by THE MAN!!" :rolleyes: :shocked:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnGzl-OEyGE
We wantta get loaded. :boozing: