Biker movies

**Bob** · 4th July 2004, 05:06

Brando passing away got me thinking about this - there have been quite a few biking movies/films over the years, so what is your favourite?

I like a fairly obscure one called 'Streets of Fire' - admittedly the bikers are the bad guys in it (basic story, Female Singer plays a gig at the town she was born in and gets kidnapped by a rebel (what other kind?) biker gang. Sister of hero who used to date singer gets him to come back and rescue her- lots of action, acting cool and no smiling whatsoever!)

There is another one I can't recall the name, but it is based on a true story about an undercover cop who infiltrates an Angel's gang - end result was the head guys were put away for a very long time. Charlie Sheen played the lead role I think. The real cop was in the movie - but they couldn't give him a credit or show his real name as he is (or was) still on a hit list.

So what ones do you like? This is where I get worried as someone says 'Barb Wire' (remind me to tell you guys the time I looked out the window and saw a 20ft tall Pamela Anderson staring back at me... I'm not kidding)

**wari** · 4th July 2004, 07:34

SKy hada series of olde bikerr movies on rresently ...

DIDnt they little fella ...

... <== didI menshion he's my yes man ?

Ialways forgot they werre on ...

ANd I can neverr rrememberr the name of movies ... :spudwhat:

**Motu** · 4th July 2004, 10:54

I don't watch biker movies,even for B movies they are bad,but I saw The Wild One when the ban was lifted.Easy Rider is at the top of the list - saw it at 15 or 16,the rest is history.On Any Sunday had Steve McQueen in it,and he usualy got some riding or driving into his movies.There was a bike chase (Triumph) in one of Clint Eastwoods early movies,that was a good one,the bike going up and down steps.There were a couple of Evel Knevel movies,some good riding in them,Triumphs and Evel's Harley - they may have done bigger jumps,but they haven't used a bigger bike.

**Two Smoker** · 4th July 2004, 11:19

Ghost Rider, and Ghost Rider 2, 499hp Turbo'd busa..... Nuff said...

**6Chris6** · 4th July 2004, 11:22

Not a movie but :-
Christian Pfiefer (sp?)
winning the stunting world champs

What that guy can do with a bike is amazing

**Holy Roller** · 4th July 2004, 13:04

I'm ready for being flamed.....
Though the Cher movie I think "Mask" The movie where her son had that facial deformity, showed bikers as good guys.

Saw easy rider just recently it didn't have the same impact as when I was younger.
Peter Fonda was cool back then aslo in Easy rider

Remember Cannon ball run and those butterflys

Steve McQueen in The great eascape or dixie dynamite or Bullitt on the BSA

Electroglide in blue
Battle truck
Mad max movies
Tomb Raider

Every which way you can
Every which way but loose
Magnum force for you Guzzi fans
The gauntlet Clint Eastwood rocks yeah

whoopi in the rat race
Tom Cruise in Mission inpossible 11 and Top Gun
Steven Segal in exit wounds on that Duc
Any one see that Sting movie back in the early 80s with the vespa boys? quad something I think.

Just a few I,ve seen over the years

**Jackrat** · 4th July 2004, 14:22

Easy rider,Stone,On any sunday,Wild one.
On any suday is my favorite,the others are just a little better than most of the crap out there and I like them more for the time frames and the historical thing than for their acting or story lines.
I kind of liked "Any which way but loose" as well.
See this tattoo,It's a black widow!!

**Hitcher** · 4th July 2004, 14:35

Originally Posted by Holy Roller

Any one see that Sting movie back in the early 80s with the vespa boys? quad something I think.

Quadraphenia is the word you seek. From The Who album of the same name. "That deaf dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball..." [Probably his way of compensating for the Tourettes Syndrome!]

**El Dopa** · 4th July 2004, 18:08

Hells Angels on wheels
Hells Angels '69

Both 'Bikesploitation' flicks from the late '60's, to cash in on the notoriety of the Hells Angels. The first one starred Jack Nicolson. They used a lot of the real Angels as extras and they're supposed to be reasonably authentic period pieces (not seen 'em, but they're on the list).

If you like weird Japanese animation, I'd highly recommend Akira. There's some great bike sequences in it.

Probably best if we forgot 'Stone Cold' and 'Biker Boyz'.

Oh, and Vanilla Ice's one and only celluloid outing, where he's the leader of a bike gang (cos Ice, Ice baby is such a bad boy).

Which illustrates nicely the point that every time Hollywood has wanted to portray a character as 'a bad boy', the lazy, easy shorthand way to do it is stick the bloke in leather on some sort of two wheeled machine.

**Bleck K6** · 4th July 2004, 19:27

MAD MAX 1, Its the best movie ever made I reckon.

**El Dopa** · 4th July 2004, 20:09

Nearly forgot:

Best bike action sequence in a recent film has to be the freeway chase in Matrix 2. Pity about the rest of the film....

Hitcher, I liked mask, too. So no flames from me.

**Bob** · 5th July 2004, 02:18

Battle truck! I'd forgotten that one!

Wasn't that filmed in NZ?

**moko** · 5th July 2004, 09:42

Best "biker" thing I`ve seen recently was a BBC programme about bike gangs,all stereotypical crap but at least it showed Sonny Barger up for the wanker he really is,bloke`s brain dead.