loisloon Typical Hollywood trash. Nothing clever, original or entertaining here. I feel sorry for anyone who paid money and wasted their time watching this. I am amazed that this movie made money. Further proof America is completely lacking in intelligence, culture, taste, and can be so easily entertained. Even sadder is the fact this probably made money in Europe. I can only imagine real Hell's Angels watching this farce. A short film of them watching this mess might actually be entertaining.

daviddaveinternational I own this movie on VHS. I collect "cheap biker movies" and this is one of the cheapest. The bikes are wild and vintage. Classic. Real "choppers" not Hondas with a Harley primary cover and such. It's not too bad until the party scene at Losers wake. Mr. Blues, Peter Fonda, apparently raped, is it Loser's old lady, but after he's done, he gets up...fully dressed. I mean 1% outlaw bikers at LEAST drop their drawers and take out their schlong if they are going to rape. Maybe it was a dry hump rape, I don't know. Heavenly's final comments are not what a President would say. When asked if he had anything to say over Loser's coffin, he simply says, "There's nothing to say." Not much of a caring, loving Prez! Then, when told, "Let's GO!" "There's nowhere to go..." You would think he would be deep, but he is shallow to the point of being...well, stupid! Also, Outlaw Bikers were not so clean cut. Just riding these chops is enough to show some grime and dirt. But, it's Peter Fonda and he didn't want to look filthy. He was almost a star and all. Maybe he should have used the name: "Peter Fondue". Worth watching just to see Derns great performance and the great bikes. Where's all the tattoos? Oh, Peter Fonda was sorely miscast for this and any other biker movie such as Easy Rider. He's about a convincing 1% outlaw biker as the late Mister Rogers.

Mark Honhorst I have recently had awful luck with picking out good movies to watch. Movies like The Wolfman remake, The Thing With Two Heads, and Reptilicus are just three of my unfortunate viewing choices, and they really make me wonder why I even continue to collect DVDs. Sadly, this movie, "The Wild Angels" is just the most recent in the string of trash I have unwittingly subjected myself to. It is simplistic and stupid, and can be summarized in one short paragraph. Ready? Here we go! (SPOILERS!!!) Peter Fonda and a gang of idiotic bikers are riding around Mexico or somewhere, and along the way, one of them gets shot. He is taken to the hospital. Peter and his pals take him away from the hospital and he later dies. At his funeral, Peter and friends trash the church and have a party. Later at the burial, a small boy throws a rock at one of the bikers. Everyone gets mad and attacks the crowd of townspeople. The police come and all of Peter's chums run away, and Peter is left alone to bury his friend. The end. Was that short enough? Anyway, the characters were all obnoxious punks that I couldn't possibly root for. Fonda looks atrocious in his biker punk get up, and the whole film is less interesting than watching an old lady knit for 86 minutes. This is the worst film I've seen in quite some time, and that's saying a lot from me, considering the stuff I watch.

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.