Word: cooling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Easy Rider is directed in consummately trippy fashion by Hopper, who once had an intensely hip handlebar mustache before he went on to portray drunks and psychopaths in 80s films. He and Fonda virtually define late 60s cool here, at once aloof (or stoned) and utterly self-righteous. Yet despite the absurdity of their ideas and appearance, the freaks in this film do seem to be free, if only in a very misguided way, and seem infinitely preferable to the straight-laced types they combat. It's hard to describe a film in which every other word...
...problem with this film is that underneath the many cool epigrams about the nature of pool and manhood, and despite the cute directorial tricks of Martin Scorsese, nothing really happens. Felsen's last-minute change of heart is unconvincing, as is Vince's all-too-quick corruption. We never get to see Newman and Cruise square off in a genuine contest and so the conflict between love and money falls entirely by the wayside. It seems as if Scorsese was so afraid of a sappy moral ending that he never bothered to finish the film...
Blow Your Cool...
...HOODOO GURUS FINALLY TAKE their tongues out of their cheeks on Blow Your Cool. It's not that Australia's wryest band is selling out now that the Gurus are achieving major-label success. If anything, the band seems angrier than ever before...
Despite all this wonderful noise and vehemence, the Gurus' usual anarchy and endearing pop goofiness seems diffused on Cool. There's nothing on this album that is as wacky as the title tracks of Stoneage Romeos or Mars Needs Guitars!. Even "Party Machine," a call to hedonism that is the least serious song on the album, sounds angry and harsh...