I don't if this is because UK thing, but there are bunch more other worth mentioning bikes and characters in movies. I would take Goose with his Kwaka from Mad Max over Golden Eye, or Resident Evil.
My own short list of passable-to-great motorcycle movies, in no discernible order:
Roadside Prophets (1992, a road movie – big surprise! – featuring a good-hearted loser on a rigid Harley panhead and a manic newbie on a rat Triumph), Me and Will (1999, a road movie featuring two women riders in search of the lost Captain America bike from 'Easy Rider'), Little Fauss and Big Halsy (1970, features an assortment of small-displacement racing motors), Ride With the Wind (1993, more racing motors), One Week (2008, in which a dying man opts to spend his last days on his Triumph), The World's Fastest Indian (2005, and duh!), Mask (1985, this is NOT the Jim Carrey flick; it’s the Sam Elliott/Cher/Eric Stoltz title with old and well-ridden Harleys, and bikers as good guys [!] in a true-life story about a gravely ill teenager), Streets of Fire (1984, has old, well-ridden Harleys and a comic-book so-bad-it's-good storyline), Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991, two Harleys and a couple of metric bikes, and a storyline lifted straight from dozens of old Westerns), Running Cool (1993, more Harleys, and bikers as good guys again, which I always enjoy), The Return of the Rebels (1981, still more Harleys, and still more bikers as good guys), Wild Hogs (2007, with its spot-on send-up of yuppie bikers and take-themselves-too-serious “outlaws” alike), and Death Riders (which, despite the title, is a decent 1976 documentary about thrill riders on the county fair circuit).
As for the bikes: I’m primarily an old Harley guy, although I’ve owned and loved a BMW oilhead and a vintage British two-stroke. From these movies, I’d keep the panhead from Roadside Prophets (it’s almost a bolt-for-bolt twin to the rigid shovel that’s been my daily rider since the late ‘70s), the Triumph from One Week, Burt Munro’s Indian, most of the Harleys from Mask, Streets of Fire and Running Cool, and the Low Rider Don Johnson steals in Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man.
My own short list of passable-to-great motorcycle movies, in no discernible order:
ReplyDeleteRoadside Prophets (1992, a road movie – big surprise! – featuring a good-hearted loser on a rigid Harley panhead and a manic newbie on a rat Triumph), Me and Will (1999, a road movie featuring two women riders in search of the lost Captain America bike from 'Easy Rider'), Little Fauss and Big Halsy (1970, features an assortment of small-displacement racing motors), Ride With the Wind (1993, more racing motors), One Week (2008, in which a dying man opts to spend his last days on his Triumph), The World's Fastest Indian (2005, and duh!), Mask (1985, this is NOT the Jim Carrey flick; it’s the Sam Elliott/Cher/Eric Stoltz title with old and well-ridden Harleys, and bikers as good guys [!] in a true-life story about a gravely ill teenager), Streets of Fire (1984, has old, well-ridden Harleys and a comic-book so-bad-it's-good storyline), Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991, two Harleys and a couple of metric bikes, and a storyline lifted straight from dozens of old Westerns), Running Cool (1993, more Harleys, and bikers as good guys again, which I always enjoy), The Return of the Rebels (1981, still more Harleys, and still more bikers as good guys), Wild Hogs (2007, with its spot-on send-up of yuppie bikers and take-themselves-too-serious “outlaws” alike), and Death Riders (which, despite the title, is a decent 1976 documentary about thrill riders on the county fair circuit).
As for the bikes: I’m primarily an old Harley guy, although I’ve owned and loved a BMW oilhead and a vintage British two-stroke. From these movies, I’d keep the panhead from Roadside Prophets (it’s almost a bolt-for-bolt twin to the rigid shovel that’s been my daily rider since the late ‘70s), the Triumph from One Week, Burt Munro’s Indian, most of the Harleys from Mask, Streets of Fire and Running Cool, and the Low Rider Don Johnson steals in Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man.
Bill J. from Austin