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Maybe back in the day this passed for counterculture sophistication but I just don’t see the appeal of Five Easy Pieces (1970). Maybe star Jack Nicholson’s allegedly overlarge penis was visible and I just don’t look there, otherwise I don’t get the attraction for such hotties as very young, slender, blond hotties as Karen Black, Susan Anspach (with long wavy, curly hair to die for) and even Sally Struthers.
Now Ralph Waite as his snootier than thou older brother, that was sort of amusing. Billy Green Bush as his drinking buddy who can’t stop giggling, even when a couple of lawmen are dragging him off for jumping bail, a bit of a laugh. Lois Smith played his sister but she seemed more interested in jumping in his bed.
Pretty disappointing. This movie came out when I was too young to see it but along with Easy Rider is kind of a touchstone of late ’60s hippydom so I figured 25 years is long enough to wait. Seriously, the Monkees movie Head, which Nicholson and director Bob Rafelson collaborated on the year before was almost better.
not recommended
