# The Bike Riders Film - It's shite **URL:** \ **Category:** Off-topic\ **Created:** [11 July 2024 21:13 UTC](https://londonbikers.com/t/the-bike-riders-film-its-shite/114403 "2024-07-11T21:13:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Joby](https://londonbikers.com/user_avatar/londonbikers.com/joby/32/30304_2.png) [@Joby](https://londonbikers.com/u/Joby)\ **Post date:** [11 July 2024 21:13 UTC](https://londonbikers.com/t/the-bike-riders-film-its-shite/114403/1 "2024-07-11T21:13:16Z")
I suffered through an hour of this before I got up and walked out. If you are looking for a motorcycle film, this is not it. Torque was better and that was pure drivel. Here’s my review from IMDB. Perhaps I’m the wrong audience but I got absolutely nothing from this film, but perhaps that’s because there was nothing to gain. No history, no substance, no plot. It was just an agonising string of tedious dialogue. This film is a bit like meeting your friends at a pub or bar, only turning up 4 hours late after they’ve all had a skinful then sitting there stone cold sober while they talk drivel at you. I left after one hour because I couldn’t waste any more of my life on it. I suppose one positive is that whether you are a motorcycle enthusiast or not the film is equally dreadful so it doesn’t discriminate. Tom Hardy is an entirely unconvincing gang leader. He should have stopped at Legend as he was ok in that. Everything in this film will annoy you. The dialogue, the accents, the constant smoking of cigarettes, (by people clearly not comfortable smoking cigarettes). The list goes on. One film critic compared it to Goodfellas. Well that would be true if Goodfellas was dreadful. You might want to sit though this as an endurance test but other than that I wouldn’t waste your time. ---
**Author:** ![eezie](https://londonbikers.com/user_avatar/londonbikers.com/eezie/32/30341_2.png) [@eezie](https://londonbikers.com/u/eezie)\ **Post date:** [12 July 2024 07:40 UTC](https://londonbikers.com/t/the-bike-riders-film-its-shite/114403/2 "2024-07-12T07:40:16Z")
Will you get off the fence and tell us what you really think? Seriously thanks for the steer. Everyone who doesn’t ride but knows you do tells you to see it. I’ll give it a miss. Cheers. ---
**Author:** ![Serrisan](https://londonbikers.com/user_avatar/londonbikers.com/serrisan/32/32077_2.png) [@Serrisan](https://londonbikers.com/u/Serrisan)\ **Post date:** [12 July 2024 10:57 UTC](https://londonbikers.com/t/the-bike-riders-film-its-shite/114403/3 "2024-07-12T10:57:30Z")
From what I understand this has less to do with motorcycling per se as it’s based on a seminal photojournalistic study of biker gangs. I have the feeling you went in expecting to see something and got something completely different (that might be unfair though…) I’ve seen good reviews by my favourite movie critic and also studied some ethnographic literature of US motorbike gangs during my time at uni, so I’m going to definitely give it a watch. Having said all that, movie opinions are all valid as what one person likes, another doesn’t. A bit like how Tarkovsky is considered a master but I would rather take my eyeballs out with a spoon and eat them 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Joby](https://londonbikers.com/user_avatar/londonbikers.com/joby/32/30304_2.png) [@Joby](https://londonbikers.com/u/Joby)\ **Post date:** [12 July 2024 11:14 UTC](https://londonbikers.com/t/the-bike-riders-film-its-shite/114403/4 "2024-07-12T11:14:37Z")
I’d be interested to hear what you think. I thought the portrayal of biker gangs was pretty poor too. There must have been some smart people in the ranks but none of that was shown here. Just a series of picnics and drinking. ---
**Author:** ![Serrisan](https://londonbikers.com/user_avatar/londonbikers.com/serrisan/32/32077_2.png) [@Serrisan](https://londonbikers.com/u/Serrisan)\ **Post date:** [12 July 2024 11:31 UTC](https://londonbikers.com/t/the-bike-riders-film-its-shite/114403/5 "2024-07-12T11:31:08Z")
I do wonder if we’ve been so caught up with modern biker gangs and how complicated they have become, and how romanticised they have been in things like Sons of Anarchy that we forget that in the 60s, it must have been (don’t know) still pretty chaotic as a scene in it’s infancy. ---
**Author:** ![silveR6](https://londonbikers.com/user_avatar/londonbikers.com/silver6/32/30365_2.png) [@silveR6](https://londonbikers.com/u/silveR6)\ **Post date:** [12 July 2024 12:41 UTC](https://londonbikers.com/t/the-bike-riders-film-its-shite/114403/6 "2024-07-12T12:41:18Z")
I’ve watched it with the optic described by Alex and in the I’ve given it a solid 7. Yes it’s slow on occasions but apparently it’s depicted from real events and I found it quite interesting and personally I liked the acting. Not a fan of Jodie Comer at all but I think she was good, but really annoying. I loved Tom Hardy and Austin Butler. ---
**Author:** ![Joby](https://londonbikers.com/user_avatar/londonbikers.com/joby/32/30304_2.png) [@Joby](https://londonbikers.com/u/Joby)\ **Post date:** [12 July 2024 13:15 UTC](https://londonbikers.com/t/the-bike-riders-film-its-shite/114403/7 "2024-07-12T13:15:27Z")
This is fun. It’s like a London bikers book club. ---
**Author:** ![Serrisan](https://londonbikers.com/user_avatar/londonbikers.com/serrisan/32/32077_2.png) [@Serrisan](https://londonbikers.com/u/Serrisan)\ **Post date:** [12 July 2024 13:47 UTC](https://londonbikers.com/t/the-bike-riders-film-its-shite/114403/8 "2024-07-12T13:47:56Z")
I need to watch it now to comment further but I have to wait until it comes onto a streaming platform as there’s zero chance of me getting to the cinema! ---
**Author:** ![nivag](https://londonbikers.com/user_avatar/londonbikers.com/nivag/32/32342_2.png) [@nivag](https://londonbikers.com/u/nivag)\ **Post date:** [12 July 2024 15:44 UTC](https://londonbikers.com/t/the-bike-riders-film-its-shite/114403/9 "2024-07-12T15:44:20Z")
Is that ban still in place? ---
**Author:** ![Serrisan](https://londonbikers.com/user_avatar/londonbikers.com/serrisan/32/32077_2.png) [@Serrisan](https://londonbikers.com/u/Serrisan)\ **Post date:** [12 July 2024 17:15 UTC](https://londonbikers.com/t/the-bike-riders-film-its-shite/114403/10 "2024-07-12T17:15:01Z")
Ha, no it’s more my daughters have a list of movies I’m allowed to watch ---
**Author:** ![Longshanks1](https://londonbikers.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Longshanks1](https://londonbikers.com/u/Longshanks1)\ **Post date:** [12 July 2024 17:52 UTC](https://londonbikers.com/t/the-bike-riders-film-its-shite/114403/11 "2024-07-12T17:52:31Z")
Tom Hardy is poor in everything I’ve seen him in. Eye candy for the ladies.