Cosy Cool

You're right, it was a pathetic movie as far as acting, actors, script, dialogue, continuity, direction, plot, characters, editing, camera work, outdated slang, embarrassing moments and just full-on cringe, but, you know, I love the bloody thing and would watch it again, anytime, anywhere. Made on a tiny budget, by virtual amateurs, it could rate right down there with the worst movie ever made, but it really is a fantastic snapshot of Sydney in the seventies, and it's a blast to see the locations and how much they've changed over the last 3 decades. The bikes, one an oil-in-frame Triumph done up as a Six-Dollar Chopper, and the other an Iron Sporster with seriously narrow pull-backs, were fairly representative of custom bikes back then. They were built at M&F Choppers and painted by Dave Hart. The Sporty ended up on the Northern beaches and was owned by a mate, while the Trump just disappeared (even though it was a "Really spoofy chopper" according to a line from the movie). The Trump stars in an unscripted crash on the Great Western Highway at Wentworthville. It was meant to be a wheelstand, but it went horribly wrong; it ended up as the best footage in the whole shoot, so they used it. The mutant wheelie was staged in normal, everyday traffic and when the alleged stunt rider finally said: "err, oh-oh!", it's an absolute classic! Another interesting thing was the appearance of most of the Comanchero MC members at the end of the movie, and quite a a few of those blokes aren't around anymore. However, if anyone tries to infer that there's any relationship between final scene in this movie and very real and nasty events of the Milperra Massacre some seven years later, tell'em they're dreamin' — it was nothing more than a spooky coincidence. There was a raffle at the movie's premiere, the prize being the Triumph hero bike. At the end of the show, a lot of bikers not only wanted their money back, but after seeing what the first prize was subjected to during the shoot, they also wanted their raffle ticket stubs removed from the barrel, in case they won! Two things about the movie I really liked were the things that upset most of the reviewers: the first was the sub plot of wandering around the Hot Rod Show at Bankstown Square shopping mall. I went to most of the shows around that time, so I was probably there when they filmed. It's fascinating to think that most of the fine hotrods on show are still around in either exactly the same condition or in some form in 2006. Also the sub plot of the drag racing at Castlereagh Dragstrip was pretty cool, as it featured some of the wild wheelstanders and rails that formed one of the American dragracer tours that hit Australia from the late 1960s on. Yep, it works well as a time capsule,and if you remade the movie with real actors, real scripts and real cinematography, but just kept the basic plot line and reworked the title, it could almost make it as a good movie.

The only way I can describe this movie is totally random. It's like a porn movie without the porn, but with the same standards of acting and production.

Apparently based on real events, the plot line is almost non-existent and the acting is as wooden as you can get. Direction is patchy, and there are long "filler" scenes showing hot rods racing, people doing motorbike tricks and the like. Numerous scenes left me wondering why they were there, and what the characters were doing, as no explanations at all were provided in the movie.

Personally, I would expect better from a trainee production company, trainee actors and directors - even for 1978, which is when this was made.

My brother and i where in this movie, as members of the Comanchero MC only one Comanchero from the Cosy Cool movie was killed in the Milperra massacre,Foggy,a couple were wounded,Jock, Snow. I remember we got $50 each, and they bought a few cases of beer,i remember in a scene it showed Jock Ross standing on a trike,rifle in hand, yelling out a command,when the trike took off mid sentence, throwing jock off the back of the trike, scene had to be shot again,then the premiere in Sydney, i couldn't have sunk any lower in my seat, terrible movie except the last scene, our part.Thirty years later, my curiosity got the better of me, i hired the movie, to see, if my first opinion of cosy cool was right, I was right it stinks,no wonder why, on the back of the video cover it says, Never shown on TV, But what upset me was, the way the producer, director,changed the cover on the DVD,instead of the original picture, of a guy on a chopper, after the Milperra Massacre,a picture of the Comanchero MC, is now on the cover, with as many references to the Milperra Massacre as they could fit, this movie STINKS, the marketing is trying to cash in on the Comanchero Legend, and its wrong. Charlie Graham Life Member Comanchero MC Australia.

I saw the two reviews for this movie and because the PTB guy was so emphatic in his dislike for it I just had to see it. I had to shop around a few video stores but it wasn't real hard to find and the images and sound were just fine on my copy [maybe just differences between copies] I have to say I probably agree more with the guy from Perth "Infofreako" then the "PTB" guy from Sydney. no question that the picture is low budget but it does hold you nevertheless.....Its a capsule of life in 1975 in fringe Sydney Australia. I'm into hot cars and bikes etc so I was more than just a little fascinated to see the bikes and cars. The red Harley is drop dead gorgeous...I want one the acting does get a little patchy here and there but [guessing] its probably a reflection of the budget with limited takes more than anything else. Overall the picture does get its hooks into you...and a re-watching does help to get another perspective on it [seeing it a second time highlighted some things I missed the first time] The story is a bit patchy but it all came together in the end and something else came to mind on the second watching... Aren't the Commenchero bikers the ones who shot each other up in that massacre??..the last scene of this movie is an implied massacre so maybe this was a "dress rehearsal" for real life I liked the picture..its definitely not a 10 but it does have "something" and it does hold you...I voted 6 for it...

yes,I have this Flick,,,Very B grade Aussie film,

story line all over the place,,but Very Aussie!,

very EasyRider.. no where near ''Stones'' class..... but captures the culture,&the Comancheeros at the end......like Ghosts!! kinda Ironic eh?..... I'm sure i have seen Gary Young in bit parts in various Australian soaps, John Wilson is very believable, its a pity they didn't write a better script,could've been a lot better, seems very backyard,homemade, I'm guessing its a very Rare piece of Australian film culture tho, its in the Stone category,very dated,but a film a fan would enjoy, featuring a nice old Harley chopper and a Triumph, lots of on the road fun&scenery which kicks it along, the acting very amateur though, and the story line is confusing,