Cosy Cool

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...

I am the only person in the world who has seen this movie?? 'Cosy Cool' is one of the most obscure movies to be released in Australia. It's a low budget biker movie inspired by 'Easy Rider'. When I say low budget I mean LOW BUDGET - it makes 'Stone' look like 'Spartacus'!

Unlike 'Stone' this movie isn't about biker clubs (though the Commancheros do appear towards the end). The two protagonists, Cosy Cool and Gracious Grytt, are disenfranchised "space cadets" (their description) who don't fit in with either the biker scene or the straight world. Cosy packs in his job pumping gas, reunites with his old mate Grytt, and the pair hit the road heading for a car/bike show. After they win some prize money there they decide to continue on in search of kicks. Along the way they run across bigoted country folk, "friendly" girls, and other freaks. What they don't realise is that some sinister rednecks are keeping track of them, and are planning on ruining their good time.

This movie is obviously a labour of love for director/star Gary Young. The movie is far from sophisticated (in Australia we'd call it "rough as guts"), technically shaky, unevenly acted, and with many unintentional laughs, but even so, it has a raw unbridled energy and enthusiasm very rarely seen. Cosy and Grytt are uncliched Aussie characters that ring true. You wonder if Young and Wilson aren't just basically playing themselves. Wilson in particular as Gracious Grytt is one of the most memorable screen bikers. Hopper or Fonda he isn't, but his catchprase "negative waves, negative waves" will hopefully one day ensure him of undying cult status!

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.

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.

As shocked as I am at realising somebody else besides ME saw this film, I must also admit that I actually paid to see it on its first and only tragic release at the doomed Town Cinema in Sydney in 1977. It was ghastly. Sort of a home movie version of STONE (previous bikie antics in Sydney) and of course EASY RIDER. It is a sort of a retarded version of either or both. I just don't know. But, I do have to say, what ever happened to auteur Gary Young? At least he had a go, and as bewildering as the film is, he did make something. I guess sort of an Ed Wood for the Kangaroo Kinema fans. Maybe if everyone was nude all through the film it might have helped, but I don't think so. There is even some gratuitous snuff footage from some lost vampire pic too. Yikes!