American Chopper

2003

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6.1| 0h30m| TV-PG| en
Synopsis

Paul Teutul, Sr. and his son Paul Teutul, Jr. manufacture custom chopper-style motorcycles.

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Alicia I love this movie so much
Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.
Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
quockquock I have watched the entire series since the beginning. It used to be a great show, then all it was was screaming, yelling, fighting and stupid deadlines. The newest 2018 episode starts out with Paul Sr. not being able to assemble a set of front forks. So he calls up Paul Jr. and asks for help. WHAT? Just 3 minutes earlier they were talking about how Paul Sr. had been in the business for 40 something years, owns one of the most successful (independent shops) in the motorcycle building business world, and he can't assemble some forks? He doesn't have an employee on staff in his huge shop who can assemble forks? And they "conveniently capture this moment on camera? Later in the episode Sr. is showing his latest build to the Casino managers who ordered the bike and they have a look of concern on their faces, and one of them says.. "We need to talk"... then they go to commercial... Oh the drama, I was so glued to the TV... geesh,, when they came back the casino manager basically said, We love it, we love it so much we want you to build us a second bike. Sr, also decides to pressure test a gas tank, WHY? Why Sr, at that moment when the cameras are rolling? Of course disaster occurs and the tank over-expands causing more drama and more time crunch issues. If Sr. doesn't know how to pressure test a gas tank after 40 plus years in the business, an isn't smart enough to let his people do the work they were hired for, he shouldn't be on TV. Especially when these staged/scripted scenes go on and on. And yes, in the upcoming episodes, we see Sr, yelling, screaming and threatening his staff. Whether it's real, staged, fake or whatever remains to be seen. Just not by me. I have already programmed my DVR to no record any more episodes. Just show some cool bike building and reveals. The Paul Sr. yelling, got old 10 years ago.
Mike Byrne The Discovery Channel provides great insight to creativity and mechanical fabrication. So the hosts are Simpsons-like in their family dysfunction, but look at the wonderful creations that are assembled, the use of design tools, and imagination (how ever it is induced). Though I am not a cycle rider/owner for physical handicap reasons, the show offers a fine view of the custom fabrication shop environment that can be enjoyed by anyone with a notion of mechanical fabrication curiosity. Justice is served well by the Discovery Channel for bringing the the Teutul's obnoxious creativity in to our living rooms. Personally having a background in fabrication (auto & aircraft) it is a treat to see the Teutul family dysfunction coupled with mechanical ingenuity displayed in one hour vignettes. Ride on boys!
crash21 I agree with Darthhatchman's comment "What ever happened to Discovery airing educational programming?" The Discovery Channel used to be made up of a wide array of interesting and informative shows, but now it's nothing but the same dumb shows all day, every day. They don't even show anything special on holidays. Normally, holidays have specials all over the place. Anymore, on the Discovery Channel and TLC all they show is marathons of things like American Chopper and Trading Spaces, which are already all over the normal programming.The Discovery Channel has basically been turned into a car and home improvement network. Their shows like American Chopper, Monster Garage, and Surprise by Design have basically smothered the Discovery Channel. After all this started happening, Tuesday used to be the only night with their traditional Discovery programming, when they showed their law shows like The New Detectives. But now Tuesday has gone down with the rest of the programming, and now they apparently don't even make new episodes of their good law shows, and they just show old re-runs of them between 2PM-4PM on weekday afternoons.American Chopper has absolutely no educational value and ironically is about that same "reality show" concept of the show that killed TLC, "Trading Spaces", only on American Chopper, instead of people turning rooms into abstract art and wasted space, they're doing this to bikes and cars instead of homes.Except their other channels, like The Science Channel, Discovery programming that was actually educating and worth watching is no longer based on anything more than stupidity and so-called "reality" programming. If they were going to air all of these car and biker shows, why didn't they just create a new channel for it? Not replace the original Discovery Channel programming, because it was so much better than all of this.It was bad enough when things like this first happened to TLC, and shows like Trading Spaces took over TLC, but now the Discovery Channel has gone down the same path. It seems like all of the TV shows meant for intelligent people are being smothered by poorly done so-called "reality" shows. I really hope the Discovery Channel seriously considers changing their programming on every Discovery network channel back to actual education, before they're all completely destroyed.
Bobs-9 While watching this show and hearing Paul Sr. and his sons interact, it occurred to me that this is sort of a soap opera for men. In between shouting matches and tantrums over short deadlines, missing tools, bad welds, etc. you see Paul Sr. and his sons sorting out their issues with each other and trying to work together. Sometimes these struggles end in slammed doors and hurt feelings, and sometimes (particularly when younger son Mikey is involved) they end with a joke, a few laughs, and smiles all round. Awwwwww! I think Mikey learned long ago that the best way to survive his father's wrath is to make him laugh. It works almost every time. Very clever.I don't know anything about motorcycles, so I'm sometimes a bit puzzled by the tribute theme bikes that the Teutuls put so much effort into. Interesting as they are mechanically and artistically, the show doesn't really make it apparent to me how they help the firemen or war veterans they honor. The honorees always seem to love and appreciate them, though, so maybe that's enough.Watching the Teutuls and their crew of craftsmen, artists, and master mechanics is addictive and fascinating. It's like looking into one of those old medieval workshops where everything was done by hand and designed and built in the shop under the supervision of a guild master. I really envy them. This is probably a way of life and doing business that's disappearing, so it's nice to think that it still flourishes in some places. See this show!