I'm about to watch Badlands...

FreshShabazz · Post by **FreshShabazz** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 7:10 pm

...for the first time and I'm hecka excited.

Psychosis · Post by **Psychosis** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 7:20 pm

I saw it for the first time a few months ago. It's fantastic. Sheen is great in it.

FreshShabazz · Post by **FreshShabazz** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 7:28 pm

Well, I was about to watch Badlands before I opened the dvd case to find the DVD completely destroyed... Hopefully they have another copy.
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Icesickle · Post by **Icesickle** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 7:31 pm

Badlands is one of the best, and most underrated, films of the 1970s. Everything's great: Sheen, Spacek, and Oates' acting; Malick's direction; the score; the cinematography; the script. Get another copy dunny; it's one of the best films I've ever seen.

still illiterate · Post by **still illiterate** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 7:34 pm

yeah it's great, find another copy.

cascarrabias · Post by **cascarrabias** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 9:37 pm

Badlands is really that great but it's not underrated by any means. Plenty of people rate it very highly.

Icesickle · Post by **Icesickle** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 10:46 pm

cascarrabias wrote:Badlands is really that great but it's not underrated by any means. Plenty of people rate it very highly.

People "in the know" rate it highly, but it's not a popular classics like Chinatown, The Godfather 1 & 2, Taxi Driver, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, etc.

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 12:08 pm

is probably fucking your mom right now

cynosure · Post by **cynosure** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 8:16 am

amazing film

its also amazing to see Malick do a cameo in it

Trademark · Post by **Trademark** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 10:40 am

great movie....one of my favorites...

cascarrabias · Post by **cascarrabias** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 1:56 pm

Fresh you have a responsibility to this thread. You have to see this movie and report back.

Career Over Like Mike(NJJ) · Thu Jan 04, 2007 1:57 pm

Erik Satie.

Icesickle · Post by **Icesickle** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 3:24 pm

This is by far Terrance Malick's best script. Shit has so many off-kilter comedic moments:

-Kit and Holly going through the rich man's house.
-Kit confronting Warren Oates as he's painting the sign.
-Kit putting together a mound of rocks so people will know where the cops found him, then coming his hair before they pull up.
-Kit signing autographs for cops and offering to give them his comb.

This might be Martin Sheen's best performance. It's better than his performance in Apocalypse Now at least...