Martin Sheen, Ramon Bieri, Sissy Spacek
Still one of American cinema's most powerful, daring filmmaking debuts, Terrence Malick's Badlands is a quirky, visionary psychological and social enigma masquerading as a simple lovers-on-the-...( read more
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DVD Release Date: April 27, 1999
Stats: 969 reviews
This is Malick at his best. Often copied (True Romance) but never matched. This is an American classic, not to be missed!
Holly Sargis: At this moment, I didn't feel shame or fear, but just kind of blah, like when you're sitting there and all the water's run out of the bathtub.
A Terrence Malick film about a couple on the run for the majority of the film. The story is based on a real life killer c...( read more)
Terrence Malick has crafted two characters that treat robbery and murder as incidental mishaps and necessities. Martin Sheen's character is sociopathic and cold-blooded but yet still likeable. Sissy Spacek, as his young accomplice, is fully aware of his atrocities, yet she reta...( read more)
Wildly offsetting, wildly captivating, and wild in its own substance, Badlands is an inventive and thoughtful picture that holds motion in every department. Sheen's 'Dean-esque' portrayal supplements the wondrous visuals laden before the up-beat, jittering sound score. The film i...( read more)
this is for me the worst malick's film, but you know, when i said malick's worst, it could be someone's masterpiece, this is actually a really good film, an accomplished one, but my problem is just as simply as this film is different from other malick's film, this is not as insig...( read more)
This movie was daring and made to stand the test of time and that it has accomplished. The rebel without a cause was one of the reasons this movie was put out there. He had nowhere to fit in and started out a path of his own, only wanting to be remembered. A twisted yet very crea...( read more)
A true telling of the Stark weather serial killings in the Dakotas. Violent and suspenseful with young Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek. They were young and in love; she was reckless and slutty, he was a murdering psychopath. Ah, romantic.
Amazing performances from Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek, and some really beautiful cinematography. A good portion of Tarantino?s script for ?True Romance? was obviously inspired by (or a rip off of) this movie. The theme songs/scores are even almost identical.
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whats the name of the song at end credits. its the main one in the song. reply if you know
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