Badlands
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 Released: April 27, 1999
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June 21, 2009Holly 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 ) -
May 10, 2009Terrence 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 )
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June 12, 2008Wildly 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 )
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April 23, 2008Amazing film by Terrance Mallick that is obviously a heavy influence on QT.
There are finger prints from this film on Natural Born Killers, Death Proof and especially True Romance -
June 26, 2009This is one of those rare occasion in which I am forced to call into question my powers of taste...eration. What I mean to say is, this is a movie that I know I should love, but for whatever reason I could never really get emotionally involved in the story. My brain was like YES ... ...( read more )
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April 7, 2007whats the name of the song at end credits. its the main one in the song. reply if you know
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