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Because I finally saw it and I loved it in a way and yet I'm not quite sure how to process it.

"Somethin mi trabajo"

― Hurting (A-Ron Hubbard), Sunday, 17 December 2006 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't have anything interesting to say, but it's my favorite film!

― Michael (Oakland Mike), Sunday, 17 December 2006 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Great movie. Great, great movie.

Was that interesting enough?

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 17 December 2006 22:54 (seventeen years ago) link

ebert

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Sunday, 17 December 2006 22:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Not bad. I felt the same way about the movie confounding explanation by failing to offer symbols, meanings, etc. I think he gets a couple of details wrong though (e.g. It's Kit's idea to bring the school books along).

But I thought maybe the blankness of the whole thing was part of the point, to whatever extent there was one - that human behavior itself can confound the neat explanations we try to give it.

― Hurting (A-Ron Hubbard), Sunday, 17 December 2006 23:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Her narration is the glue.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 18 December 2006 00:28 (seventeen years ago) link

One of my favorites. I absolutley love the soundtrack (which I recently realized much was used for True Romance, not one of my favorites.)

― will (will), Monday, 18 December 2006 00:45 (seventeen years ago) link

is it related at all to the pc game from the 80's

― bleeeee (bleeeee), Monday, 18 December 2006 02:58 (seventeen years ago) link

The gun as crucifix as used in "Giant"? I liked that part.
I have to watch it again. it has been years.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Monday, 18 December 2006 04:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I wasn't sure if he was supposed to be Jesus or a scarecrow in that scene.

― Hurting (A-Ron Hubbard), Monday, 18 December 2006 04:33 (seventeen years ago) link

which I recently realized much was used for True Romance

Badlands is a great movie that seems to have influenced a lot of shitty movies.

― Hurting (A-Ron Hubbard), Monday, 18 December 2006 04:39 (seventeen years ago) link

there are no badlands in it

― nuneb (nuneb), Monday, 18 December 2006 04:59 (seventeen years ago) link

mundane narration of extraordinary events from a naive pov.

(great great movie)

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Monday, 18 December 2006 06:30 (seventeen years ago) link

DONT BE SAYING SHIT ABT TRUE ROMANCE

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Monday, 18 December 2006 06:31 (seventeen years ago) link

if there were no badlands then I call bait and switch

― bleeeee (bleeeee), Monday, 18 December 2006 07:05 (seventeen years ago) link

badlands doesn't have patricia arquette in those outfits. true romance is a better film

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Monday, 18 December 2006 07:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesus as scarecrow.

― alison murchie (aimurchie), Monday, 18 December 2006 07:35 (seventeen years ago) link

the blankness is what makes the film -- like there's an entire layer of meaning and knowledge that you can sense and the film can kind of gesture toward in those huge vistas, but that is ultimately as inscrutable as the sky. i love the movie, but my problem with it is that the strained poetry of malick's subsequent films make me wonder whether badlands really has anything to say -- if it's a form of faux-naive vapidity posing as insight. but sissy and martin are great, my favorite performance by each of them.

― tipsy mothra (tipsy mothra), Monday, 18 December 2006 07:43 (seventeen years ago) link

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