Badlands

J.R. Hudson

J.R. Hudson

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I just started watching for the first time

OMG - The opening scene has the identical music from TRUE ROMANCE ! The steele drums ....

More review to come :bath:
 
Yeah, that Terrence Malick is such a rip off artist...I actually couldn't believe they used that music in True Romance, as the movie was already such a knock off Malick's Badlands to begin with...Another thief is John Singleton and his use of "Ooo Child" when the kids are getting arrested in Boyz N The Hood, copying an almost identical scene in Over The Edge which has the same track. I think that's just downright lazy.

What's up Hudson, you catching up on the classics?
 
To be fair - I think the music is ripped off from itself -
Didn't Hans Zimmer did the soundtrack to both Badlands and True Romance?

And by the way - you found the plot line to be similar to True Romance?
I always felt like 'Natural Born Killers' was a carbon copy of Bad Lands (plotwise)
 
They are both similar. Tarantino has always owned up to the influence of that film on his early work...And no, Hans Zimmer did not score Badlands.
 
Im not seeing the Badlands / TR connection other than young lovers; :P TR is an epic film

I don't think Zimmer did Badlands Luis !

Yes, I am expanding my brain

Yall'd be proud of me; Kubrick, Lynch, early classics from the 30's to the 70's .....

I'm in my final year and my thesis is due
 
J.R. Hudson said:
Im not seeing the Badlands / TR connection other than young lovers; :P TR is an epic film

I don't think Zimmer did Badlands Luis !

Yes, I am expanding my brain

Yall'd be proud of me; Kubrick, Lynch, early classics from the 30's to the 70's .....

I'm in my final year and my thesis is due
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What's next? Art films? :shocked:







:grin::grin::2vrolijk_08:
 
Sheen just shot homeboy

Wow

This film is turing out to be everything it's hyped up to be

DAMN Blaine ?

Thin Red Line was solid; it took me a few viewings, but I endorse it
 
J.R. Hudson said:
I just started watching for the first time

OMG - The opening scene has the identical music from TRUE ROMANCE ! The steele drums ....

More review to come :bath:
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Malick--a great filmmaker. Badlands is great. And yeah, the music is also in True Romance. But plot-wise, I think Down In The Valley (with Edward Norton) is a more of a rip-off of Badlands than True Romance.
 
If you're checking out classics from the 40's I recommend White Heat with James Cagney if you haven't seen it. It's one of those rare classic films that has a pacing on par with a modern film, and Cagney is brilliant in it...And watch Yojimbo. I prefer it to Seven Samurai.
 
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Chilling

The scene where the young couple sgows up at the house

and the girl says

"What's going to happen to Jack and me ?"

Freaky
 
What a weird coincidence. I JUST watched this this afternoon and was going to start a thread. On the whole people talking about others ripping off the story should know that Badlands was based on a real couple '50s who went on a killing spree. The movie the Sadist, which came out in the early '60s, before Badlands, is also based on the couple. But Badlands is still far, far, far, far better than Natural Born Killers and True Romance. The Sadist isn't bad. For an exploitation film, it's actually beautifully shot by the famous DP Vilmos Zsigmond of Close Encounters fame. Badlands is an amazing film. I decided to watch all of Terrence Malick's films this weekend (which should be easy, he's only made four films).
 
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What a weird coincidence. I JUST watched this this afternoon and was going to start a thread. On the whole people talking about others ripping off the story should know that Badlands was based on a real couple '50s who went on a killing spree. The movie the Sadist, which came out in the early '60s, before Badlands, is also based on the couple. But Badlands is still far, far, far, far better than Natural Born Killers and True Romance. The Sadist isn't bad. For an exploitation film, it's actually beautifully shot by the famous DP Vilmos Zsigmond of Close Encounters fame. Badlands is an amazing film. I decided to watch all of Terrence Malick's films this weekend (which should be easy, he's only made four films).
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A sadist is someone who watches all of Malick's films over a weekend...I really like Badlands, but don't have much regard for his other work beyond their usually gorgeous cinematography.
 
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That would be a masochist, actually.
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Correct you are. A sadist is someone who would make me sit through them. His movies do present nice visuals, I'm just not that sold on his stories. Four films throughout his career with a 20 year gap between the first two and the last two...
 
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But Badlands is still far, far, far, far better than Natural Born Killers and True Romance.
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No argument there. Plus, it inspired Bruce Springsteen to write Nebraska. Years later, Sean Penn would take Highway Patrolman (off the same album), and make The Indian Runner.


I decided to watch all of Terrence Malick's films this weekend (which should be easy, he's only made four films)
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Good for you. This guy is a filmmaker's filmmaker. When The Thin Red Line was going to be made, everyone in Hollywood wanted in. George Clooney is only in it for maybe 30 seconds, Woody Harrelson took a small (but memorable part) just to be in it, and Mickey rourke ended up having all his scenes cut out of it, but the list of actors who would have gladly taken their places is supposed to be pretty long. I hated it when I saw it at the theatres. I love it now. Would rather see it than Saving Private Ryan 9 times out of 10.

Enjoy the scenery in Days Of Heaven.
 
Hmmm. Not so sure the movie inspired Nebraska. The Starkweather murder spree inspired at least one of the songs, but that was big news well before the movie. Didn't need the movie to be inspired.

"Highway Patrolman" always fascinated me, because the lyrics suggest it was set very near where I grew up (outside Toledo), even though there's no Perrineville or Michigan County in Ohio. (Nor is there a Michigan County in any other state, but Perrineville, NJ is near the Boss's hometown.)
 
I fell in love with Badlands, first time I saw it. Just, wow.

The music is by Carl Orff, from the Musica Poetica. Hans Zimmer rearranged and derived variations on it for the True Romance score.
 
I don't know what the hell I was thinking.
As I went back and read that I realized how stupid it sounded.

I think that's one of those things someone told me back when I first saw Badlands, and I never stopped to realize it didn't really make sense.

Alright - I'll stick to posting about things I know about.
Hmmm

I guess I'll be posting alot less
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