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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790739243
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790739240
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 27, 1999
Running Time: 94 minutes
Sales Rank: 15804
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1973
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Product Description:
Dramatization of the starkweather-fugate killing spree of the 1950s in which a teenage girl and her twenty-something boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the dakota badlands. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/26/2006 Starring: Warren Oates Sissy Spacek Run time: 93 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Terrence Malick
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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-lam flick. Inspired by the 1958 murders in the cold, stark badlands of South Dakota by Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate, the film's plot, on the surface, is similar to that of other killing-couple films, like Bonnie and Clyde and Gun Crazy. Martin Sheen, in an understated, sophisticated performance, plays the strange James Dean-like social outcast who falls in love with the naïve Sissy Spacek--and then kills her father when he comes between them. The two flee like animals to the wilderness, until the police arrive and the killing spree begins.
What sets the film apart from others of its genre is Malick's complicated approach. Gorgeous, impenetrable images contrast sharply with Spacek's nostalgically artless narration, serving as ironic counterpoints, blurring concrete meaning, and stressing that nothing this horrific is simple. Malick observes, rather than analyzes, the couple in a manner as detached and apathetic as the couple's shocking actions. No judgment or definitive motivations are offered, though Malick's empathy often leans toward his senseless protagonists, rather than the star-struck society that makes killers famous. Compared with the interchangeable uniform cops who hunt them and the film's other nameless characters stuck in suburban banality, the couple are presented like tarnished, warped and frustrated results of squelched individuality.
Badlands, on one level, views America's suffocating homogeneity and, conversely, its continued obsession with celebrities (individuals considered different but adored) as hypocritical. Ambiguous and bold, the movie hints that society may be as guilty as the killers. --Dave McCoy
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Some Notes on Badlands
Recently watching Badlands for the second time, I was less impressed than after the original viewing. But I figure enough people have given their reasons for liking or not liking the movie, so instead I'll throw out a couple thoughts upon watching it. For one, the couple is never in the actual Badlands of the Dakotas. They spend all their time on the Plains, unless I'm mistaken, whether it's the town they first live in, their holdout by the river, or their drive through the flat landscape. Badlands ... Read More
Rating: - Revisionist history + good acting = interesting movie.
Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973)
I've never understood the mystique attached to Terrence Malick. I assumed this was because the first Malick film I saw was his 1998 desecration of The Thin Red Line, to this day one of the worst films I have ever had the displeasure to sit through in a theater. I figured that in order to give the guy a fighting chance, I'd go back and watch his earlier movies. Badlands was his first, and hey, Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek playing Charles Starkweather and ... Read More
Rating:  - Not as well made as you think....
Okay okay, these reviews and everything got me going. I have seen all TM's films but this one and I gave it a go, calibrating my screen and readying the headphones.
WHAT A WASTE.
I will chalk this films credibility as being the gift of a rabid fanbase. It is the guy's first film, but.... COME ON PEOPLE!
This film would be failing with critics if it came out today because, FOR ONE, the acting is terrible, the editing is average, and many of the film's best scenes ... Read More
Rating:  - Quick on the Draw with a Finger on the Trigger
Badlands is Terrence Malick's first feature film, and paved the way for his acclaimed career. Badlands is a meditation on the relationship between 15 year old Holly and her older boyfriend, Kit as they go on a crime spree throughout the Midwest, leaving a number of bodies in their wake. The film has a relatively low budget aesthetic, but is very well shot and scored. The performances from Sheen and Spacek are excellent, and contribute to the haunting nature of the film. Although this movie is unconventional, ... Read More
Rating: - Hmmmm ! -- Question .........
Picture of the jacket-cover for this movie says: Starring Martin Sheen & Sissy Spacek. But you look to the right of the cover it reads: Starring: Dona Baldwin, Ramon Bieri. What is one to deduce about this ????
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