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Badlands (1973)

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Malick's best film

11 years, 4 months ago at Dec 4 4:01
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"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."

Terrence Malick's masterful debut feature, Badlands is a deliberately-paced thriller of immense power and striking visual lyricism. The picture was produced for a paltry $300,000, and is loosely based on the real-life killing spree of Charl... read more

A classic

11 years ago at Apr 8 7:32
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I had actually already seen this flick and, if I recall it correctly, I saw it about 10 years ago when I was living in England. Back then, I wasn’t really familiar with Terrence Malick and I watched this flick because it was considered as a masterpiece. Nowadays, I have seen most of the movies directed by Malick and I thought it was time to revisit his directing debut. Unfortunately, even this s... read more

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9 months, 2 weeks ago at Jul 16 1:02
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(OK) Malick never was better being less ambitious. The story is not even unique (Lang, Ray, Joseph H.Lewis, Ulmer were before) but Malick pack it with his times and references and funny tender wonderfull moments, and style....
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Dramatization of the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of the 1950's, in which a teenage girl and her twenty-something boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.
Release date: 5 January 1974
UPC: 085391608622
Tags: 1970s (17), Crime (14), Drama (12), Murder (9), 1973 (9), Car Chase (9), Thriller (8), Adventure (8), Usa (8), Narration (8), Killing Spree (8), On The Run (7), Psychopath (7), Vandalism (7), Lovers On The Lam (7), Badlands (7), Road (6), Road Trip (6), Ranch Hand (6), Airfield (6)
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