Badlands

I Like this movie which is\was based on a true story but for my taste there was a bit too much "creative license" used. Sheen as always was great but I think Sissy (sp) kinda underplayed her roll but not enough... Full review

I Like this movie which is\was based on a true story but for my taste there was a bit too much "creative license" used. Sheen as always was great but I think Sissy (sp) kinda underplayed her roll but not enough... Full review

Having no expectations or preconceived idea what the movie was like, I was pleasantly surprised by this quirky Bonnie and Clyde-esque movie. It was funny to see Martin Sheen picking up trash, much like Charlie does in Men At Work. But... Full review

Having no expectations or preconceived idea what the movie was like, I was pleasantly surprised by this quirky Bonnie and Clyde-esque movie. It was funny to see Martin Sheen picking up trash, much like Charlie does in Men At Work. But... Full review

Adding to the layers of characterisation, Malick has written a wonderful narration for Holly. Searing performances from both Sheen (who won the Best Actor Award at San Sebastian for his role) and Sissy Spacek (who was nominated as Best Promising Newcomer at the BAFTAs for hers), combined with superb cinematography, ensure a memorable film. ... Full Review

But the result was far more than just another gun-crazy-kids flick. Refracted through Holly's naive, emotionally flat narration and Malick's poetic visual style ... Full Review

The innocuous way they hook up sets up this deceptively low-key road movie. Terrence Malick's thriller Badlands (1973), is rightly revered as one of the most astonishing debuts in cinema. Malick has never quite recaptured the cruel magic. ... Full Review

Both beautiful and terrifying, "Badlands" was Malick's fictionalized take on the Starkweather killings, a late `50s midwestern killing spree undertaken by a James Dean wannabe, and witnessed by his underage love. And now, 35 years later, "Badlands" is being revived for a one-time-only show in Manhattan on Saturday, April 26 -- and Spacek will be on hand to talk about what the movie meant for her, and to her long and wonderful career. ... Full Review

Hence, the film isn't irresponsible but only more relevant. Combined with the minimalist piano score and the sporadic dialogue, I'm sure "Heaven" will be accused of being pretentious, but that would be dismissing how exciting and even funny it can get in between bouts of visual poetry. ... Full Review

This is the retelling of the Pocahontas story (don't expect things to be factually correct, as it shoots to explore ideas instead), the first American for all intensive purposes, which is the beginning saga of the genocidal American history and... ... Full Article

Our mental picture of the English settlers' landing in America tends to look as stiff as a grammar-school pageant: Englishmen right, with muskets; Indians left, bearing corn. ... Full Article

"...Images of bustling modern-day Mexico City contrast with shots of ancient pyramids and other remnants of the Mayan, Zapotec, and Aztec civilizations in this visual tone poem to Mexico. ... Full Article

"He wanted to die with me and I dreamed of being lost forever in his arms." A young couple goes on a Midwest crime spree in Terrence Malick's hypnotically assured debut feature, based on the 1950s Starkweather-Fugate murders. ... Full Article

Regarded as something of a classic road movie, at the core of Badlands is a story that was so not only half-inched for Oliver Stone's inferior Natural Born Killers, but was actually based on the real life events of fugitive... ... Full Article

Based in part on the real-life 1958 killing spree committed by Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate, Badlands is a brilliant, poetic debut for director Terrence Malick, one of the best debuts in cinematic history. ... Full Article