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Summary: Billy Jack is an icon of counter-culture
Review: I can see why the Limbaugh crowd can't understand a film like Billy Jack. Like the enemies of the Freedom School, it's easier to hate and fear than it is to grow and change. Unfortunately, the struggle with prejudice is a timeless conflict.The movie is low-budget and occasionally campy, but Billy Jack remains an icon of counter-culture. Thirty years later, the "system" is still waging war against the ideals of 60's and early 70's youth culture. Rejecting the current sterotype, Billy Jack reminds us that being a hippie was not the same thing as being a druggie.
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Summary: Fuzzy -headed liberalism plus faux Apache know-how! Camp fun
Review: You cannot enjoy this movie if you take it seriously. If you look at it as an anachronistic piece of confused fluff then you might just have a ball watching this one. Howard Hessman is funny as a freedom school student who "creates" through comedy. The scene where Billy makes the bad guy drive his cherry corvette into a lake and the town consul scene are worth the price of admission.
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Summary: Incredibly dated and unintentionally funny.
Review: The plot: Half Indian, ex-Green Beret punches, kicks, and shoots his way through waves of rednecks making the world safe for flower power. One of my all time favorite bad movies! I watch it everytime it comes on TV and laugh my head off. There is so much to enjoy here for a bad movie lover. The dated politics- the Freedom School? The hypocritical message- peace and love and karate chops to the throat. The bad acting- Delores Taylor is so wooden that I think I could make a cabinet out of her. The phony spirituality- the Snake Dance? It all adds up to an extremely humorous look at arrogant, self-important filmmaking. "Billy Jerk" is one film that is not to be missed.
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Summary: I gave i 1 star only because it made me laugh
Review: And whats not to laugh at? Poorly directed, the dialouge is idiotic, and the message is a joke. I went to a private college that was pacafist, and pacafism does not denote naieve stupidity. This film has the most retarted message of any movie. But at least the action scenes are decent, even though his karate is not quite up to par.
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Summary: INDIAN TREATMENT
Review: the points made in the movie about the way that the treatys were broken was true and the way that the indian people were shunned and mistreated by not only our government but by the whites as well.they made treaty after treaty and none of the treatys were honored
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Summary: A big wheel of stinky cheese!
Review: Billy's fake rez accent seems to have inspired every wannabe since 1971. It is easily one of the most stupid films made. Billy Jack is the quintessential film people of "a certain generation" recall when they think of "native spirituality". The native element to the film is, at best, fantasy. For example, the mix-up with the outfits is bizarre. When Billy does his "snake dance" with his Arizona tribe he's decked out in quasi-Plains garb. The extras wear outfits seemingly from every John Wayne western ever made. If people want to see a film that more accurately represents Native Americans, I recommend Dance Me Outside, Smoke Signals or Pow Wow Highway.
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Summary: Continues to represent struggles and ambivalence of our era.
Review: Made in an age of assassination(MLK, Malcolm X, RFK), anti-war activism and Vietnam holocaust, the tragedies of My Lai, Jackson State and Kent State, "Billy Jack" continues to call viewers to an examination of attitudes toward other people, violence/non-violence, educational philosophies, hypocrisy and the vicissitudes of film. We are even challenged to take sides and to enter this bit of "street theatre" on a "what would you do?" basis. This was the era *before* youth and women's shelters, sensitivity training, diversity education, etc. Society has responded to many of the issues presented in the film, some more effectively than others. And the religioius perspective presented looks quaint in the commercialized environment of "commodity spirituality." Still, if the viewer attends to the whole... In the decades after ILM has revolutionized FX and editing, BJ has a dated feel. Nevertheless, this was a very good independent film and still stands up to scrutiny. In the jaded and historically ignorant post-reagan nineties, BJ ought to be viewed as an educational film. The story follows an unlikely and not wholly likeable hero through external and internal struggles with the culture and society of his time. Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor, et. al give performances and "message" scripting that is hard to beat. Camp, yes, with generous touches of magic and fantasy. But this is camp designed for the hearts of those with "ears to hear and eyes to see." I heartily recommend it for older teens and adults.
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Summary: EXCELLENT!!!!!! Whether mature or not, this movie KICKS!!!
Review: Billy Jack is a movie that was considered "Cult Film"(?) What a joke. In the times of so-called displacing people from their homes I believe this movie has something numerous politicians could benefit from viewing. Then again, their viewpoint can be swayed,... Grow up US, we're ignoring too many of our OWN!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Excellent Movie!
Review: For those that claim it presents hypocrisy in the highest form obviously didn't see the movie or are completely clueless to its message. The movie was riveting, depicting a man who stands for peace yet struggles with a world that resists it: prejudice, hatred, and greed. Every man has their breaking point, and despite Billy Jack making every effort to remain peaceful there are moments when you need to stand for what is right. The movie demonstrates this clearly.
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Summary: A Cult Classic for the seventies
Review: Tom gives a great performance as the half Indian that comes back from Vietnam to encounter nothing but prejudice and hatred in his own territory. The kids of the school are great and it is one of the first times that I ever saw, the actor who later played Johnny Fever in WKRP in Cin. A good video and one to have in your personal library
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