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Summary: LONG LIVE BILLY JACK
Review: I love this movie.To me, it exemplifies the era! I love it, love it. When Billy Jack says "I just go bezerk!" and kicks that other guy -- wow, oh wow. I think the kids of today should see this too!
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Summary: Looking for reactions to "Billy Jack" for newspaper article
Review: How did the movie affect you then? And now? Did you see sequels? How would you rate them? Any other info would be great!
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Summary: Laughable
Review: How amazing, that here in 1999 there are people still praising this laughable piece of claptrap. With 1971 written all over it, this movie is a joke. Perhaps that is the point, but the hypocrisy is utterly unbearable. With a message of peace and pacifism being promoted with a deluge of glorified violence (Billy Jack beats up anyone who is against peace - now there is consistency for you) it is hard to see how anyone could take this movie seriously 30 years ago, let alone at the dawn of the 21st century. Perhaps this is a must for lovers of camp, but how anyone else can sit through this is beyond me.
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Summary: ALL THREE ARE GREAT
Review: I SEEN ALL THREE IN THE MOVIES..I HAVE THE FIRST ONE BUT I HAVE BEEN SEARCKING FOR THE OTHER TWO("The Trial of Billy Jack" and"Billy Jack Goes To Washington" ) would love to have the other 2 for home viewing ..IS THEIR ANY PLACE I CAN buy them?
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Summary: All in all a great movie
Review: "Billy Jack aired at a time when things that he portrayed were really happening. A must see movie. I am looking for the sequels "The Trial of Billy Jack" and "Billy Jack Goes To Washington" I saw all three aat the theatre but would love to have them for home viewing
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Summary: KARATE CHOPPIN' FUN is CHOP FULL OF LAUGHS
Review: If you think your teenager friend is being abused, what should you do? Kidnap her of course. And what in the hell is a "FREE SCHOOL"?. I was a child durng this time and I don't even understand it! But when he kicks the Mayor in the head all is forgiven. Perhaps the first - and strangest - of the martial arts movies. I hate it when they dump flower on that little Indian kid. Billy Jack hates it too!
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Summary: A timeless story of love in the face of injustice.
Review: A tale of abuses and excesses--and of righting wrongs, complete with Native Spiritual Ceremonies that are authentic. A tale of the narrowmindedness of people and how easy it is to disregard (even hate) people and things because they are different. A tale of contrasts and hypocrisies. My heart wrenched with Jean in her quest for peace, soared with Barbara in her quest for love, and even twisted with Bernard in his quest for approval. The character of Billy Jack (played by Tom Laughlin) is understandable and believable. This is no simple martial arts tale, but a real look (Then and now) at what this tired old country, yes, and even world, needs. A must see.
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Summary: A cult classic!
Review: Billy Jack presented us with a cult hero, an introduction to the discrimination faced by native Americans, and a look at life on a reservation. Additionally, it introduced society to psychodrama and to the coming out of George Carlin. This is unquestionably one of the greatest films of its time.
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Summary: violence is the answer
Review: There are two types of pacifism. There is the kind where you get knocked around....and the billy jack kind where you beat down on anyone who gets in your way. Its a film about the excesses of the late 1960's and a really warped political philosophy.
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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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