Saturday, March 04, 2017

Billy Jack!

The Most Underratedly Insane Film Franchise Ever Made 

5 comments:

Seepy Benton said...

Billy Jack struggled with what we all struggle with at times - how do we confront violence and injustice without being consumed by violence ourselves? Nonetheless, Billy Jack for President! :-)

Jeff Meyerson said...

I'm afraid that ship has sailed.

Tom Johnson said...

Lots of films become cult classics (LOL).

Thomas Miller said...

I avoided them as a kid because they looked boring.

Mike Stamm said...

I must have seen BILLY JACK four times on the big screen. I saw THE TRIAL OF BILLY JACK twice, and the second time realized how stultifyingly dull--except for a couple of set pieces--it really was. And in retrospect I saw how both movies deliberately bypassed the brain and went straight for the balls, or somewhere. I've never seen BILLY JACK GOES TO WASHINGTON, though it shows up on late-night broadcasts once in a while, or Laughlin's non-Billy Jack movie THE MASTER GUNFIGHTER. I guess he thought raw egotism was OK as long as it was putatively in the service of good...