Billy Jack......

[Racerbvd]

Anyone else rember & like these movies??? Why don't these air anymore instead of showing the same new sucky movie a couple times a day, many days in a row...

One of my all time favorite lines...

[The Gaijin]

From Wiki:

Billy Jack is a "half-breed" American Cherokee Indian Green Beret Vietnam War veteran, hapkido master, and gunslinger. The character made his début in The Born Losers (1967), a so-called "biker film" about a motorcycle gang terrorizing a California town; Billy Jack rises to the occasion to defeat the gang by defending from their wrath a college student who has evidence against them for gang rapes. The first film was considered the typical drive-in theatre fare of the period, described by Entertainment Insiders reviewer Rusty White as "pure exploitation, but with something extra."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Jack

[GO DAWG GO]

Racer,

I saw that movie last year and it blew chunks...watch it again...It was cool when we were 14 years old...seriously bad acted and the story was enough to make you wanna weep..

Only a few good parts...kickin old rednecks in the face...thats it...

[dd74]

Why don't they air anymore? I vote because of PC. Plenty of crappy movies with bad stories air these days - just not so-called "exploitative" of half-breeds or otherwise Natives.

Did Shaft or Superfly ever air on TV? I can't remember...

[dd74]

Originally Posted by Racerbvd

Admittedly, I have to be pretty wasted to watch a movie like that all the way through.

[sammyg2]

Terrible movie. Stereotypical idealization of hippies and condemnation of good old boy locals.

Exploitation and manipulation of 70's liberal-types who were easily controlled.
The force has a strong influence on the weak-mind.

[Racerbvd]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

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Exploitation and manipulation of 70's liberal-types who were easily controlled.
The force has a strong influence on the weak-mind.

And that has changed how????

Did Shaft or Superfly ever air on TV? I can't remember

Yes, back in the day and may still on b.e.t.

[dd74]

Originally Posted by Racerbvd

Admittedly, I have to be pretty wasted to watch a movie like that all the way through.

[Ronbo]

Originally Posted by dd74

Did Shaft or Superfly ever air on TV? I can't remember...

Both have been on IFC within the last year.

[Rick V]

I can't find the video, but from Jeremiah Johnson. "I'm gonna cut you from crotch to eyeball with a dull deer antler"

[Heel n Toe]

Originally Posted by dd74

Admittedly, I have to be pretty wasted to watch a movie like that all the way through.

You should stay away from that stuff... it's causing you to repeat yourself.

[m21sniper]

"Im going to kick you on the left side of your face with my right foot."

Classic movie.

[dhoward]

Originally Posted by Heel n Toe

You should stay away from that stuff... it's causing you to repeat yourself.

"Good luck. We're all counting on you".

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by Rick V

I can't find the video, but from Jeremiah Johnson. "I'm gonna cut you from crotch to eyeball with a dull deer antler"

JJ, that was a good movie. Worth seeing again.

I suffered through the movie Tom Horn the other day hoping it would have a decent ending this time. Nope, still sucks. That's what happens when you try and make a movie that follows real life to close. Most folks don't even know there was a real Tom horn and he was a bad guy.

Then there's the Magnificent Seven, the Devil's brigade, and the Dirty Dozen.
movies don't get much better than that.
People I work with look at me funny when I'm sitting in a meeting, humming the theme song for the magnificent seven.
If I could just get those darned old movies to fit right on my plasma TV ........

The wife doesn't understand how I can sit there and watch Red Dawn over and over.
She just doesn't get it.

[12own911]

I loved them and the little blonde woman who stood up for Billy Jack....

[craigster59]

I liked the one with the biker guy who wore the white sunglasses.

[WilsonTC]

I believe Billy Jack could kick Chuck Norris' arse.

[Tobra]

Originally Posted by craigster59

I liked the one with the biker guy who wore the white sunglasses.

that is from "Born Losers" Billy Jack flick that was before the others as I recall.
"You make me feel tired all over" Which he said to a guy just prior to putting a beating on him.

Those movies are pretty bad, but I still enjoy them, sort of a pre Chuck Norris, Chuck Norris

[M.D. Holloway]

I liked it as well as Walking Tall, White Line Fever and any of the Smokey and the Bandit Films. Yes they were campy, semi-stupid but totally rerun worthy.

[Rot 911]

I remember when Billy Jack came out. All of us guys thought that was the coolest movie ever. Until Detective Harry Callahan arrived on the scene: