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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: 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: Didn't Really Work For Me
Review: After I saw this film I tried that thing where you take your shoes off when you're going to fight somebody, and the guy stepped on my toes with his boot and then he kicked my derriere into next week.
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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: Admirably Violent Non-Violence
Review: Any film whose main thread is that it takes an extremely violent advocate of non-violence to truly protect the non-violent, immediately has my full attention and respect. If I could have only been around in the early seventies to watch hordes of stringy-haired American middle to upper class youth cheer, in all seriousness, a denim-clad white guy kicking the living hell out of (and in some cases even kill) anyone who doesn't practice the appropriate level of peace and understanding, I would have truly been in heaven. This movie and it's enduring popularity have confirmed what I have always suspected: disagree with a pacifist and they would like nothing more than to place your head on a pike. If a person could have jammed anymore sixties clichés into an hour and a half, I'd like to watch their movie, too. Leading the pack would be the connection to "Indians", followed by ear-ringing singalongs at the school.....being bitten by rattlesnakes in a "purification process"....guerilla theater.......expressing yourself......"squares"......and on and on. Jean is the lady that runs the school and, despite a notable lack of physical contact, is Billy Jack's lady. She is the good cop to his bad and spends a great deal of time doing one of two things: trying to talk Billy Jack out of collapsing your windpipe OR sneering with satisfaction once he actually does it. Jean's philosophy is plain and straightforward: there isn't a problem in the world that couldn't be solved in a peaceful manner if people would just love one another....and if that doesn't work, I'll un-cage Billy Jack and set him out to snapping your limbs like twigs. She also has the most unusual set of sideburns I've ever seen in my life. There's not been a movie made that I'd rather watch than this one. Buy it. Quickly.
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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: Billy Jack - A Good Movie, and that's a fact!!
Review: Billy Jack is an excellent blend of martial arts action, racial intolerance, and the counterculture movement of the late sixties.
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Summary: Great film, awesome message, average DVD...
Review: Billy Jack is the cornerstone of our modern day "One Man against the World" film genre. Yet this film goes a little further in it's portrayl of a man with a tendency toward violence living in a world of pacifists. As a testimonial of the times, when the equal rights movement, hippies and spiritualists were in full swing, this film shows us a glimpse of how much things have changed (and yet remain the same). Before the term 'Hate Crime' ever existed, Billy Jack had captured the essence of what it was and how it started - ignorence and small mindedness. While the DVD does not offer much in the range of extras, the film itself is worthwhile. The commentary could have been better, and I would have liked more supplimental material. The film itself is as wonderful as I remembered it from my youth, and the message of tolerance speaks true to today's society. I love this movie for what it represents and what it tries to accomplish and when I was a very small boy I was awestruck by it and the man it portrays. So much in fact, that I once asked a total stranger on the street, a man wearing a black hat, if he was Billy Jack. He looked down on me, smiled and said, "I think we all have a little of him in each of us."
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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: Billy Jack
Review: Billy Jack rocks. Here's a several truths: 1)Humanity will not all be in a state of Grace at the same time, 2)There are slimeballs all over the world who abuse innocent people, 3)Slimeballs do not connect with reasonable conversation, and 4) Slimeballs will always modify their behavior when they are consistently getting their butts handed to them. Laughlin's Billy Jack understands that there are some you reason with and some you don't and a lot of handwringing is not necessary. This has always been and always will be. Laughlin understands this aspect of human behavior which some academes do not. Humans are basic organisms, we have evolved brainpower beyond our moral capacity to handle the responsibility that comes with our abilities. There are who are enlighted and try to do their best and then there are the others who deserve the full wrath and woeful scourgings that should be but rarely are administered. Too many individual rights, but no sense of community and consideration for others. Billy Jack has the universal specific. Until mankind evolves, like the basic animal, we will always respond to pain and the anticipation of more pain and modify our behavior accordingly. Laugh if you must, but McLaughlin knows what motivates us all. And how to make people do what they know is right, but are too weak to do it alone. Most criminals know how to dominate and manipulate, if you think that can be countered by flower power, have a nice day. If you missed the point in this movie, see it again.
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