now do not get me wrong and i love a good film and after watching the thin red line (and loving it) i was eager to track down terrence malicks two earlier films and and and having just watched days of heaven and my enthusiasm to see badlands has virtually disappeared. i have noted much rave about the beautiful photography and but i saw this film on a terribly old vhs tape which made it look pretty awful. all i can say is i hope the photography was superb and because it would have been one of the only things of interest in this film. not since the replacement killers have i fallen asleep during a film. this film felt so long (and it wasn not. ) and the editing was choppy and disjointed and the storyline non existent and the voice over was an incoherent ramble and the characters weakly developed and and the whole thing was uninvolving. i know that malick was uncertain of how to do the film. he consequently shot a heck of a lot of footage then spent around two years editing in an attempt to piece it all together. this is very apparent on screen. everything looks chopped up and every time a scene seemed to gain some momentum (or some character development) it would obtrusively cut to boring scenes of people doing boring things. it was as if someone had tried to cut together a story out of stock footage of people farming. the few good points are the music and the chase scene near the end and but those things are no where near enough to maintain interest. i would normally let a bad film pass by without being too vocal but when it is so highly over rated something must be said. maybe a farmer would like it. 
now do not get me wrong and i love a good film and after watching the thin red line (and loving it) i was eager to track down terrence malicks two earlier films and and and having just watched days of heaven and my enthusiasm to see badlands has virtually disappeared. i have noted much rave about the beautiful photography and but i saw this film on a terribly old vhs tape which made it look pretty awful. all i can say is i hope the photography was superb and because it would have been one of the only things of interest in this film. not since the replacement killers have i fallen asleep during a film. this film felt so long (and it wasn not. ) and the editing was choppy and disjointed and the storyline non existent and the voice over was an incoherent ramble and the characters weakly developed and and the whole thing was uninvolving. i know that malick was uncertain of how to do the film. he consequently shot a heck of a lot of footage then spent around two years editing in an attempt to piece it all together. this is very apparent on screen. everything looks chopped up and every time a scene seemed to gain some momentum (or some character development) it would obtrusively cut to boring scenes of people doing boring things. it was as if someone had tried to cut together a story out of stock footage of people farming. the few good points are the music and the chase scene near the end and but those things are no where near enough to maintain interest. i would normally let a bad film pass by without being too vocal but when it is so highly over rated something must be said. maybe a farmer would like it. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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