Badlands - The First Four Minutes

The first four minutes of Terrence Malicks incredible debut film BADLANDS.

[LondonPride]

Just a masterpiece. You could literally freeze any shot from this film, print it, frame it and put it on your wall. This film is truly art.

[barbkaup]

My favorite movie. Watched it over an over. The actors, cinematography, music like poetry

[javierarriagada]

Along with Night of the Hunter, one of the true shooting stars of American Cinema. No film, before or after, has ever been this nostalgic, haunting, melancholic, and oddly funny at the same time. Malick kept some things in his later films (most notably the use of voiceover) but he took them in a different path. And I love those films, but Badlands remains a goddamm miracle.

[fanboydee]

Badlands and Days of Heaven are way more accessible than the rest of Malick's output, and might heighten your tolerance for his other films. They're really beautiful, lyrical movies, with simple but twisted romances at the core. Not as ambitious as TTRL, closer to The New World, but a little more reigned in. Visually stunning, naturally.

[blackbird]

I saw this on television in the 70's and none of it was censored. You know how perfect it was watching that opening? BTW we weren't connected by phones or videos or computers we just had small towns that dotted the landscape and they were all pretty much the same.
One sunny day in the 70's could last about 6 years in today's measurement of time. Ya just kicked around looking for something to do.
Seriously you could spend a half a day trying to straighten out a bed spring, or carving a stick. And that's a normal idea of what we did for fun.

[poisondalilah]

Probably the best 4 minutes of all the American cinema. You can breath something magic in it.

[lewisner]

I love Kit's line from this movie "I throw garbage for a living, I'm not in love with the stuff !"

[iloveNathalie]

My favourite film opening. Mesmeric. The closing likewise.

[JasonSway]

Saw this at a screening at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Pretty fantastic evening.  

[whitiscool]

gah, the cinematography in this is amazing... feel like i'm there watching

[MovieReviewGuyOfficial]

Wow! 4 minutes and I’m already invested in the two main characters! I need to see this whole movie sometime.

[Ryan-sbtw]

This film really throws you into it quickly without even realising. You’re just in it.

[El-Tel-Terry.]

An absolute masterpiece, still my favourite film all these years on, sorry but I've got to say it ... they don't make them like they used to.

[geraldfagan]

Saw this when I was 14, it changed my universe.

[soniapellegrino]

Fuuck idk what it is but the music feels so nostalgic and far away, llike something from my childhood
And I've seen this movie two weeks ago for the first time

[garrison]

One of the very best American films of the seventies.

Still Malick's best film.

[markoos]

I wasn't much of a fan of Tree of Life either but earlier Mallick is different. There seems to be less self-awareness as "a master" and he is just putting imagery on the screen that he wants to see and is unlike anything else. This and Days of Heaven are his best and well worth checking out.

[ShekharSircar]

Watched the film 2 days ago. Still could not get out of the hangover it created on my mind.

[cliffordbryant]

This is one of my favorite movies. I wish they still made movies like this now days

[Davination]

"The Thin Red Line" takes a really long time to finish, with most of the cinematography being what remains of the untouched nature. Badlands, although featuring beautiful cinematography, isn't as philosophical or demanding. It does feature many of Malick's usual tropes: insightful voiceovers, long-shots, bizarre music, and, of course, shows man's place in nature.