What is a better way to spend a late january night than to curl up on your freebie sofa, nestled in with a Hershey Bar and the daringly craptacular flick known to all of the world as "Billy Jack"? You are absolutely right, nothing is better.
Mike, being a virgin to the legend of Billy Jack, quickly understood why I insisted on watching. But a few seconds into the movie that is less about it's name sake Billy Jack who is a half breed American Indian slash Green Beret slash karate expert slash rape stopping friend of the hippies, and more about the happenings at the "Freedom School", He knew exactly why this movie is golden.
What with quotes like:
I've been balled by so many boys I don't know who the father is!
Watch out for his feet, he can kill ya with his feet!
We communicate with him Indian-style. When we need him, somehow he is there.
You really think those Green Beret Karate tricks are gonna help you against all these boys?
Because her brain has been damaged by the heathen devil weed, marijuana!
Being an Indian is not a matter of blood... it's a way of life.
Why haven't ya tried to lay me?
I just go BERSERK!
Now when I count to three,you drive your car into the lake.
1…..2………FLOOR IT!!!!
How could you NOT include this really really horribly terrible movie about Indians ("half breeds") that look strangly as WHITE as me, and hippies who just love freedom and free form acting, a young girl who has been balled so many times she doesn't know who the father of her unborn child is, and villians who like to rape and drive their cars into lakes for fear of the dreaded Friend to the hippies Billy Jack into your collection?
The quotes alone make it worth watching with glee, not to mention how horrible the acting actually is. And if you add a hershey bar into the mix, it is without a doubt an evening well spent.
Even Mikely is now throwing out quotables from this legend of a movie. But I doubt he could resist even if he tried, that my friend, is how addictive and influential this movie actually is...It spoke to a generation...kinda...well, no, it really didn't...BUT...it tried to, and failed miserably and that's what counts...
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