The Trial of Billy Jack
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Actor: Bong Soo Han, Gus Greymountain, Lynn Baker, Michael Bolland, Sandra EgoDirector: *
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 140 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-10-31
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Ventura Distribution
Movie Reviews of The Trial of Billy Jack
Movie Review: Response to Closed Minded People
Summary: 5 Stars
First, I wish to respond to the many negative reviews regarding this movie. Evidently the people in this country do not learn their lessons, or they live with their heads in the sand.
The MAIN problem with ALL the negative reviews about this movie were the complaints of Tom Laughlin's self importance and battering of the system. IF any of those who wrote negatively here, actually watched the movies, they would know that it states UNEQUIVICALLY, that these movies are fictional reenactments of specific events, that have been enhanced and expanded for the benefit of the movies.
I am sure the same fools that have written their drivel here, see nothing wrong with the enhancements, outright lies, and totally unrealistic events of many of the movies produced today (nearly 40 years after the Billy Jack series).
In the second of the series, the beginning of the movies lists many of the events of that time, where violance was used by OUR government against students who refused to allow the system to have so much control over a country that was supposed to be FREE!!!
Perhaps some of you should rewatch this movie, and look at the government you are living under today. We are on the edge of a recession, the wealthy are getting wealthier while driving more middle class into financial ruin, child abuse is on the front page more and more, health care for the normal family is so insanely expensive that either other necessities are done without, or there is no medical coverage at all. But the very acts that were occurring at the time of these movies are still occurring today, and in many instances more so.
Corporations and crooked politicians are robbing the people at an alarming rate, we are being TOLD that spying is NEEDED to protect our nation, even though that spying can and is invading areas that our government has no right to insinuate themselves. The BIA has so mismanaged Indian funds that the government has managed to "lose" billions of Indian dollars, then simply state there is no way for them to accurately determine what has been STOLEN from them.
The idiot that made the comments about the incident in Vietnam should get familiar with the attrocities that occurred during that war, and many others. There have been very few times throughout history, where the actual person or persons responsible for calling the shots, has EVER been prosecuted. It is the policy of our government and our military to blame and punish a few lower level scapegoats, in order to pacify the "ignorant" public, then proceed with business as normal. Look at what has happened during this war. The men and women in our military are trained to blindly follow orders. When they do and it becomes public knowledge and the public is angered by it, they punish those very same people for carrying out the ORDERS they were trained to follow. Their CO's are not punished, just those that were expected to carry out the orders.
The entire Billy Jack series are great and if watched with an open mind and not just a thirst for action and violence, are quite thought provoking. It is obvious by the state of our nation right now, that people are so complacent that they have learned NOTHING from the past. The complacency of our people, and corrupt politicians are TOTALLY responsible for 9-11, and still they have learned NOTHING! This is evident by the very candidates that are currently running for office. Not a ONE of them has the best interest of this country, the middle class, or the poor at heart. Freedom is what this nation was built on, and that was what this series tried to teach. When crooked law enforcement and politicians can so easily sweep away that freedom, we are no longer in control of our own lives, and we have no say in what happens to us.
How much Freedom do you have now, and how much control over your future? I'd say Washington, the oil companies, and corporate America have the control.
Tom Laughlin attempted to stir people up, in a way that would get people to watch, but obviously the message was lost to those who care more about action in the movies, than action in the control of their lives.
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