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dcj2112
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« on: July 17, 2020, 04:15:41 PM »
I got the complete collection since it was on sale on Amazon for under $10. So far I’ve watched the first two.

Anyone remember in the late 1990s when some cable company or companies used to play these films all the time? I think it might have just been Billy Jack and The Trial of Billy Jack. I’m pretty sure TNT was one of the stations that would play these all the time, but it’s been about 20 years. I remember looking through my TV Guide and these already were some loooong movies (especially Trial). So if you play them back to back that’s a good chunk of the day’s programming right there!

On a related note I read some negative reviews for the set complaining how big chunks of Billy Jack Goes to Washington are missing. It’s the first time I ever heard someone complain of a Billy Jack movie being too short  BounceGiggle

Tom Laughlin was a unique breed of dude to put it mildly. He was still trying to make another Billy Jack until about the time he died. At one point he talked about how he would debate George W. Bush in the new movie using computer technology. That was around 2008 and at that point the most recent completed Billy Jack movie had been released in 1977!

I read Robert Altman said Laughlin was a pain in the ass to work with and I can believe it. I’m curious how the franchise could have worked with some more installments. He definitely tapped into something with how successful two of the films were. When you look at the highest grossing films of the 1970s this franchise sticks out as an anomaly.
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« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2020, 05:23:55 PM »
Quote from: dcj2112 on July 17, 2020, 04:15:41 PM
I got the complete collection since it was on sale on Amazon for under $10. So far I’ve watched the first two.
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Does the set include THE BORN LOSERS (1967) ? 
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« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2020, 05:54:33 PM »
Quote from: Allhallowsday on July 17, 2020, 05:23:55 PM
Quote from: dcj2112 on July 17, 2020, 04:15:41 PM
I got the complete collection since it was on sale on Amazon for under $10. So far I’ve watched the first two.
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Does the set include THE BORN LOSERS (1967) ? 

Yes!

Born Losers
Billy Jack
The Trial of Billy Jack
Billy Jack Goes to Washington

Plus each movie comes with two commentary tracks! For some reason all have one by Laughlin and his wife then the second one is Laughlin and his wife plus their son. Not sure why or if I’ll ever be brave enough to sit through all those  BounceGiggle
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« Reply #3 on: July 17, 2020, 11:11:34 PM »
i've never seen any of them to be honest, i just never have gotten the chance to be further honest, but i do know that in (1985) he did start working on another one a final one apparently on IMDB there's a page for it called Return of Billy Jack (1986) apparently it was to deal with Child Pornography & apparently he got hurt and after while he recovered lost funding for it and i forget which film company was putting $$$ but they lost interest and he never could get funding for it.

just read the IMDB trivia it's got a page for it. apparently in (2009) he showed my guess an hrs worth cause that's what IMDB says the length of the film is
on his website. i hate it when films don't  get finished cause of stuff like that and than too many years pass and you have cast members pass away and by than it's just too damn late and it sucks
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« Reply #4 on: July 18, 2020, 12:09:12 PM »
Quote from: Allhallowsday on July 17, 2020, 05:23:55 PM
Quote from: dcj2112 on July 17, 2020, 04:15:41 PM
I got the complete collection since it was on sale on Amazon for under $10. So far I’ve watched the first two.
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Does the set include THE BORN LOSERS (1967) ? 

The only good one of the bunch, if you ask me.
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« Reply #5 on: July 18, 2020, 12:18:44 PM »
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 18, 2020, 12:09:12 PM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on July 17, 2020, 05:23:55 PM
Quote from: dcj2112 on July 17, 2020, 04:15:41 PM
I got the complete collection since it was on sale on Amazon for under $10. So far I’ve watched the first two.
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Does the set include THE BORN LOSERS (1967) ? 
The only good one of the bunch, if you ask me.

That's why I ask...!  Plus, I think there were some problems with the 2nd film 3 years later revisiting LAUGHLIN's character...  I think by the 2nd film LAUGHLIN got a strangle hold on Billy Jack...
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« Reply #6 on: July 18, 2020, 12:25:25 PM »
^ Yeah, the others were too hippie dippy preaching crap.
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« Reply #7 on: July 18, 2020, 12:27:32 PM »
All of them - including Born Losers - were banned here: I don't think the last one was released here.

For those who don't know: looking for info on Billy Jack brought me here many years ago.  Smile
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« Reply #8 on: July 18, 2020, 07:08:06 PM »
really? how long has this site been around than? how long have you been here anyways?
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« Reply #9 on: July 18, 2020, 11:09:17 PM »
Quote from: pennywise37 on July 18, 2020, 07:08:06 PM
really? how long has this site been around than? how long have you been here anyways?

I think I first came here in the late 1990s: internet in South Africa kicked off around 1996 / 1997 so it must have been around that time.
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« Reply #10 on: July 18, 2020, 11:18:50 PM »
^ It was 2006. The year I joined.
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"Supernatural?...perhaps. Baloney?...Perhaps not!" Bela Lugosi-the BLACK CAT (1934)
Interviewer-"Does Dracula ever end for you?
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« Reply #11 on: July 18, 2020, 11:34:42 PM »
honestly i don't even remember what year i did i think i was just surfing the net and just found it by accident and was on the main board for ages reading about bad movies before i even got around to signing up to the forum.  but this is prolly the most active i've been on here since i joined actually
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« Reply #12 on: July 18, 2020, 11:43:31 PM »
Quote from: pennywise37 on July 18, 2020, 11:34:42 PM
honestly i don't even remember what year i did i think i was just surfing the net and just found it by accident and was on the main board for ages reading about bad movies before i even got around to signing up to the forum.  but this is prolly the most active i've been on here since i joined actually

Date Registered:    May 09, 2015, 08:42:58 PM 

It was not September 31st! 
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« Reply #13 on: July 18, 2020, 11:46:23 PM »
Quote from: Allhallowsday on July 18, 2020, 11:43:31 PM
Quote from: pennywise37 on July 18, 2020, 11:34:42 PM
honestly i don't even remember what year i did i think i was just surfing the net and just found it by accident and was on the main board for ages reading about bad movies before i even got around to signing up to the forum.  but this is prolly the most active i've been on here since i joined actually

Date Registered:    May 09, 2015, 08:42:58 PM 

It was not September 31st! 

September? Huh?
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"Supernatural?...perhaps. Baloney?...Perhaps not!" Bela Lugosi-the BLACK CAT (1934)
Interviewer-"Does Dracula ever end for you?
Lugosi-"No. Dracula-never ends."

Slobber, Drool, Drip!
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« Reply #14 on: July 19, 2020, 01:53:37 AM »
5 years huh?  i didn't realize it had even been that long. i think i found this just by chance i listen to a podcast that's called Radio Drome where they talk about various movies/tv etc... stuff i love and one of the hosts is the guy that has the you tube channel good bad flicks.  i could never remember the name of it so when i happen by chance to find this site i thought it was his site but i was apparently wrong but  either way i'm glad i found it
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