Badlands

It took us nearly a decade to talk about a Terrence Malick film, but our first of his is his first-ever motion picture. Malick was an artist right from the start, although Badlands is unlike just about everything he's directed since because it's mostly a two-hander with a brief running time. Sissy Spacek and the Jimmy Dean-esque Martin Sheen have probably never been so monotone, but their deliberately detached performances stand out compared to other histrionic "serial killer on the road" characters. Malick has the entire cast playing it low-key, in fact, and he doesn't glamourize his main characters or make them into fun anti-heroes. Also, because this episode ends the Month Of Crazy Stupid Love, we briefly discussed the Steve Carell/Ryan Gosling rom-com Crazy Stupid Love. So episode #495 of Have You Ever Seen awaits your attention as we wrap up this month of passion projects with one of the more unusual ones we've ever covered. Don't forget to go to "sparkplug.coffee/hyes" and use our "hyes" promo code to save 20% off your next order of Sparkplug Coffee. Want to talk to us? We're tweetable (@moviefiend51 and @bevellisellis) and emailable ([email protected]). Our 2023 shows are all on YouTube and the Monday podcasts follow 10 or 12 minutes of us giving you bonus content in an on-camera segment. Go to @hyesellis for our growing library. And Ryan also moves his tongue about flicks with sports in them on "Scoring At The Movies".