Born Losers
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Actor: Anne Bellamy, Bill Carey (IV), Julie Cahn, Paul Bruce, Robert CleavesDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 113 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-10-31
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Ventura Distribution
DVD Reviews of Born Losers
DVD Review: ROFLMFAO
Summary: 2 Stars
Thank you, Michigan State. Because you failed to show up for the NCAA Championship Game, thereby making it as boring as watching grass grow, I went channel surfing and stumbled across BORN LOSERS. I now have a new entry on my list of Worst Movies of All Time. And what I admire the most is this flick's consistency: It's just plain consistently bad: Acting, writing, directing, cinematography, music, editing, etc., etc.
A gang of moronic, nasty bikers is successfully terrorizing a sleepy California town. In the process, they assault teenage girls--girls who are too intimidated to testify against them and put them in jail. So the bikers ride, and drink, and carouse, and stir up more trouble; yet the payoff is the culmination of each biker scene, when we are treated to the gang's leader making a suggestion ("Let's go to town!"), followed by a closeup of each biker yelling his vociferous approval--or a closeup of the back tire of each motorcyle as it spins and spits out California sand.
Can't remember when I've ever laughed so hard.
Naturally, with such a hopeless situation, one man will stand alone to combat such evil--a former Green Beret named Billy Jack (yep, the one and only Tom Laughlin), who just wants to rodeo and play his victim card for being a Native American. Billy Jack karate chops the bad guys--in between playing his guitar (well, pretending to play it) and waxing pseudo philosophical--in one overly-pretentious scene after another, until the showdown at the gang's compound. Which is exactly when the viewer throws up his/her hands and proclaims: "Please! I can't take it anymore!"
This was the Billy Jack introduction that launched Laughlin's awful Billy Jack franchise, and I can't think of an intro more deserving. Watch for a cameo by Jane Russell, certainly indicative of the depths of her career at the time. Folks, if you're looking for bad, this is it. BORN LOSERS is really, really, really bad. Rolling on the floor bad. Two stars for the entertainment value.
--D. Mikels, Author, The Reckoning
DVD Review: Born Losers Review
Summary: 4 Stars
A powerful dynamic drama ahead of it's time (1967). I first saw it 30
years ago - it has lost none of its impact !
DVD Review: GREATLY ENTERTAINING 60'S BIKER FLICK/JUST SIT BACK AND ENJOY
Summary: 5 Stars
Ok, ok, so it's violent, often distasteful, and the acting often pretty bad. However, Born Losers is a greatly entertaining macho biker film from the swaggering sixties' Summer of Love. If you want to watch "Citizen Kane"-- go elsewhere. If you want "Superbad" or "Knocked Up" fun and games--get lost. If you want meaning, wisdom and enlightenment in a movie--take a hike. If you've had a long week at the office, the old lady is stressing you out, the kids are going nuts, just sit back and obtain some major catharsis. Jane Russell appears in a cheezy, annoying but well-done role. Jack Starrett, who was awesome in FIRST BLOOD [1982] as the sadistic deputy, is in this as a "nice" cop but NEVER steal his patrol car! Elizabeth James was simply beautiful & angelic and a pleasure to look at in this film but her choppy, monotone acting probably doomed her career while her brutalization in the film may turn some viewers off. The "one-two-three" dare scene between hero Billy Jack and villian Jeremy Slate is a classic, never-to-be-forgotten clip. Again, this receives my highest rating for pure unpretentious entertainment and butt-kickin release value. Surely will not be liked by many but should be part of any retro 60's beach/biker flick fan's library to be used in lieu of a sit-down with Dr Jennifer Melfi.
DVD Review: THE BEGINING OF THE BILLY JACK ERA
Summary: 5 Stars
This was the start of the Billy Jack Legacy as this movie hit the theaters on August 18 1967 starring Tom Laughlin as Billy Jack, Elizabeth James as Vicky Barrington, and Jeremy Slate as Daniel Carmody. A motorcycle gang led by Daniel Danny Carmody rides through the local towns terrorizing the people and the local law is afraid of them. Enters Vicky Barrington who races to the airport to pick up her dad only to find out that she was rejected again. While the gang is riding the come across a young kid who they beat up and Billy Jack comes to his rescue. Billy is arrested along with the bikers and thrown in jail. The gang ends up raping four women who they have threaten the women into not testifying. Vicki who was raped goes under the protection of Billy Jack who has also had several altercations with the gang. The gang escalates their pressure on both Vicki and Billy Jack to keep her out of the courtroom. Some facts you may not know. This picture was banned from Sweden because of its high violence rating in 1968, 1972, and 1975. When Billy Jack and Vicky go into eat at a local restaurant they are met by an astrologer. The astrologer asks Billy when his birthday is, Billy told him August 10, and that is the real birthday of Tom Laughlin. Thoughts on the movie! I thought it was a great movie that kept my interest all the way through. You can see way Tom Laughlin did all four Billy jack pictures because he was excellent in his role as Billy Jack. Elizabeth James was excellent in her role as Vicky Barrington. She was gorgeous riding around in that white bikini on her bike. Because of Vicky and the action in this movie I give this picture 5 weasel stars.
DVD Review: A Winner
Summary: 4 Stars
This was the movie that started the Billy Jack franchise of the early 70s and it is definitely a product of that era in everything from costume to style to dialog to location.
Tom Laughlin plays Billy Jack, a mysterious loner who is part Indian and recently released from the Special Forces in Vietnam. He is trying to get along in southern California but is handicapped with such traits as a conscience. He gets arrested on "vigilante" charges when he saves a young boy from being beaten to death by a biker gang. This puts him off of the good citizenship ideal.
This same motorcycle gang mentioned before has more to its activities than just beating kids bloody. It also like such recreational pastimes as rape. When a group of girls is hospitalized after a particularly brutal rape, the DA desperately wants at least one of them to press charges but all of the girls are frightened of retaliation. The gang victimizes each one further to ensure their silence.
On of the girls is spunkier than the rest. She decides to prosecute and the gang comes after her. She runs straight into Billy Jack's arms and Billy Jack stiffens her resolve and helps to protect her when the local sheriff proves unable to do so.
The action in this movie is understated by today's standards and the fights are really laughable. They do make their points, though and the point of the movie is not action but justice.
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