Billy Jack (Tom Loughlin) Turns 80 Today

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Billy Jack (Tom Loughlin) Turns 80 Today

Posted: 8/10/2011 8:57:39 AM EDT

Think he can still do that high kick?
Billy Jack, the prototype for Chuck Norris?

I loved the original movie when I was a kid, but him turning 80 makes me feel very old.

Posted: 8/10/2011 9:02:29 AM EDT

[#1]

Can Bong Soo Han still do that high kick?

Posted: 8/10/2011 9:03:35 AM EDT

[#2]

I'm gonna take this right foot...

Posted: 8/10/2011 9:06:10 AM EDT

[#3]

probably the very first movie i remember seeing

Posted: 8/10/2011 9:06:20 AM EDT

[#4]

haz you some Billy Jack!

Posted: 8/10/2011 9:07:05 AM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:

Think he can still do that high kick?

Barry Bernsten did that kick for him.

Posted: 8/10/2011 9:09:35 AM EDT

[#6]

I liked the movie when it came out. Watched it with Kid Version 2 a while ago and he thought it was stupid.

Posted: 8/10/2011 10:33:27 AM EDT

[#7]

In one of his Billy Jack movies he goes after the bad guys with a Springfield M1903. Good actor for his time.

Posted: 8/10/2011 10:41:11 AM EDT

[#8]

I liked The Born Losers, it was so bad it was good

Too bad Tom Loughlin is a flaming libtard though.

Posted: 8/10/2011 10:42:49 AM EDT

[#9]

Happy birthday you hippie loving commi shithead.I watched that goober when I was a kid.

Posted: 8/10/2011 10:45:28 AM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
probably the very first movie i remember seeing

This.

At the time, Billy Jack was THE tough guy.

Posted: 8/10/2011 10:50:04 AM EDT

[#11]

Too bad Tom Loughlin is such a moonbat....

Posted: 8/10/2011 11:05:07 AM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
Can Bong Soo Han still do that high kick?

Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

And so is Bong Soo Han.

Posted: 8/10/2011 11:41:16 AM EDT

[#13]

I thought that was a cool action movie when I was a kid in the 70's.

Now I see it for the anti-war, pot smoking hippie-commie, lets all hold hands and sing Kumbaya, peacenik drivel that it was.

Posted: 8/10/2011 11:47:57 AM EDT

[#14]

Billy Jack is 80!!??

Posted: 8/10/2011 11:49:39 AM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
haz you some Billy Jack!

One of the greatest scenes in movie history!!

Posted: 8/10/2011 11:54:35 AM EDT

[#16]

I'm gonna take this 'happy birthday' and put it right here in this thread and there is nothing you can do about it...

Posted: 8/10/2011 11:56:31 AM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
I'm gonna take this right foot...

Posted: 8/10/2011 12:00:03 PM EDT

[#18]

ONE TIN SOLDIER RIDES AWAY!

Posted: 8/10/2011 12:00:54 PM EDT

[#19]

RIP Jeremy Slate (2006)

He was a likeable villain.

Posted: 8/10/2011 12:01:32 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
ONE TIN SOLDIER RIDES AWAY!

Go ahead and hate your neighbor, go ahead and cheat a friend.
Do it in the name of Heaven, you can justify it in the end...

Posted: 8/10/2011 12:13:43 PM EDT

[#21]

A liberal calling for more gun rights while shooting at the police while on an Indian reservation protecting a hippie (that scene should always be a point in reference).

Posted: 8/10/2011 4:31:26 PM EDT

[#22]

Listen Children to a story that was written long ago
about the people on the mountain and the valley folk below

Posted: 8/10/2011 5:37:52 PM EDT

[#23]

Big time liberal and liberal movies

Posted: 8/10/2011 5:40:43 PM EDT

[#24]

Who else remembers the SNL parody?

Posted: 8/10/2011 6:41:15 PM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:

I thought that was a cool action movie when I was a kid in the 70's.

Now I see it for the anti-war, pot smoking hippie-commie, lets all hold hands and sing Kumbaya, peacenik drivel that it was.

Yep, time has not been kind to that one.

Posted: 8/10/2011 6:42:22 PM EDT

[#26]

Slow moving double tap.

Posted: 8/10/2011 6:42:37 PM EDT

[#27]

Heck, I thought he was dead.

Posted: 8/10/2011 6:50:31 PM EDT

[#28]

I wonder if he ever learned to act?

Posted: 8/10/2011 6:51:12 PM EDT

[#29]

His wife............a knothole in a tree would have looked a better deal.

Posted: 8/10/2011 7:00:47 PM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:
I'm gonna take this right foot...

HA HA showed that mother fucker didn't he?!? And then stomach kick to the left and then to the right!!! Remember the scene when he gave that throut chop to the little rich boy and killed him? Poor little fucker was DRT! I remember going to see it when I was about 12 or so, BJ was the bad mofo of the day. I think I just may have to see if I can find it to watch again. Remember The Born Losers? "DON'T SHOOT, THAT'S BILLY JACK" as he rides off on the 3 wheeler he took from the pussy bad ass biker dude!! I was able to catch that one sometime last year on cable.

Posted: 8/10/2011 7:06:42 PM EDT

[#31]

I loved that movie when I was a kid.

Posted: 8/10/2011 7:14:51 PM EDT

[#32]

Really bad movies.

Posted: 8/10/2011 7:26:05 PM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:
I thought that was a cool action movie when I was a kid in the 70's.

Now I see it for the anti-war, pot smoking hippie-commie, lets all hold hands and sing Kumbaya, peacenik drivel that it was.

It's funny, though, that movie made one of the best arguments in favor of using violence to settle personal battles that I've ever seen. I wonder sometimes if they realized what they were doing. I wonder if they believed that the audience would look at the scene when Billy Jack kills the rapist/murderer/pedophile Posner kid and be shocked that he didn't forgive him after Bernard shot him. It would be truly funny if that was the case.

Posted: 8/10/2011 7:29:10 PM EDT

[#34]

This is disconcerting:

Posted: 8/10/2011 7:33:33 PM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:
Who else remembers the SNL parody?

Yes, came on right after NBC aired the movie. Paul Simon played Billy Jack.

Posted: 8/10/2011 8:56:50 PM EDT

[#36]

I remember watching the Billy Jack movies at the drive in when I was a teen.
I bought the boxed set of all the BJ movies off Ebay a few years ago. They are pretty lame to watch now.
The boxed set includes the last installment of the series, the little known "Billy Jack goes to Washington".
It was held up because of a lawsuit or some such, and released many years after the others.
And yes, it's as goofy as the others...

Posted: 8/11/2011 9:24:17 AM EDT

[#37]

Lest we forget ...

He fought like an army ... and lived like a legend.

Posted: 8/11/2011 10:29:42 AM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:
I remember watching the Billy Jack movies at the drive in when I was a teen.
I bought the boxed set of all the BJ movies off Ebay a few years ago. They are pretty lame to watch now.
The boxed set includes the last installment of the series, the little known "Billy Jack goes to Washington".
It was held up because of a lawsuit or some such, and released many years after the others.
And yes, it's as goofy as the others...

It does seem like that Loughlin has had financial issues for many years.