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I have no idea why some people think Buffalo 66 is a good film. Which as a sentence sort of looks laughable enough on the internet to just forget it, but the other option is to be pompous about it. But to menion Badlands along with it?
Buffalo 66 is pretentious, self-indulgent drivel, made by an emotionally immature and slightly deranged narcissist. Badlands is a rich film which interrogated a cliche and achieved a complex, entrancing beauty. Its only flaw in hindsight was that its presentation of the myth of cool was so cool that it's been copied endlessly by people wanting to be cool who haven't got enough ideas of their own. Buffalo 66 just regurgitates the well-established cliches of cool in order to try to be edgy and indie. It's a shallow, superficial movie. Beyond the bare bones of the outlaw-and-his-squeeze element, I can't see what the two have in common.
There's not point to this post, of course. If anyone's got rights to anything at all it's their right to like things other people don't like..