1973: Badlands

Charlie Kaufman is right to criticize (in Adaptation) the advice sometimes given by screenwriting teachers to never use voiceover, but when watching Badlands, you can see where those people are coming from: It's 8th-grader-prose voiceover almost all of the time, to the extent that I kept wondering why they bothered to shoot any pictures at all - but then, the truly magnificent visuals are the one great redeeming quality of Terrence Malicks otherwise pointless boy-meets-girl-and-they-go-on-a-killing-spree story. (6)