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Houston - Reality Bites, Urban Cowboy, Terms of Endearment or Rushmore 

Austin - Dazed and Confused, Office Space,  or Slacker

Dallas - JFK (I hate to go there, but I mean, come on) 

San Antonio - All The Pretty Horses

Midland/Odessa - Friday Night Lights (obviously) 

West Texas - Fandango or Giant 

Valley - Lone Star 

East Texas - Bernie 

Honorable Mention  : San Marcos - Everybody Wants Some

It's hard to pick a favorite of of the bunch. 

Giant is basically our Gone with the Wind.

It doesn't get much better than Jack Nicholson and Shirley MacLaine at Brennan's of Houston. 

Dazed and Confused is every old school Austinite's battle cry. 

Lone Star has one of the more f-ed up endings I've seen. 

Office Space is more of a work movie than an Austin movie, but my goodness it's great. 

I'll go with Rushmore based on Bill Murray and Linklater performing at the very top of their games. 

 

Edited by billfromlaketravis

59 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

I'll go with Rushmore based on Bill Murray and Linklater performing at the very top of their games. 

 

I disagree.  Linklater’s best work was the royal tenenbaums.  

No Country For Old Men doesn’t make honorable mention?

4 minutes ago, futureman said:

I disagree.  Linklater’s best work was the royal tenenbaums.  

Yeah, but hated what he did with the Star Wars prequels.

I think Crazy Heart probably deserves a Houston nod, and The Three Burials of Melquiedes Estrada is worth mentioning as well.

Fandango, and fuck everyone who disagrees.
I'm a Fandango fan, but Giant is kinda a big deal, like a giant deal.
Just now, Dewey said:
43 minutes ago, South Austin said:
Fandango, and fuck everyone who disagrees.

I'm a Fandango fan, but Giant is kinda a big deal, like a giant deal.

I said fuck you, sir!

47 minutes ago, South Austin said:

Fandango, and fuck everyone who disagrees.

Your ma disagreed, so, uh....yup

Longview: Hands on a Hard Body

Blood Simple -- Central Texas

Boyhood -- Houston, San Marcos, and Austin

NCFOM -- RGV

Dallas Buyer's Club -- Dallas

The Alamo -- Don't remember

Texas Chainsaw Massacre -- Central Texas

Hud -- Panhadle

Where are all of these movies?

Hud - Claude

Last Picture Show / Texasville - Archer City

 

I still think Friday Night Lights or Giant is the quintessential Texas movie, but Fandango is my favorite

 

also, Varsity Blues is surprisingly accurate these days

 

 

17 minutes ago, South Austin said:

The problem with Dallas Buyers Club is that most of it was filmed in Louisiana.

Ah.... so we get to count There Will be Blood then?

2 minutes ago, tantric superman said:

No Country for Old Men was supposed to be Eagle Pass/Del Rioish.  More west than RGV.

Good catch... and while Reality Bites takes place in Houston and some of the exteriors were Houston, most of the film was shot in LA.

 

7 minutes ago, Patrick Bateman said:

Ah.... so we get to count There Will be Blood then?

It didn't even pretend to be in Texas, so no.

Hell or High Water- Childress/ Knox City/ Quanah/ etc.

The Rookie- Big Lake

4 minutes ago, South Austin said:

It didn't even pretend to be in Texas, so no.

Damn..... I love that movie.

Bonnie and Clyde is another.

Lone Star is one of the few modern movies that I think accurately depicts Texans. 

The fact that John Sayles Lone Star only has two mentions means some of you need to fucking see Lone Star.

Del Rio, Eagle Pass, Laredo.

Sayles' movies are small but I'd put this one up there with the best Texas films easily.

Kristofferson, McConahey, Chris Cooper.  Bad ass little movie.

Edited by tantric superman

2 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

San Antonio - All The Pretty Horses

A'ight, I never saw the movie, so maybe that's my mistake-- but in the book I remember the action being farther west in Texas, and then down in Mexico?

1 hour ago, strangulation! said:

dallas - bottle rocket, robocop, debbie does

Yep. Robocop wins.

I'll add ...

Hot Spot, in Taylor, and

A Perfect World, around Austin

1 hour ago, miguelito said:

San Antonio - The Alamo, The Alamo, Cloak and Dagger

Don't forget Pee Wee's Big Adventure.

Hell or High Water- Childress/ Knox City/ Quanah/ etc.

 

 

But shot in New Mexico.

 

The obvious answer here is:

 

Walker, Texas Ranger: Trial By Fire

2 minutes ago, HiggyBaby said:

 


But shot in New Mexico.

 

Wasn't a fair bit of NCFOM shot there too, in Las Vegas?

Wasn't a fair bit of NCFOM shot there too, in Las Vegas?



Probably. But Hell or High Water bothered me most because I spent a few years out in the Coleman/Cross Plains area by way of San Angelo and figured out pretty quick it wasn’t filmed anywhere near.

San Antonio also has Knight Rider 2000, which might be one of the worst TV movies of all time, even if it did feature the car riding along the Riverwalk.

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5 minutes ago, South Austin said:

The Tree of Life - Smithville

Also in Smithville, Hope Floats.

Tender Mercies with Robert Duvall. Filmed mostly in Waxahachie and Palmer, Texas.  

Edited by DalTxHornFan

Nothing is more quintessential Texas than this movie...

 

 

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Glad to see mention of Three Burials above.

Can't leave out mention of my hometown in the opening sequence of Midnight Cowboy and its featured role in Hangar 18.

This one was filmed last year too but hasn't been released yet, but looks excellent:

 

No "Town That Dreaded Sundown"?  What the fuck kind of list is this?

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