June 24, 20187 yr 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 June 24, 20187 yr by billfromlaketravis
June 25, 20187 yr 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.
June 25, 20187 yr 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.
June 25, 20187 yr I think Crazy Heart probably deserves a Houston nod, and The Three Burials of Melquiedes Estrada is worth mentioning as well.
June 25, 20187 yr Fandango, and fuck everyone who disagrees.I'm a Fandango fan, but Giant is kinda a big deal, like a giant deal.
June 25, 20187 yr 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!
June 25, 20187 yr 47 minutes ago, South Austin said: Fandango, and fuck everyone who disagrees. Your ma disagreed, so, uh....yup
June 25, 20187 yr 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?
June 25, 20187 yr 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
June 25, 20187 yr 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?
June 25, 20187 yr No Country for Old Men was supposed to be Eagle Pass/Del Rioish. More west than RGV.
June 25, 20187 yr 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.
June 25, 20187 yr 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.
June 25, 20187 yr 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.
June 25, 20187 yr 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 June 25, 20187 yr by tantric superman
June 25, 20187 yr 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?
June 25, 20187 yr 1 hour ago, strangulation! said: dallas - bottle rocket, robocop, debbie does Yep. Robocop wins.
June 25, 20187 yr 1 hour ago, miguelito said: San Antonio - The Alamo, The Alamo, Cloak and Dagger Don't forget Pee Wee's Big Adventure.
June 25, 20187 yr 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
June 25, 20187 yr 2 minutes ago, HiggyBaby said: But shot in New Mexico. Wasn't a fair bit of NCFOM shot there too, in Las Vegas?
June 25, 20187 yr 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.
June 25, 20187 yr 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.
June 25, 20187 yr 5 minutes ago, South Austin said: The Tree of Life - Smithville Also in Smithville, Hope Floats.
June 25, 20187 yr Tender Mercies with Robert Duvall. Filmed mostly in Waxahachie and Palmer, Texas. Edited June 25, 20187 yr by DalTxHornFan
June 25, 20187 yr 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:
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