Best Texas Movie by City

[billfromlaketravis 11466]

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, 2018 by billfromlaketravis

[SMUlawUTgrad 81]

Dazed and confused. It’s my favorite movie so it’s the only correct answer.

[South Austin 52490]

Fandango, and fuck everyone who disagrees.

[futureman 22457]

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.  

[atomheartbevo 89659]

Where the hell is The Last Picture Show?

[Player 4575]

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

[South Austin 52490]

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.

[IDIOTsavant 8483]

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

[South Austin 52490]

Cool Story, Bros:  Scenes in Blood Simple were shot on my street.

 

[Dewey 3286]

Fandango, and fuck everyone who disagrees.

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

[South Austin 52490]

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!

[miguelito 11264]

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

[deadshank 24652]

47 minutes ago, South Austin said:

Fandango, and fuck everyone who disagrees.

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

[smoky 840]

Longview: Hands on a Hard Body

[Patrick Bateman 3913]

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?

[South Austin 52490]

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

[RPM 26319]

Hud - Claude

Last Picture Show / Texasville - Archer City

 

[strangulation! 1716]

dallas - bottle rocket, robocop, debbie does

[GreenspointTexas 9600]

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

 

 

[Patrick Bateman 3913]

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?

[tantric superman 4667]

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

[Patrick Bateman 3913]

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.

 

[South Austin 52490]

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.

[Guest]

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

The Rookie- Big Lake

[Patrick Bateman 3913]

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.

[Duckman 82]

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

[RDCanecutter 26426]

Whole Wide World about R. E. Howard, creator of Conan the Barbarian. Cross Plains.

[BigDHornfan 6547]

Robocop. Even though it was supposed to be Detroit.

[tantric superman 4667]

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, 2018 by tantric superman

[RDCanecutter 26426]

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?

[tantric superman 4667]

And see Matewan while you're at it.

[RedDirtTexan 209]

Corpus Christi:

The Legend of Billie Jean

Selenas

[wood 11225]

1 hour ago, strangulation! said:

dallas - bottle rocket, robocop, debbie does

Yep. Robocop wins.

[South Austin 52490]

Fair is fair and I want my scooter!

Edited June 25, 2018 by South Austin

[wood 11225]

I'll add ...

Hot Spot, in Taylor, and

A Perfect World, around Austin

[wood 11225]

1 hour ago, miguelito said:

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

Don't forget Pee Wee's Big Adventure.

[HiggyBaby 2529]

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

[wood 11225]

2 minutes ago, HiggyBaby said:

 

But shot in New Mexico.

 

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

[South Austin 52490]

 

[HiggyBaby 2529]

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.

[miguelito 11264]

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.

 

[Patrick Bateman 3913]

Tender Mercies -- Waxahachie 

[South Austin 52490]

The Tree of Life - Smithville

[RDCanecutter 26426]

20 minutes ago, wood said:

Don't forget Pee Wee's Big Adventure.

I-nez.

[wood 11225]

5 minutes ago, South Austin said:

The Tree of Life - Smithville

Also in Smithville, Hope Floats.

[DalTxHornFan 3101]

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

Edited June 25, 2018 by DalTxHornFan

[dogbreath 434]

Places in the Heart - Waxhahachie

The Sugarland Express

[dimyh 1874]

Nothing is more quintessential Texas than this movie...

 

 

[bolverk 29671]

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:

 

[Burt 4080]

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