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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. 

 

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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.  

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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!

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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?

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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.

 

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

The Rookie- Big Lake

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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.

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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?

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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.
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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:

 

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