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Best Texas Movie by City


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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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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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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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