Top 100 TEXAS movies

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don't bother counting if you don't wanna. There's probably more than 100 anyway.

Slacker
Dazed and Confused
The Last Picture Show
Office Space
Bonnie and Clyde
Thelma and Louise (no Texas locations, but Thelma's awful experience in Texas looms large)
Blood Simple

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 28 July 2005 04:34 (twenty years ago)

VARSITY BLUES

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 28 July 2005 04:35 (twenty years ago)

92) The Getaway
91) JFK

― gear (gear), Thursday, 28 July 2005 04:35 (twenty years ago)

90. YEllow rose of texas
89. tie a yellow ribbon
88. Open Range
87. Rio Grande

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 28 July 2005 04:36 (twenty years ago)

86. Bottle Rocket
85. Paris, Texas

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 28 July 2005 04:37 (twenty years ago)

Red River (that's the one with Montgomery Clift and John Wayne, right?)

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 28 July 2005 04:37 (twenty years ago)

83. North Dallas Forty

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 28 July 2005 04:38 (twenty years ago)

82. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 28 July 2005 04:38 (twenty years ago)

82. The alamo
81. Major Dundee

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 28 July 2005 04:39 (twenty years ago)

79. Friday Night Lights

― DMB Googleplex (Matt Chesnut), Thursday, 28 July 2005 04:39 (twenty years ago)

"81. Major Dundee"

Holy SHIT!

THE WILD BUNCH #1

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 28 July 2005 04:40 (twenty years ago)

78. Hellfighters

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 28 July 2005 04:42 (twenty years ago)

Lone Star

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 28 July 2005 04:43 (twenty years ago)

76. Kill Bill Vol. 2

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 28 July 2005 04:43 (twenty years ago)

That cheerleader murder movie with Holly Hunter, whatever it was called. Also didn't they use Dallas as the "above ground" city in Logan's Run?

― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 28 July 2005 04:44 (twenty years ago)

Getting back to Linklater, I can't believe I forgot

Waking Life.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 28 July 2005 04:45 (twenty years ago)

Also, I believe it is established that Beavis and Butthead hail from a tiny bedroom suburb of Dallas, which means.

Beavis and Butthead Do America

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 28 July 2005 04:48 (twenty years ago)

Manos: The Hands Of Fate

― donut ferry (donut), Thursday, 28 July 2005 04:49 (twenty years ago)

72. Fort apache

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 28 July 2005 04:52 (twenty years ago)

I keep wanting to type Lonesome Dove, but it's not exactly a movie.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 28 July 2005 04:53 (twenty years ago)

Logan's Run was shot partially in Ft. Worth.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 28 July 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

71. The Thin Blue Line

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 28 July 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

70. To Die For

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 28 July 2005 04:59 (twenty years ago)

O.C. and Stiggs?

No, probably not.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 28 July 2005 04:59 (twenty years ago)

70. To Die For

Nice one. And if it ain't there, "Gerry" I think goes in the California movie thread.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 28 July 2005 05:02 (twenty years ago)

69* Tender Mercies

(Austin, is that close enough?)

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 28 July 2005 05:03 (twenty years ago)

Are you addressing the question to me, or asking if Austin counts as Texas.

Either way, I vote, yes to Tender Mercies.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 28 July 2005 05:04 (twenty years ago)

Also, "The Apostle" is supposed to be real good, but I haven't seen it.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 28 July 2005 05:05 (twenty years ago)

(heh - yes, to you, wrt Lonesome Dove)

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 28 July 2005 05:05 (twenty years ago)

What's the one with the UT seniors in the 60s going on a road trip to Mexico, ostensibly for fun but really to dodge the draft? That was alright, iirc.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 28 July 2005 05:11 (twenty years ago)

Isn't there an awful cycling sports movie that is set in texas.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 28 July 2005 05:13 (twenty years ago)

I hope you don't mean "Breaking Away"!

Cause not only is in not awful, I don't think it's set in Texas.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 28 July 2005 05:15 (twenty years ago)

Indiana, iirc

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 28 July 2005 05:16 (twenty years ago)

my mistake

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 28 July 2005 05:17 (twenty years ago)

so you're sticking with Breaking Away = awful, then?

dude, two words: Dennis Quaid

(i know, i know, QED. but no one likes a wiseass, right?)

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 28 July 2005 05:19 (twenty years ago)

I feel like there's something really obvious (besides scads of quality Westernes) that I'm missing...

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 28 July 2005 05:22 (twenty years ago)

DAR!

Giant

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 28 July 2005 05:30 (twenty years ago)

67. Rollerball

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 28 July 2005 05:30 (twenty years ago)

66. Reality Bites

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 28 July 2005 05:31 (twenty years ago)

65. Telefon

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 28 July 2005 05:32 (twenty years ago)

64. The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 28 July 2005 05:32 (twenty years ago)

63. Debbie Does Dallas

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 28 July 2005 05:33 (twenty years ago)

(does that help?)

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 28 July 2005 05:35 (twenty years ago)

I'd probably take O.C. and Stiggs over both, personally.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 28 July 2005 05:39 (twenty years ago)

Fair. But over Rollerball?

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 28 July 2005 05:43 (twenty years ago)

62. Cloak and Dagger
61. Pee Wee's Big Adventure

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 28 July 2005 05:45 (twenty years ago)

60. Local Hero

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 28 July 2005 06:25 (twenty years ago)

59. The Right Stuff

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 28 July 2005 06:25 (twenty years ago)

58. Alamo Bay

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 28 July 2005 06:27 (twenty years ago)

we had the right stuff in the california thread, I thought it all happened at Edwards, is there stuff at houston as well?

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 28 July 2005 06:29 (twenty years ago)

Edwards, Houston, DC, Star City, Cocoa Beach/Cape Canaveral, Albuquerque, at sea

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 28 July 2005 06:35 (twenty years ago)

(in Houston, not just the Space Center, but also the Astrodome)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 28 July 2005 06:36 (twenty years ago)

(really the Cow Palace)

I forgot New York

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 28 July 2005 06:36 (twenty years ago)

Weeki Wachee

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 28 July 2005 06:37 (twenty years ago)

and Australia!

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 28 July 2005 06:43 (twenty years ago)

EVIL DEAD III Army of Darkness

― Menelaus Darcy (Menelaus Darcy), Thursday, 28 July 2005 10:45 (twenty years ago)

GIANT

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 28 July 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

Brewster McCloud
Rushmore
Hands On A Hardbody
Suburbia (the Linklater/Bogosian one)
Terms of Endearment

― Marxism Goes Better With Coke (Charles McCain), Thursday, 28 July 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

Fuckin' a THE SEARCHERS!

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 28 July 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

revive

― Oilyrags, Monday, 10 September 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

"The Three Funerals of Melquiades Estrada" won't be moving onto the list, but with some luck "No Country For Old Men" will.

― Oilyrags, Monday, 10 September 2007 19:36 (eighteen years ago)

Primer

― abd tucker dummychuck, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

Outlaw Blues (a neato 70s outlaw country flick shot in Austin starring Peter Fonda & Susan St. James)
The Thief Who Came to Dinner

― C. Grisso/McCain, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 01:01 (eighteen years ago)

What's the one with the UT seniors in the 60s going on a road trip to Mexico, ostensibly for fun but really to dodge the draft? That was alright, iirc.

Fandango?

― C. Grisso/McCain, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 01:03 (eighteen years ago)

Some scenes from Pret-a-Porter were shot here.

― wanko ergo sum, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 01:05 (eighteen years ago)

Thank you Grisso McCain, that's the one.

― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 01:19 (eighteen years ago)

A vision of a Houston (and Pasa-get down-dena) that is no more:

http://a1259.g.akamai.net/f/1259/5586/5d/images.art.com/images/-/Urban-Cowboy-Style-B--C10126496.jpeg

― C. Grisso/McCain, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 01:27 (eighteen years ago)

Hud

― earlnash, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 01:52 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

One of the all-time greats, back again:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51c6aMtLRDL._SS500_.jpg

― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 17:52 (seventeen years ago)

full metal jacket

― Dr. Johnson (askance johnson), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 17:57 (seventeen years ago)

"The Three Funerals of Melquiades Estrada" won't be moving onto the list, but with some luck "No Country For Old Men" will.
― Oilyrags, Monday, September 10, 2007 7:36 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

I was actually pretty happy with Three Funerals. It was like a McCarthy short story stretched a bit too far. Not a great film per se, but I enjoyed watching it.

― been HOOS, where yyyou steene!? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 19:56 (seventeen years ago)

My recollection (it has been a while) is that it seemed like Peckinpah with all the meaning and logic drained out. Nearly every character acts to advance the plot, not in any way that they'd be motivated to. Sure is pretty, though!

― Benjamin Motherfucking Franklin (Oilyrags), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 20:00 (seventeen years ago)

No Country For Old Men
Primer
Grindhouse?

― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 20:09 (seventeen years ago)

From Dusk Til Dawn

― been HOOS, where yyyou steene!? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 20:19 (seventeen years ago)

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