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utee94

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« Reply #42 on: January 26, 2018, 10:05:49 AM »
Ah, here's a convenient list of movies filed in/around Austin, compiled by decade.  Some nice Friday nostlagia for ya.

https://www.austintexas.org/film-commission/made-in-austin/

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« Reply #43 on: January 26, 2018, 11:08:21 AM »
Indeed, it is entertaining on so many levels for so many different reasons.  Thank you, Junior.

So many were good.  So many were bad.  So many were typical.  So many were unexpected.

I always think of "Slacker" as the first truly quintessential Austin film, "Office Space" as the first Austin film to transcend its Austin roots and "Machete Kills" as the perfect Austin film.

Strange how the art of the story of Ned Leadbetter's life looks like a '70s blacksploitation film.

My brother was in Piranha.  "What's Eating Gilbert Grape," changed my life because Johnny Depp stole my girlfriend.

Several years ago, I saw a really weird black and white early 1960s film on Youtube about a University of Texas student who encounters a beautiful naked ghost from a pond while he's researching German ancestry in the Texas Hill Country near Fredericksburg and Johnson City.  Such a strange film.  I'm surprised it wasn't listed on your website.
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« Reply #44 on: January 26, 2018, 11:11:15 AM »
Also really surprised to see No No: A Dockumentary on the list.  I saw that on netflix several months ago and was utterly amazed by the story.  I had never heard it before.

Since it's a documentary consisting of old footage and interviews and I had no idea it had any Austin connection at all.  Apparently it was assembled in Round Rock.  Who knew?
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« Reply #45 on: January 26, 2018, 08:27:38 PM »
Wow!  This thread has turned out to be "movies with Austin connections!"  Who'd'a thunk it?

In response to the OP, about fictional football players, I liked Captain (Dr.) Oliver Wendell "Spearchucker" Jones of MASH, the book and the movie.
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« Reply #46 on: January 28, 2018, 09:32:20 AM »
Yeah, well, turns out nobody has any interest at all in movies filmed in Oklahoma.  Who'd a thunk it? 

In response to the OP, about fictional football characters, and also in response to the earlier mentions of Peter Gent novels, I always liked The Franchise and its main character, quarterback Taylor Rusk.  Like Gent's other works, The Franchise explored some of the seedy underbelly of both college and pro sports, with a colorful cast of characters.

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« Reply #47 on: January 28, 2018, 09:19:53 PM »
So I looked up movies filmed in OKC.  There was this series from 2007-2010 starring Holly Hunter called ‘Saving Grace.’  It was filmed in LA but set in OKC.
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« Reply #48 on: January 28, 2018, 09:24:29 PM »
There was a 1993 episode of the X-Files called Conduit. It was filmed in British Columbia but set in Fearless’s home, Sioux City, Iowa.
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« Reply #49 on: January 28, 2018, 09:27:56 PM »
There is actually a kind of sordid sounding 2004 movie filmed in Dallas and Kerrville, called, “Brownwood.”
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« Reply #50 on: January 28, 2018, 09:36:24 PM »
A good many were, of course, set and/or filmed in Erin’s hometown of H-Town.

Among them are the famous Urban Cowboy, a movie I never saw but says it stars Dolph Lundgren as a Houston cop and one I really liked called Rush with Jason Patric & Jennifer Jason Leigh as strung out undercover narco cops.
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« Reply #51 on: January 28, 2018, 09:45:58 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on January 28, 2018, 09:32:20 AM
Yeah, well, turns out nobody has any interest at all in movies filmed in Oklahoma.  Who'd a thunk it?
Heh!  Not completely true, but not my point at all, as I'm sure you understand.
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« Reply #52 on: January 28, 2018, 10:25:25 PM »
Quote from: CharleyHorse46 on January 28, 2018, 09:24:29 PM
There was a 1993 episode of the X-Files called Conduit. It was filmed in British Columbia but set in Fearless’s home, Sioux City, Iowa.
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« Reply #53 on: January 29, 2018, 10:21:14 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on January 28, 2018, 09:32:20 AM
Yeah, well, turns out nobody has any interest at all in movies filmed in Oklahoma.  Who'd a thunk it?
There's some lady that has a reality/cooking show filmed in Oklahoma.  My wife loves it.  Good job Okies.  You've gone Hollywood.
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« Reply #54 on: January 29, 2018, 10:38:02 AM »
Quote from: CharleyHorse46 on January 28, 2018, 09:27:56 PM
There is actually a kind of sordid sounding 2004 movie filmed in Dallas and Kerrville, called, “Brownwood.”
Can't really trust anything associated with Brownwood.  Underwood's BBQ is among the very worst I've ever had.  Makes Bill Miller and Dickey's look good by comparison...
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« Reply #55 on: January 29, 2018, 11:06:10 AM »
Dickey's has got to be really good BBQ

made it as far north as Omaha - notice the snow in the pic

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