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That was an excellent one.

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

With this kind of talent at his disposal, Bogdonovitch obviously was not even trying to make a great picture here. This is like a really bad 1980's television sitcom about rednecks. It's like Dan Jenkins but without the humor. The Last Picture Show is in my top 10 of all time. I tried to watch this again after 20 years went by to see if it was me. It wasn't me, Bogdonovitch,it was you. When Sheppard sticks her head out of the water and starts talking, I was out of there.

This is one of my favorite movies, because it brings me smack dab back to my four years of college in Houston. I can understand people who haven't lived in Texas thinking this movie is poor or nonsensical. I'm not even sure what it is about it, that so perfectly captures what I love about Texas and Texans, but I'll try...First off the Dairy Queen! You have to have at least driven through a big swathe of TX to realize that every small town has a DQ, and its often more of a town nerve center than City Hall. In some places I think it IS the City Hall. That's a delicious inside joke.Let's see...making a hobby of sitting in the hot tub, drinking vodka and shooting up the dog house. "Our steaks are in the deep freeze...we'd all be so drunk by the time they thawed out, no tellin' who'd get shot!" Lester getting suicidal, then springing himself from "the quiet room" to go help look for the old man that fell out of the car, when he tried to spit out his tobacco.Um, four people and a dog driving in a pickup truck. Voluntarily. (OK two of them were the tweeny twins, but still.) I don't know about all of the sleeping around, but all of the moving around (Karla and kids at Jacy's, Jacy at Karla and Duane's, Mary Lou and Jacy taking road trips with Duane just for the hell of it)...so many of the native Texans I've known are restless to the point of ADD.And just the wacky, emphatic but heartfelt attitude, Karla more than any of them. As others have noted, Annie Potts darn near steals the entire movie. But I thought the whole cast did well.

Would the Peter Bogdanovich who make The Last Picutre Show have made this? I don't think so. It scored a high dull rating. Maybe Peter should have got a script writer in, or taken some early advice. Peter had the cast, the location, the talent, so, how come this film came into its dullness. The last ten minutes gave a taste for what the film should have been. Mostly focusing on Jeff Bridges was pointless, he did his best strut, but that ain't enough to carry any film. This film is classifed as comedy, um, someone must be laughing at us for spending money to watch this.

It was great to see that many of the actors in 'The Last Picture Show' were in this film. I liked the way 'Texasville' used colour in this film representing the change of times from a time of picture shows to a more modern day feel.This is one of my favourite films, enjoyable AND kept the character profiles throughout the film. This film is also close as it gets to the book it is based on. A refreshing change!