We're not all h-nky tonk, ignorant rednecks who wear cowboy hats and shoot at things. Maybe it's because I'm not from some tiny boondock town but that aspect of the movie really annoyed me.
I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.
They didn't portray them as ignorant hicks at all. They just portrayed them as hard-working people who support their troops. I really saw nothing stereotypical. About the shooting at things, uhh, that's kinda what soldiers do.
shareI saw more cowboy hats in the first half of this movie than I see in a year. I don't think I have seen a movie that portrays Texas in a truthful light.
sharethey also lived in a small town .. and perhaps that's what it's like in some small towns in Texas ... get over it. it just isn't that big of a deal.
shareoohh no thats not how it is in small texas towns!! i live in a VERY small town and it is nothing like that!!!
shareI agree charmed. I've been to many small towns in Texas. I spend the summer at my families house in Canyon Lake, so I frequent New Braunfuls, San Marcos and Gruene quite a bit and my family also has a ranch in Moore. I also travel to Fredricksburg and through Kerrville once a year. I spend the rest of my time in San Antonio, but live very close to Boerne and Helotes in the La Cantera area, and people aren't like that.
I don't even have an accent. When I travel out of state people are always like 'You're from Texas?', like everyone expects you to have an accent. I've known a few people to have a bit of an accent, but nothing like in the movie.
I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.
If you consider San Marcos or New Braunfels small Texas towns then you don't know what one is. I grew up in a Texas town of 12,000 and I live in Austin now. My accent sticks out like a sore thumb among my friends who are from Houston or Dallas. People with accents are usually from the small (under 30,000) towns that are at least 100 miles from any big city.
shareI agree! I was born and raised in Texas and I get so mad when Hollywood makes us all look like rednecks! It's not like that at ALL in small towns, either. And for Ravenlll, do you even live in Texas?
shareI lived in Texas for half a decade. They did a fine job on a small town of farmers, local businesses, and such. These guys aren't rednecks. I'm currently in TN and was born here, but I have lived in 10 different states as a military brat back in the day. Regardless, a redneck implies an inbred dumbass.
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Depends on what part of Texas you hail from, for one thing.
The Texas Hills are German/LBJ/New Deal country, whereas a wide swathe of East Texas comprises the Lynch Belt.
I know Austinites like Richard Linklater were especially pissed. The Wilson Bros, too. "The Lynch Belt?!" Hey, where s "Drag the blackguy in the back of the pickup" belt?
shareI can tell you, being from a town of 2,500 people, that I thought the portrayal of the town in the movie was just fine. I also didn't think it was out of line because in my experience that's the way life was when I was growing up. I'm actually proud that the movie portrayed this one part of Texas life with what I consider to be faithfulness. I wasn't angry at anyone, I didn't mind the accents, etc.
Then I lived in NYC for 20 years and I would say the same realities exist there and in New York State. You can find towns in upstate New York, like Tupper Lake, that are very much like the town in Stop-Loss but with country accents and attitudes that are unique to New York.
Manhattanites don't complain about how different parts of NYState are protrayed in movies. I think the Texans on this board who anguish over being portrayed in a way they don't identify with are just denying part of what Texas really is. It's much more fun and real to say, "We got all kinds of people here."