Wonderfully offbeat film!

Highly Overrated But Still Good

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Director Peter Bogdanovich's failed follow-up to his critical breakthrough film, 1971's "The Last Picture Show", returns to small town Texas to catch up on the lives of those once-compelling characters. Bogdanovich, who--in a replay of the first film--also adapted Larry McMurtry's novel, is now too jaded to see much joy or dramatic irony in these surroundings, and the sterling cast he has assembled just seems disheartened. The plot, a rumination of Jeff Bridges' Duane Jackson (who is now an unhappily married oil-man dissatisfied with his job and life), doesn't built any momentum, emotional, dramatic or otherwise, and the director follows a botched pattern: one flabby, talky sequence after another. * from ****

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!

Texasville is easily one of my favorite movies of all time because it doesn't go down the easy road, trying to please everyone, by being the same movie as Last Picture Show was. However, after having seen both Picture Show and Texasville back to back I noticed how surprisingly similar in context and theme they are. Both are about sad adults who look longingly onto the younger generation, all the while committing adultery as a way of recapturing their youth. I love both Picture Show and Texasville equally; but have a soft spot for Texasville because I was 11 during the timeframe shown in the movie, and 17 when it came out in 1990 so it is a bit more relevant to me. Also the dark humor helps make the film more enjoyable for those hot summer nights when the urge hits me to see it.I've never thought of Texasville as fiction, more as cinematic fact. It's about as close to real life as you'll get without living it yourself. It was one of the first films I saw in a theatre as a cinema "connoisseur" and it'd be a shame to let it fade into obscurity. I highly recommend it to anyone reading this, a true minor masterpiece