Entertainment
Sponsored by

Best "Southern" movies

8,548 Views | 93 Replies | Last: 4 yr ago by SgtBarbarossa
Nasreddin
User Profile Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
11:32a, 11/18/21
Which movies best encapsulate the "south" for you? By and away for me, it's Smokey and the Bandit. I think it perfectly gives the feel of the south in the late 70s early 80s.

Others?
Reply Quote
8
Duncan Idaho
User Profile Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
11:36a, 11/18/21
Porky's for fun
Deliverance for love
Reply Quote
13
heddleston
User Profile Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
11:46a, 11/18/21
AG
My Cousin Vinny
Reply Quote
31
BTHOB
User Profile Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
11:48a, 11/18/21
AG
Steel Magnolias
Reply Quote
19
Stive
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
11:54a, 11/18/21
AG
Mud
To Kill A Mockingbird
Steel Magnolias
Driving Miss Daisy
Reply Quote
5
RossG_2
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
11:57a, 11/18/21
AG
O Brother Where Art Thou
Reply Quote
37
Leggo My Elko
User Profile Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
11:58a, 11/18/21
AG
Forest Gump
Reply Quote
18
Leggo My Elko
User Profile Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
12:01p, 11/18/21
AG
12 Years A Slave
Reply Quote
9
Nasreddin
User Profile Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
In reply to heddleston • 12:04p, 11/18/21
Yes for sure a. Absolutely spot on
Reply Quote
chris1515
User Profile Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
12:05p, 11/18/21
AG
Mississippi Burning
Reply Quote
12
Scientific
User Profile Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
In reply to Duncan Idaho • 12:46p, 11/18/21
AG
Duncan Idaho said:
Porky's for fun
Deliverance for love
White Lightning, Gator, Smokey and the Bandit, and throw in Semi Tough. Burt Reynold's owned the South in the 70s.

Urban Cowboy
Eve's Bayou
Cape fear
Peanutbutter Flacon as a most recent
Reply Quote
2
gggmann
User Profile Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
1:20p, 11/18/21
AG
Song of the South
Reply Quote
7
Brian Earl Spilner
User Profile Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
1:42p, 11/18/21
AG
Varsity Blues
Reply Quote
11
JCA1
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
1:47p, 11/18/21
AG

Reply Quote
26
1 edit
Head Ninja In Charge
User Profile Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
1:54p, 11/18/21
AG
We distinguishing "Texan" from "southern" or nah?
Reply Quote
10
OCEN99
User Profile Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
2:04p, 11/18/21
AG
Bernie
Reply Quote
14
Duncan Idaho
User Profile Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
In reply to Head Ninja In Charge • 2:05p, 11/18/21
In my mind they are as different as pulled pork and brisket.
Reply Quote
12
LawHall88
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
2:12p, 11/18/21
AG
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.

Also, if by "south" you include south Texas, then Lone Star.
Reply Quote
3
Stive
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
In reply to Head Ninja In Charge • 2:17p, 11/18/21
AG
Head Ninja In Charge said:
We distinguishing "Texan" from "southern" or nah?

I think Bernie would qualify as southern while NCFOM would not.

So maybe East Texas would fall into the category but that would be about it.

(But it's not my thread so fight amongst yourselves)
Reply Quote
6
superunknown
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
2:17p, 11/18/21
AG
Talladega Nights is the best documentary
Reply Quote
6
Ag97
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
2:20p, 11/18/21
AG
Dazed and Confused
Reply Quote
22
Definitely Not A Cop
User Profile Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
2:29p, 11/18/21
AG
Reply Quote
2
Stive
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
In reply to Definitely Not A Cop • 2:32p, 11/18/21
AG
I always pictured Footloose as like Iowa or Kansas or something?
Reply Quote
18
Hub `93
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
2:50p, 11/18/21
AG
In the Heat of the Night
Reply Quote
5
Tanya 93
User Profile Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
3:28p, 11/18/21
Fried green tomatoes
Reply Quote
9
Definitely Not A Cop
User Profile Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
In reply to Stive • 3:35p, 11/18/21
AG
Stive said:
I always pictured Footloose as like Iowa or Kansas or something?


I thought the movie was about Waco?

Edit: Just looked it up, it's based off a true story about a town in OK, but this site mentions the dancing ban in Waco that lasted until the 90's as well.


https://80smovieguide.com/footloose/

Quote:
Footloose seems so far-fetched, but this is based on a true story. The town of Elmore City, Okla., made dancing illegal until the town's high schoolers asked for the ban to be lifted for their prom. Ren McCormick is based on Rex Kennedy, who was the junior class president. The town had a moratorium on public dancing since it was founded in 1861.

A dancing ban was a real thing in some conservative American towns in the early 1970s. In fact, Baylor University in Waco, Texas, had a dancing ban on campus that extended into the 1990s.

Reply Quote
4
2 edits
Quad Dog
User Profile Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
3:45p, 11/18/21
AG
The Long Hot Summer

Giant
Reply Quote
deadhead aggie
User Profile Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
4:06p, 11/18/21
AG
Reply Quote
3
CajunAg97
User Profile Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
4:14p, 11/18/21
AG
In my experience, there's no such thing as luck.
Reply Quote
1
The Porkchop Express
User Profile Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
4:53p, 11/18/21
AG
Reply Quote
1 edit
Legal Custodian
User Profile Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
4:55p, 11/18/21
AG
The Notebook for a picturesque/romanticized version
Reply Quote
1
1 edit
Duncan Idaho
User Profile Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
In reply to Stive • 5:07p, 11/18/21
Stive said:
Head Ninja In Charge said:
We distinguishing "Texan" from "southern" or nah?

I think Bernie would qualify as southern while NCFOM would not.

So maybe East Texas would fall into the category but that would be about it.

(But it's not my thread so fight amongst yourselves)

This is a fair take.

Similarly I would not consider fandango a southern movie.
Reply Quote
2
1 edit
HtownAg92
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
5:09p, 11/18/21
AG
JFK
The Waterboy

I think the best answer is Steel Magnolias.
Reply Quote
2
LostAg
User Profile Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
5:30p, 11/18/21
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
"Let's go to Taco Cabana and get us something to eat..."
Reply Quote
5
Lathspell
User Profile Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
In reply to Ag97 • 6:18p, 11/18/21
AG
Ag97 said:
Dazed and Confused
This was going to be my answer.

Also, this clip from Bernie is one of my favorite descriptions of Texas:

Reply Quote
14
1 edit
Last Page
Page 1 of 3 ▼
 
×
subscribe Verify your student status
See Subscription Benefits
Trial only available to users who have never subscribed or participated in a previous trial.