Been here all my life and have not once been to the desert. How do a bunch of "professional" filmmakers get something like this wrong?
AWW *beep* IT'S WAYNE BRADY SON!share
I'm watching this for the first time and I was like "WTF", I'm from East Texas and have been through Dallas several times, how could this have passed a prescreening? Is Hollywood that stupid? Or really do they just see Texas as one big desert??
I'm watching this for the first time and I was like "WTF", I'm from East Texas and have been through Dallas several times, how could this have passed a prescreening? Is Hollywood that stupid? Or really do they just see Texas as one big desert??You obviously need to pay a lot more attention then. What's driving "through Dallas" got to do with "deserts", that aren't even mentioned anyway?🐭 share
This wouldn't be the first movie that did something like that. In Silence of the Lambs, they showed "Calumet City Illinois", and it had mountains around it. There aren't mountains for hundreds of miles around Calumet City Illinois.
shareIt doesn't say anything about a desert. What flashes on the screen is "NORTH TEXAS". When you look at the panned out shot you see a newer developing suburban site with the Texas skyline in the back. The kids are simply playing in a small "undeveloped" area of land... not a desert.
shareby CjjjHill » It doesn't say anything about a desert. What flashes on the screen is "NORTH TEXAS". When you look at the panned out shot you see a newer developing suburban site with the Texas skyline in the back. The kids are simply playing in a small "undeveloped" area of land... not a desert.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chihuahuan_Desert
Then there's areas similar to deserts even though technically not deserts.
/Damien
The Chihuahuan Desert isn't in north Texas or even east Texas.
shareI thought the hokey Texas accents were more out of place than the desert. Luke Wilson doing the hilariously hokey Texas accent in "Bad Blood" was appropraite, but in the movie it was just silly.
shareI lived in Texas before, and while more than half of the people I saw and met didn't have Texas accents, some of them did have them and did sound like the kids in the movie. Not far fetched, especially for those who've lived in Texas since birth, and in rural areas.
Also, as others have said, there was no desert mentioned or shown in the Texas scenes, just undeveloped neighborhoods. In the mid 90's and even early 2000's, there were plenty of undeveloped areas of Texas that are now overbuilt. The only thing that looked a bit questionable was the big hills in the background. Most of Texas doesn't have hills like those, so...
That wasn't a desert, that was at best a sandlot.
Lots of suburban areas have those.
I couldn't believe when I read his filmography that he played a toilet (no joke) in According to Jim
There were tumbleweeds lying around and the sand looked more like desert sand from west Texas. An undeveloped area in east Texas would be more grassy and the sand wouldn't be so dry. Also, by the late 90s, I believe that anywhere with a view of downtown in the background would have been developed. To me, it didn't look like northeast Texas at all. I think it's just a case of most of the filming having been done in California, and they figured a desert-like environment was close enough to Texas without realizing that only HALF of Texas is desert and the other half is plains. It was appropriately flat though.
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