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re: Is Southern Comfort the most authentic movie about Louisiana ever

Posted on 10/23/23 at 1:24 pm to
Posted by fallguy_1978
Best States #50
Member since Feb 2018
53541 posts
Posted on 10/23/23 at 1:24 pm to
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That people don’t mention LSU before 2000 because before that, they weren’t national contenders?

LSU was good in the 80s and prior.

We just had a dark football decade in the 90s.
Posted by Jake88
Member since Apr 2005
80025 posts
Posted on 10/23/23 at 1:29 pm to
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Is Southern Comfort the most authentic movie about Louisiana ever
Yes. Just like Deliverance is the most authentic movie about Georgia.
Posted by fightin tigers
Downtown Prairieville
Member since Mar 2008
78458 posts
Posted on 10/23/23 at 1:30 pm to
Double Jeopardy.

Hear me out. It was ahead of it's time.

West Coast frick transplants to New Orleans.
Develop a cringy fake accent.
Escaped convict wife on the loose in the city.
Two shootings.
One murder.
Ex-con murderer walks free.
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
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Posted on 10/23/23 at 1:34 pm to
Bruh



The people in the movie were slightly fictionalized versions of people the author knew growing up in Natchitoches.
Posted by athenslife101
Member since Feb 2013
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Posted on 10/23/23 at 1:39 pm to
Their mouths are all gigantic
Posted by Flashback
reading the chicken bones
Member since Apr 2008
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Posted on 10/23/23 at 1:41 pm to
Waterboy is more accurate.
Posted by Honest Tune
Louisiana
Member since Dec 2011
19285 posts
Posted on 10/23/23 at 1:42 pm to
Man in the Moon.
Posted by GRTiger
On a roof eating alligator pie
Member since Dec 2008
71226 posts
Posted on 10/23/23 at 1:43 pm to
The 2000 joke was started by other SEC school fans (mostly Bama) on social media and message boards because by the time those became a thing, most of LSU's relevant football success had picked back up with Saban and so LSU fans tended to point towards recent success rather than 40-50 year old success.

No LSU fan says or believes that LSU football didn't exist prior to 2000. We just hate the history of the 90s. And 90s and prior football accolades are less relevant in the 21st century due to time (which is what upset other teams at the time and lead to the joke.)
This post was edited on 10/23/23 at 1:45 pm
Posted by LCA131
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Member since Feb 2008
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Posted on 10/23/23 at 1:43 pm to
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Their mouths are all gigantic


For the same reason that Rafael Nadal's left forearm is gigantic... Non-stop use
This post was edited on 10/23/23 at 1:45 pm
Posted by lake chuck fan
Vinton
Member since Aug 2011
23831 posts
Posted on 10/23/23 at 1:44 pm to
There is another one that is extreme in its portrayal of folks from Louisiana but, still pretty good. It was filmed partly on the Calcasieu River close to the Goos Ferry crossing, my mom lived very close. It's called "Little Cheniere".
Posted by tgrbaitn08
Member since Dec 2007
148031 posts
Posted on 10/23/23 at 1:49 pm to
Beasts of the Southern Wild was a great movie
This post was edited on 10/23/23 at 1:50 pm
Posted by Lsupimp
Ersatz Amerika-97.6% phony & fake
Member since Nov 2003
86173 posts
Posted on 10/23/23 at 1:55 pm to
Don’t hate us because LSU Superintendent burned your shite city down and because when people think of your state they think of Ned Beatty squealing like a pig.
Posted by Sam Quint
Member since Sep 2022
8908 posts
Posted on 10/23/23 at 1:57 pm to
I just always assumed Hard Target was the movie you all most associated with your state. Curious to see that it hasnt even been mentioned once.
Posted by PnG4ever
Ms Gulf Coast
Member since Jan 2020
111 posts
Posted on 10/23/23 at 2:03 pm to
The writer and producer of “Little Chenier” was a brother sister team from Lake Charles. About the only movie where I didn’t cringe at the accent. At the end of the movie they do a before and after shots of Rita. The chapel scene was shot at a chapel in Elton and majority was shot in south west La.
Posted by Tarps99
Lafourche Parish
Member since Apr 2017
12727 posts
Posted on 10/23/23 at 2:04 pm to
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I would say Fletch Lives which is filmed in Thibodaux, LA.


That movie screwed up my vision of being up da bayou in Thibodaux with there being a commercial airport, a televangelist that built a broadcast center and a theme park.

I was a teenager before I realized there was none of this in Thibodaux.

Actually while at Nicholls in the 2000’s, the law office where they filmed the Bug Busters scene, I went to a study group there.
Posted by Loup
Ferriday
Member since Apr 2019
17000 posts
Posted on 10/23/23 at 2:25 pm to
The Waterboy is more authentic.

ETA: damnit Flashback
This post was edited on 10/23/23 at 2:27 pm
Posted by FreddieMac
Baton Rouge
Member since Jun 2010
24922 posts
Posted on 10/23/23 at 2:48 pm to
quote:

No mention of LSU because it’s not 2000 yet


You are trying to hard...
Posted by White Bear
Homeless
Member since Jul 2014
17645 posts
Posted on 10/23/23 at 2:49 pm to
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The most competent person in the movie is from Texas
He was a La baw who moved to Tx for work.
Posted by GruntbyAssociation
Member since Jul 2013
9744 posts
Posted on 10/23/23 at 2:51 pm to
No, after you leave active duty you do a reserve obligation. I did La. National Guard, the movie showed some to be rather squared away and that isn’t the case.
Posted by PowerTool
The dark side of the road
Member since Dec 2009
23224 posts
Posted on 10/23/23 at 2:58 pm to
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Do you realize how many NC’s LSU won in various sports prior to 2000?



It will never not be hilarious how insecure smalltown Louisiana people are.

Guy makes an obvious joke that any football fan should get, but yall can't let it go because yall got your poor little Looziana feelings hurt.

Yeah, the whole world was really in awe of those track and baseball teams or whatever the frick, and were all really impressed by how yall all knew some ole baw back when he was just in high school.
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