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Posted on 7/14/25 at 12:56 pm to H-Town Tiger
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Then quit replying that “I don’t know what I’m talking about”
Wasn’t me.
Posted on 7/14/25 at 8:25 pm to Tiger Ugly
quote:Not sure how it was in Baton Rouge, but in Lafayette this movie had as big an impact as Saturday Night Fever. Almost overnight, every Disco suddenly became a country bar, some complete with mechanical bulls. Even the rock bars pretty much switched over, with the exception of the biker bars on the strip.
Loved the soundtrack
Linklater's movie Everybody Wants Some captured it pretty clearly. Going from Disco to Urban Cowboy to New Wave/Punk all in one weekend, which was pretty much the atmosphere for my college career.
Posted on 7/14/25 at 10:35 pm to MAROON
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Grew up in League City. We went to Gilley's all the time in high school (before the movie came out) because they didn't really card people. Drank a shite ton of Gilley Beer there. Place transformed overnight to a tourist destination after the movie - improved the amount and quality of women, but it lost the redneck hole in the wall, cheap beer aspect that we loved. I've not seen more fights at a club in my life than at Gilley's - pretty much a nightly occurrence to see people fighting and the bouncers throwing people out the front door. Fun memories
I was too young for Gilley's, but working in dancehalls in smaller Texas cities in the late 90's, it was mindblowing to see how many Bubba's from the smaller towns liked rolling in to the "bigger town" on Friday nights to do some tequila shots and get in fights. Like it was no big deal to get tossed out and spend the night in the county jail. They kept us busy.
Posted on 7/14/25 at 11:16 pm to Fewer Kilometers
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Not sure how it was in Baton Rouge, but in Lafayette this movie had as big an impact as Saturday Night Fever
My dad half jokingly fussed that truck prices went up bc of this movie right when he was in the market for a new Silverado
Posted on 7/15/25 at 8:10 am to Havoc
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Wasn’t me.
He doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
This post was edited on 7/15/25 at 8:18 am
Posted on 7/15/25 at 8:28 am to BabyTac
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I don’t think there’s a movie that captures 80s, middle class America better than this
It captures a specific segment of the middle class...the Houston (area) plant worker. No different than Saturday Night Fever did with the outer-borough NYC middle class. Both would have been pretty foreign to someone in say, Florida, or Southern California, or Virgina, or Chicago.
That doesn't make it a bad movie. I just don't think rednecks in the Houston refineries fully "captures 80s, middle class America" for most of the country.
Posted on 7/15/25 at 8:36 am to Alt26
true. as a 15 y/o middle class Southerner at the time, from what I've seen of UC, that wasn't me. don't care for the whole aesthetic now or then but it was huge and I can actually stand the music. much moreso than bro country.
This post was edited on 7/15/25 at 8:37 am
Posted on 7/15/25 at 10:54 am to Oates Mustache
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Not sure how this movie was so popular.
Probably because you are completely marginalizing the iconic and legendary choreography.
how old are you? Not trying to be condescending, but if you didn't live through that period, you wouldn't understand the appeal. Just like older people not identifying with the younger generation's culture.
Go watch Eddie Murphy's Raw or Andrew Dice Clay's act and you probably won't find it very funny. Hell, you'd probably be offended by "Sixteen Candles" because of some modern day "me too" indoctrination. But at the time it was all the rage. And those who experienced those eras will still chuckle at the performances.
Posted on 7/15/25 at 2:19 pm to BHTiger
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Hell interest rates alone made trailer living normal
14% to 17% home mortgage rates at that time... thanks president Carter!!
Posted on 7/15/25 at 9:08 pm to BabyTac
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the 80s people bought what they could afford and were happy with it
Perhaps in the earlier part of the decade when interest
rates were 15%+ but folks were still spending way above their means even back then.
BTW,I never knew one middle class person who grew up or lived in a trailer.
Posted on 7/15/25 at 9:20 pm to greygoose
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Scott Glenn was a bad mfer in that movie. He played that character to perfection.
Scott Glenn is a national treasure.
Posted on 7/15/25 at 11:16 pm to LuckySo-n-So
Yeah it was hard to suspend disbelief when it came to Travolta beating up Glenn
This post was edited on 7/15/25 at 11:16 pm
Posted on 7/16/25 at 7:14 am to biglego
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Yeah it was hard to suspend disbelief when it came to Travolta beating up G
eh, he sucker punched him and got the upper hand.
Posted on 7/16/25 at 9:14 am to boogiewoogie1978
More of a working class movie, imo
Posted on 7/16/25 at 10:03 am to VOR
That movie turned lots of bars country for a short while. WAY back in the day we used to hang out in Tigerland at Zachary's. (The House now?).
What had been a game room on the right side once you entered was then replaced with a mechanical bull. We all got drunk enough to ride it...not pretty.
What had been a game room on the right side once you entered was then replaced with a mechanical bull. We all got drunk enough to ride it...not pretty.
Posted on 7/16/25 at 10:19 am to Tiger Ugly
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was always a Debra Winger fan though.
John Walton (rip) of the W&J show once said on air that Winger was banging anyone that wanted it while she was in town filming Urban Cowboy.
Posted on 7/17/25 at 9:53 am to DrewTheEngineer
“Sissy I apologize all the way back to the first time I hit you”
- Bud
- Bud
Posted on 7/17/25 at 10:23 am to MorbidTheClown
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Yeah it was hard to suspend disbelief when it came to Travolta beating up G
eh, he sucker punched him and got the upper hand.
Plus him holding on to his jacket full of bills and not wanting any attention. Any plant baw fighting for his woman could have taken out Glenn in that scene.
Posted on 7/17/25 at 10:31 am to RD Dawg
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Perhaps in the earlier part of the decade when interest
rates were 15%+ but folks were still spending way above their means even back then.
BTW,I never knew one middle class person who grew up or lived in a trailer.
Me neither. If you lived in a trailer park, you were white trash. Straight up.
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