Blanche

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This is such a wonderful simple down home real life movie. I really like how it's not a Hollywood production.

I loved everything about this heartwarming movie! The scenery and locations around Alpine and Marfa made me miss what I love most about West Texas. The actors and their interactions with each other believably portrayed genuine friendships that last for decades. I felt like I was watching people I knew interacting with each other rather than Hollywood actors playing parts. And for the music in the movie - it is nothing short of wonderful. Kudos to Twila LaBar. (Sidenote: I did get a laugh over the conversation about Donald Judd. And another laugh over the UT tie.) Will be watching this movie again!

This movie is so enjoyable to watch if 1)You're a Texan, 2) you're over 60, 3) you're an Aggie, 4)you live in the country, or any combination of the above. Not the greatest actors I've ever seen, but they took us along on a fun ride!

You don't have to know Texas to love this story, but if you are a Texan, you'll recognize some of the most endearing things about West Texas. I haven't laughed so much at a movie since I can't remember when. And it's a great story of how friends are there for each other. And you'll learn stuff you never knew about chickens.

But I'm so glad I gave this movie a chance. Sweet story and I'm not surprised that there were no trained actors but regular Texas folks. Loved the fact that it took place near where my Grandmother was born (Fort Davis) when her father was an officer with the 10th. Fantasizing about them living and roaming that area.

Starting off with an explanation: I am originally from W Texas, went to school with some of the actors, so I maybe a bit too harsh or too easy on the movie. A good, warm embrace of the "ggod times" or "remembered good times" - a look to the nostalgic past when people are older and not as competative as they may have been earlier; friendship's importance remembered. All of the right ingreients for living - and for the making of a good film. Forget that some lines sound as if they are read directive from a book. This is not Hollywood - this is West Texas. Hats off to the movie, the effort and the results.

We laughed a lot All the way through this Sweet little film. We felt drawn into the lives of Tommy and Clifford, what a couple of good ol' boys with hearts as big as they are! A sweet story of friendship and second chances. And chickens, oh my gosh- HIL-A-RIOS!

I just watched #BLANCHE on Amazon prime - It has some of the best dialogue I've seen in a film - It is hilarious and original and just so fun - I love love love this - - and as a bonus - it has flying chickens - you can't beat that

It may be "treat to watch a movie that causes one to reflect on what one holds dear about their piece of Texas" but these aren't actors (check out their other non-existent credits) and it shows. Everyone watches actors and thinks "I could deliver lines, especially (like these ppl) if I'm playing myself or a character just like me" Well, these ppl prove that notion wrong. The acting is horrid, and you can see the tricks the director had to use to deal with (probably) botched and poorly delivered take after take: early in the movie check out a convo between the old man and lady. They constantly cut to "over the shoulder" for every single line of dialog, so they could film it line by line with inserts, and its not only distracting and too many cuts for the scene (whiich would have benefitted from a long, uncut scene with both of them in the frame so you could see the reactions, but they stil deliver terrible readings, and you have to assume that's the best they could do. Every scene is like this; face of the person talking over the shoulder of the person they are talking to, cut to the other person back and forth. It even cuts back and forth mid sentence sometimes. These ppl couldnt deliver a line as well as the little kids in the first Charlie Brown christmas special. The dialog is hokey , overly verbose (these old guys would be better served to be more taciturn, they deliver long bouts of exposition in corny, fake dialog delivered with less acting talent than a high school play. The woman who owns the chickens must have been a relative of a backer, she stands out among terribly amateur actors as a most egregious case. I could go on, about the travelling scenes where we are treated to the front of the truck instead of the Texas landscape (whiich it must be said by anyone who has travelled 95 cross country, is ugly, boring and monotonous) They managed to find the ugliest mudpond lake to have a long scene with even more exposition and pointless story tellling and unfunny anecdotes. I guess that part is pretty realistic, old cowboys and their former paramours probably do get together and go on and on with pointless, stupid stories then trail off into demetia. You have to REALLY love cowboy hats, old cowboys and their old gfs and boring, pointless stories, including the plot. "Is Blanche your chicken? Martha told me she gave you a chicken!" "Blance is a good looking chicken!" (big laughs) "Clifford, you better not be throwing chickens out of an airplane!" "Its noot like we're throwing babies out of a plane!" "YOu guys are impossible! Let's go to Martha's" and it goes on like this.