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Shooting blanks: what John Sayles never got about Texas.

Publication: Texas Monthly
Publication Date: 01-JUL-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Shooting blanks: what John Sayles never got about Texas.(Lone Star)(Movie review)

Article Excerpt
You know you're in for a drubbing early on in John Sayles's Lone Star-from the very first scene, to be exact. We watch as two middle-aged Army officers putter around the Texas desert: One of them is taking stock of different species of cactus and fauna; the other scans the earth with a metal detector, searching for old bullets. The men shout past each other, carrying on two separate conversations. Until one of them, in a fit of self-righteous pique, decides to announce to the other the Theme of This Movie:

"You live in a place," he says. "You should learn something about it. Explore."

And all this happens before the opening credits have even rolled. The fun--if that's what you'd call 135 minutes of literal-minded dialogue, overdeliberated symbolism, and Matthew McConaughey sinking beneath the weight of a cowboy hat three times the size of his head--has only just begun.

Within the borders of Texas, to talk trash about Lone Star, which was released to...

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