Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Yazmin Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

writers_reign It's clear that virtually everyone involved with this film both behind and in front of the camera was aspiring to a definite Chekhovian feel but Russian melancholy is the wrong colour for Texas so the best you can give it is 'E' for Effort. It's steeped in melancholy and there's not too much wrong with that but what over-eggs the pudding is the unrelenting bleakness of thr small,, decrepit town, dying before our eyes; Chekhov's Russia was far from opulent but affluence was certainly hinted at and in several cases it featured aristocrats who had fallen on hard times whilst in TLPS only one family is seen as anything like prosperous (Cybille Shepherds') and even Sam The Lion, who owns more or less half the town is seen as more like a vagrant than an entrepreneur. What the movie has in spades is brilliant acting starting with Cloris Leachman and Ben Johnson down to Randy Quaid and Sam Bottoms.

851222 Greetings from Lithuania."The Last Picture Show" (1971) is a good coming of age story set in a gods forgotten place. The place itself is like a character in this movie - it is a dying, dusty little town with no hope. And then there are people, living in it, or should i say surviving in there, as there isn't really much of a hope to look forward to in that place. And still they want to love, have sex, to cared about, no matter the age or social difference.I loved the performances in "The Last Picture Show". There are some many great performances here: Ben Johnson as "Sam the Lion", who won Oscar for his performance. One of my all time favorite Ellen Burstyn gave a great performance as well, much more complex then it appears at the beginning. Then there is Cloris Leachman who also won Academy award. The national treasure Jeff Bridges - great performance as well. I also loved Eileen Brennan (Genevieve) acting, every time she appeared on a screen i could take my eyes of her. And Randy Quaid should have stayed on the screen longer. Timothy Bottoms and well, everyone - this is a one terrifically acted movie. Script was also good as well as solid directing.Overall, "The Last Picture Show" is a terrifically acted coming of age story in a goods forgotten place. This is a very atmospheric movie, which looks so fragile at the times, like life in that place itself. Good movie all around.

GertrudeStern The Last Picture Show is a movie with supreme atmosphere. From the salty small town bartender to the guy who brings his own pool cue to the bar to the men placing bets on the outcome of the high school football game. It presents a great snapshot of a '50's town with one main drag and characters who are on a treadmill to nowhere.A majority of the "moral decay" referenced in the film's synopsis deals with people getting naked and particularly with a May-December relationship between a high school boy and his gym teacher's comely wife. The main plot centers on a love triangle between a youthful Jeff Bridges, Timothy Bottoms and the lovely Cybill Shepherd, whose beauty is only slightly diminished by the rottenness of her character.The movie definitely has one of the top 5 deflowering scenes I have ever witnessed. It happens on a pool table with close shots of Shepherd lacing her fingers through two leather latticed pool pockets and kneading at them in the manner of a cat.The soundtrack ladles up a ton of Hank Williams, which is really pleasing, and the final 15 minutes feature some outrageously literary moments that are very fun to watch.

evening1 A dark tale about man's struggle to find an emotional home for himself, even as life erodes and can cease at any instant.The setting is a wind- and tumbleweed-swept Wichita Falls, TX, in the early Fifties, and we experience this allegory through the peregrinations of high school seniors and the adults who try to influence, manipulate, or just plain control them.Man is portrayed as scarcely more than an animal here -- a creature who prowls, stalks, and ruts, and whose copulations are almost entirely bereft of genuine feeling or depth.At the center of the tale is the aimless local boy Sonny Crawford (Timothy Bottoms). When he meets a depressed woman 20 years his senior (Cloris Leachman) who is just as starved for affection, they have intercourse. For a while they find distraction from their despair.The performances in this film are uniformly strong, however, I think too much time is given to the comings and goings of vapid teenagers in heat. I'd have liked to see and learn a little more about the intriguing father figure Joe the Lion (the craggily handsome Ben Johnson). But then again, one of the lessons here is that the good things in life are fleeting. Enjoy -- and more, appreciate -- while you can!I also think there's a take-home message in Sonny. In the course of the film he does manage to grow. Starting out as fickle and unreflective, he evolves into someone who can tolerate the emotional pain of another -- Joe the Lion, and later Mrs. Popper -- without taking the easier route of running away. Definitely a role model for us all!