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6 hours from Odessa to Houston...BS

posted 15 years ago by dvanoss
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Coach told Chris to get some more sleep on the bus to the Astrodome because there was a "6 hour ride ahead of him"...

It's 8.5+ hours to Houston from Odessa, guaranteed much longer for a tour bus full of teenage football players.

How do screenwriters get away with this kind of lack of basic fact checking?

How do they just arbitrarily make stuff up like that...eyeball a map and guess?

Nobody on that TX set spoke up and said, "wait...6 hours? WTF?"

I can't stand that kind of stuff.

[–] gmbean 15 years ago

Perhaps they were already 2.5 hours into the ride and had a remaining 6 hours ahead of them.

[–] ElGrande04 15 years ago

Actually, according to the producers, it's assumed that they are going to Austin first, then driving into Houston the next morning. This wasn't explained in the film.

(My favorite theory was that the bus drivers were hyped-up on speed, and would do about 125MPH the whole way.)

[–] jake-ryan1968 15 years ago

If you listened to the Director's Commentery closely, which obviously you didn't, you'd have learned that Permian flew on chartered jet to their away games. So driving has nothing to do with it. Its called artistic license you DOLT. Berg/Bissenger were an awesome duo. Great book became a great movie. Excellent choice of actors for the lead roles. Hope they work again. I saw Berg's The Kingdom and this was one great movie. Exceptional choice of foreign for some of the Saudi roles. Super Movie.

[–] phatcrayonz 15 years ago

truth is i live here in austin. and i am gonna go visit a friend in san antonio. so i dont really sit there and say exactly to him. "i will be there in 1 hour and 12 minutes." i just bust out with "ah i will be there in about 45 minutes." its just talking.

[–] budikavlan 15 years ago

Plus people never take into account the time within urban areas. The southern edge of Austin to the northern edge of San Antonio is about 45 minutes (unless there's traffic or construction delays--which there almost always is). But downtown Austin to downtown San Antonio is more like 2 hours. And the northern edge of Austin to the southern edge of San Antonio could take 3 or even 4 hours. The thing about going from Odessa to anywhere like Austin or Houston is there's not really a good way to go. I went the opposite way once in 1986 and we got held up for quite a while by the Sesquicentennial wagon train. You never know what you're going to find on rural highways.

[–] jtfriday2000 13 years ago

Who cares? Texas is a crappy state anyway. It's not like most people watching the movie is going to give it low ratings because they misinterpreted the time it gets from one boring TX town to the next. Only boring Texans care about Texas.
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[–] nahor88 12 years ago

^
You're a retard, Austin is ****ing awesome, don't generalize about things you clearly don't know **** about.

[–] gc18 8 years ago

It's a movie, with characters, people sometimes say things that are factual incorrect.