Linkshoch Wonderful Movie

KnotMissPriceless Why so much hype?

SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Alan Benfield Jr (alanbenfieldjr) Two desperate characters meet. It's not a meet cute in the classic sense of the word but it's not far away from it either. It's also a melodrama, operatic but hidden in a reality that can't possibly be real. Dustin Hoffman is as bold as Bette Davis in a Warner Brothers melodrama. Amazing. And Jon Voight? - He wasn't the first choice, Michael Sarrazin was. Jon Voight plays his whore with a heart of gold with the decency of a Mary Astor in another melodrama from the the 40's. I've seen Midnight Cowboy 5 times, the first time in a theater, three other times in VHS or DVD - Last night I saw it in a huge screen in the house of a friend. HD I believe and, Oh my God. I wept. I was taken over completely by this two devastating, truly devastating characters. John Schlesiger the director, a genius. British by birth but he showed us an America that most people didn't know existed, not even Americans. This is a film for the ages.

inemjaso An X-rated film at the time of its release, Midnight Cowboy is the definition of the Hayes Code ending and New Hollywood beginning. The film centers around Joe Buck, a young Texan dishwasher played by Jon Voight, whose confidence in his looks and southern charisma lead him to pack for New York with the intention of becoming a male prostitute. The irony being, his first "taker' ends up being a working woman herself and Buck ends up giving her money instead. In New York, Buck meets Ratso, a street smart New Yorker with a limp whose blunt nature and smart mouth are a perfect compliment to Buck's dry Texan humor. In addition to exploring sexuality and the boundaries of sexual explicitness which with the American public was comfortable in the late 1960s, the film does a fine job touching upon mental illness, with the local girl Annie, drug use and experimentation, as observed in the party scene, and also the alienation many felt during this period. Alienated characters were a staple in film noir and loneliness and finding one's purpose are themes most people can identify with. However, something about the loneliness of the two main characters in this film whose bond with one another is the only thing preventing the other from emotionally crumbling is too real and strikingly well executed in the film's end. A must watch for any fan of classic New Hollywood movies.

Julian West "Midnight Cowboy" is a great film, mostly thanks to the performances of the two leads: Jon Voigt as dense wannabe male prostitute Joe Buck and Dustin Hoffman as doomed bum Ratso Rizzo. Their unlikely friendship is the soul of the movie. Why should we, the audience, care about these guys? At best, they're losers, and at worst, they're criminals. But they're also human beings, and the movie shows that -- and that's why it's great.

framptonhollis Covering themes of friendship, sexuality, and poverty, "Midnight Cowboy" remains one of the most powerful films of all time. It tells the simple story of a kind hearted man with a traumatizing past who moves to New York in order to become a hustler. Over time, he befriends the sick, slimy, and impoverished Rico "Ratso" Rizzo as the two follow a path of homelessness and failure, but there is light at the end of the tunnel."Midnight Cowboy" covers many taboo subjects as it explores male prostitution and homosexuality, making it heavily controversial in its day (it was originally given an X rating), but today it is fairly tame compared to most modern R rated films. Still, this is a mature and adult film not only because of its often graphic content, but because of how damn heavy and complex its emotions are. The two leads are not necessarily good or bad guys, they are the type of people who you occasionally glance on the city street. Typical bums trying to make some cash. But, in "Midnight Cowboy" they become memorable and well developed characters; people that you can relate to and despise. They have moments of victory and moments of sorry, and you often find yourself unexpectedly rooting for this pair that would normally remain nothing but an extra in your everyday life, only receiving ridicule and brief mild sympathy.