On 2010-03-16 thesavvybamalady, Prichard, Alabama USA wrote: To be honest, I was 6 when this movie came out and when I got grown I had absolutely no interest in seeing nothing about no cowboy trying to make his way to the big city film; But as time moved on, I was a bit interested in this film. matter of fact, I was at Walmart looking at Oscar awarded films, this was about one of the few I have seen, and I got it. Once I seen it, I got mixed feelings. Joe Buck(John Voight) is a young overconfident Texan who knows he can please the ladies, and decides to go to N.Y. and be a hustler servicing ladies. If I can say anything, the fella gets my vote for his confidence & bravery. However, once he hits the Big Apple, he finds life is not what it may seem. For one, he gets taken by the rich lady he serviced(ain´t that something?)then he gets with this crippled grifter(Dustin Hoffman), who hooks him up with this man who supposedly had connections to the male escort business, but was more a religious kook more interested in praying which brought the flashbacks back even more so. Even though the film alludes to flashbacks that he was abused sexually by his grandmother, we can see what makes up the package of Joe Buck.Yet we don´t get that with Rizzo; With him, you can see it from the door. After getting put out of his hotel, being hungry and having to sell it on the streets to a young boy who delivered but didn´t have a thin dime, Buck gets hip and upon seeing Rizzo, starts to beat him down; Instead, he gets a place to lay his head as well as an unlikely partnership. In time, Buck starts to care for Rizzo; Rizzo starts dreaming of Florida and when he gets sicker, Buck gets up one more job gone a bit crazy to get him to Florida. I will be honest, for it´s time, you´ll see the grittiness of the big city and holding on to a dream even though the dream´s not for you. This movie isn´t for everyone either and it doesn´t end on a great note, but at least you see Joe Buck coming out of the experience a much better person for it. . And summed up by saying Good but..... Currently Midnight Cowboy (Two Disc Collector´s Edition) has an overall rating of 8 over 10.
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Adam Holender claimed Daring. Provocative. Shocking. Compelling. Nearly thirty years after its original release, ´Midnight Cowboy is still heartbreakingand timeless´ (The New York Observer). This Academy Award® winner* for Best Picture, Director and Screenplay also boasts Oscar®-nominated** performances by Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight, neither of whom have ´ever been better on screen than they are here´ (Chicago Tribune)! When Joe Buck (Voight), a good-looking,naively charming Texas ´cowboy´ makes his way to the Big Apple to seek his fortune, the only wealthhe finds is in the friendship of Ratso Rizzo (Hoffman), a scrounging, sleazy, small-time con man with big dreams. Living on the tattered fringe of society, these two outcasts develop an unlikely bond one that transcends their broken dreams and get-rich-quick schemes and makes Midnight Cowboy ´that rarest of things: [a film] every bit as moving now as it was when it was [first] released´ (Premiere). *1969 **1969: Actor
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