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Yojimbo 05/25/2012 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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This film is and incredibly powerful and difficult experience. Voight and Hoffman are superb but its so unrelentingly depressing it can hardly be called an "enjoyable" experience! A film everyone must see, if only once. |
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mitchellyoung 11/01/2011 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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This is a gritty and fascinating story of survival, set in the urban busyness of New York City. Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman vanish into their roles, creating two memorable characters who find an odd friendship, despite being nearly polar opposites. |
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Amyaronson 07/18/2011 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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A farm boy (Voight) moves to New York to be a male escort and meets up with a small-time hustler (Hoffman). They become the bestest of friends. Life is rough, they are poor, things are gritty. There's a fun song that plays through the whole thing that WILL get stuck in your head for a very long time. It's SAD. Jon Voight looks like Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt. Dustin Hoffman is grimy as.
Pretty good. |
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04/29/2013 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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Midnight Cowboy review |
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Joe Buck (Jon Voight) goes to New York to be a hustler. He meets a cripple named Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman). Soundtrack was apt and endearing, which captivates attention to every poignant scene. Performances of the leads keeps you engaged, Voight with his innocent looking childlike eyes and Hoffman's scheming gestures coupled with an authentic looking limp and sickness. Screenplay was provocative with lines "A person's got to make a living." - Cass. "Well, we all have our off days." Towny. A film that tackles on survival, ambition, friendship, homosexuality, loneliness, bad past, transformation, and death. Midnight Cowboy is a dark, often funny, dramatic picture that touches on several sensitive issues, especially during it's time. |
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04/10/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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Setting Trends |
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This movie transcends time, for it is truly one of the greatest movies of friendship and survival to every be captured. It is not just not just the story of the two lonesome characters that have become the pariahs in the land of the American Dream, but is the story of New York City itself; an unforgiven antagist swallowing a million dreams at a time. The film introduced audiences to elements of New York City that before had not been truly captured. This evident in its initial X-rating (later given an r-rating) after it had one the Oscar in 1969), where the themes of male prostitution, sexual exploitation, rape and drugs were still difficult for many moviegoers to comprehend. This movie paved the way for many of its successors: My Own Private Idaho, Taxi Driver, American Gigolo, L.I.E.... |
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11/24/2008 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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A very dark but very good film. |
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A film with very dark material but the friendship between the two main characters really brightens it up as does Jon Voight's performance as Joe Buck. It is just a film that is intriguing despite its very dark content. The characters are very good because you want to know what will happen to them. There really is no story besides going in to New York and needing to get out. That is all it needs because it holds your interest through its unique visual style.
Oscar Nominee Best Actor Jon Voight 6-Jon Voight is perfect as Joe Buck. He does not do a single thing wrong in the film. All of his emotions are shown very realistically, from his anger to hos overall naive and upbeat attitude.
Oscar Nominee Best Actor Dustin Hoffman 6- Just as good as Voight although almost the opposite in t... |
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