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Summary: everybody's talkin'
Review: Even if John Voight is not your favorite actor, you cannot stand the song "Everybody's Talkin' at Me", and you find sixties films horribly dated, see this film. It is a heartbreaking story of the disillusionment two people face in New York. If you cannot think of any other reason to watch this film :Dustin Hoffman. He manages to convey the human and symathetic qulities that very few actors could get across on screen. THere is a scene where John Voight is combing Dustin Hoffman's hair and HOffman must hold onto him for support. It is a heartbreaking moment that symbolizes the need both characters possess for each other. See this film-it is an important cinematic achievement.
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Summary: A Dream at Midnight is Oft Deferred
Review: MIDNIGHT COWBOY takes a brutal look at dreams unfounded and rubs the reality of that dream into the face of the dreamer until he cries out in pain. Each of the two leads, Joe Buck (Jon Voight) and Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman) both dream of what for them is as likely to happen as hitting all the numbers of the Big Game.
Both are from polar opposites of the social spectrum but each feels sure that with The Big Con their evanescent dreams can morph into palpable reality. Joe Buck is your basic good looking but not too bright stud who knows that if he is to cash in it will have to be with the only coin that he possesses in abundance, his sexual stamina. Ratzo Rizzo is your sleazbag con man who knows that if he is to cash in it will be with his own coin of grab the money and run. Their paths intersect in a nightmare street of New York whose falsely bright coldness would not be seen again until Travis Bickle was to drive a cab in it in TAXI DRIVER. Joe is more comical than successful as a stud. The ladies of New York see him for what he is and unmercifully take advantage. Yet, Ratzo sees something in Joe that he tries to tell himself is no more than a shortcut to his dream: a life in sunny Florida where he can wear brightly colored sport shirts and drink tequillas. Perhaps he even believes his own reasoning, and for a while the audience does too, but at some fuzzy point, he begins to change. He sees that drinking alone, even in sunny Florida, means little unless he can toast his good fortune with a kindred soul. For Joe, his dream goes nowhere until he realizes that he is not smart enough to have a stable of willing, rich older women who will pay for his stud services. He has to hit rock bottom in a balcony with a gay man. His disgust with himself overcomes his rightful anger at being conned by Ratzo. Their reconciliation is a tender study of two misfits who must survive in a blighted landscape that viewers over 40 remember well from their misspent youth. They are now eager to help one another, Ratzo to schedule Joe's increasingly successful stud service, and Joe to keep Ratzo healthy enough to one day leave for Florida. Joe kills a man and he and Ratzo must skip town. Joe is only mildly upset since he is sure that his prized ability to pleasure women can be duplicated in Florida too. But the bus ride to Florida proves that friendships are ephemeral, even those that blossomed late and thus more to be prized for their lateness. Joe learns what most viewers probably knew anyway: that friendships do power dreams but the fruition of those dreams ultimately reside in only one person at a time.
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Summary: the rotten apple
Review: i just recently watched this movie on dvd and it was absolutly superb.john voight and dustin hoffman show us the reality of life in new york if you have no money.new york can be a rotten apple
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Summary: I just don't get it
Review: So Voight, a rural cowboy, moves to the big city and meets Hoffman, a greasy conman. Immediately, I noticed that both gave great performances; they seemed to fit the parts like gloves. However, I don't know what it is, but I just didn't get this movie. Often interspersed with brief montages and flashbacks, be they drug-induced or not, the film can sometimes be pretty confusing. At some points, I had no idea where the plot was about to take me, which can be good sometimes, but to me, this film just seemed to have no sense of direction. The ending was kind of confusing; it's not a happy one by any means unless you consider his original goal of independence to be good.
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Summary: A Classic
Review: Great movie about a cowboy who comes to NYC and becomes Friends With a homeless man. I cant tell you much without spoiling it. The movie shows lifes harder side and has great performances by dustin hoffman and jon voight.
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Summary: One of my favorite movies of all time
Review: This DVD only makes a great movie even better. With heightened sound and definition you really appreciate the very moving scenes between the two very different, but still connected characters. Dustin Hoffman is wonderful in the role of Ratso Rizzo and the very baby faced Jon Voight is perfect as Joe Buck. This movie was one of my first "grown up" movies as a young adult and it made a lasting impact. A story of friendship, survival and true devotion . Filmed in my home town of N.Y. A must see!
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Summary: REDEMPTION FOR TWO MISGUIDED SEEKERS
Review: This movie is about two men, Joe Buck and Ratso Rizzo, searching for their version of Oz. Both men, one a naive "cowboy" from Texas, the other a crippled thief from New York, have their own vision of Oz which they believe will save them. Joe Buck's Oz is achieving fame, fortune, and attention through his super good looks, which he believes will land him in dozens of penthouses with lots of rich old women. Ratso's Oz is getting out of his condemned building and moving to Florida, where he will find tropical paradise, an eden in an America that has no place for poor cripples. It's heart-breaking to see the big X over the "window" of Ratso's condemned building, for Ratso and the abused Joe Buck have been X-ed from the American Dream, the life of opulence that surrounds them but which they can never really enter. In the end these misfits find redemption, not through the tawdry chimeras of success that America spawns, but from a deep, beautiful love they learn to share for each other. The evolution of Joe Buck from naive ersatz cowboy to substantive, empathic man is indeed tearful to watch but never sentimental.
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Summary: Broken dreams, moral bankruptcy.
Review: Midnight Cowboy is an unflinching look at dreams in a city of hopelessness, nightmares, and betrayal. A timeless setting, the focus in this film is of seedy New York life. The American Dream is hidden in this dark vision.Joe (Jon Voight) is a wannabe-hustler who works from the misconception that any hard work, even hustling, will be rewarded. Joe lands in New York a dreamer, but Eden soon disillusions him. He teams up with a sickly con man "Ratso" Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman), who is the antithesis of what Joe hopes to become-but they are matched complements. Eventually, the two go to an avant-garde party, ripe with possibilities, but Ratso just wants the free food--a missed opportunity is a lapse in the ability to survive. Dashing Joes's revived hopes of becoming a hustler, Ratso's illness takes a turn for the worse. Joe's true loyalty shows, but in his quest to help his friend, rage born of disillusionment is unleashed on a gay man, an act of desperation to ensure Ratso's survival. Alas, no dreams are to come true. An emotionally crushed and by-now-morally-bankrupt Joe is left with his dead friend, on a bus to Florida, to deal with what he has done and what he has become.
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Summary: One of the the all-time best
Review: Jon Voight's "Joe Buck" and Dustin Hoffman's "Ratso Rizzo" are two of film's most memorable characters and their performances in "Midnight Cowboy" are as good as it gets. Voight and Hoffman both deserved an "Oscar" for their work in this film and as a result "Midnight Cowboy" is an unforgetable movie experience. Don't miss this one!
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Summary: Beutiful and Charming
Review: What can I say? I love this movie. I have watched it so many times that I quit counting. I get something new from the movie each time I view it. The soundtrack is beutiful as well. Young or old, I encourage you to get this movie and make it a part of your life.
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