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Summary: The Best Movie Ever
Review: John Travolta and Debra Winger were great in this movie. A fantastic couple to play the parts they played in this movie. It was just a awesome cowboy movie. A kool love story and great music. I give it 2 thumbs up! It was greattttttttttt!
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Summary: A Slice of Real Southern Life
Review: John Travolta's performance in Urban Cowboy is truly amazing. Being from Oklahoma, and in the music business, it is easy to see that this production was right on the mark. I have known many Bud's and Sissy's and I am amazed at the realism of this movie. I have played in many honky-tonk bands since the early 80's and this is one of the the most believable scenerios I have witnessed on screen. I have seen it all; jealous husbands fistfighting with other men, wives dancing with other men to make thier husbands jealous, drunk "cowboys" riding the mechanical bulls, it is all here in this movie. Urban Cowbow changed many things in the honky-tonks and most of it was for the best. This movie shows a slice of true life that us Okies and Texans and other Southern peoples may choose to live if we want. I've seen this movie many times and will see it many more. Give me a twelve-pack and Urban Cowboy in the VCR and I feel like I'm right there at Gilley's with the rest of them. My Stetson is off to John Travoltla and the rest of the cast on this one.
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Summary: A cowboy's must
Review: John Travolta,who became famous for his role of Vinnie Barbarino on the ABC sitcom "Welcome Back Kotter",had two prior megahit starring films,"Saturday Night Fever" and "Grease". In his third megahit,this film,he is Beauford Uan "Bud" Davis,an URBAN COWBOY who moves to Houston from Spur,a small Houston suburb. He lands a job at an oil refinery where his uncle Bob works. Debra Winger is Sissy,who Bud met at Gilley's,the real-life Pasadena,TX honky tonk. Bud and Sissy fall in love and get married at the hot nightspot. Scott Glenn is Wes Hightower,a paroled convict who steals Sissy's heart and keeps it while she and Bud are separated and nearly divorce. Madolyn Smith in her debut,at least on the big screen,is Pam who is Bud's girlfriend during the separation. Country singer Mickey Gilley owns the nightspot with Sherwood Cryer(both appear as themselves in the film). In addition to Gilley,country artists appearing in the film are Bonnie Raitt,Johnny Lee and The Charlie Daniels Band. All four artists have contributed to the soundtrack album. This film was directed by the late James Bridges,whose prior films include SEPTEMBER 30,1955 and THE CHINA SYNDROME. Bridges subsequently directed MIKE'S MURDER also starring Winger,PERFECT,also starring Travolta,and BRIGHT LIGHTS,BIG CITY starring Michael J. Fox. Sadly,Gilley's was burned down in 1989 by a kitchen fire and was later re-christened as Gilley's Mechanical Bull & Nightclub. Travolta would have no megahit films following this one until 1989's LOOK WHO'S TALKING. He won an Oscar for his role in 1994's PULP FICTION and is still going strong in Hollywood today.
Rating:
Summary: A cowboy's must
Review: John Travolta,who became famous for his role of Vinnie Barbarino on the ABC sitcom "Welcome Back Kotter",had two prior megahit starring films,"Saturday Night Fever" and "Grease". In his third megahit,this film,he is Beauford Uan "Bud" Davis,an URBAN COWBOY who moves to Houston from Spur,a small Houston suburb. He lands a job at an oil refinery where his uncle Bob works. Debra Winger is Sissy,who Bud met at Gilley's,the real-life Pasadena,TX honky tonk. Bud and Sissy fall in love and get married at the hot nightspot. Scott Glenn is Wes Hightower,a paroled convict who steals Sissy's heart and keeps it while she and Bud are separated and nearly divorce. Madolyn Smith in her debut,at least on the big screen,is Pam who is Bud's girlfriend during the separation. Country singer Mickey Gilley owns the nightspot with Sherwood Cryer(both appear as themselves in the film). In addition to Gilley,country artists appearing in the film are Bonnie Raitt,Johnny Lee and The Charlie Daniels Band. All four artists have contributed to the soundtrack album. This film was directed by the late James Bridges,whose prior films include SEPTEMBER 30,1955 and THE CHINA SYNDROME. Bridges subsequently directed MIKE'S MURDER also starring Winger,PERFECT,also starring Travolta,and BRIGHT LIGHTS,BIG CITY starring Michael J. Fox. Sadly,Gilley's was burned down in 1989 by a kitchen fire and was later re-christened as Gilley's Mechanical Bull & Nightclub. Travolta would have no megahit films following this one until 1989's LOOK WHO'S TALKING. He won an Oscar for his role in 1994's PULP FICTION and is still going strong in Hollywood today.
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Summary: Corny as hell but ive seen alot worse
Review: Mechanical bull LOL hehe Mechanical bull
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Summary: Urban cowboy
Review: Not yet released on DVD ,hopefully soon. This movies is something
you can watch over and over and not get tired of, at least for me
anyways. I have this movie on vhs look forward to the dvd, so when nothing is on the tube just throw in a familiar film. Its a movie that you can relate to not one of those far fetched flicks.
call me old fashion I would still have to give this movie a 5
star rating,even if it is a couple 3..4..5..years old. Hope you can enjoy it like I did.
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Summary: a very powerful movie
Review: Of all the movies i have seen, this one most accurately depicts the trials and tribulations of married life, although set in Texas with a country setting, it tells the honest truth about love and marriage and the passion to succeed and win the respect of your spouse, a truly great film and probably John Travolta's best performances ever.
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Summary: the best one of his oldies
Review: out of all john travolta's old time movies THIS ONE IS THE BEST. he plays much better as a dancing cowboy than a cool cat freak. grease and saturday night fever were the two worst movies i have ever seen. urban cowboy was terrific.
Rating: 
Summary: Cotton-Eyed Blow
Review: Running across this movie while channel surfing the other day brought back a flood of memories.All of them bad. Who can forget the "Urban Cowboy" craze shortly after this movie came out? Drugstore cowboys in redneck country are bad enough, but once John Travolta hit the silver screen spitting chaw and scootin' a boot we saw city slickers from Manhattan to Medford putting on Stetsons and Tony Lamas--cowboy wannabes who couldn't two-step with the aid of a cattle prod. And for what? How could the film URBAN COWBOY inspire anything, other than indigestion? Travolta and Debra Winger as "Bud and Sissy" (smile when ya say them names, pardner) are immature, self-absorbed, shallow, one-dimensional nitwits who tend to "look for love in all the wrong places" while they spend all their spare time at Gilley's "three acres of concrete prairie" and fight over which one is better riding a mechanical bull. And while we're at it, let's throw in a Southwestern twang that makes Junior Samples sound like a Rhodes scholar. "You a real cowboy, ain't ya?" Feel free to overlook the boy-meets-girl-loses-girl-gets-girl-back plot; URBAN COWBOY is bad: bad acting, unlikeable characters, mind-numbing music, laughable haircuts. At least Scott Glenn, playing a seedy ex-con, is consistent--consistently bad. He can drain the worm from a bottle of tequila and still last eight seconds on the mechanical bull. Now that's a real cowboy. Yee doggies.
--D. Mikels
Rating:
Summary: Cotton-Eyed Blow
Review: Running across this movie while channel surfing the other day brought back a flood of memories. All of them bad. Who can forget the "Urban Cowboy" craze shortly after this movie came out? Drugstore cowboys in redneck country are bad enough, but once John Travolta hit the silver screen spitting chaw and scootin' a boot we saw city slickers from Manhattan to Medford putting on Stetsons and Tony Lamas--cowboy wannabes who couldn't two-step with the aid of a cattle prod. And for what? How could the film URBAN COWBOY inspire anything, other than indigestion? Travolta and Debra Winger as "Bud and Sissy" (smile when ya say them names, pardner) are immature, self-absorbed, shallow, one-dimensional nitwits who tend to "look for love in all the wrong places" while they spend all their spare time at Gilley's "three acres of concrete prairie" and fight over which one is better riding a mechanical bull. And while we're at it, let's throw in a Southwestern twang that makes Junior Samples sound like a Rhodes scholar. "You a real cowboy, ain't ya?" Feel free to overlook the boy-meets-girl-loses-girl-gets-girl-back plot; URBAN COWBOY is bad: bad acting, unlikeable characters, mind-numbing music, laughable haircuts. At least Scott Glenn, playing a seedy ex-con, is consistent--consistently bad. He can drain the worm from a bottle of tequila and still last eight seconds on the mechanical bull. Now that's a real cowboy. Yee doggies.
--D. Mikels
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