Trying to watch, it's horrible so far
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InherentlyYours — 9 years ago(May 24, 2016 03:56 AM)
'Couldn't agree with you more. I enjoy many types of film, but I found Midnight Cowboy to be a real drag. A boring, nearly non-existent story featuring some weird and/or awful characters. Not my bag at all.'
Of course it's not your bag. The Midnight Cowboy didn't have an actual gun to play "shoot em' cowboy". You're absolutely right that's it isn't your bag. Do you even experience emotion in real life, or that not your bag also. -
balboa76 — 11 years ago(February 08, 2015 05:59 PM)
The OP doesn't like the Graduate either lol Midnight Cowboy and The Graduate are two of my all time favorite films, classics and I love to do a double dvd feature with them. The fact that he's 47 years old is surprising, I would have expected this kind of opinion from a kid watching Marvel super hero movies, but to each his own.
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InherentlyYours — 11 years ago(March 08, 2015 04:05 PM)
' also asked if you needed to be a New Yorker as well. Gawd'
you know, now I see why you couldn't get into the film. You are not mature enough; your comment above shows that (with your "gawd" and asking if you need to be a New Yorker). No, I am from MASS and I liked the film. It's not about demographics. -
somesunnyday — 9 years ago(June 21, 2016 04:59 AM)
I also asked if you needed to be a New Yorker as well. Gawd
I'm a female from Melbourne Australia and think this is one of the greatest films of all time. You either fall in love with it or not. Simple. In danger of sounding like a wanker, it's a character study. You either get enveloped in the characters or not. I can't understand people who don't though -
catdaddyd — 11 years ago(March 08, 2015 04:11 PM)
I did finish the movie, but still didn't care for it. Avatar is the highest grossing movie of all time, I've watched it once and dont care to see it again. Now Shawshank, Gump, Pulp Fiction and a few others I can watched almost anytime.
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ThereWillBeBeer — 11 years ago(February 17, 2015 05:34 AM)
Around 8 years ago a 25 year old female co-worker and I were discussing movies and I asked her if she had seen MC. She had never heard of it. I brought the DVD (25th Anniversery edition) to work the next day for her to take home and watch. I asked her daily if she had watched it, and after a week or so she said that she started to watch it but got bored after about 10 minutes and didn't watch any more. Some time later, she told me that her older brother was at her place and had seen the DVD and decided to watch it, and later told her it was 'the most stupid movie he had ever seen.' I think this guy was 27 or 28. No hope for these kids these days.
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InherentlyYours — 11 years ago(March 08, 2015 04:23 PM)
'I think this guy was 27 or 28. No hope for these kids these days.'
and 28 isn't even a kid.
This 28 yr man may have been put off by the male bonding and characterization. Then again, when we were 20-28, did we feel the same indifference about the films that preceded us by 40 yrs also? Tough call. -
janet-conant — 11 years ago(March 16, 2015 05:12 PM)
It still remains one of the finest films about human loneliness. I mean you find yourself laughing at Hoffman's antics and then almost weeping as he tells Voight "I can't walk anymore." I think we should find someone under 30 who actually likes this film. Maybe it's because this was amazing stuff in 1969 when we watched. My son who saw parts of this at 15 still recalls it. Like when Joe sits at a table in a cafeteria and a drugged woman is moving a fake mouse on a boy's head.
Now it would be PG-13.