Just perfect...

Brilliant and touching

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

I personally thought it was gonna be cool movie, but it was really harsh. This film is about a cowboy who wants to get "some" and get money for it, quite sick but acceptable. The unacceptable is that when that guys' times get hard, he starts to sell himself to boys, it's like he'll do everything for money. And it's very disturbing to see him do that, 'cause the guy is so positive and happy all the time, you can really relate to him, but hard to think he really is a disgusting fellow. It is also implied that he was raped once. A really confusing thing is that the music in the film is so happy, but movie itself is not- really confusing. Mabye it wanted to show the point of view of the cowboy, happy all the time. The warmest part is the friendship between the main characters, Cowboy and Ratso. Although they both didn't get along well in the beginning, but they ended up only having each other, quite emotional. The directing, editing and acting in this film is amazing, really influencal. This movie deserves R rating, if you can you should see it. It's very eye opening and very well made. It was quite disgusting, but overall a good movie.

Hadn't seen this in many years. How intelligent we once were!. This is unlike anything: flashbacks, flash-forwards, fantasies, reality, psychodelia, and underneath all of it is a very sentimental unpretentious touching tale of people needing each other. This is not an easy one to describe and even tougher to recommend. If you prefer movies that don't do all the work for you, this is the one. You can't watch Midnight Cowboy casually. It demands a lot on viewers. And in case you don't this already, this is not a western. Not even the West Side of Manhattan really. See this with someone with whom you want to share observations of humanity, not all pleasant ones, too.

The great thing about this film is that it was originally X Rated which is fascinating because everything in it is like and R rated film but obviously that wasn't a thing at the time. Anyway Jon Voight as Joe Buck is such a sad character as well as Dustin Hoffman as Ratso Rizzo. You get to see a man try and follow his heart and meet a man in the EXACT same situation only to see a slow and sad downfall.

I recently watched this flick after seeing a Decades TV show about Dustin Hoffman. Hoffman was just becoming famous in 1969 while I think Jon Voight was pretty unknown still. Ratso Rizzo (Hoffman) is a small time hustler of dubious means living in NYC. Joe Buck (Voight) is a small time dreamer from Texas who gets on a bus to make it big up north in NYC.Buck is a cowboy's cowboy, but he's not really a cowboy. He dresses up in shirts and hats and pants and boots, but he's all image. He wants to pass himself off to hustle women. He ends up with a lot more than he bargained for because he gets taken left and right by bigger hustlers after he gets to NYC. Rizzo ends up forming a loose friendship with him as they co-hustle small time deals left and right. Drugs, sex, and a little rock and roll punctuate their lives together. Rizzo dreams of leaving NYC it seems, dreaming of Florida of all places. They have an adventurous time in NYC and beyond.I felt the story fell somewhat flat in the final scenes. I kept wondering what the point was. It seemed that not a lot of substance was happening. They were stuck, which I guess was the point. When they deal with their own fates as life encircles them at the end, I felt that the Director tried to deliver a message that might have been better delivered. At that point, I thought maybe Joe Buck played too much of the cowboy character, and not enough of a real person. If he intends to change things, it would have helped make it more believable if his character didn't seem so clown-like at times.It was a good story, but depressing scenery of down and out NYC, with two losers trying to get their small pieces of the pie. Ratso, like a rat, trying to nibble every little bite he could out of life. Buck just riding the horse along for a good time, naive forever. Or is he? The story didn't give us enough to know.This film was worth watching for historical purposes. But I'm not sure it was worthy of Best Picture. Enjoy.