Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

When I see old Hollywood films that are supposed to be "the best," I tend to agree they are better than the usual Hollywood fare. But to say The Misfits is a great film would be misleading. It seems like an American attempt to be French, except the French can pull it off and Americans can't somehow, or at least couldn't in this case. Arthur Miller's preachy dialog and monologues are just hitting you over the head. The allegories, parallels, metaphors, symbols... are all too obvious, to the point of being annoying and making you roll your eyes. Monroe's acting is mediocre, though she is fascinating to watch. Wallach and Clift do a good job in general. Thelma Ritter, I would be brave enough to say, is the best actor in the film! Gable is just a caricature of a cowboy (and himself). Clift's and Monroe's ongoing substance abuse issues show through, which probably "helps" their acting, since they are supposed to be drunk throughout most of the film. The drastic character changes, especially for Gable's character, seem extremely forced. And of course, this being Hollywood and not a good French film, there is a happy ending! What?!?! No way should this film have a happy ending! But it does, go figure...Perhaps the most captivating scenes are when the men and Monroe go out mustanging (catching wild horses). These scenes with the horses, the struggle between man and nature, the struggle to make a living vs. being kind at the face of losing manliness and income... They are impressive and memorable. The film in the second half seems like an advertisement for PETA, Monroe being extremely upset at the men who are capturing the wild horses.I'd say watch it, if you must cover the "important" oldies or if you are a die hard fan of Monroe, Clift, Gable et al. But otherwise, those are 2 hours of your life you'll never get back...

I joke for sure as the name of the regretted Clark Gable is irrelevant actually. Anyway, I was very reluctant to watch this movie as I'm not really into cowboy genre. But I picked it as it was the last movie (released) with Marilyn. Honestly while I have seen only colored stills of this movie, I was disappointed to discover that the movie is finally in black and white. Now after the watching, I can say that the movie is a good one. Personally, I think that Marilyn was more and more beautiful as she got old and in addition she really shows her true split personality: a luminous, happy one and a dark, anguished one. This revelation finds surely its source in the fact that it was her husband writing the script: for those who know her biography, I think that a lot if her lines can be heard on two levels: the movie and their story: So pay attention when you will see that she speaks about her mother, of having a child, of drinking…Beyond Marilyn, the movie is also brilliant analyzing the change of time, the need to adapt and the extinction of old dinosaur. For that, Gable was really the man for the part and he is truly excellent. Sure I still don't have understood why Marilyn cares so much for animals and I found Wallach as irritating young as he was old but the movie is finally a good surprise with a lot of inspiration.

Yeah, I know....My review title is a nasty, but that's the way it goes. It's all 'cause I found this flick to be a major disappointment.The story is set in Reno, Nevada -The Divorce Capital of the USA.Roz (Monroe) is newly divorced, which explains her reason for being in Reno. (Why else would anyone want to go there?...Oh, yeah, Gambling) And in no less than 5 minutes (straight out of divorce court) Roz has already got 3 drunken, old buzzards (Gable, Clift, Wallach) sniffing and salivating around her like she was a prime piece of meat for them all to gobble up. Each one of these crusty, old vultures is hoping to be the one who gets to tear off the biggest chunk of Roz's lovely, lily-white flesh for his greedy, little self.What a sorry sight these 3 drooling, crotchety, old has-beens make. It's really revolting at times to watch the way they all clamor over Roz. Each one seems to believe himself to be a real prize. A prize that Roz couldn't possibly refuse.I know this sounds incredibly shallow, but this is pretty much the story-line of this movie. It doesn't really get any more involved than this.In a way these 3 crusty, old farts reminded me of a grotesque version of The 3 Stooges (Curly, Larry & Moe), but this time their punch-line is failing, miserably. Gable is, without a doubt, 'King-of-the-Grotesque-Ones' here. I really hated it when it turned out that this wrinkled, bow-legged creep was the one that sweet, young Roz chose to hump with. UGH! Gross-to-the-max!! I don't understand why 3 dashing, young cowboy-romeos couldn't have been chosen to fill the roles of Gable, Clift & Wallach. It certainly would've made this movie a lot easier to digest. And it would have explained why Roz continued to hang out with this bunch.The only time that this flick actually comes to life is in the last 1/2 hour. If you didn't think that these 3 smiling corpses (Gable, Clift & Wallach) were repulsive enough, they prove themselves to be even lower than dirt at this point.They head up into the mountains (with the unsuspecting Roz) and there they round up a family of 6 wild horses (including a magnificent stallion and a beautiful colt). And, why have they done this?? Well, get this!!! They trap these marvelous creatures to sell them at 15 cents a pound to some heartless animal-food manufacturer who'll slaughter them and then grind them up into dog food.Can you believe it???......And you wondered why I called this movie review "Meet the MisFARTS"!!???......Now you know why! What makes this movie worth the price of admission is Roz's realization that these 3 old dudes are in reality nothing but savage scoundrels, who would sell their own grandmother's dentures for a buck, if they could. Roz's response is excellent.But, unfortunately, a happy ending was tacked on to this film and I could no longer look at Roz as being above these 3 jerks. No way. The happy, crappy ending pretty much reduced sweet Roz to their lower-than-low level in no time flat.

I would've given this movie a 10/10 but the reason is the ending. boy is it depressing. so the cowboys gay and Guido take down mustang (horses) and try to kill them that's my only complaint why I give it a 8/10 the acting is great and it has a great story I wont spoil it but all I can tell you is that gay and Guido want to go mustang along they meet Roslyn, and Isabelle funny to note that Monroe, and Ritter were in a movie together before maybe more no wonder that work out great and both died 1 (Marilyn) and 2 (Ritter) only a year apart its sad such great actresses to be honest I'd say check it out its great stuff for anyone even if they don't know Marilyn or love her to death like I do personally recommend but be warned the ending is sad