Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

They meet in a abnormal situation,so from the beginning they live out of the society.Their live swing on the items they had today.Everything has changed so they have to cling to it to be alive in this town.

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.

Midnight Cowboy is a film where the individual parts are better and stand apart from the film as a whole. The performances from Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman are so masterful they almost exist apart from the message or overall story of this film. The cowboy and ratso bring so many unique elements that there is so much going on apart from the films plot. It is almost as if these two great performers were underused and maybe a deeper message or messages could be delivered. On its own it's a decent film about the harsh realities of life in New York and the unlikely bonding of disparate characters who rely on each other for survival. While this great premise looked promising on paper the reality of it on the screen and the great performances made it bigger than what it was. It is as if Joe Buck and Ratso could take on a reality of their own that is independent from the films premise. The integrity and strength of these two characters could start a life of its own which cannot be contained by the films plot. I felt perhaps different direction and plot points could have done this film favors. We could have done without Joe Buck's flashbacks and had more screen time for the two. Perhaps the two could have undertaken a big scheme together that could have been driven by their unique chemistry as opposed to the thin pimp/cowboy escort premise.

Upon viewing this film for the first time, I had no idea what to expect, other than what I could glean from the title. What I got with Midnight Cowboy defied any preconceptions that I even could have had when going in. This movie is extremely dark and covers very adult subject matter, and the script does a fantastic job of giving these heavy topics the weight they deserve. The structure of the story lends itself well to the plot as well, with important information being revealed through flashbacks as the story in the present day progresses. The performances by both Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman are extremely good, and their interactions in key scenes can get very emotional. The film is also very well paced, with editing that knows when to let things breathe, lending a very grounded and natural feel to the movie. This story definitely stuck with me and I think it makes for an absolutely fantastic movie.