Urban Cowboy | | Cast : | John Travolta, Debra Winger | | Director : | James Bridges | | Studio : | Paramount Home Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | June 06, 1980 | | DVD Released Date : | October 08, 2002 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
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| Rating |  | | Date | August 02, 2005 | | Summary | FANTASTIC | Content
 | I would recommend this movie especially if you are a fan of John Travolta or Debbie Winger. It'll make you cry, and laugh at the same time. It also has believable scenes of things that happen in real life to people. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 22, 2005 | | Summary | Stupid movie | Content
| How anybody other than rednecks would willingly admit to
being able to relate to this movie I would not know. Why?
Everybody in the movie are ignorant @ssholes just like
alot of the rednecks I've met in my life. No doubt the
characters play the roles to a T.... However, it's lame
and it started off a lame decade.
First of all, a real cowboy would actually be riding real
horses and such and not machines. This started the fantasy
land plastic cowboy that still plagues alot of the so
called cowboys nowdays. Just look at "country music" for
example and you should see what I mean.
The movie stars John Travolta as "Bud Davis" that is really
ignorant and and likes to hit woman and has a big fear of
a woman doing anything better than him. It also stars Debra
Winger as "Sissy" who seems to like to flirt and act like
she is innocent. The rest of the cast is pretty much no
namers with the exception of Scott Glenn, who is actually
a respectable actor in alot of his other films.
Why does this movie suck so bad?
1.It has Mickey Gilkey turning B.B Kings "Stand By Me"
into a pathetic pop country sound without any soul.
2.It's laughable everytime they try pass a mechanical
bull rider off as a real cowboy. Sorry! Real cowboys
ride the REAL animals.
3.It's just cheesy. The characters are cheeseballs.
4.Bud just goes out and cheats on her and she accepts
him back after he confesses to her that he still loves
her. RIIIGGGGHHHTT! It's real believeable!
5.Scott Glenn is just stale. How any woman would even
consider getting with a character like him is just
doesn't make alot of sense. He is a personalityless
bore of a man that has crook written all over him.
Simply put, this movie killed cowboys as far as main
stream goes. It created too many wannabes and posers
and it's still this way even now. The mainstream cow
boy has been dead since this movie came out.
In the 70's you could see Waylon Jennings as a cowboy,
but who is the cowboy now? Tim McGraw? Kenny Chesney?
Please!
The thing is that I'm not a fan of 99.9999% of country,
but I know fakes when I see them... That's what most
of the "modern" cowboys are, and that is what this movie
really is aswell... A fake poser with decent acting. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 01, 2005 | | Summary | Pure Guilty Pleasure | Content
| Although many folks laught this flick off, I have to admit that I am extremely fond of "Urban Cowboy." My wife and I watch it just about every time it comes on television. Granted, Bud slaps around Sissy and that may turn off some folks, but deep inside, there is more love between those characters than most of the couples in film and television these days.
With a giant honky-tonk as the primary setting, you get the expected rowdy crowds and rambunctious country music needed to set the stage. The entire story revolves around the trials and tribulations of a young couple brought together by the bull...mechanical bull that is, and how they're almost torn apart by it. They get "Bud" and "Sissy" license plates for Bud's truck. They are ecstatic over a new trailer house. They are pure white trash, and I love'em for it. Colorful characters such as Bud's aunt and uncle, Gator, the ex-con Wes, Jessie, Mickey Gilley and even the Charlie Daniel's Band make for a great movie. You couldn't make a film about a honky-tonk these days with characters like that. First of all, you'd anger someone for making the working man look like an idiot. Secondly, people will scream about spousal abuse. Lastly, there aren't many real country stars like they had back in those days. Can you imagine Tim McGraw onstage with back hair coming out of his vest instead of the incomparable Johnny Lee? I think not.
Others say the acting is bad, that may be, but it is so bad that it is wonderful to see on screen. Travolta's bathtub scene where he fusses at Sissy(Debra Winger) for not being home when he needs her is just hilarious. Winger is at her sexiest as the somewhat tomboyish Sissy. She's probably the main reason I watch this movie over and over. When Bud's aunt enters the Dolly Parton lookalike contest, her entire character becomes the focus of the film for a few brief, funny moments. Barry Corbin was perfectly cast as Bud's well-meaning uncle. You couldn't have picked a better cast.
Also, the characters are real. Admit it, you've seen a drunk guy at the local bar fall off of his barstool. In this movie, Gator just happens to fall off of a mechanical bull. There are always one or two fights at the bar. Also, I've seen plenty of angry drunks at the local Pitt Grill(an after-honky-tonk hangout with a great breakfast buffett at 3AM) throw fits like Bud did when Sissy gets a hat tipped to her by Wes.
Watch this movie for the time trip it is. It's a perfect rainy-day, holdin' you're better half type of movie. Add it to your collection now. |
| Rating | | | Date | January 21, 2005 | | Summary | I was Marshallene Mitchell in Urban Cowboy | Content
| I played the role of Marshallene in "Urban Cowboy" and so to answer one of your reviewers, what was Sissy's last name? well here is the way it was. We didn't have last names; at least not assigned to us when we got our scripts. I actually made mine up when I needed one quickly in the Dolly Parton Look-a-like contest. You might recall that Marshallene was caught in the trailer with Wes, the convict. This film is such a "cult favorite" that it plays every day somewhere;my residuals attest to the fact that this film is loved by many. It made a fashion statement, (people went out and bought jeans and hats and boot and belts) it gave a boost to the Club business - where more and more C/W clubs sprang up all over the country and Canada. I had a motor coach bus and opened shows for Mickey Gilley and Johnny Lee and others for about 8 years - well into the late 80's. It was a magical time for all of us! It was a fun time for me and for fans. This movie is legendary and will last well beyond. Hope you enjoy viewing it as much as I enjoyed playing in it.By the way, there are a lot of versions of it. The edited for TV version actually is so different - (I have several more scenes in it) - and it shows Sissy and Bud actually"dating" before they got married. The scenes were shot on location on the grass of Buffalo Bayou in Houston, Texas. I actually like that version because the original had them meeting one night at Gilley's and getting married the next afternoon!!!Connie Hanson |
| Rating | | | Date | September 07, 2004 | | Summary | Yeeee Haaaawwww!!! | Content
| Folks, you can almost smell the trailer park as you watch this movie!
For some reason, I am drawn to this film--and I have no idea why. A post-Saturday Night Fever John Travolta plays Bud Davis, a self-proclaimed cowboy who temporarily relocates to the Houston suburbs to get a job and earn enough enough money to "...buy myself a piece of land." His uncle, played by the wonderful character actor, Barry Corbin, introduces Bud to the redneck version of nightlife--as epitomized by the huge C&W nightclub called Gilley's (3 1/2 acres in size!). While there, he meets the cute Sissy, played by Debra Winger, to whom he proposes on their first "date." Her ecstatic reaction to their new home (a trailer) is absolutely hilarious. You'd think they'd just bought a condo in Manhattan.
Things don't go well in the marriage and they quickly separate--with the gorgeous Madolyn Smith-Osborne taking a shine to the unsophisticated cowboy and Scott Glenn, as a bull-riding ex-convict, shacking up with Winger. Throw in a mechanical bull-riding contest with a grand prize of (gasp!) $5,000 and you pretty much have the whole story.
In the end, love triumphs to send Travolta and Winger galloping off into the sunset together.
Oh, as an aside, I would mention that Gilley's, a real-life nightlife cowboy hot spot, burned to the ground under mysterious circumstances a few years after it was featured in the movie. Insurance fraud by arson was suspected, but I don't know if Mickey Gilley ever wound up behind bars as a result. |
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