Urban Cowboy
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Movie Reviews of Urban Cowboy
Movie Review: Travolta plays a believable Texan
Summary: 4 Stars
People from any demographic group HATE it when they are played by someone in a movie or television show who is NOT from that group - and does it poorly. Southerners cringe listening to Cary Elwes attempting to convert his British accent to Texan.
John Travolta - young, handsome, talented and from an Italian-Irish Catholic family in New Jersey - was BORN to play Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever, and was rewarded with an Academy Award nomination at age 24.
He was not as obvious a choice to play a good ol' boy on the outskirts of Houston named Bud. But by golly, he does it. His inflection and phrasing would work in any honky-tonk from El Paso to Chesapeake. His body language is just right, from the way he carries a long-neck beer to the way he hooks his thumb inside his belt. He even wears his cowboy hat correctly - pulled down to his eyebrows rather than exposing his forehead.
The story is no great shakes - basically a cowboy remake of "Fever", with a mechanical bull-riding contest substituting for the dancing. Debra Winger is great as Sissy, Bud's love interest - feisty and sexy. Supporting roles are performed with gusto by Barry Corbin as Bud's Uncle Bob and Scott Glenn as a mechanical bull-riding rival and former convict.
There have been other "Yankees" who have brought a Southern character vividly to life (Olympia Dukakis comes to mind...) but any time I see someone try - but fail - to play a southerner, I always think of Travolta in this movie, and think that it couldn't have been easy. Well done, Sir.
Movie Review: Yeeee Haaaawwww!!!
Summary: 4 Stars
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.
Movie Review: Great Movie, Remember the 80's and my boots
Summary: 4 Stars
Urban Cowboy is a great movie. I was in college when it came out and had always worn jeans and boots and enjoyed going out, but more and more people did the same thing after seeing this movie.
My favorite line in the movie is Bud to Sissy at the end of the movie when he is trying to get her back from the convict who is robbing Gilley's "I want to apologize to you clear back, to the first time I hit you."
I don't know why, but that just cracks me up. They are destined to be together and I'm glad they reunite.
And finally, was there ever a woman more beautiful in jeans and a top than Madolyn Smith? I know she's not the lead, but she is stunning with her long thick hair, tan skin and dimpled chin. I've always thought she was one of the most beautiful actresses. She deserved more and better scripts.
Great for a blast from the past and the unexpected Boz Scaggs song.
Movie Review: I knew it
Summary: 4 Stars
I came to this site to find the alternate versions of this movie. Granted I was like 7 when I saw it, but I KNEW there were scenes that are not in the tv or new dvd version. Thank you, Connie.
I remember the "dating" sequences, I think Bud did some rope tricks. I also remember that when his Mother called the day after he arrived in Houston, that after he explained why he didn't have a job yet, there was some dialogue about the vegetables she sent to Aunt Corrine. And, after Sissy road the bull, when bud sent her in the kitchen after a beer she bent down and checked for bruises - hence when she later reports to Jessie that she had bruises on her a$$.
That being said, Urban Cowboy is one of my favorite movies - in my adult eyes I see the "cheese" but I still love it. If you really want some laughs watch it in French.
Movie Review: Urban Cowboy
Summary: 4 Stars
#3 in Travolta's trilogy of blockbusters. He dances to disco, rock 'n' roll and country. He heads to Houston to find work and love. Gilley's is the hot spot, and it is the time of the mechanical bull. Not to be outdone, I rode the bull at a club in Nashville. I saw this nearly forgotten film on television and remembered how good it was and what a good period it was in my own life. I wore a black cowboy hat like Travolta. Debra Winger was in her prime. She is sexy in her red top, and there is plenty of chemistry. Bud and Sissy are the ideal couple even if they are trailer trash. They split up just because it feels so good getting back together. The film has good music, Looking For Love by Johnny Lee.