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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community May 18, 2003
Pros: Great Music
Cons: Very Predictable
Summary: The goal for this weekend is obviously a walk down Movies' Memory Lane for me. It can be interesting to look back and remember the feelings that certain films invoked at the height of their popularity. And now, today, to watch them with a more ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 22, 2013
Pros: Good acting. Many memorable scenes. Unique at the time it was made.
Cons: Overly dramatic at times. Bar scene overload.
Summary: The film Urban Cowboy had a big impact on pop culture when it was released in 1980. Perhaps because it was a love drama set amidst a working-class bar scene that many people could relate to? I even remember seeing new honky-tonk bars even in my ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 17, 2007
Pros: authentic, gritty, realism, focus on the working class
Cons: too many songs, abrupt ending
Summary: Urban Cowboy (1980) is not that great of a film from an objective standpoint but since I have been a Houstonian nearly all of my life and my first new job after college graduation was in Pasadena I find the film fascinating. The movie is not just ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 6, 2007
Pros: cool, authentic, operatic
Cons: requires an attention span
Summary: I'm surprised that, with all of the 80s remakes and this decade's attempts to bring back the Marlboro Man, nobody has touched Urban Cowboy, a film that might have been written off as Saturday Night Fever set in Texas, but which turned out to be a fairly ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 15, 2004
Pros: good soundtrack, easy to follow, fun to watch.
Cons: movie seems to forgive physical abuse of women, which is inexusable
Summary: I was only 9 years old when this movie was brand new in theaters so I never really understood the craze at the time. However, I watched it for the first time at about age 24 and really understood. The plot revolves mostly around Gilley's, a Honky-Tonk ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 9, 2000
Pros: John Travolta, Debra Winger, mechanical bull, music
Cons: none
Summary: This is one of my all time favorite movies. Great music, great dancing, great actors, great romance, what more can one ask for?????
Down on his luck, John Travolta AKA, BUD, moves to a new town with his relatives and finds fun times as well ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 13, 2000
Pros: Good music and performances
Cons: Rather trendy
Summary: "Urban Cowboy" basically began a craze in country/western music, country/western bars/mechanical bulls/ and several country/western dances. Gilley's Country/Western Bar became famous and this genre of bars were very popular for several years. ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 23, 2000
Pros: Scott Glenn's muscles!
Cons: Travolta's bad southern accent
Summary: This was the 1st in the trifecta of my midnight movie marathon this weekend. I'd seen this movie several times, once in the theater and then several times since then. Since I watched it this time on TBS, there was the inevitable bad dubbing of ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 13, 2000
Pros: The acting and soundtrack
Cons: The plot is too predictable
Summary: This movie is indeed heavy on the music, but I can't imagine anyone else playing the two lead roles. John Travolta plays a young man who comes to a town in Texas to work in a refinery for the money, living with his aunt and uncle until he gets married ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 19, 1999
Pros: A really good movie to watch with your main squeeze
Cons: Domestic Violence
Summary: This has got to be one of my favorite movies of all times. It is an exemplementary piece of 80s nostalgia. John Travolta and Debra Winger make a really good couple in this movie.
It starts out in the era of the ... read more
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Bud leaves his small town Texas home to seek a higher paying job near Houston, TX in the drama, Urban Cowboy. Bud, played by John Travolta, plans to w...
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