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Truly the worst movie I've ever seen in a theater

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Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

The cowboy Bud Davis (John Travolta) moves from his homeland of Spur to Houston to work with his Uncle Bob (Narry Corbon) in a refinery. During the night, they go to the Gilley's Club where Bob introduces his nephew to his friends. Bud meets Sissy (Debra Winger) at the club and soon they fall in love with each other and get married. Sissy is an independent working girl and Bud is a male chauvinist that believes in the traditional role of the wife, cooking, ironing and making love. When Gilley's buys a mechanical bull for the clients, Bud likes to ride it and does not allow Sisy to ride. However she goes to the club in the afternoon and the ex-convict and operator of the bull Wes Hightower (Scott Glenn) teaches her how to ride. When Bud learns that Sissy lied to him, Bud becomes jealous and has a love affair with the wealthy Pam (Madolyn Smith) and Sissy goes to Wes' trailer. Along the days, they fight each other and try to make the other jealous. When Gilley's announces a mechanical bull's dispute, Bud wants to win Wes. Will he succeed? "Urban Cowboy" is a silly film with unlikable and immature characters. Bud Davis is an unbearable character and Sissy is immature and fool. But the music score and the dances are highly entertaining. In addition, it is delightful to see Debra Winger very young. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "Cowboy do Asfalto" ("Asphalt Cowboy")

Hey anyone out there like me? I grew up in Houston during the 80s and 90s but I have never, ever seen this movie all the way through. So I don't have a full review of this film since I haven't completely seen it, but I caught half of it recently on the Country Music Channel and I wanted to review the zeitgeist or vibe this movie represents, especially in relation to Houston. Plus over the years, I always had to put up with out of town visitors that would come visit me in Houston expecting a little small metro area and the fun times we all had were at a local bar/tavern with a freakin' mechanical bull.Actually I moved to Houston from the Midwest when I was 6 years old in 1982, so this movie came out when I was still living up the north but I consider myself a Houstonian. So yeah I can't say if Houston was actually like this movie in 1980, but I can tell you I was in Houston in 1982 and while H-town was more country in the early 80s compared to the late 80s and 90s and after, it still was over exaggerated. I've seen parts of it here and there, and Debra Winger and that other brunette are hot, but this just wasn't my type of movie other then the setting was in Houston the city I mainly grew up in.I always avoided this movie, even as a little kid b/c I knew the national perception of Houston was that we were a honky tonk town and that EVERYONE was some damn mechanical bull riding wannabee cowboy. I recently caught half of the movie (still haven't seen it all the way through) and I heard them call the characters "kickers". So that's where that term comes from!!! When I was a kid in the 80s and in high school in the 90s, there was always a clique of country/redneck types that wore cowboy outfits and they would call themselves "kickers". I had friends in Dallas who would tell me in Dallas they would call themselves "ropers". I like the name "kickers" better myself. Although you could definitely pick up an underlying racist/white trash element to these people, usually they didn't blast it. They weren't going to yell out racial slurs or beat up on anyone who wasn't white, but you could easily pick up the racial discord and big government resentment within these folks. The kickers I knew as a kid (and their parents) tended to be "honorable bigots" if you knew what I mean. They were bigots who had their own honor code, like sort of a more modern version of the "I ain't got nothing' against them, as long as they stay where they supposed to be". Overall, they were actually nice people despite this hee-haw honorable country bigot mentality.I think I might just finally get the Blu-ray/DVD or just order this movie on Netflix and see it all the way through, H-town stereotypes and all.

This is a highly underrated movie. It has a decent plot, exceptional acting by John Travolta, Debra Winger, Scott Glenn, and supporting cast, and toe tapping pop country music throughout. Although the emphasis on mechanical bull riding is a little silly, the main characters are plausible in their motivations, their jealosies, and in the end, their abiding love for each other. The popularity of the movie to a wide section of America is proof that it is more than just a movie appealing "country" or "redneck" types. There's something about Debra Winger - her change of moods, her expressiveness, her vulnerability - where you just can't take your eyes off her when she is on camera. And the movie is downright fun with the Charlie Daniels Band, Travolta's Texas 2 step dancing scenes, and mechanical bull riding contests. There's no deep message to this movie, but it has a certain simple honesty about it, and it'll entertain you for its 2-hour duration.

I was the only person in Texas that did NOT want to and did not go to see this movie. I was also the only person in Texas to never own this soundtrack. I was not then nor ever have been a fan of country music or dancing. That said, I have since seen the movie many times. I is as stupid as I thought it would be, but somehow I end up watching it every time the satellite dish finds it. It makes one ashamed to be from Texas because of how stupid the cast sounds trying to be one of us, but in all honesty, that is about as true a depiction of life in Texas at that time as there ever was. Sadly, the cast members that actually were locals, were the worst impersonators of Texans in the whole show. Let's face it, in real life, Pam and her money would have won, period. It is, if nothing else, true to the times.