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if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Blistering performances.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Lovers of the 50s and Marilyn will be torn apart watching this movie, because on one hand it gives us the perfect homage to the innocence of emotion we are missing and longing for - the life of simple happiness when "everything was still ok." Yet there is a fly in the ointment because what initially was intended to display an idyllic world nowadays amounts to sheer naivety, so one watches distantly and with nihilism (as Berthold Brecht called it: "the (distant) smoking (analyzing) observer". Silently we are forced into a semi-depressed nihilism for not being able to easily dive anymore into this simple world of emotions.However, if one lets go of nostalgic sentimentalism there is a chance to get a lot out of this movie: We can see the stereotypes of the 50s, how personality trades were strictly split into gender-stereotypes: men being simply adored for being extrovert nutcases - we clearly can see how this in the 70s further developed into a big-mouth contest, where the loudest shouter was the one being admired regardless of what nonsense they disgorged; and on the other hand, women having taken on the counterpart of overly sensitive creatures which provide the "yin"- platform for the male "yang"-crazyness - and therewith escaping into their dream world (like a fish who escapes one from any grip) to the extend that there is no reliable sense left to what they spontaneously feel aloud.Unlike what another reviewer claimed, this movie was not (intentionally) sexist, but the consequence of an extreme split of male yang and female yin - so it's rather a stereotyping which suits the American cliché of a world with exciting new opportunities very well - only to having been proven not to have worked at all.So what can we learn when looking back to our parents and grandparents dreams? We can let go of clichés and stop shadow-hunting unrealistic idyllic worlds and accept that finding an imbalanced (either weak or crazy) counterpart will not make us whole, but that we better find completion within us before outsourcing our happiness to a partner who merely counteracts our own imbalances.The wiser we are, the more complete partners we will long for and attract; and the less we will be prone to contemporary cultural propaganda of short-lived "new" ways "being cool".

Just saw this Movie for the first time a few days ago. All the yelling gave me a headache. Marilyn looked bloated and unhealthy, especially in the bus when she sat down next to the younger Hope Lange who had a normal looking complexion. All that white makeup made her look like a ghost. After all the film is almost 60 years old. The culture has changed a lot. The boorish but likable hooligan is not exactly in vogue these days. Did I say likable. There's nothing likable about this cowboy. Its just too unbelievable even for 1957. In my opinion, the sweet last scene in this movie is not enough to save the painful 95% of the time taken up but the unbelievable over the top acting & lousy screen play. Sorry but I was not entertained.

The firs time i tried to watch Bus Stop, I switched it off because I did not see the Marilyn Monroe I had expected to see. Then recently, and for the first time, I watched Bus Stop all the way through and was amazed.It's clear that Marilyn was drawing on her own experiences in portraying Cherie, the put-upon saloon singer. But she also brought to the role an amazing portrayal the likes of which she had never before done, nor ever would again, which is the public's loss. She proved herself to be a real actress and while Don Murray was Oscar-nominated, Marilyn's work was ignored by the Academy, as it would be for the rest of her life.Watch Bus Stop and be amazed.

I've read that many people consider this to be Marilyn Monroe's best performance. Although I don't agree that it's her best, she certainly did a great job with what she had to work with. In fact, I think she is really the only reason to watch this disappointing film.The story is obviously dated, but even in 1957 it seems like it would have come across as ridiculous. The script is mediocre at best and doesn't offer enough lightheartedness for a comedy. Don Murray, whom I haven't seen in any other pictures that I can think of, is too loud and quite obnoxious; really causing a person to want to plug their ears rather than listen to him any longer. He yells throughout most of the picture and his character is simply to dim-witted to be believable.Overall I was really let down by this film. Don't see it unless you like absurd, dumb, not very funny comedies.