Ryan McFarland

One of the trivia questions from last week’s bar trivia game was “Which of the following rated X movies won an Oscar?” Our team got it wrong but we decided to add the movie to our list of movies to watch. Midnight Cowboy was made in 1969 and received the X rating for the portrayal of sex (and perhaps drugs for the time). In 1971 the rating was changed to R but it won 3 Oscars in 1970. It stars Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman. Voight’s character, Joe Buck, moves from Texas to New York City thinking he can make a living as a male prostitute. He doesn’t. Along the way he ends up with Hoffman’s character, Rizzo. It is a pretty decent movie considering many older films don’t hold my attention well. It doesn’t glorify drug use (which is one of my most hated features of many modern movies). I will not ruin it other than to say i don’t think that bacon is in the movie at all and the ending is fairly nondescript.