The Misfits (1961)

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

I really liked this movie. To me, it is about living a life because you think you are out of options - too old, too weak, too tired, or too lonely - and then realizing that you don't have to live that way anymore - that you can change, at least your actions.I found the cast stellar. Gable manages to portray a heart underneath a very hardened exterior of a cowboy beaten down by life in general but determined to go on ("I guess I'll just have to find another way to feel alive").Monroe makes you want to be her character - tender, caring and brave. But she is also lost in life, as are the others ("I guess all there is is the next thing...").The Misfits are supposed to refer to the horses, but clearly Miller intends that we see the characters are the true misfits with no place they feel they truly belong and no one they feel they truly belong to.It is a somber movie with some difficult wild animal scenes, but it is one of those that is going to stay with me. If your life is totally together and you never are lost or lonely, you may not appreciate what this movie has to offer.

The Misfits - A film that still come to the top of the great American films. Sure is a underrated movie, perhaps because it is the end of a movie career of Marilyn Monroe - who died in a short time - a little discredited at the time, because of his complicated life and aimlessly. But it is a great movie. Marylin has a perfect interpretation here, as the fragile Roslyn. Clark Gable also in late career (he would die shortly after the conclusion of the film), can give huge credibility to his character, a weary cowboy, no hope, no future. Eli Wallach, one of the greatest actors ever seen, has an extraordinary, unusual performance in his career. And Montgomery Clift manages to convey the anguish of a man who also walks to an uncertain, fragile and tormented future. Not enough this unusual group, we still have Thelma Ritter, possibly the greatest supporting actress in film history. Perfect and captivating. A photo in black and white is wonderful, perfectly suited to the film aims to show us. John Huston has here one of his good moments. The story is very good, with a screenplay by Arthur Miller and emotionally charged. The cast is impeccable as I said and the film has a touching end, where humans and nature are realizing that life is very simple. The man who complicates it. Worth watching The Misfits, and I mean even the day will come that he will be hailed as one of the greatest movies ever made

I would've given this movie a 10/10 but the reason is the ending. boy is it depressing. so the cowboys gay and Guido take down mustang (horses) and try to kill them that's my only complaint why I give it a 8/10 the acting is great and it has a great story I wont spoil it but all I can tell you is that gay and Guido want to go mustang along they meet Roslyn, and Isabelle funny to note that Monroe, and Ritter were in a movie together before maybe more no wonder that work out great and both died 1 (Marilyn) and 2 (Ritter) only a year apart its sad such great actresses to be honest I'd say check it out its great stuff for anyone even if they don't know Marilyn or love her to death like I do personally recommend but be warned the ending is sad

This movie is about despair. Despair at the passing of a way of life. Despair at disappointed hopes and dreams. Despair at the loss of a loved one, either through death, divorce or disinterest. Knowing that going in and if you don't mind downbeat films there are some really moving performances from a cast full of legends.Heavy with gloom there is still much too admire though Miller's prose is at times heavy and tending towards pretension. Marilyn's woozy sexuality coming through a haze of pills and booze at times still suits her character's searching and displaced loneliness. Clark Gable accepted his part after first choice Robert Mitchum passed. Mitchum would have been great of course and publicly stated he regretted not taking the role since he and Marilyn were longtime friends, before both were famous he had worked with her first husband, and he felt that around him she would have been able to pull herself together as she had on River of No Return. This was the end of the line for Gable and his weathered appearance and weariness actually suits the role better than Mitchum's ruggedness would have at that point. The film contains some of the best acting Clark ever did.Clift and his sad broken looks make a powerful impact and Wallach scores well too but the great Thelma Ritter is somewhat shortchanged since she disappears about halfway through the picture. Her astringent tartness would have been most welcome later in the film when the real heavy going takes place.