I don't get Midnight Cowboy (spoilers)

How about The Boys in Company C (1978)?

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Sure. First I’ll need some butter…

Midnight Cowboy is a silly mess with a couple of decent performances buried in it.

Apocalypse Now is a brilliantly mounted pro-war opera.

Both movies have these things in common: overreaching mishmashes with pretensions to artistic grandeur.