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Summary: Good movie, but too much like Armageddon
Review: if this apparently is Clint Eastwoods last film it was a good way to go out for the legendary actor. I liked the film, I liked the humor the way Eastwood and Jones were able to poke fun at their old age. This movie is also trying to send the message that older pepople are useful and they can accomplish great tasks that some young people can't accomplish. The end of this movie reminded me too much of Armageddon which is not a bad thing but it is almost like a copy how Tommy Lee Jones sacricficed his life to save earth, I saw that story 2 years ago, overall good film for Eastwood fans and movie fans in general.
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Summary: Only one word can describe this movie - BORING
Review: The only reason I can think of that other 1-star reviews get such low "was this review helpful" ratings is that mostly only people who like the movie read these reviews. Because this was one BAD MOVIE. It was HORRIBLY paced, moving slower than a dead turtle in molasses, then suddenly near the ends it shifts into a totally different pace, and it's almost as if it's a different movie. The last 25 minutes or so relate IN NO WAY to the rest of the movie, and it really makes you wonder "why the heck didn't I just skip to this part of the movie in the first place?" But even then, it's horribly done, and very hard to swallow. Not only that, but the characters are very unbelievable as well. And to top it off, the movie is filled with as many Hollywood cliches as possible.This truly is one of the most boring movies I've seen in years, and I'd advise you skip it and watch something more interesting, like the ceiling.
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Summary: Just plain ol' Okay..........
Review: I love Clint and Tommy Lee, but this was nothing like i thought it was going to be like. I thought it was to be a fun lighthearted film. One I was ready to see coming from these guys. BUT.........it was a drama with with a FEW light hearted clips.....the further along you got the more serious it got. The whole this disapointed me.....the last 20 mins. of the film was the best of the whole thing. It should of been a WHOLE lot better with a strong cast like this......I "expected" way more that i got.
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Summary: Extremely Great
Review: This is the best movie I have ever seen in my entire 54 years of reviewing movie's for a local newspaper.
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Summary: So far...but yet so near!?
Review: Right from the start where the voices didn't quite match the faces of the pilots I was weary. Things got worse. All the way though, I kept thinking the director wasn't up to the job. Compare the gung-honess of Armageddon with this? You can't, there wasn't any gung-honess. All the space action passed by without so much as a triumphant fanfare, or any cheering from mission control. It was just too loose. After and hour and forty-five minutes I grabbed the DVD box to see which director was responsible for ruining what should have been a cracker. Uh-oh, how could I have not known. It was Clint himself. Doh! Oh and after it was over I suddenly realised that I couldn't remember 1 note from the score. There might as well have not been one. Still there were 4 top notch actors to watch! Ho-hum...
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Summary: DVD is Missing Promised Extras
Review: The outside of the Space Cowboys DVD package (and Amazon's description) promises "4 Behind-the-Scenes Documentaries." The inside of the package lists them: 1) Back to the Ranch: On Location with the Cast and Crew 2) The Effects: Conversation with Visual Effects Supervisor Michae Owens, et al... 3) Tonight on Leno: Expanded version of the Tonight Show sequence. 4) Up Close with the Editor: Conversation with Joel Cox The DVD, however contains only two! 3 and 4! No interviews with Clint, no insight on the visual effects! Too bad. The movie is really great, but the promised extras are not all there :( The movie gets 5 stars, but the DVD only gets 3 stars.
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Summary: 4 Old guys still got it
Review: I like the story very much... Although dont make a low budget movie about space travel... Seems weightlessness is quite expensive and the producers decided that wasnt too necessary .hehe .. You'll know what I mean ... But all in all ..see this film ..
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Summary: Possibly the worst movie I have ever seen
Review: Watching "Space Cowboys" was like watching a train wreck happening in slow motion. I only sat through it by a perverse fascination with seeing how bad it could get. Seriously. This is really bad.
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Summary: Armageddon Strikes Again
Review: Clint Eastwood trying to save the world in outer space? Great! Or so I thought until watching this movie. While the movie was pretty entertaining with some good acting and special effects, it truly lacked many things that make different movies original and good. When I first sat down to watch this seemingly full blown space drama and action extravaganza, I was thinking: Excellent! It's the next Apollo 13! Don't get me wrong, it was a good script, right up until the part where it ceased to be Apollo 13 and slid into becoming more like the Hollywood blowout, Armageddon. There were indeed many accurate belivable parts of the movie, and some not so believable parts. The storyline starts out with a flashback of 1958 when Clint Eastwood and the boys were young, flying supersonic planes as test pilots. All of them were beaten away of their dreams of going into space by the rise of the National Areonautics and Space Administration (NASA). Forty years down the road, NASA wants Frank Corvin (Eastwood) to help them send a falling Russian satalite back into geosincronous orbit around the earth. Eventually they strike up a deal where the original four person test pilot team gets to go into space-- mainly because of Frank's expertice in the satalite's design (his design) and the short amount of time they have before the satalite re-enters the earth's atmosphere. Pending tough physical training, they eventually do get to go into space and attempt to fix the satalite (really old test pilots this time in liu of oil drillers). When they make it into space though, they learn that the mission the're on is not all it's cracked up to be, for a few interesting reasons... To summarize, in light of the low character developement and a few over used Hollywood scenarios, it was an okay movie. I recommend this movie to: Anyone who liked Armageddon, anyone who liked Apollo 13, or anyone who wants to see Clint Eastwood go into space (he's still a great actor!).
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Summary: 3 1/2 - 4 star movie, fun, some beautiful scenes weak ending
Review: I'd have more to say against this movie if I thought it had been meant to be taken seriously. Most of the old guy stuff was all right although "He's dead now" seemed to come up pretty often. I kind of liked the way these guys didn't rely on computers to get things done, cheated on eye exams, lots of other details. They had a lot of help from NASA and it shows everywhere, that combined with ILM space scenery made this movie really something to watch. I had wondered how an American could repair an old Soviet satellite, turns out the KGB stole his design work. The Russian satellite was the worst part of the movie, big as MIR or SKYLAB and we didn't know about it or the nukes in it? I could accept the young hothead doing things his own way on repairs and almost getting them all killed but I'd think that beating would kill a shuttle, not just cripple it. I also question the ability of a 40 year out of date pilot with little training being able to land the barely functional thing.Tommy Lee Jones riding the nukes to the moon to get rid of them was very noble, having enough air to get there is left unexplained.
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