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Summary: Great cast
Review: What a great movie. I bought it because it's one that I can watch again and again. Donald Sutherland is really funny. Each one has their own personality and they all blend so well together. Definitely worth seeing.
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Summary: Rubbish Rubbish film
Review: "Rubbish, Rubish, Rubish Film, how i wonder how they made you, with Clint Eastwood acting rubbish. Rubbish Rubbish, Rubbish film ,how I wonder how they made you?"
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Summary: Rousing and heartwarming crowdpleaser
Review: Several years ago John Glenn was launched into space as the first senior citizen to do so. In doing so, NASA inadvertantly sent a message: being older doesn't mean being any less effective. It was a dynamite message to the world that anyone who'd seen a single episode of the Golden Girls or watched a single presidential speech by Ronald Reagan (our most senior president ever elected) could have told you. However, it is a message that continues to bear repeating.Space Cowboys takes the John Glenn trip one (or four) further. In the prologue,four early jet pilot/astronaut pioneers get a bum treatment at the hands of a government ladder climbing boss, and are effectively ousted from the space program. Flash forward forty years and our four early space pioneers are the not-so-young Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, James Garner and Donald Sutherland. NASA calls upon Clint to repair a communications satellite because he invented the computer boards which are on it - but how did NASA's technology get into a Soviet satellite? Slated to be advisory only, Eastwood manages to finagle his "team" on the space shuttle to repair the satellite. The film spends a great deal of time on the backstory and the training of these "geezers" as they prepare for space launch. It spends too little on the space adventure itself. I don't begrudge one minute of the backstory, but I wish more time had been spent on the adventure. It feels rushed when compare to the rest of the film. I won't divulge any of the excitement that takes place, but suffice it to say there is plenty. Eastwood directed this film and is credited with assisting in writing it as well. He's done a fine job. It is very refreshing to see American actors with wrinkles faces and bodies acting their age instead of pretending to be young studs in romantic comedies with young women. It's also refreshing to see these senior actors are (I'm assuming) plastic surgery free. The actors here show they are still viable and dynamic actors, because they command attention in any scene in which they appear. They don't ham it up, but you can certainly tell they were having fun when they made this film. I encourage you to see this film. You'll love the acting and you'll love the story.
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Summary: cute geezers, creaky plot, not convincing technically
Review: The cast is a dream, and they do pretty well playing crusty, larger than life space heroes 40 years later. Some of the special effects are pretty. And that's about what gets it 2 stars. But the plot and script are full of holes large enough to drive a Soyuz through. Just one -- it's inconceivable that this mission would be flown without a serious set of schematics for the "communication satellite" and probably a gaggle of Russian techies hanging around for reference. Instead, we have the one sinister Russki aparatchik with a secret. It all seems to be handled like a small discretionary fund project, instead of a novel, newsworthy Major Event. The thirty day buildup for a complex new mission would be hard to swallow using personnel already familiar with the STS systems, but to bring the old guys up to speed on all that's new since they were flying jets, while they're struggling to run laps, lift weights and .. oh yes, hang out in the local bars, get in fights and pick up chicks .. give me a break. And it doesn't, or shouldn't, require hindsight to doubt the realism of a Shuttle full of holes, with failing systems, bulling its way through the atmosphere to a seat of the pants landing by a backup pilot with maybe a couple of runs in the simulator. I've had some experience with how STS missions run, had small roles in very subsidiary control rooms and watched how both the major and the bit players work, and while excellent special effects give a feeling of verisimilitude to the scenes in space, the overall feel .. the people, the systems .. just does not have the Right Stuff. For a real gut-level realism, see "Apollo 13"
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Summary: Pleasant surprise.
Review: I just saw this movie and its been out, what a million years. OK, its about some guys that are even older than me going into space. This was a fun movie. I love clint and garner, but to me the actor that stole the movie was Jones. If you want to watch a movie that will make ya smile alot, go rent this one.
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Summary: ***1/2 out of *****
Review: One of the most popular films of 2000 is Clint Eastwood's SPACE COWBOYS, a hilarious epic about a group of retired astronauts who are re-assembled to take a decaying Russian satellite out of orbit. First of all, let me say that there was not one time I was bored throughout this film. It maintained by utmost attention from start to end - and why wouldn't it? It has a flawless cast that plays out each of their roles hilariously; another great job by Eastwood as director; an interesting script filled with laughs and questions; and... Do you really need more than that?! I highly recommend you watch SPACE COWBOYS as soon as you can. It's a great combination of fun and fantasy with one of the most perfect casts you'll ever see. OVERALL SCORE: ***1/2 (3.5) out of ***** (5) [Above Average]
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Summary: Not Bad Geriatric Stuff...
Review: Directed and Starring Clint Eastwood, this 'geriatrics in space tale' involves actors James Garner, Donald Sutherland, Tommy Lee Jones and Eastwood as would-be astronauts launching into space way past their prime. The film is aptly directed due to Eastwood's patience and class. Although not a highly original or edgy film, it does goes well beyond the barriers of a typical Disney-esque movie. The space scenes cinematography/computer graphics are well done and worthy of any good sci-fi picture. Of course, rounding out the cast with the likes of James Cromwell, William Devane and Marcia Gay Harden kinda helps too. Not quite as good as A Perfect World but still fun to watch. *** 1/2 stars.
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Summary: WOW
Review: I think this is the first time that I have ever fully agreed with a film critic and I agree with the one on this site about this movie. I can't get enough of this movie anytime it is on cable I forgo watching a new movie to watch this one. I am only 37 years old but give me a movie with real stars over the newer movies with young actors anyday. With what our space program going through what it has recently this movie allows you to see albeit make believe, what our astronauts risk their lives for.
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Summary: Simply a cool movie
Review: i like the movies about space.
and the idea of actually (more or less) experiencing what astronauts do on their way to and back from space, let me buy this movie. just the launch scene gives me goosebumps every time i see it. its such an powerful happening, it leaves me in awe.
i have just seen it again a few days ago, because of the columbia tragedy, where our first israeli astronaut ilan ramon was among the crew of seven.
the part where i am on the edge of the chair, is the reentry from space. and i can watch that movie a hundred times and will still be at these scenes at the edge of the chair.
it shows the heatup and the shaking on reentry from the cockpit and lets you imagine what the seven columbia astronauts went through until the shuttle unfortunately broke up around them. yeah here and there it has a few flaws, but they are minor to the viewing experience of this movie.
if you are interested in the shuttle flights and want to have some insight about the nasa (training) procedures and have fun, go for it.
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Summary: Good Overall Movie
Review: I like Clint Eastwood and Tommy Lee Jones, This movie I thought was really good, it has a lot of funny parts that I think you might enjoy.
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