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Summary: waste of talent
Review: Some top-flight actors in a woefully predictable space walk. When is Hollywood going to start using imagination again?
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Summary: Aging stars light up space tale
Review: Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland and James Garner, the four stars of Space Cowboys, all have some miles on them. Their average age is sixty-six years. All but Jones, the youngster at fifty-five, are drawing Social Security. That's the bad news. The good news is that rarely has so much experience been gathered together for one movie. In addition to decades in movies, three of them have extensive TV experience. Eastwood is particularly amazing. He has been a star for forty years. He has produced seventeen films, composed the music for seven, and this is the twenty-third movie he has directed. It has some flaws, the main one being that it is too long, but it is his best effort since 1992's Unforgiven. It is most entertaining.The movie opens back when the American space program was in its infancy. Frank Corwin and Hawk Hawkins [Eastwood and Jones] are part of a team of test pilots. While flying a new jet, Hawk pushes it to the limit, and it begins to break apart. He and Frank safely eject, but the plane is totaled. Apparently they have a knack for doing this, and their boss, Capt. Bob Gerson [James Cromwell] uses this latest incident as a reason for making sure they never become astronauts. Frank holds Hawk responsible for this. We then switch to the present, and NASA, where Gerson is now an administrator, has a big problem. An old Soviet telecommunications satellite is threatening to come crashing down to earth. NASA learms that the ancient guidance system is one that was stolen from us by the Russians. Gerson discovers another problem. The man who designed the system is Frank Corwin, and he is the only man who can possibly figure out how to fix it. Seizing the opportunity, Frank insists that he and the rest of his old test pilot team be the ones to go into space to fix it. Gerson is forced to agree, and the stage is set for quite an adventure. The middle of the movie drags a bit because Eastwood spends too much time and energy on jokes about the geriatric set. Such humor has become stale, having been been covered many times before on the screen. Admittedly, Eastwood has endeared himself to audiences by laughing at his own advancing age, but the point about how hard it is for older people to get in shape could have been made in half the time. Once the quartet finally gets into space, the picture turns into a real thriller that is full of peril and surprises. In this part it holds its own against any of the other action-adventure films released last year. I liked this movie. Obviously older audiences can relate to it, but I think younger ones can also. While kids may not be expected to understand what it is like to be old and supposedly over the hill, they do like to see that dreams do not always go away, that hope really does spring eternal. In this way Space Cowboys is ageless.
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Summary: Great stuff
Review: Overall, it is an awesome movie! Must-have for your DVD collection!
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Summary: a fun movie fo all ages
Review: My daughter and I went to see this film at the movies, and we both really enjoyed it. So we decided to buy the DVD. It has humor and depth and no violence or bad language - a good movie that can be enjoyed by the whole family.
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Summary: Great cast of Characters
Review: Loved the actors selected. Clint and Tommy Lee were great together. Simple plot, predictable ending, but a nice clean movie to see. What a change in this day and age.
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Summary: One of Eastwood's Best!!!
Review: Clint Eastwood has always been a great actor and director. And Space Cowboys is no exception. It is actually a change for Eastwood, who has done mostly westerns in his career. Space Cowboys tells the story of Frank Corbin(Eastwood), "Hawk" Hawkins(Tommy Lee Jones), "Tank" Sullivan(James Garner), and Jerry O'Neil(Donald Sutherland), four retired Air Force pilots who in 1958 were destined to be the first Americans in space. But our contury had other plans, sending a monkey instead, which infuriates Corbin, for he knows why the monkey was sent. Corbin and his commanding officer, Major Bob Greason(James Cromwell), don't get along and Greason wants to see his career go up in flames. Now forty-two years later, a Russian communication satlette, armed with the stolen and now obsolele guidance system from Skylab which Corbin designed, has fallen out of its orbit and is on a crash course with Earth. Since according to the Russians, its destruction is not an option, a rescue attempt must be undertaken and Frank is the only man for the job. But the man who runs the space program happens to be the same man who ruined him forty-two years ago. Well, i don't want to give the whole plot away so nekt time you rent a movie, give this a rent. It will be well worth your investment.
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Summary: An entertaining Space Adventure.
Review: When Four Friends (Three Time Oscar-Winner:Clint Eastwood, Oscar-Winner:Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland and James Garner) are Team Deadauls, they were trained and mind for America`s to leap into Space but at that moment, they were replaced by a Monkey and Thier Dreams were Finish but That`s what they thought, when 42 years later. Team Daedauls are giving one last chance to go in Space for the first time in thier careers for a Mission to Repair a falling Russian Satellite that only Eastwood`s Character can Repair. DVD`s has an smooth anamorphic Widescreen (2.35:1) transfer and an Strong Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound. This entertaining Sci-Fi Adventure mixed with an sense of Humor. Written by Ken Kaufman and Howard Klausner. Directed by Actor:Clint Eastwood (Play Misty for Me, Unforgiven, The Bridges of Madison Country. The Film was Oscar Nominated for Best Sound Editing. Panavision. Grade:A-.
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Summary: some bright moments in overall flawed effort
Review: A few times during this movie I was pleasantly surprised. The jokes about the main characters' ages and Donald Sutherland's libido were very good. But, as another reviewer stated, the 2nd 1/2 of the movie really lets you down. For example, I expected more tension and a better follow-up of the question of how a US design ended up on a Soviet satellite in the middle of the Cold War. Unfortunately, they didn't follow up on the issue at all. No questions were answered. Also, there was no sense of an urgent need for self-sacrifice on Tommy Lee Jones's part when he makes his fateful decision. Contrast that, and the entire movie, with the very well done "Mission to Mars." This movie may be worth a rental, but not worth purchasing.
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Summary: Typical Hollywood High Jinks In Space
Review: The plot of "Space Cowboys" is a continuing chain of implausible and illogical events. If you can ignore this and accept the film for what it is, there is enough of a story to be enjoyable. What we have here is not an attempt at scientific accuracy, but a vehicle to get four aging Hollywood veterans into space for one last hurrah. Directed in typical Eastwood style, the old timers complete their mission, save the world, and show-up all the doubters at NASA. The story has more than a few similarities to "Armageddon", but unlike that film, "Space Cowboys" stops short of going over the top, and preserves a measure of credibility. One can overlook the problems with the plot, but it is difficult to ignore the terrible hairstyle chosen for Marcia Harden's character. Worth at least one viewing if only for the distinguished cast.
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Summary: Great beginning but looses momentum.
Review: Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, and James Garner are the best. The movie had a GREAT beginning where experience/technical history wins over the inexperienced techno kids. Eastwood's character has a history which is the thread through the movie. The best part of the movie is the beginning when Eastwood is at his house and when Eastwood's character brings the four of them together again. Too bad the movie starts to go down hill from there.
Where the "Cowboys" loose their class and my support is when they start acting "old cootish". Even though it was a very predictable movie the ending was good.
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