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Summary: Great Entertainment
Review: I enjoyed this movie, it had four great actors in career-crowning performances, lots of things to laugh at, but also it had its sad moments. The first half is hillarious, as Team Daedalus tries to get through training. The second half is an action part, which is good also.It is not an edge-of-your-seat unpredictable thriller, many of the plot twists you can see from far away. It isn't a really deep or a psychologically penetrating film, but if you are looking for a way to spend an evening, you could hardly find a more entertaining, fun film.
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Summary: Space Cowboys
Review: I don't like science fiction, so almost didn't give this movie title a second glance until I read who was appearing in it. I found it to be a realistic acceptance of the contributions made by age and experience that doesn't in the in any way negate the necessity for young blood and progressive ideas. I think that as they age, actors (and actresses) do themselves and their fans a big favor when they portray older characters. None of us can remain hunks or glamour girls forever and the really intelligent among us have accepted that. A few of the "older" movie stars I admire for accepting the fact of age include the four in this movie, Paul Newman, Mickey Rooney, Art Carney, Bette Davis, Shirley McLaine, etal. The list could go on for hours.I've been clammoring after films starring Garner, Newman, Eastwood, etc.; since we were all much, much younger.
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Summary: Ride 'Em, Cowboys!
Review: Provided you're part of the Clint Eastwood Fan Club like me and mine, you'll be thoroughly entertained by Clint's excursion into space with old pilot friends Donald Sutherland, Tommy Lee Jones, and James Garner. Of course, it's implausible that these old guys could ever go into space, but that's the fun of the movie! Gosh, if things have to make sense all the time, what a dull world movies would make. Clint is the coolest of the gang, naturally, and is only concerned with getting up to that Russian satellite and fixing it so it doesn't come crashing down on Earth. No lovey-dovey stuff for him, as he has a good marriage so let's get down to work. Tommy Lee Jones gets to fall in love and have most of the other good scenes, so that Clint can concentrate. James Garner has the least to do, but at least he stays out of trouble. And the biggest single surprise for me? This was the first time I ever liked Sutherland in a movie! He actually did a good job here--only took him twenty-five years. "Space Cowboys" is a lot of fun, playing all the right cards and pushing all the appropriate buttons. Lasso it for yourself and space out.
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Summary: Lightweight entertainment
Review: But that's not necessarily bad. The acting of all 4 leads and particularly the chemistry between Eastwood amd Tommie Lee Jones is worth checking out. William Devane does a good job playing a jaded wisecracking NASA flight director. The plot is thin but the space sequences are pretty cool. Overall I really found myself liking these guys and this movie.
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Summary: Weak at points, but so much better than Armegeddon. . .
Review: . . .that any comparison would be worthless. The premise? Four old geezers (although 65-70 really isn't that old in the 21st century) who were eliminated from the space program waaay back when, are called back into duty decades later. The interaction between the former comrades (some of whom had not spoken in many years) was quite funny at points. (And the choice of cast members aided with this humor). There is an intriguing espionage element in this picture which could have -- but wasn't -- been exploited quite effectively. And the ending, while dramatic, needed more resolution. However, for it's genre, it's certainly one of the better offerings out there. Not classic film -- but certainly entertaining.
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Summary: Everyone has to have an opinion
Review: All I can say is, this is your chance to see these 4 guys in a flick together. Plus, probabaly the last chance to see James Gardner peorid. Decent plot, GREAT effects.. IL&M did an excellent job with the CG work.. probally some of the best yet. So what if it took most of the film to get to space, that was the point. It took THEM 40 years! 4 of the strongest actors of our times, one of the best directors we've had added up to a watchable movie. No, it's not Casablanca or Gone With The Wind.. but good fun all the same!
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Summary: very funny, alot of fun
Review: I thought SpaceCowboys was great. This was the funniest movie I have seen in a while. Tommy Lee Jones was wonderful. Can't wait to see it again.
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Summary: Maybe could have been decent, instead a 2hr mental torture
Review: I really don't know what to say. I had very high hopes for this film. I am a huge fan of at least three of the main cast (ESPECIALLY a long-time Eastwood fan), and the premise of the film sounded intriguing- former astronauts, years after their last space outing, called to go back in to space again. Instead I was treated to a tedious two-hour mental torture of which I may never recover from. Firstly, the film moves way too slow. I can appreciate a film that takes its time to introduce the lead characters, but come on....this is absolutely ridiculous. It starts off with about an hour and a half of these four old geezers convincing each other to go into space for the most preposterous reasons followed by endless training sequences. The script is very weak, and it's obvious from all the hammy and boring dialogue it's filled with as well as all the little sub-plots which end up taking over the film. It's as if the writers lost sight of the bloody plot near the beginning and started aimlessly trailing off with meaningless dialog and sub-plots, which have no relation to the central plot at all. 95% of the first part of the film is nothing but fluff that you really don't even need to see to understand what's going on. And then, ... the film suddenly remembers what the plot was all about and makes a very abrupt change into the actual 'space' portion of the film. What's sad is how hy now I was already half asleep from soaking in the horrible script up until then, and none of it was even necessary to watch. But at least this part is (a little) better and more fast paced. However, the plot even takes more unbelievable and ridiculous turns, and the bad dialogue doesn't go away. Quality-wise it's just the first part of the film on speed. And then we're treated to, as one of the previous reviewers mention, an Armageddon-esque ending. It is very cheesy, and very lame. Typical Hollywood. This film is nothing but cliche after cliche after cliche. That's usually not a very bad thing (especially in these days with the public’s lower standards for films), but the film is plagued with some of the worst dialogue I have ever seen in a film, and the plot moves at a bloody slow pace. It's only "high points" are the great special effects near the end and the superb performances from the likes of Clint Eastwood and Donald Sutherland and so on. The last 5-star reviewer was right- the reviewers of this film do fall in to two categories. What he doesn't have right is what those categories really are- those who know when to hit the eject button, and those who don't.
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Summary: Good movie
Review: I thought Space Cowboys was an entertaining, delightful movie. It was fun to see Eastwood, Jones, Garner, and Sutherland together in a film. Male actors don't have to be in their 20's and 30's to be watchable. Sutherland's character was a hoot and Tommy Lee Jones has been one of my favorite actors for a long time. This movie is just a feel good movie with some action and suspense, but I loved watching it as did my teenagers.
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Summary: boring, tedious, cliched, trite, insipid and disappointing
Review: Note: this review is spoiler-free. My father and I, who I watched this with, both had high hopes for the movie, although we didn't know much about it. It has a GREAT cast of talented actors, and for all we knew was about "space flight". By the end of the second act, we both agreed that this was turning in to one of the worst, most boring movies we had seen in years. From there on, it got both better and worse, speeding up the pace but ultimately hurting what was already a tedious movie. Oh where to start. It's hard to decide, since I cannot think of one thing this movie even did right. How 'bout the dialogue- it can only be described as cheesy and hammy. It almost never adds anything to the plot, and half the time (mostly during the second act) rates quite high on the cheese-o-meter. Sitting there with my father, who happens to be one who appreciates a well-written movie, it was almost embarrasing to sit through it. The plot was dragging at an extremely slow pace, muddled with weak sub-plots (which seemed to want to turn in to the main plot due to the weakness of the actual plot, hurting it even more); the movie just seems to go on forever before you really figure out where it's trying to go. Then suddenly, as if the writers realized the script was becoming tediously slow and boring, the movie completely changes gear in to one big fast-paced space action scene. None of it relates to the rest of the movie in any way, making you regret even watching the first two "acts", and making the third "act" seem as if it totally came out of left field. But even this part of the movie is badly written and terribly cliched, and ultimately disappointing. And then at the very end, they pull an Armageddon on us. Utterly sappy, and hardly any moral ambiguity about it. Just a cheap way to end the movie. Seeing as how this movie has quite a few decent-to-good reviews, it's hard for me to honestly say you *won't* enjoy the movie. But I honestly cannot understand how anybody could find enjoyment in this sappy, slow-paced, tedious and awefully-written movie with one of the most under-developed ambiguous plots I've ever had the misfortune of experiencing.. It simply has no artistic merit whatsoever as a film. 1/5 stars.
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