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 Space Cowboys (DVD)
 Space Cowboys (DVD) ... Jones ... / DVD released 14 May, 2001 at Warner Home Video / Features of the DVD: Black & White, Colour, PAL, Widescreen / Space Cowboys is a slice of cornball Americana that's so much fun you'll be tempted to stand up and salute. Director and co-star Clint Eastwood manages to turn what might have been ludicrous into a jubilant tribute to age and experience, and Space Cowboys succeeds as two movies in one--a comedy about retired pilots given one last shot at glory and an Apollo 13-like thriller with all the requisite heroics. With a dream cast of Hollywood vets playing old farts described in tabloids as "The Ripe Stuff", the movie jumps from a 1958 prologue (establishing their lost bid for space travel) to 40-plus years later, when the retired Air Force aces (Eastwood, James Garner, Donald Sutherland, Tommy Lee Jones) volunteer to rescue a falling Russian satellite that only Eastwood's character can repair. It turns out that Russkie bird is a Cold War leftover equipped with live nuclear warheads, and the movie revs up to a rousing climax in which our heroes prove their mettle. But first the comedy: watching these codgers struggle to pass NASA's physical tests is a total hoot, with running gags about wrinkles, dentures, and oysters for sagging libidos. (Sutherland is the scene-stealer, but they're all having a blast.) Once in space, the movie gets down to business, and the visual-effects wizards at Industrial Light and Magic provide stunning vistas from Earth's orbit; a shot looking down at the boot of Italy is particularly beautiful. A sub-plot involving a weasely NASA administrator (James Cromwell) is rather perfunctory, but it hardly matters. Space Cowboys earns its wings, once again demonstrating Eastwood's comfort with any genre he chooses. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com On the DVD: Even though it boasts no sub-title like "Special Edition," this DVD has some of the nicest extras you'll want to see. There's nearly an hour of behind-the-footage material, all of it superior made-for-cable featurettes so often included on DVDs. The technicians divulge little tricks of the trade, revealing more computer effects in the film than you think. Longtime Eastwood editor Joel Cox provides insight into the director's work routine. The highlight, though, is an extended version of the four principle's appearance on The Tonight Show with Leno providing some interesting comments on how he chooses what films will "appear" on his show. --Doug Thomas, Amazon.comNewest Review: ... this would be partly because he would also be getting reprimanded from his higher-ups about these lost planes. The friction ... more ... factor is there.
Sadly, the teams aspirations of going into orbit are smashed by a press conference, where they find they have been axed from the project. To add insult to injury, their replacement is a chimpanzee. It is the end of their dreams. None of the team will make it into space.
Fast forward to present day where a Russian communications satellite is due to re-enter the atmosphere in a few weeks, having stopped responding to controls from the ground crew. The Soviet Union has approached the US for help, cla...more |
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Space Cowboys (DVD): Many a good tune played on an old fiddle (768 words)
by - written on 28/05/09 (Very useful, 1 readings)
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Nothing to do and a couple of hours to spare? Fancy curling up on the couch with popcorn and a movie? This one will give you an enjoyable interlude, or is equally ok as a kind of date at the pictures. The film begins with two US Airforce pilots who are getting into difficulty in a test plane. It is 1958, the beginning of the US Space Programme and they are half of a project team who have been assigned to work on it, with dreams of becoming the first men in space. The more level-headed of the pair tries to convince his hotter-headed partner that they need to abandon the test. The other ignores his warnings and they are forced to eject at the last minute, leaving the ... Read the complete review
Space Cowboys (570 words)
by - written on 11/08/08 (Very useful, 6 readings)
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Directed by Clint Eastwood Space Cowboys rolls a space movie into cowboy ethic into buddy movie. The film opens in the late 1950s when a team called Daedalus is being prepared for a space mission. Just before they are due to go on their mission they are told that instead of them going a monkey will complete the mission. The film soon establishes the main characters and it has to be said you must not blink as the film races along at such a frantic pace you had best not miss a scene. As well as directing and producing for his own Malpaso film company Clint Eastwood plays the team leader Frank Corvin. After their mission is cancelled we are reunited when the team is ... Read the complete review
Space Cowboys (DVD): Ride 'em Cowboys! (1011 words)
by - written on 10/10/02 (Very useful, 39 readings)
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After waiting for absolutely AGES for this to be added as a DVD, I decided what the heck...I'll have to post it here. If it ever does appear in the DVD section I will get Dooyoo to move it, but I won't hold my breath! Space Cowboys was released on video and DVD in 2001 by Warner Brothers. It is a single sided disc that has a number of Special features and also some enhanced DVD-Rom PC features. I got mine (the Widescreen edition) from Blackstar for £19.99. For those who like to know, the Special Features and Technical Specifications are as follows. SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive menus Scene Access Theatrical Trailer ... Read the complete review
Space Junk (711 words)
by - written on 02/09/02 (Very useful, 26 readings)
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When you think of Hollywood greats and some of the best films ever produced, no doubt a member of this cast is embedded somewhere in the film you are thinking of. Thats right. With a cast that includes Clint Eastwood, James Coburn, Donald Sutherland and Tommy Lee Jones, you would expect a brilliant story with a showstopper of a script. Sadly, this fails to steak across the sky in bright lights unlike the object of their mission in this film. Thats right. Its a space film. Made for the big screen but looking more at home on a "made for TV" film channel like Bravo or such like. What is it about? Well, I looked forward to this film as I ... Read the complete review
Space Cowboys (DVD): A coming of age movie for us oldies! (802 words)
by - written on 15/07/01 (Very useful, 16 readings)
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Curl up on the couch with popcorn and a movie - make this the movie and it'll be a relaxing afternoon. It'll make you smile at some of the antics of the four aging astronaut wannabes, and at other times will tug at your heart strings for sympathy. It's worth the watch, though. The film begins with two US Airforce pilots who are getting into difficulty in a test plane. It is 1958, the beginning of the US Space Programme and they are half of a project team who have been assigned to work on it, with dreams of becoming the first men in space. The more level-headed of the pair tries to convince his hotter-headed partner that they need to abandon the ... Read the complete review
Space Cowboys (DVD) : Space Junkfrom andycharger
02/09/2002
Space Cowboys (DVD) : A coming of age movie for us oldies!from HeavenlyTwin
15/07/2001
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