Space Cowboys
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • A Harmless, Well-Done, Waste Of A Couple Of Hours
  • For Those Who Love Clint Eastwood
  • Good Actors
  • Chuck Yeager's Revenge...
  • Old codgers show the young-uns how its done!
Space Cowboys
Starring: John Mallory Asher , Barbara Babcock , Blair Brown , Eli Craig , and James Cromwell
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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ASIN: B00005ALS2
Release Date: 2001-04-17

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This slice of cornball Americana is so much fun you'll be tempted to stand up and salute. Director and costar 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 Russky bird is a cold war leftover equipped with live nuclear warheads, and Space Cowboys 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 subplot 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

Description

In 1958, the members of Team Daedalus, a group of top Air Force test pilots, were ready to serve their country as the first Americans in space but were pushed aside. Now, as a Russian satellite fails and is about to crash into earth, Team Daedalus is back in action in a rescue mission.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars A Harmless, Well-Done, Waste Of A Couple Of Hours.......2007-07-21

Mix up "The Right Stuff", "Apollo 13", "Spacecamp", "Silverado", and "Firefox", and what do you get? You get "Space Cowboys". Only problem: each of the above movies were better than "Space Cowboys". But this is still enjoyable.

Let me immediately address four problems with this movie.

1. It is too long. True, that length helped out in developing the characters, but it could have been shortened. Some criticized Firefox for the length of time spent in dealing with Eastwood's character being trained, which was not really dealt with in the original novel. Eastwood has fallen into the same trap here, though the cast in this movie makes it forgivable.

2. The language. I feel there are two kinds of movies regarding offensive words -- those that have unnecessary bad language, and those without bad language. It may have caused some chuckles, but that is cheap humor, and again was not necessary.

3. The payoff. This movie did a good job of creating the mystery, such as why American technology was on a Soviet satellite, but the payoff was weak. So was the finale, in my opinion.

4. Tank. The movie made it come across that Tank (James Garner) was more effective at his role on the mission than being a minister, which bothers this ordained minister. Is it an attempt to poke fun at Christianity as a whole, saying we all are stupid? Or was it making Tank seem to be out of his league?

These complaints do not keep this from being entertaining. It is a movie I'd have no real problems (other than those listed above) to taking a jr. or sr. high school student to see. It is entertaining, without relying on sex and violence. It is basically a waste of time, but it is entertaining in wasting the time, and a lot of times that is what movies are supposed to do.

One last comment I'll make. This movie shows some of the problems of our government without making the government the villain. I like that. I don't need a movie that considers our government to be infallible, but I also don't need one that treats it as evil either.

5 out of 5 stars For Those Who Love Clint Eastwood.......2007-04-14

This is a wonderful movie; interactions between the main characters (Frank Corvin, Hawk Hawkins, Tank, and Jerry) are great to watch!!

5 out of 5 stars Good Actors.......2007-02-15

Nice job, I think the stars had fun doing this one. Nothing real special just a fun movie to watch.

4 out of 5 stars Chuck Yeager's Revenge..........2006-11-04

This is a fun movie based on an interesting premise. Back in the 1950's it was the Air Force that assumed that they were going to lead the country into space. Air Force test pilots were pushing aircraft to the edges of space and preparing to become the first astronauts when space research was taken away from the Air Force and became the mission of the newly created civilian agency, NASA. This was a real shocker to most of the top pilots of the Air Force, and although many of them left the Air Force to join the fledgling NASA eventually making it in to space, many like Chuck Yeager, (the man who broke the sound barrier) stayed in the suddenly mundane Air Force. Yeager served in Vietnam, and led an Air Force Fighter Group in Europe in the 1970's, but never got closer to space than he was in the late 50's.

In this movie, Clint Eastwood plays Frank Corvin a Yeager-like member of a fictional Air Force project called Team Daedalus that was pushing at the limits of space in the late 50's, only to have the rug pulled out from under them when space research went to NASA. Tommy Lee Jones plays Hawk, the best pilot on the team, and James Garner and Donald Sutherland are supporting members of the team.

The movie starts very effectively as a blue-tinted flashback to the Muroc glory days of the Air Force sometime in 1958 with a portrayal of Team Daedalus' fall from grace. The theme music, written by Eastwood who also directed the movie, complements perfectly this nostalgic look at simpler and starker times.

Flashing forward to the present the film picks up the pace as we learn that the Russians have a huge communications satellite called Ikon that has a deteriorating orbit and will be plummeting to Earth in 70 days or so. The Russians are adamant that the satellite must be saved and the only way to do it is with the Space Shuttle. Unfortunately, the shuttle isn't big enough to retrieve the massive satellite to return it to Earth, so repairs will need to be made in orbit. Adding to the complexity of the project is that the guidance system is 1970's era technology and there is no one around that knows enough about it to fix it.

Surprisingly, it turns out that the guidance system is a copy of the guidance system that Eastwood's character Frank Corvin designed for SkyLab in the 1970's, and Corvin is still around, although retired. Suffice it to say that Corvin is lured out of retirement by the chance to go into space as long as he can take the other members of the old Team Daedalus with him.

Eastwood, Jones, Garner and Sutherland are hilarious as the cantankerous old veterans cramming to learn how to fly a crash Space Shuttle mission. And James Cromwell, one of Hollywood's great character actors of the last 20 years does a fantastic job of playing the oily project manager, Bob Gerson. Cromwell is the kind of guy that seemingly pops up in small roles in every movie you see, but never actually stars in one. Every era of Hollywood has actors like that, think of Sidney Greenstreet in the 30's and 40's, and without them movies wouldn't be what they are. That said, Cromwell is truly great in this movie in what he does best, a supporting role.

The rest of the movie is pretty standard: they go into space, things don't work out the way they were planned, there's a surprise or two, a disaster to be averted, and a "will they make it?" trip home. But the special effects are fantastic, everything outside of the shuttle was done with computer graphics with the actors faces plopped in behind their face shields, and it is absolutely convincing. Of course you hear the hiss of the propulsion units on the space suits and the roar of the maneuvering rockets in supposedly silent space, but physics has never been Hollywood's strong point.

And while the second half of the movie is pretty formulaic, it is well done. The first half of the movie is different enough to make the whole thing an interesting and entertaining whole.

4 out of 5 stars Old codgers show the young-uns how its done!.......2006-03-26

Okay--it is a viable genre--the old codgers who come to save the day and don't use the new fangled computers that the young-uns are dependent on--etc. This is the top of that genre--Donald Sutherland displays why a younger woman would go for an older man--his aplomb, lack of shame and frank yet respectful worship of female beauty are hard to resist. Tommy Lee is hilarious, Clint is always Clint and James Garner rounds out the team.

Enjoyable and worth seeing.
Lust for Gold
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • A great western movie
  • Dark, Unembridled Greed
  • A Search For The Lost Dutchman Gold Mine, With Murder And Greed Along The Way
  • Great mystery Western
Lust for Gold
Starring: Ida Lupino , Glenn Ford , Gig Young , William Prince , and Edgar Buchanan
Director: S. Sylvan Simon
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ASIN: B0007MANZ8
Release Date: 2005-04-05

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A great western movie.......2007-07-26

Anyone who lives in Arizona would love this flick, a great story about the Old West.

4 out of 5 stars Dark, Unembridled Greed.......2006-12-04

A rather grim but extremely satisfying Western directed by S. Sylvan Simon, features Glenn Ford as Jacob "Dutch" Walz, a German who discovers "the richest goldmine in the world" in 19th century Arizona. Although not as well-known as other Columbia Westerns, it holds up very well, and is much more appreciated now than it was when it was released in 1949. Juliet Thomas (Ida Lupino) is the cold-hearted woman who pretends to admire Walz as a man, when in fact she just wants to know where his mine is located. She goes so far as to put him up in her home after he collapses in a drunken stupor on the porch of her bakery, and later lets him court her. She pretends to be German (even briefly speaking to him in his native tongue), and feigns ignorance and disinterest in his newfound status as a wealthy citizen. Her pursuit of Jacob only infuriates her estranged husband, Pete Thomas (Gig Young), who wants to be back on her good side (as well as her bed), and so they quietly conspire together to learn the location of his mine and rob Jacob of his fortune. But he is soon onto them and it ends on an interesting showdown on Superstition Mountain.

Despite its serious tone, the film has some light-hearted moments, never more wonderfully presented as Juliet shows Jacob her family album and he comes across a photograph of her as an "au natural" baby, or the moment after Jacob hands off the cookies he bought from Juliet's shop to a young boy, who collapses under the weight of two massive baskets full! And Lupino shows her independent mind and capabilities in this unsympathetic role, while Gig Young's scoundrel manages to gain a little sympathy as the ignored husband. But Ford, who rarely played villainous roles, really brings uncompromising realism as a greedy, self-serving, ill-tempered man (the scene involving the little girl and him allowing her to "play" with his shotgun is a classic example of this). His attempt at a German accent falters in some sequences, but this does not deter from his performance.

This aspect of the movie is actually shown in flashback, the opening being of Jacob's grandson Barry Storm (William Prince) trying to find the mine and solve the mystery of the many puzzling, tragic deaths of those who have attempted to discover it. Fans of the Lone Ranger television series will enjoy the early, uncredited appearance of Jay Silverheels as a deputy.

Now I know why greed is among the seven most deadly sins!

The DVD features a few theatrical trailers.

4 out of 5 stars A Search For The Lost Dutchman Gold Mine, With Murder And Greed Along The Way.......2005-12-13

This forgotten gem is an A movie trying to break out of a B movie's conventions. Even as a B movie, if it had been directed by Edgar Ulmer many people would be raving over it. But it was directed by a man named S. Sylvan Simon who died of a heart attack in his forties. This was his last movie, and it has been forgotten just about as thoroughly as he has.

It's the story of the Lost Dutchman Mine, a rich gold mine lost, then discovered again, and then apparently lost forever. It's the story of Jacob "Dutch" Walz (Glenn Ford), a German immigrant in 1880 who, with a partner, tracks two men to the mine in Arizona's Superstition Mountains. When the men find it, Walz and his partner shoot them down. Then Walz cooly turns his rifle on his partner. It's also the present day story of Walz' grandson, Barry Storm (William Prince), who is searching for the mine again. A generation and a half ago his grandfather disappeared, taking the secret of the mine with him. Storm is determined to find the place, but a killer has been murdering prospectors who have gotten too close to where the mine might be.

The movie is oddly constructed but still works well. Three quarters of the time is a flashback to Jacob Walz, his search for the mine and his entanglement with Julia Thomas (Ida Lupino), a woman as ruthless as he, and her husband, Pete (Gig Young), a jealous and weak man. Bracketing this story is Barry Storm. At first, Storm is following a man who is confident he knows where the Lost Dutchman is located. A rifle shot ends that search and Storm is left with a dead body to explain to the sheriff (Paul Ford) and the sheriff's deputy (Will Geer). At the end of Walz' story we move back to Storm. Now, the killer is tracking him. In a nice twist, the killer is probably not who you'll immediately suspect.

Glenn Ford does a nice job as the grim, mean Jacob Walz. When he thinks Julia may actually love him, he's shy and a little tongue-tied. When he realizes she was using him...well, let's say he gets his own back with her and her husband after he's tricked them into the Superstition Mountains. This is an unusual role to take on for a young and increasingly popular lead actor. After he was established as a major star, Ford didn't often play ruthless bad guys. With this role, he proved he could whenever he wanted to.

Ida Lupino does a great job as the in-it-for-me Julia Thomas. She looks just fine when she's luring Jacob into her web. Later, she's not afraid to look dirty and bedraggled after she's been without water for a couple of days, had to scramble over rocks, been shot at and tossed in the dirt.

The black and white DVD picture is in very good condition. There are no extras.

5 out of 5 stars Great mystery Western.......2005-04-16

In a way LUST FOR GOLD is a "mystery" Western that doesn't lose its real interest after you understand (sort of) the mystery and understand the story. And that says a lot about its lasting attraction and why I am delighted to see it on DVD. The stark but beautiful B&W print lends atmosphere to the "search" for lost treasure, and even the name of the mountain range where the Spanish gold was mysteriously buried, Superstition Mountain, adds to the ambience. This is a truly entertaining oater that will entertain the entire family or friends. Recommended highly.
Space Cowboys (Blu-ray)
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • BLOCKBUSTER BLU-RAY
  • Out Of The World
  • Cowboys, Camaraderie and Courage set the System Straight
Space Cowboys (Blu-ray)
Starring: Barbara Babcock , Blair Brown , James Cromwell , Arthur Cybulski , and Loren Dean
Director: Clint Eastwood
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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ASIN: B000I5XOVO
Release Date: 2006-09-26

Description

In 1958, the members of Team Daedalus, a group of top Air Force test pilots, were ready to serve their country as the first Americans in space but were pushed aside. Now, as a Russian satellite fails and is about to crash into earth, Team Daedalus is back in action in a rescue mission.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars BLOCKBUSTER BLU-RAY.......2006-12-26

It intrigues me how some of these titles have been remasterd to exceptional quality and some that you would be hard put to tell the diferrence between Blu-ray and standard definition. This title falls into the former group, superb picture and "glass on the sink" rattling sound, my sub-woofer works overtime on this one! Terrific movie, terrific cast and fabulous reproduction.

4 out of 5 stars Out Of The World.......2006-11-13

Frank Corvin was an engineering designer headed for the moon in the 1950s. As ramrod of Team Daedelus, which was responsible for testing experimental planes, Corvin rode herd on maverick pilot Hawk Hawkins, navigator Tank Sullivan, and systems designer Jerry O'Neill. Instead of getting to go to the moon, or at least into space, the men were passed by when the federal government handed the space program off to NASA and chimpanzee pilots. However, forty years later a Russian communications satellite with a deadly secret aboard has just gone into a decaying orbit that will bring it down onto the earth. The system was based on designs that Corvin created, and he's asked to help. Only Corvin isn't going to sit at the table without taking a hand. By the time he gets through blackmailing NASA, Team Daedalus -- now retired -- is going to fly again.

Director Clint Eastwood brought together Tommy Lee Jones, James Garner, and Donald Sutherland to play the four aging astronauts. As they reveal in the accompanying documentary on the disc, all of them had a blast working on the film. Eastwood has created a string of hits as an actor as well as a director, including FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS in theaters now.

SPACE COWBOYS is a great time. The opening sequences reminded me of THE RIGHT STUFF (which I suggest viewing if you haven't to get another look at the developing space program). As Corvin blackmails NASA and goes around gathering his old team, you can't help but be drawn to the characters. They're some of the best actors ever to come our way, and have been in dozens of films. The transition from humorous, heart-felt piece to thriller in the last third of the movie clunks a little, but there was no way around it. Watchers want the feel-good to continue, but the menace has to assert itself and our heroes have to deal with it.

I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. The Blu-ray edition lacks a little in the audio department compared to some of the discs that are coming out on the market at the moment, but the picture quality is some of the best. The movie's probably more of a guy's film, but it's a good peace offering if you have to split the difference between an action movie and a chick flick.

5 out of 5 stars Cowboys, Camaraderie and Courage set the System Straight.......2006-11-08

This film has a great premise and starts out brilliantly and only falters just a bit in the third act. Clint Eastwood, James Garner, Donald Sutherland and Tommy Lee Jones are very good. However, Tommy Lee Jones looks about 15 years too young to be from the same era as the other three. Yet, I felt Jones came off the best and his character truly comes to an endearing end, which makes up for a lot in this film. All considered the camaraderie these four actors have really comes across and saves the day making the film really enjoyable. The animosity between James Cromwell and Clint Eastwood is central too the premise of this film and that also is enjoyable as it harkens back to the days when Dirty Harry bucked the system run by self-absorbed bureaucrats. As with most newer films, this Blu-ray version looks very good.
Space Cowboys [HD DVD]
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • A Harmless, Well-Done, Waste Of A Couple Of Hours
  • For Those Who Love Clint Eastwood
  • Good Actors
  • Chuck Yeager's Revenge...
  • Old codgers show the young-uns how its done!
Space Cowboys [HD DVD]
Starring: Barbara Babcock , Blair Brown , James Cromwell , Arthur Cybulski , and Loren Dean
Director: Clint Eastwood
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ASIN: B000I2J786
Release Date: 2006-09-12

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This slice of cornball Americana is so much fun you'll be tempted to stand up and salute. Director and costar 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 Russky bird is a cold war leftover equipped with live nuclear warheads, and Space Cowboys 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 subplot 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

Description

In 1958, the members of Team Daedalus, a group of top Air Force test pilots, were ready to serve their country as the first Americans in space but were pushed aside. Now, as a Russian satellite fails and is about to crash into earth, Team Daedalus is back in action in a rescue mission.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars A Harmless, Well-Done, Waste Of A Couple Of Hours.......2007-07-21

Mix up "The Right Stuff", "Apollo 13", "Spacecamp", "Silverado", and "Firefox", and what do you get? You get "Space Cowboys". Only problem: each of the above movies were better than "Space Cowboys". But this is still enjoyable.

Let me immediately address four problems with this movie.

1. It is too long. True, that length helped out in developing the characters, but it could have been shortened. Some criticized Firefox for the length of time spent in dealing with Eastwood's character being trained, which was not really dealt with in the original novel. Eastwood has fallen into the same trap here, though the cast in this movie makes it forgivable.

2. The language. I feel there are two kinds of movies regarding offensive words -- those that have unnecessary bad language, and those without bad language. It may have caused some chuckles, but that is cheap humor, and again was not necessary.

3. The payoff. This movie did a good job of creating the mystery, such as why American technology was on a Soviet satellite, but the payoff was weak. So was the finale, in my opinion.

4. Tank. The movie made it come across that Tank (James Garner) was more effective at his role on the mission than being a minister, which bothers this ordained minister. Is it an attempt to poke fun at Christianity as a whole, saying we all are stupid? Or was it making Tank seem to be out of his league?

These complaints do not keep this from being entertaining. It is a movie I'd have no real problems (other than those listed above) to taking a jr. or sr. high school student to see. It is entertaining, without relying on sex and violence. It is basically a waste of time, but it is entertaining in wasting the time, and a lot of times that is what movies are supposed to do.

One last comment I'll make. This movie shows some of the problems of our government without making the government the villain. I like that. I don't need a movie that considers our government to be infallible, but I also don't need one that treats it as evil either.

5 out of 5 stars For Those Who Love Clint Eastwood.......2007-04-14

This is a wonderful movie; interactions between the main characters (Frank Corvin, Hawk Hawkins, Tank, and Jerry) are great to watch!!

5 out of 5 stars Good Actors.......2007-02-15

Nice job, I think the stars had fun doing this one. Nothing real special just a fun movie to watch.

4 out of 5 stars Chuck Yeager's Revenge..........2006-11-04

This is a fun movie based on an interesting premise. Back in the 1950's it was the Air Force that assumed that they were going to lead the country into space. Air Force test pilots were pushing aircraft to the edges of space and preparing to become the first astronauts when space research was taken away from the Air Force and became the mission of the newly created civilian agency, NASA. This was a real shocker to most of the top pilots of the Air Force, and although many of them left the Air Force to join the fledgling NASA eventually making it in to space, many like Chuck Yeager, (the man who broke the sound barrier) stayed in the suddenly mundane Air Force. Yeager served in Vietnam, and led an Air Force Fighter Group in Europe in the 1970's, but never got closer to space than he was in the late 50's.

In this movie, Clint Eastwood plays Frank Corvin a Yeager-like member of a fictional Air Force project called Team Daedalus that was pushing at the limits of space in the late 50's, only to have the rug pulled out from under them when space research went to NASA. Tommy Lee Jones plays Hawk, the best pilot on the team, and James Garner and Donald Sutherland are supporting members of the team.

The movie starts very effectively as a blue-tinted flashback to the Muroc glory days of the Air Force sometime in 1958 with a portrayal of Team Daedalus' fall from grace. The theme music, written by Eastwood who also directed the movie, complements perfectly this nostalgic look at simpler and starker times.

Flashing forward to the present the film picks up the pace as we learn that the Russians have a huge communications satellite called Ikon that has a deteriorating orbit and will be plummeting to Earth in 70 days or so. The Russians are adamant that the satellite must be saved and the only way to do it is with the Space Shuttle. Unfortunately, the shuttle isn't big enough to retrieve the massive satellite to return it to Earth, so repairs will need to be made in orbit. Adding to the complexity of the project is that the guidance system is 1970's era technology and there is no one around that knows enough about it to fix it.

Surprisingly, it turns out that the guidance system is a copy of the guidance system that Eastwood's character Frank Corvin designed for SkyLab in the 1970's, and Corvin is still around, although retired. Suffice it to say that Corvin is lured out of retirement by the chance to go into space as long as he can take the other members of the old Team Daedalus with him.

Eastwood, Jones, Garner and Sutherland are hilarious as the cantankerous old veterans cramming to learn how to fly a crash Space Shuttle mission. And James Cromwell, one of Hollywood's great character actors of the last 20 years does a fantastic job of playing the oily project manager, Bob Gerson. Cromwell is the kind of guy that seemingly pops up in small roles in every movie you see, but never actually stars in one. Every era of Hollywood has actors like that, think of Sidney Greenstreet in the 30's and 40's, and without them movies wouldn't be what they are. That said, Cromwell is truly great in this movie in what he does best, a supporting role.

The rest of the movie is pretty standard: they go into space, things don't work out the way they were planned, there's a surprise or two, a disaster to be averted, and a "will they make it?" trip home. But the special effects are fantastic, everything outside of the shuttle was done with computer graphics with the actors faces plopped in behind their face shields, and it is absolutely convincing. Of course you hear the hiss of the propulsion units on the space suits and the roar of the maneuvering rockets in supposedly silent space, but physics has never been Hollywood's strong point.

And while the second half of the movie is pretty formulaic, it is well done. The first half of the movie is different enough to make the whole thing an interesting and entertaining whole.

4 out of 5 stars Old codgers show the young-uns how its done!.......2006-03-26

Okay--it is a viable genre--the old codgers who come to save the day and don't use the new fangled computers that the young-uns are dependent on--etc. This is the top of that genre--Donald Sutherland displays why a younger woman would go for an older man--his aplomb, lack of shame and frank yet respectful worship of female beauty are hard to resist. Tommy Lee is hilarious, Clint is always Clint and James Garner rounds out the team.

Enjoyable and worth seeing.
Clint Eastwood - Adventurer (Firefox / Space Cowboys / White Hunter Black Heart)
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    Shoot Out
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    • some of the best western acting and good story line
    Shoot Out
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    Director: Henry Hathaway
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    3 out of 5 stars Worth Watching Just for Susan Tyrrell's Performance.......2005-05-01

    I saw Shoot Out when it was first released and just watched it again a few days ago. Although the negative comments that have been posted are generally accurate, the film has several elements that make it worth watching. Imagine combining 'To Kill a Mockingbird' with 'One-Eyed Jacks' and you will have a pretty good idea of what this story is all about. Unfortunately Gregory Peck did not put Aticus Finch energy into the Clay Lomax character, and even though Dawn Lyn (Dodie from 'My Three Sons') is fine as the little girl-the idea just doesn't work. There is at least one story too many in this movie and it would take a great script to pull it together. But as someone has already mentioned this is not a great script and there are 1970's dialogue issues that periodically jar the viewer back to reality, making it impossible for this thing to ever really get going.

    On the plus side Robert Lyons gives a nice 'really out there' performance as the wacko bad guy. Lyons was that era's Gary Oldham. Also the production designer did a good job on the overall feel of the film, there several absolutely great visuals (check out the shot of Dawn Lyn standing on the train station platform), and there is a very original non-formula climax. The production has excellent overall unity and someone really paid attention to continuity issues (watch how the progress of the water dripping on the cabin table is matched to the time sequence of the scene).

    What stayed with me through the years and motivated me to watch this again was the first film performance of Susan Tyrrell, as the dumb but plucky saloon girl. She actually deserved a supporting actress nomination. Then she played dumb and plucky again in 'Fat City' and actually received a Supporting Actress Nomination. At the time I was convinced that she would be the next big female star. There was a young actress talent vacuum in the 1969-78 period and hack blondes like Candice Bergen and Cybill Sheppard got a lot of work-with very painful to watch results. That many of their parts did not go to Tyrrell and to Elizabeth Hartman is an example of the Hollywood anti-meritocracy. So check out her performances and curse Hollywood for not recognizing her potential and giving her a lot more work.

    Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.

    2 out of 5 stars "I'm so dumb. I shoulda knowed, a man's just gonna do what a.......2005-02-23

    So incredibly bad, this flick could reach cult status one day if the general public ever discovers it, but that explains why I never heard of this pig before. I can't believe Henry Hathaway and Hal Wallis put their stamp of approval on this thing.

    Great story becomes a victim of the creeping sensitivity of the 60's/70's in the silly tradition of geriatric sentimentality found in The Shootist, Rooster Cogburn, and that fingernails on the blackboard Raindrops scene in Butch Cassidy, but without a script. I defy anyone to name a movie with more ill conceived, outright moronic but hysterically funny dialogue and you'll be rolling on the floor as Gregory Peck, one of Hollywood's most revered actors introduces the word "punk" into the genre....4 TIMES! Dawn Lyn warms up for her role in Walking Tall, and brings the musical score from this turkey with her. And this is the first time I can ever remember seeing that sideways gansta' pistol pointing and prophetically the token Chicano outlaw "Pepe" gets taken out by this new and unexplainable technique. Hilarious!

    If you don't like westerns you will probably love this thing; and if you are a fan of westerns you will laugh your majookas off. Would really make a good Mystery Science project-unintentionally very funny. And amazingly, the quality of the DVD transfer is very very good. Colors, texture, detail all there. Far beyond what you would expect from those mooks as Goodtimes because most of their work sucks. The audio is OK but you wont care because you'll be too busy bouncing off furniture and holding your sides as 3 of the stupidest outlaws of all time go on a menacing rampage with Peck as their intended target.

    Laugh factor is strong, quality rating is low. A recommended rental with a 6 pack. 2 teacups

    2 out of 5 stars Same Old Hathaway Recipe.......2002-12-31

    Henry Hathaway found a recipe for making western movies and did not alter one lousy bit. True Grit, Five Card Stud, Shootout - the bad guys from each film in order - Dennis Hopper, Roddy McDowall, and Robert Lyons - they all wear the same outfit. What did they do - pass them down from one film to the other? Also, it appears that True Grit and Shootout have some of the same location scenes shot from the same angle. One more thing - take a close look at the scene at the train depot and see if you cannot find a jet stream. I recommend Gregory Peck's, The Stalking Moon, over Shootout. Stalking Moon has a little more bite and grit and makes no reference to "punks".

    4 out of 5 stars some of the best western acting and good story line.......1999-01-20

    a very good western with a good cast and and story line. Peck does a fine job as always as a man on a vengence crusade that is interupted when a little girl is placed in his care. As the story progresses he starts to love this little girl and realize what life is really about and that he has all the treasure that he'll ever want and someone is trying to take it all away.
    Space Cowboys [Region 2]
    Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
    • A Harmless, Well-Done, Waste Of A Couple Of Hours
    • For Those Who Love Clint Eastwood
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    • Old codgers show the young-uns how its done!
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    This slice of cornball Americana is so much fun you'll be tempted to stand up and salute. Director and costar 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 Russky bird is a cold war leftover equipped with live nuclear warheads, and Space Cowboys 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 subplot 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

    Customer Reviews:

    4 out of 5 stars A Harmless, Well-Done, Waste Of A Couple Of Hours.......2007-07-21

    Mix up "The Right Stuff", "Apollo 13", "Spacecamp", "Silverado", and "Firefox", and what do you get? You get "Space Cowboys". Only problem: each of the above movies were better than "Space Cowboys". But this is still enjoyable.

    Let me immediately address four problems with this movie.

    1. It is too long. True, that length helped out in developing the characters, but it could have been shortened. Some criticized Firefox for the length of time spent in dealing with Eastwood's character being trained, which was not really dealt with in the original novel. Eastwood has fallen into the same trap here, though the cast in this movie makes it forgivable.

    2. The language. I feel there are two kinds of movies regarding offensive words -- those that have unnecessary bad language, and those without bad language. It may have caused some chuckles, but that is cheap humor, and again was not necessary.

    3. The payoff. This movie did a good job of creating the mystery, such as why American technology was on a Soviet satellite, but the payoff was weak. So was the finale, in my opinion.

    4. Tank. The movie made it come across that Tank (James Garner) was more effective at his role on the mission than being a minister, which bothers this ordained minister. Is it an attempt to poke fun at Christianity as a whole, saying we all are stupid? Or was it making Tank seem to be out of his league?

    These complaints do not keep this from being entertaining. It is a movie I'd have no real problems (other than those listed above) to taking a jr. or sr. high school student to see. It is entertaining, without relying on sex and violence. It is basically a waste of time, but it is entertaining in wasting the time, and a lot of times that is what movies are supposed to do.

    One last comment I'll make. This movie shows some of the problems of our government without making the government the villain. I like that. I don't need a movie that considers our government to be infallible, but I also don't need one that treats it as evil either.

    5 out of 5 stars For Those Who Love Clint Eastwood.......2007-04-14

    This is a wonderful movie; interactions between the main characters (Frank Corvin, Hawk Hawkins, Tank, and Jerry) are great to watch!!

    5 out of 5 stars Good Actors.......2007-02-15

    Nice job, I think the stars had fun doing this one. Nothing real special just a fun movie to watch.

    4 out of 5 stars Chuck Yeager's Revenge..........2006-11-04

    This is a fun movie based on an interesting premise. Back in the 1950's it was the Air Force that assumed that they were going to lead the country into space. Air Force test pilots were pushing aircraft to the edges of space and preparing to become the first astronauts when space research was taken away from the Air Force and became the mission of the newly created civilian agency, NASA. This was a real shocker to most of the top pilots of the Air Force, and although many of them left the Air Force to join the fledgling NASA eventually making it in to space, many like Chuck Yeager, (the man who broke the sound barrier) stayed in the suddenly mundane Air Force. Yeager served in Vietnam, and led an Air Force Fighter Group in Europe in the 1970's, but never got closer to space than he was in the late 50's.

    In this movie, Clint Eastwood plays Frank Corvin a Yeager-like member of a fictional Air Force project called Team Daedalus that was pushing at the limits of space in the late 50's, only to have the rug pulled out from under them when space research went to NASA. Tommy Lee Jones plays Hawk, the best pilot on the team, and James Garner and Donald Sutherland are supporting members of the team.

    The movie starts very effectively as a blue-tinted flashback to the Muroc glory days of the Air Force sometime in 1958 with a portrayal of Team Daedalus' fall from grace. The theme music, written by Eastwood who also directed the movie, complements perfectly this nostalgic look at simpler and starker times.

    Flashing forward to the present the film picks up the pace as we learn that the Russians have a huge communications satellite called Ikon that has a deteriorating orbit and will be plummeting to Earth in 70 days or so. The Russians are adamant that the satellite must be saved and the only way to do it is with the Space Shuttle. Unfortunately, the shuttle isn't big enough to retrieve the massive satellite to return it to Earth, so repairs will need to be made in orbit. Adding to the complexity of the project is that the guidance system is 1970's era technology and there is no one around that knows enough about it to fix it.

    Surprisingly, it turns out that the guidance system is a copy of the guidance system that Eastwood's character Frank Corvin designed for SkyLab in the 1970's, and Corvin is still around, although retired. Suffice it to say that Corvin is lured out of retirement by the chance to go into space as long as he can take the other members of the old Team Daedalus with him.

    Eastwood, Jones, Garner and Sutherland are hilarious as the cantankerous old veterans cramming to learn how to fly a crash Space Shuttle mission. And James Cromwell, one of Hollywood's great character actors of the last 20 years does a fantastic job of playing the oily project manager, Bob Gerson. Cromwell is the kind of guy that seemingly pops up in small roles in every movie you see, but never actually stars in one. Every era of Hollywood has actors like that, think of Sidney Greenstreet in the 30's and 40's, and without them movies wouldn't be what they are. That said, Cromwell is truly great in this movie in what he does best, a supporting role.

    The rest of the movie is pretty standard: they go into space, things don't work out the way they were planned, there's a surprise or two, a disaster to be averted, and a "will they make it?" trip home. But the special effects are fantastic, everything outside of the shuttle was done with computer graphics with the actors faces plopped in behind their face shields, and it is absolutely convincing. Of course you hear the hiss of the propulsion units on the space suits and the roar of the maneuvering rockets in supposedly silent space, but physics has never been Hollywood's strong point.

    And while the second half of the movie is pretty formulaic, it is well done. The first half of the movie is different enough to make the whole thing an interesting and entertaining whole.

    4 out of 5 stars Old codgers show the young-uns how its done!.......2006-03-26

    Okay--it is a viable genre--the old codgers who come to save the day and don't use the new fangled computers that the young-uns are dependent on--etc. This is the top of that genre--Donald Sutherland displays why a younger woman would go for an older man--his aplomb, lack of shame and frank yet respectful worship of female beauty are hard to resist. Tommy Lee is hilarious, Clint is always Clint and James Garner rounds out the team.

    Enjoyable and worth seeing.
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      Space Cowboys [Region 2]
      Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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      • For Those Who Love Clint Eastwood
      • Good Actors
      • Chuck Yeager's Revenge...
      • Old codgers show the young-uns how its done!
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      This slice of cornball Americana is so much fun you'll be tempted to stand up and salute. Director and costar 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 Russky bird is a cold war leftover equipped with live nuclear warheads, and Space Cowboys 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 subplot 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

      Customer Reviews:

      4 out of 5 stars A Harmless, Well-Done, Waste Of A Couple Of Hours.......2007-07-21

      Mix up "The Right Stuff", "Apollo 13", "Spacecamp", "Silverado", and "Firefox", and what do you get? You get "Space Cowboys". Only problem: each of the above movies were better than "Space Cowboys". But this is still enjoyable.

      Let me immediately address four problems with this movie.

      1. It is too long. True, that length helped out in developing the characters, but it could have been shortened. Some criticized Firefox for the length of time spent in dealing with Eastwood's character being trained, which was not really dealt with in the original novel. Eastwood has fallen into the same trap here, though the cast in this movie makes it forgivable.

      2. The language. I feel there are two kinds of movies regarding offensive words -- those that have unnecessary bad language, and those without bad language. It may have caused some chuckles, but that is cheap humor, and again was not necessary.

      3. The payoff. This movie did a good job of creating the mystery, such as why American technology was on a Soviet satellite, but the payoff was weak. So was the finale, in my opinion.

      4. Tank. The movie made it come across that Tank (James Garner) was more effective at his role on the mission than being a minister, which bothers this ordained minister. Is it an attempt to poke fun at Christianity as a whole, saying we all are stupid? Or was it making Tank seem to be out of his league?

      These complaints do not keep this from being entertaining. It is a movie I'd have no real problems (other than those listed above) to taking a jr. or sr. high school student to see. It is entertaining, without relying on sex and violence. It is basically a waste of time, but it is entertaining in wasting the time, and a lot of times that is what movies are supposed to do.

      One last comment I'll make. This movie shows some of the problems of our government without making the government the villain. I like that. I don't need a movie that considers our government to be infallible, but I also don't need one that treats it as evil either.

      5 out of 5 stars For Those Who Love Clint Eastwood.......2007-04-14

      This is a wonderful movie; interactions between the main characters (Frank Corvin, Hawk Hawkins, Tank, and Jerry) are great to watch!!

      5 out of 5 stars Good Actors.......2007-02-15

      Nice job, I think the stars had fun doing this one. Nothing real special just a fun movie to watch.

      4 out of 5 stars Chuck Yeager's Revenge..........2006-11-04

      This is a fun movie based on an interesting premise. Back in the 1950's it was the Air Force that assumed that they were going to lead the country into space. Air Force test pilots were pushing aircraft to the edges of space and preparing to become the first astronauts when space research was taken away from the Air Force and became the mission of the newly created civilian agency, NASA. This was a real shocker to most of the top pilots of the Air Force, and although many of them left the Air Force to join the fledgling NASA eventually making it in to space, many like Chuck Yeager, (the man who broke the sound barrier) stayed in the suddenly mundane Air Force. Yeager served in Vietnam, and led an Air Force Fighter Group in Europe in the 1970's, but never got closer to space than he was in the late 50's.

      In this movie, Clint Eastwood plays Frank Corvin a Yeager-like member of a fictional Air Force project called Team Daedalus that was pushing at the limits of space in the late 50's, only to have the rug pulled out from under them when space research went to NASA. Tommy Lee Jones plays Hawk, the best pilot on the team, and James Garner and Donald Sutherland are supporting members of the team.

      The movie starts very effectively as a blue-tinted flashback to the Muroc glory days of the Air Force sometime in 1958 with a portrayal of Team Daedalus' fall from grace. The theme music, written by Eastwood who also directed the movie, complements perfectly this nostalgic look at simpler and starker times.

      Flashing forward to the present the film picks up the pace as we learn that the Russians have a huge communications satellite called Ikon that has a deteriorating orbit and will be plummeting to Earth in 70 days or so. The Russians are adamant that the satellite must be saved and the only way to do it is with the Space Shuttle. Unfortunately, the shuttle isn't big enough to retrieve the massive satellite to return it to Earth, so repairs will need to be made in orbit. Adding to the complexity of the project is that the guidance system is 1970's era technology and there is no one around that knows enough about it to fix it.

      Surprisingly, it turns out that the guidance system is a copy of the guidance system that Eastwood's character Frank Corvin designed for SkyLab in the 1970's, and Corvin is still around, although retired. Suffice it to say that Corvin is lured out of retirement by the chance to go into space as long as he can take the other members of the old Team Daedalus with him.

      Eastwood, Jones, Garner and Sutherland are hilarious as the cantankerous old veterans cramming to learn how to fly a crash Space Shuttle mission. And James Cromwell, one of Hollywood's great character actors of the last 20 years does a fantastic job of playing the oily project manager, Bob Gerson. Cromwell is the kind of guy that seemingly pops up in small roles in every movie you see, but never actually stars in one. Every era of Hollywood has actors like that, think of Sidney Greenstreet in the 30's and 40's, and without them movies wouldn't be what they are. That said, Cromwell is truly great in this movie in what he does best, a supporting role.

      The rest of the movie is pretty standard: they go into space, things don't work out the way they were planned, there's a surprise or two, a disaster to be averted, and a "will they make it?" trip home. But the special effects are fantastic, everything outside of the shuttle was done with computer graphics with the actors faces plopped in behind their face shields, and it is absolutely convincing. Of course you hear the hiss of the propulsion units on the space suits and the roar of the maneuvering rockets in supposedly silent space, but physics has never been Hollywood's strong point.

      And while the second half of the movie is pretty formulaic, it is well done. The first half of the movie is different enough to make the whole thing an interesting and entertaining whole.

      4 out of 5 stars Old codgers show the young-uns how its done!.......2006-03-26

      Okay--it is a viable genre--the old codgers who come to save the day and don't use the new fangled computers that the young-uns are dependent on--etc. This is the top of that genre--Donald Sutherland displays why a younger woman would go for an older man--his aplomb, lack of shame and frank yet respectful worship of female beauty are hard to resist. Tommy Lee is hilarious, Clint is always Clint and James Garner rounds out the team.

      Enjoyable and worth seeing.
      Space Cowboys [Region 2]
      Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
      • A Harmless, Well-Done, Waste Of A Couple Of Hours
      • For Those Who Love Clint Eastwood
      • Good Actors
      • Chuck Yeager's Revenge...
      • Old codgers show the young-uns how its done!
      Space Cowboys [Region 2]

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      This slice of cornball Americana is so much fun you'll be tempted to stand up and salute. Director and costar 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 Russky bird is a cold war leftover equipped with live nuclear warheads, and Space Cowboys 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 subplot 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

      Customer Reviews:

      4 out of 5 stars A Harmless, Well-Done, Waste Of A Couple Of Hours.......2007-07-21

      Mix up "The Right Stuff", "Apollo 13", "Spacecamp", "Silverado", and "Firefox", and what do you get? You get "Space Cowboys". Only problem: each of the above movies were better than "Space Cowboys". But this is still enjoyable.

      Let me immediately address four problems with this movie.

      1. It is too long. True, that length helped out in developing the characters, but it could have been shortened. Some criticized Firefox for the length of time spent in dealing with Eastwood's character being trained, which was not really dealt with in the original novel. Eastwood has fallen into the same trap here, though the cast in this movie makes it forgivable.

      2. The language. I feel there are two kinds of movies regarding offensive words -- those that have unnecessary bad language, and those without bad language. It may have caused some chuckles, but that is cheap humor, and again was not necessary.

      3. The payoff. This movie did a good job of creating the mystery, such as why American technology was on a Soviet satellite, but the payoff was weak. So was the finale, in my opinion.

      4. Tank. The movie made it come across that Tank (James Garner) was more effective at his role on the mission than being a minister, which bothers this ordained minister. Is it an attempt to poke fun at Christianity as a whole, saying we all are stupid? Or was it making Tank seem to be out of his league?

      These complaints do not keep this from being entertaining. It is a movie I'd have no real problems (other than those listed above) to taking a jr. or sr. high school student to see. It is entertaining, without relying on sex and violence. It is basically a waste of time, but it is entertaining in wasting the time, and a lot of times that is what movies are supposed to do.

      One last comment I'll make. This movie shows some of the problems of our government without making the government the villain. I like that. I don't need a movie that considers our government to be infallible, but I also don't need one that treats it as evil either.

      5 out of 5 stars For Those Who Love Clint Eastwood.......2007-04-14

      This is a wonderful movie; interactions between the main characters (Frank Corvin, Hawk Hawkins, Tank, and Jerry) are great to watch!!

      5 out of 5 stars Good Actors.......2007-02-15

      Nice job, I think the stars had fun doing this one. Nothing real special just a fun movie to watch.

      4 out of 5 stars Chuck Yeager's Revenge..........2006-11-04

      This is a fun movie based on an interesting premise. Back in the 1950's it was the Air Force that assumed that they were going to lead the country into space. Air Force test pilots were pushing aircraft to the edges of space and preparing to become the first astronauts when space research was taken away from the Air Force and became the mission of the newly created civilian agency, NASA. This was a real shocker to most of the top pilots of the Air Force, and although many of them left the Air Force to join the fledgling NASA eventually making it in to space, many like Chuck Yeager, (the man who broke the sound barrier) stayed in the suddenly mundane Air Force. Yeager served in Vietnam, and led an Air Force Fighter Group in Europe in the 1970's, but never got closer to space than he was in the late 50's.

      In this movie, Clint Eastwood plays Frank Corvin a Yeager-like member of a fictional Air Force project called Team Daedalus that was pushing at the limits of space in the late 50's, only to have the rug pulled out from under them when space research went to NASA. Tommy Lee Jones plays Hawk, the best pilot on the team, and James Garner and Donald Sutherland are supporting members of the team.

      The movie starts very effectively as a blue-tinted flashback to the Muroc glory days of the Air Force sometime in 1958 with a portrayal of Team Daedalus' fall from grace. The theme music, written by Eastwood who also directed the movie, complements perfectly this nostalgic look at simpler and starker times.

      Flashing forward to the present the film picks up the pace as we learn that the Russians have a huge communications satellite called Ikon that has a deteriorating orbit and will be plummeting to Earth in 70 days or so. The Russians are adamant that the satellite must be saved and the only way to do it is with the Space Shuttle. Unfortunately, the shuttle isn't big enough to retrieve the massive satellite to return it to Earth, so repairs will need to be made in orbit. Adding to the complexity of the project is that the guidance system is 1970's era technology and there is no one around that knows enough about it to fix it.

      Surprisingly, it turns out that the guidance system is a copy of the guidance system that Eastwood's character Frank Corvin designed for SkyLab in the 1970's, and Corvin is still around, although retired. Suffice it to say that Corvin is lured out of retirement by the chance to go into space as long as he can take the other members of the old Team Daedalus with him.

      Eastwood, Jones, Garner and Sutherland are hilarious as the cantankerous old veterans cramming to learn how to fly a crash Space Shuttle mission. And James Cromwell, one of Hollywood's great character actors of the last 20 years does a fantastic job of playing the oily project manager, Bob Gerson. Cromwell is the kind of guy that seemingly pops up in small roles in every movie you see, but never actually stars in one. Every era of Hollywood has actors like that, think of Sidney Greenstreet in the 30's and 40's, and without them movies wouldn't be what they are. That said, Cromwell is truly great in this movie in what he does best, a supporting role.

      The rest of the movie is pretty standard: they go into space, things don't work out the way they were planned, there's a surprise or two, a disaster to be averted, and a "will they make it?" trip home. But the special effects are fantastic, everything outside of the shuttle was done with computer graphics with the actors faces plopped in behind their face shields, and it is absolutely convincing. Of course you hear the hiss of the propulsion units on the space suits and the roar of the maneuvering rockets in supposedly silent space, but physics has never been Hollywood's strong point.

      And while the second half of the movie is pretty formulaic, it is well done. The first half of the movie is different enough to make the whole thing an interesting and entertaining whole.

      4 out of 5 stars Old codgers show the young-uns how its done!.......2006-03-26

      Okay--it is a viable genre--the old codgers who come to save the day and don't use the new fangled computers that the young-uns are dependent on--etc. This is the top of that genre--Donald Sutherland displays why a younger woman would go for an older man--his aplomb, lack of shame and frank yet respectful worship of female beauty are hard to resist. Tommy Lee is hilarious, Clint is always Clint and James Garner rounds out the team.

      Enjoyable and worth seeing.

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