Clint Eastwood teams up with some old friends to make SPACE COWBOYS, a rollicking motion picture that wraps action, comedy, and science fiction into one neat package. Eastwood... more
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Actor(s): Tommy Lee Jones, James Garner, Clint Eastwood, Marcia Gay Harden, Donald Sutherland
Director(s): Clint Eastwood
Genre: Action & Adventure
Classification: Parental Guidance
Production Year: 2000
Running Time: 2 hours 10 minutes
Video Category: Feature Film
Plot: In 1958 four test pilots lose the chance to be the first men to go into outer space due to the actions of their leader. Fast-forward to the present day; a Russian satellite is about to crash into the Earth's atmosphere and the original four are the only people able to save the day...
Release details
DVD Region: Region B
Studio(s): WARNER HOME VIDEO; CINRAM LOGISTICS
Release date: 04/12/2006
Catalogue No: BD 82848
Barcode: 7321900828482
Producer: Clint Eastwood
Languages
Main Language: English
Technical information
Sound: Dolby Digital
DVD Description
Clint Eastwood teams up with some old friends to make SPACE COWBOYS, a rollicking motion picture that wraps action, comedy, and science fiction into one neat package. Eastwood plays Frank Corvin, a former air force pilot who was shunned from flying into space in 1958 after NASA was created. Forty years later, when a Russian satellite appears to be headed for a collision with Earth, Corvin finally gets his chance. He bribes his archrival Bob Gerson (James Cromwell) into letting his team go into space to repair the satellite, on the condition that they pass the physical. However, passing the physical isn't so easy for aging veterans Jerry O'Neil (Donald Sutherland), Tank Sullivan (James Garner), and Hawk Hawkins (Tommy Lee Jones), who, while still mentally sharp, aren't in the best of physical shape. Nonetheless, they manage to fill all the requirements. Ignoring the two cocky upstarts who have been sent along to back them up, the old-timers blast off and head straight for the satellite. But when they get there, the realization that the satellite is actually carrying six nuclear warheads changes the course of the mission, endangering the lives of the astronauts as well as the citizens of America. With exceptional special effects and a breezy tone, SPACE COWBOYS is one of Eastwood's most entertaining films to date.
Advantages: Action Packed Disadvantages: none in my opinion
...This volume has all the elements that make cowboy bebop such great series. From the action and cinematic quality in the episode where vicious makes his appearance to the comic relief that Ed adds to the story, when he gets picked up. Of course the script of the dubbing and the quality of actors voices make the translation from the original Japanese into English flawless and is probably one of the best examples of dubbed anime. the volume also contains some excellent scenes based in space which add an extra dimension to an already entertaining DVD. Overall this is an essential instalment of the Cowboy bebop series where the plot starts to take form and the most minor but also most entertaining character gets picked up from earth....
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Advantages: A Great film, very entertaining. Great Special Effects. Disadvantages: It's sad too!
...SpaceCowboys 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. For those who like to know, the Special Features and Technical Specifications are as follows.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
Interactive menus
Scene Access
Theatrical Trailer
4 Behind the Scenes Documentaries
Languages in Dolby Digital 5.1: English
Subtitles: English/ Arabic/ Romanian/ Bulgarian/ English for the Hearing Impaired.
DVD-Rom PC: Space shuttle Challenge. Links to Original Web-site.
TECHNICAL DETAILS:
Widescreen 2.35:1
Running Time 126 minutes, approx.
Dual layer format
• Region 2 encoding (Europe, Middle East & Japan only)
• Colour, Widescreen, PAL
CAST:
Clint Eastwood - Dr. Francis D. 'Frank' Corvin
James Garner - Tank Sullivan
Tommy Lee Jones...
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Advantages: Good special effects and serenity has a great plot. Disadvantages: Doom is a bit of a let-down.
...Serenity - A hardened spacecowboy, psychic butt-kicking girl, flesh eating carnivorous humans living on the outskirts of space and a galactic conspiracy. Altogether a fantastic story, great special effects and an interesting take on the development of language in the future. Like Shakespeare in space! Sorry Will.
Doom - Trouble in a secret research facility on a foreign planet. Only one way in and out and the genetically enhanced killers aren't aloud out! The Rock with some big guns and explosions. Based on the hugely popular computer game Doom.
Hardcore Doom fans may find the lack of first person views disappointing, but overall a good special effects and a mediocre script and plot.
2 for the price of 1, but at this price I'm not sure if I would have purchased them. Happilly added to my DVD collection at lower price...
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somewhat helpful 16.03.2008
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