The Cowboys DVD

Advantages: touching, funny and memorable
Disadvantages: depictions of violence and prostitution may be shocking

...of sexuality but for a brief violent scene towards the end. Despite the lack of blood and gore, it is a genuinely disturbing scene and one that is still difficult for me to watch, despite having watched it so many times. Considered ground-breaking in its time, Midnight Cowboy holds up over thirty years on. Despite its overwhelmingly bleak and tragic nature, it is also thoroughly entertaining and, in parts, uplifting. I first saw Midnight Cowboy on late-night television and immediately ordered it from amazon so that I could show it to everyone I could pester into sitting down with me for two hours. All of them thanked me for it afterwards. Midnight Cowboy is a classic piece of cinema and deserves to be preserved as such. The DVD package doesn't come with too many extras (a trailer, chapter selection, some pretty menus - you spoil us... Read review

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Advantages: Takes me back to my youth.
Disadvantages: It's over 40 years old...therefore so am I! Do I need to be reminded of such things?

.../Steve Martin movie The Three Amigos, which was a spoof on the same plot. (Apologies, I can’t remember the name of the actor who played Ned Neederlander…but what do YOU care?) ANYWAY… where was I? Well…WH Smith, Putney High Street actually. Looking for something else entirely, and what springs up before my eyes? (As well as hope, which we all know springs eternal)Why, it’s a copy of The Magnificent Seven on DVD ‘pon my soul! So, staggering under the immense burden of one DVD and countless childhood memories, off I went, via the conveniently placed till, to relive my mis-spent youth. The movie was everything I expected…all that was missing was some Butterkist and Kia-ora to take me straight back to row F, seat 25 on a Saturday afternoon. For DVD, the film has been remastered in both the sound and the vision departments. Visually, it retains... Read review

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Advantages: A Great film, very entertaining. Great Special Effects.
Disadvantages: It's sad too!

...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. 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... Read review

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