Space Cowboys (2000)

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"I can't fill up a space shuttle with geriatrics!" Trust Clint Eastwood to step up to the challenge of directing a space-based adventure movie in the shadow of moronic films like Armageddon and Battlefield Earth. Although imperfect, 2000's Space Cowboys is a consistently engaging and humorous drama-comedy with likeable characters, and it eschews the insulting idiocy of similar Hollywood pictures.... read more

Like many other movies directed by Clint Eastwood, it has been a while since I have see this one and I will probably re-watch it at some point. Before making back-top-back all those heavy dramas (some people have actually criticized him of making nowadays some obvious Oscar bait every time around), Clint Eastwood used to mix it a little bit more in the past, making also some features easier to dig... read more

Frank Corvin, "Hawk" Hawkins, Jerry O'Neill and Tank Sullivan were hotdog members of Project DAEDALUS, the Air Force's test program for space travel. Their hopes were dashed in 1958 with the formation of NASA and the use of trained chimps.