Space Cowboys confusion - **SPOILER**

In My Humble Opinion
1

So, Bernse and wife just rented it last nigh. OK, I know the movie wasn’t supposed to be an “ultra-real” movie, but I have to ask a couple of questions. Why exactly did “Hawk” (Tommy Lee Jones) have to “ride” on the Ikon? Was he in manual control of the rockets or something? And I gather the closing scene of him on the moon must have just been some creative conjecture if he made it to the moon? I gather this since if he would have actually impacted, it must have been at several thousand miles per hour and squished like a bug, correct?

Was the NASA director (the bad guy… the guy who played the Warden in the Green Mile) totally in the know about the nukes on board?

And what the hell was the deal with Donald Sutherland being this 90 y.o. ladies man? Am I the only one that found it slightly disturbing.

2

1st paragraph: Don’t know why he had to ride it. I suppose he could’ve let go near the moon and fired the thrusters on his MMU to slow down enough to land.

2.: Yes

3.: It was supposed to be funny.

3

I assumed he was steering the thing. But that’s silly; you don’t just do something like that by dead reckoning.

At those kind of impact speeds, he would actually have vaporized.

The love affair in the movie was very jarring, and unneeded. I am no fan of tacked-on mushy stuff just to make a film follow a formula.

Now, I did enjoy the movie, because I wasn’t expecting “Apollo 13”, just a fun movie. I have the astronomy/space stuff reviewed on my website, too: http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/movies/spacecowboys.html

4

I expected the NASA director to be hauled off by armed guards at the end of the movie. It didn’t seem to happen (maybe in the upcoming (probably) 'director’s cut).

Hawk also launched the missles into ‘deep space’ as part of his little joyride. Until just now, the fact that his unbroken body was shown on the moon didn’t surprise me.

I thought the Donald-Sutherland-as-a-ladykiller was just silly as was James Garner’s protrayal of a Baptist minister.

Bob.