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 The Right Stuff (DVD)
 The Right Stuff (DVD) ... / DVD released 25 September, 1998 at Warner Home Video / Features of the DVD: PAL / Philip Kaufman's intimate epic about the Mercury astronauts (based on Tom Wolfe's book) was one of the most ambitious and spectacularly exciting movies of the 1980s. It surprised almost everybody by not becoming a smash hit. By all rights, the film should have been every bit the success that Apollo 13 would later become; The Right Stuff is not only just as thrilling, but it is also a bigger and better movie. Combining history (both established and revisionist), grand mythmaking (and myth puncturing), adventure, melodrama, behind-the-scenes dish, spectacular visuals, and a down-to-earth sense of humour, The Right Stuff chronicles NASA's efforts to put a man in orbit. Such an achievement would be the first step toward President Kennedy's goal of reaching the moon, and, perhaps most important of all, would win a crucial public relations/morale victory over the Soviets, who had delivered a stunning blow to American pride by launching Sputnik, the first satellite. The movie contrasts the daring feats of the unsung test pilots--one of whom, Chuck Yeager, embodied more than anyone else the skill and spirit of Wolfe's title--against the heavily publicised (and sanitised) accomplishments of the Mercury astronauts. Through no fault of their own, the spacemen became prisoners of the heroic images the government created for them in order to capture the public's imagination. The casting is inspired; the film features Sam Shepard as the legendary Yeager, Ed Harris as John Glenn, Dennis Quaid as "Gordo" Cooper, Scott Glenn as Alan Shepard, Fred Ward as Gus Grissom, Scott Wilson as Scott Crossfield, and Pamela Reed and Veronica Cartwright are superb in their thankless roles as astronauts' wives. --Jim EmersonNewest Review: ... gung ho fashion but in a quietly understated intelligent way. It takes its time trying to explain how the legends were made ... more ... and created. From the first selection to the training to the first missions and disasters to the triumphs that were to come. Refreshingly the wives are not just the side story and being wheeled in whenever there is a tragedy to weep on someones shoulders. It also shows just how much the whole space effort was politicised and how no effort was spared to justify the expense to the public through Time magazine, newspapers and televisions almost minute examination and worship of the astronauts and their families. The ...more |
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The Right Stuff (DVD): Definately The Right Stuff (429 words)
by - written on 25/09/01 (Very useful, 34 readings)
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The Right Stuff is an adaptation of the book by Tom Wolfe, released originally in 1983. Although winning 4 Academy Awards it has been unfairly overlooked by many people just as a dull, toys for the boys biopic. When you compare Apollo 13 to this film, there is no contest. As gripping as that film was this is a far superior effort on a much broader scale This film tells the story of the Mercury astronauts ( Shepard, Carpenter, Glenn etc ) through the beginnings of the sound barrier challenges to the beginning of the Apollo missions not in an balls out gung ho fashion but in a quietly understated intelligent way. It takes its time trying to explain how the ... Read the complete review
Better than Apollo 13 (281 words)
by - written on 09/08/00 (Very useful, 45 readings)
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The Right Stuff is one of my favourite films and proudly sits in my DVD collection and not just because it represents excellent value for money due to it being over 3 hours long. The film splits nicely into 2 parts (which the BBC usually take advantage of when they show it over successive nights). The first part being the story of the Test Pilots of the X-Planes in post war western America. The second part is the story of the Mercury 7, America’s first Astronaughts. The film has an excellent score (I think it might have won an Oscar for it) and is remarkable for the fact that the actors mostly look like their true life characters, check out the ... Read the complete review
The Right Stuff (DVD): A film everybody should see (281 words)
by - written on 17/10/00 (Very useful, 38 readings)
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The Right Stuff is one of those movies which I can see over and over again and not tire of it. The intro, describing the sound barrier as a "demon that lived in the air," not only sets the tone of the movie of man overcoming the challenges placed before him but also is one of the most memorable I've ever seen. Director Philip Kaufman does an excellent job recreating the sense of awe of the era associated with manned space flight as well as the heroic spirit of the astronauts and test pilots. Sam Shepard is terrific as the legendary test pilot Chuck Yeager (be sure to look out for the real Chuck Yeager playing a bartender in Pancho's). ... Read the complete review
My next DVD (227 words)
by - written on 18/08/00 (Very useful, 16 readings)
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My DVD collection is now hitting the hundred mark, and what better way to make my century than with the widescreen version of the Right Stuff. Tom Wolfe's book is probably my most read, borrowed, and well-thumbed paperback. Drop it casually onto a table and it falls open at every page. The Right Stuff is all the more astonishing because it's not just based on the truth, it really is the truth. The movie captures the spirit of the book, which captures the spirit of the age and the righteous spirit of the Mercury astronauts. I vividly remember watching the broadcast of one of the Apollo rockets take off on our black and white telly, at the same time ... Read the complete review
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