The Right Stuff (Two-Disc Special Edition) | Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn

The Right Stuff (Two-Disc Special Edition) | Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn | The Real Right Stuff

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	The Right Stuff (Two-Disc Special Edition) Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn Warner Home Video, 2003 average customer review:based on 144 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A classic with a Bonus!!

If you are a fan of space and the astronaut program, the bonus DVD has some pretty good interviews with the cast and a couple of the Mercury 7 astronauts. I loved all of it!!

The Real Right Stuff

Excellent and outstanding. I saw the movie so long ago, and them it was on VHS. DVD quality and sound reenacted the same reactions as when I saw it in the theater. This is a must have!!!!!

Funny and Informative and Irreverent and Respectful

This movie is really a nice job on so many levels. It's about test pilots and astronauts and the early days of the space race. It's about humor and risk and fear and courage and love.

I read Wolfe's "The Right Stuff" novel because I never knew the background stories behind selecting the astronauts etc. His mix of humor and drama surprised and intrigued me. Reading about Chuck Yeager led me to read Yeager's biography also, which I highly recommend.

The movie is a perfect multimedia complement to the book. They recreated the look and feel, excitement and anxiety of the Cold War Space Race 60's and added twists of humor and respectful but irreverent digs at how seriously everyone took things.

They found actors that LOOKED like 60's crew-cut clean-marine astronauts, and actresses that LOOKED like 60's pillbox-hat Jackie Kennedy wannabe's. They even found a Lyndon Johnson vice president and Sally Rand fan dancer!

So it's funny and informative and irreverent and respectful. Somehow, through all the foibles of being human, the spirit of pulling together and pulling it out comes through.

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Great for anyone!

I saw this movie in my AP US History class and I think that this is one of the most complete films concerning the modern-era space program, as the film captures our breaking of the sound barrier, the need for aerial speed, and finally, the space race with Russia. Dennis Quaid is wonderful in THE RIGHT STUFF, many parts had my entire class laughing.Great film for anyone looking for a fun movie about the space program.

A Noble Failure

Philip Kaufman's effort to translate Tom Wolfe's writing to the screen suffers from the same problem as Bonfire of the Vanities: what comes through on the printed page as brilliant and witty prose becomes trite or just plain awkward as dialogue. To Kaufman's credit, he made a conscious decision to emulate Wolfe's style, preserving the flavor that makes the book so engaging, but he also bit off more than he could chew. By attempting to cram every anecdote from the book into his film (as well as adding a few of his own) he has made a movie that just goes on and on . . . and on. No fault in the performances; they're all superb. Ed Harris, Sam Shepard, Fred Ward and Dennis Quaid stand out in an exemplary cast. What bogs the film down is the lack of tight editing. Many sequences could have been tightened or eliminated altogether (the Australian Aborgines' fire somehow creating John Glenn's "fireflies" and the entire Sally Rand fan-dance sequence, to name two obvious examples). Kaufman deserves credit for his effort but ultimately falls short of creating the film The Right Stuff could have been.

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