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Summary: Truly inspiring! An absolute classic.
Review: This film just has no flaws. The acting is great. Particulary Ed Harris and Fred Ward as John Glenn and Gus Grissom respectively. But as always Dennis Quaid is fabulous and histerical at the same time.What makes this film so special is the direction and the combination of multiple courageous, tragic, uplifting, ironic and heroic stories all woven together so perfectly. The scene that comes to mind the most for me is the way that Mr. Kaufman weaves the final reception with LBJ for the astronauts with Chuck Yeagers last solo flight of the film. Absolutely beautiful. Plus there's plenty of comedy particularly while there undergoing the selection process.
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Summary: Classic Movie
Review: This movie is every bit as good as Apollo 13 or From The Earh To The moon. It is the classic story of the Mercury program and like it says on the cover a story of How The Future Began. The acting is superb and the direction is the best. I recommend it to anyone who is slightly interested in the space program and how it began.
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Summary: Great movie, lousy DVD
Review: I've tried watching this DVD on my Toshiba notebook using both InterActual's PCFriendly and Mediamatics DVDExpress. In both cases, the movie always plays right away; I never get the start menu like it shows on the back of the box. Also whenever I fast forward or rewind, the movie freezes and won't play, so I get to shut down the player or sometimes even "End Task" on the player. As another review already noted, the movie is burned into both sides of the disk. If the menu, fast forward and rewind worked I'd be happy, because this is a great movie, but unfortunately I can't recommend this DVD. Maybe you'll have more success with other players.
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Summary: Let's light this candle!
Review: Remember when we had big dreams? When a president said we will "land a man on the moon and bring him back safely"? This movie does. I love the dialogue, the characterizations and the yearning-for-the-sky score by Bill Conti, but most of all I love the depiction of a period when our nation believed there was no goal too high, too far to be achieved. ... Note to those disappointed by the DVD's two-sided, flip-the-disc format: the theatrical release of The Right Stuff contained an intermission, so the DVD pause is "true" to the film, so to speak.
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Summary: Have rocket, will travel
Review: Excellent film that shows us how the United States space program got under way in the fifties and early sixties. At the time of its release, many of the actors and actresses in this film were not well known. Ed Harris got his career off to a great start with his fine portrayal of John Glenn. Honorable mention goes to actor Donald Moffat as Vice President Lyndon Johnson. Watch the newsreel footage of President John Kennedy receiving Alan Sheppard at the White House; the real Lyndon Johnson can be seen standing in the background. This must have been one of the first films to be available on DVD; it's presented on an unmarked double-sided disc. Most people will find it annoying to have to get up and flip the disc over to see the second part of the film.
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Summary: NOT DUAL LAYERED!!
Review: This is an awesome movie that deserves a better DVD format. I just want to warn everybody that this movie is over 3 hours long and the disc is not dual layered. This means that halfway through one has to get up and flip the disc over. As a film though "The Right Stuff" rates 5 stars.
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Summary: Difficult to review
Review: For me, a big fan of the space program, especially Apollo, was excited to get this movie for I knew little about the Mercury Space Program. My review of this movie may be flawed because I expected one thing and got another. I expected a lot more insight into the, technical sides of things I guess, but instead I got a movie more along the lines of 7 buddies. I thought the movie lacked in visual effects of the missions themselves, for they were brief and lack luster. And for a movie of 3 plus movies, I wish to be interested the whole way through. Now as much sense as that may make, I gave the movie a generous 4 stars, and if you are looking for a movie on the Mercury Program itself, this isn't it.
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Summary: For one brief shining moment, Gordo Cooper was the best...
Review: 3 1/4 hours of top-notch entertainment. Equal parts satire, history, technical dazzlement and humor. This is one of the best films of the 80s. Equally remarkable: this is where most of the actors finally made it: Sam Shepherd (as an actor), Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Dennis Quaid, Fred Ward, this list goes on. Too bad it wasn't a mini-series, there isn't a boring moment in it and very much in keeping with the themes of Tom Wolfe's book. Hollywood may have destroyed "Bonfire of the Vanities" years later but this one was dead on the money. Trivia Note: William Goldman originally wrote the screenplay which was completely chucked (except for the argument between Gus Grissom and his wife.) For the complete story of Goldman's involvement, check out the book "Adventures In The Screen Trade" (1983.)
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Summary: Pushing the Envelope of Space!
Review: 'The Right Stuff' is one of the most glorious adventure films ever made, a story of incredible heroism, poignant romance, gripping drama, and broad humor...and amazingly, it has actually happened in our lifetimes! This is a tale of test pilots, 'pushing the envelope', proving the sound barrier couldn't constrain mankind's reach for space. Leading the way is plain-speaking Chuck Yeager (portrayed by Sam Shepard with Gary Cooper-like charm), a Beeman's gum-chewing cowboy with a passion for his feisty wife (the beautiful Barbara Hershey), and hot planes. Not even a broken rib could hold him back when an opportunity to fly the X-1 was offered. His record-breaking flight could fill a movie by itself...and this is just the BEGINNING of the story! Jumping ahead a few years, Yeager is joined by a new breed of test pilots, whose total love of flight challenges their relationships, and is the true measure of how they define themselves. Among them are 'Gordo' Cooper (Dennis Quaid), a hot dog jet jockey with an unhappy wife (sensitively played by Pamela Reed); and Gus Grissom (brilliantly portrayed by Fred Ward), coarse and direct, and anxious for his shot at the fastest jets. The entire world changes when the Russians launch Sputnik, in 1957. As the American space program struggles to 'catch up', the government realizes that American men will have to go into space, and President Eisenhower wants test pilots to fill this role. Yeager is out (he never completed college), but Cooper and Grissom, and many others, compete for spots in the New Frontier. These pilots, from all services, are weeded down to seven men, dubbed 'Astronauts', and the Mercury Space Program is born! Along with Cooper and Grissom, the story focuses on Navy pilot Alan Sheppard (Scott Glenn), laconic and prone to ethnic humor; and Marine John Glenn (perfectly cast Ed Harris), a 'boy scout' of unimpeachable morals, who loyally supports an impaired wife. Working under the glare of the world press, the seven gradually come to respect one another, and embark on an epic adventure, full of triumph and tragedy! Meanwhile, Chuck Yeager, snubbed by NASA, continues to test new generations of jets, until, in a climactic scene, he achieves the threshold of space, himself. The flight is a near disaster, resulting in a horrendous crash, but the image of the burned but undefeated pilot, walking proudly away from the wreckage, is an unforgettable image of courage, and truly defines 'The Right Stuff'! This is a REMARKABLE film in every way, and is director Philip Kaufman's masterpiece. Lushly scored by Tom Conti (who won an Oscar for the Tchaikovsky-inspired music), the film soars, both on earth and in space! If you believe the Age of Heroes is past, buy 'The Right Stuff', and you might change your mind! This is a film to treasure!
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Summary: Movie was too short !!!!!!
Review: I was so caught up with the sequence of events leading to the beginning of the Apollo mission that I was disappointed with the movie ending so soon. This three hour movie only felt like about 20 minutes. If you enjoy the history of space travel then you have to see this. The DD soundtrack was very well remastered for a movie that was made in the eighties. Other movies you must check out after this are 'From the earth to the moon' and 'Apollo 13'.
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