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Summary: Not bad, but not always historically accurate
Review: This movie featured some superb special effects and some great acting performances, but it needed more attention to detail. They made Lyndon Johnson look like a clown with their cartoonish portrayel of him, and was harsh on Annie Glenn with her speech problem. I also would have liked more coverage of the spaceflights, and less attention to Chuck Yeager's and the astronaut's antics. In fact, the only time Wally Schirra and Deke Slayton appear are in a few scenes with all seven of the Mercury astronauts. Some of the real astronauts, similiarly, are a bit critical of this movie. Having said that, however, The Right Stuff was a good overall narrative of the Mercury program and the epic space race against the Soviet Union. If you are a space buff, it is still probably worth your time.
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Summary: A movie for all
Review: I have seen this movie many times, but I just purchased the DVD and decided it was time to sit down and enjoy it again. My boyfriend had not seen it before, and it sparked a great conversation between us about the beginnings of the space program. I realized then that this is a movie that everyone, especially kids, should see if they have the slightest interest in our countries modern history.The acting and filmography are wonderful. I have long been a fan of Ed Harris, and this movie definatly reminds me why. Even though it's long by today's shorter attention span standards, the story moves along quickly enough that it's not noticable, and I feel that nothing should have been left out in order to trim it down. The DVD offers some very interesting notes on both the cast and the history of the space program. A welcome addition to anyone's collection.
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Summary: An entertaining and wonderful video...
Review: I would like to use this space to say that this is one of my favourite movies of all time. it is true to the equally good Tom Wolfe novel that it is based on, with excellent and entertaining characters and stories. It is a must-see movie for basically anyone.
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Summary: It takes more than rocket fuel to attain escape velocity
Review: Weighing in at three+ hours, "The Right Stuff" gives us a fantastic insight into the embryonic stages of humanity's journey into space. It is a personal disappointment to me that our species hasn't done more with the opportunities that space travel has given us.
Based on Tom Wolfe's history of the space program, the film takes us through the early stages of American space exploration. It starts with Yeager's historic speed record when he broke the sound barrier and finishes at the end of the Mercury program. For this reason I think "Apollo 13" makes a good sequel to "The Right Stuff" as it concerns itself with the subsequent Apollo program.
The cast is outstanding and they mostly offer strong performances. For much of the film Sam Shepard gets center stage in his role as Chuck Yeager. However since Yeager was never allowed the opportunity to join the space program the second half of the film focuses on the seven astronauts on the Mercury program. The leader of this group is John Glenn played extremely well by Ed Harris.
The beauty of this movie is that it brings the intimidatingly immense NASA program down to a personal and therefore understandable level. We get to see the political infighting, the childish "must beat the Ruskies" mentality and the everyday fears of the astronauts. All of this is achieved without losing the heroics of the people involved. They put their lives on the line with a determined grin on their face while NASA risks its future with every launch.
This is a very good movie as pure entertainment but when its educational potential is added to the equation, I would have to say that it is raised to the height of excellence. But be careful of allowing young boys to watch it, unless you want them growing up to become pilots.
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Summary: This DVD has The "Right Stuff"
Review: I really liked this film. I have always been interested in Chuck Yeager and the original Mercury astronauts but this movie really excited me about the risks that they took to become America's heroes. The film is more than three hours long but it is very interesting and fun to watch not to mention being historically correct. If you have a good sound system for the end when Chuck Yeager steals the F-104 Starfighter to try and break the Russian climb record of 114,000 feet, I think you will have no problem staying awake. This is my favorite movie and really excited me to become a pilot in the US Air Force.
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Summary: The Right Stuff
Review: A true feeling of what is must be like to be on the leading eadge of something. Well done
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Summary: Reach for the stars
Review: Based on the Tom Wolfe book of the same name, Philip Kaufman has created what is for me the essential birth-of-the-space-race movie. The story is brilliantly told: how the virtually anonymous test pilots, like Chuck Yeager and Scott Crossfield, literally blazed a trail to the path to orbit. Their story is touchingly juxtaposed against the star-studded limelight of the astronauts of the Mercury program, heroes themselves, but with the benefit of magazine contracts, fame, and national recognition. Unlike some of the other reviewers, I disagree with the notion the Yeager story brings nothing to the movie, for in essence it IS the move. Revisionist historical aspects aside - Yeager wasn't selected to fly the X-1 in quite the manner the movie suggests - this is an outstanding story of heroism, bravery, and the mastery of a technological challenge that seemed insurmountable - manned space flight. While other movies have since tried to capture the post-Sputnik panic that gripped this nation - as with the wonderful "October Sky" - The Right Stuff continues to hold the number one spot in my collection. The casting is inspired and the actors deliver some quite astonishing performances in their respective roles. Sam Shepard is marvelous as Yeager, but to single out Shepard would be unfair to the rest of this remarkable cast. It is enjoyable to watch the actual Chuck Yeager in his cameo role in the movie - I won't say who he played, so you can spot him for yourself. This movie is quite an inspirational experience - hey Riddley, you got a stick of Beamans?
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Summary: Decent Movie At Best
Review: The Right Stuff is a decent movie at most. Much of the film seems to be just thrown in for no apparent reason. Also, the life of Yeager does not add much to the story. The film can be highly comic at times, while at others it is deathly serious. The picture and sound quality of this DVD are superb, especially for an older movie.
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Summary: could have been better
Review: I was not impressed at all with this movie. To show Gus Grissom as some sort of screw up was almost offensive to me. Did Tom Wolfe even bother to interview Deke Slayton, who was Gus' best friend? Did the director, producer, etc? Had anyone connected with this movie asked the right people and the right questions, then they would have had "The Right Stuff". This movie felt more like an overblown patriotic salute to the Mercury Seven than it did a genuine look at the beginnings of the space program. Instead of this movie, I would highly reccommend Tom Hank's series "From the Earth to the Moon." I'd also like to reccommend Slayton's autobiography "Deke"; that to me was a better look at what actually happened. Had Tom Wolfe started out with Deke, he would have had a far superior book.
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Summary: READ THE BOOK
Review: Not too many who saw this film seem to have read the book. I did and I know the movie completely misses many subtleties and points of Tom Wolfe's "new journalism" work. There was no depiction of the astronauts' psyche - first the humiliation of great fighter pilots chosen to duplicate what a monkey accomplished; then feelings of a military man's anxiety of "fouling up" a simple task, flying in a rocket. These are examples of finer details important to the story, yet the director failed to grasp.
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