A chaotically put together retelling of America's early space program, it's still full of great actors, noteworthy moments, and events that overcome its structure.
Full review: http://letterboxd.com/three_star_dave/film/the-right-stuff/
Four stars. Worth at least one watch.
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It's a pretty iconic movie.
It always amused me that it won the best editing Oscar. That's not exactly its strength.
I re-watched this a couple of weeks ago. Sat down at about 10:30pm for "a good movie before bed". Had completely forgotten how ridiculously long it was.
Still awesome, though.
+Colm Buckley Yeah, that was the biggest problem in fitting it into an evening — 3 hours and change is a very run long time, not helped by the structure of the film (i.e., this is not a 3.5 hour long story, but a 3.5 hour long collection of events).
Reading about it, apparently Philip Kaufman, the director and (eventual) screenwriter was a PitA to work for, driving away John Barry as composer and William Goldman as a screenwriter.
+Greg Stockton love