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Subject: Right Stuff
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Date: Mon, 31-Oct-83 19:55:17 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 31 19:55:17 1983
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"The Right Stuff":  Well, if you like REAL men who go where men are men,
and women are women, and federal bureaucrats are bumbling idiots.  If
you like fly-boy philosophy and fly-boy antics.  If you like team spirit
and raw guts, you'll probably like this movie.  It's about the space
program, from the X-1 to the last Mercury flight and the men (and their
wives) who made American space flight great.

"The Right Stuff" stars a bunch of unknowns.  The only actor I
recognized was the "Mutt" of a Mutt and Jeff pair of federal agents.
This tall guy also appears as Michael in "The Big Chill".  The guy that
plays Yeager does a damn good job of being a REAL man.  Fuckin' A Bubba!

Oh, yes, I should explain that.  Gus Grissom is protrayed as a sullen,
brooding, quiet but powerful type.  He spends most of the movie giving
the thumbs up and saying "Fuckin' A Bubba!" anytime he agrees with
something.

SFX are negligible and primitive, but this is ok since this is a story
about "people", or that's what it says on the lable anyway.  No
gratuitous sex or violence.  There are quite a few humorous moments,
especially when LBJ is lampooned.  Good cinematograpy.  Competent
direction.  What else can I say?

One thing that I found myself wondering during the movie is that, during
the scenes where the astronauts are shown at press conferences, were the
things that the actors said ACTUALLY what the originals had said,
verbatim?  Or was some poetic license involved?  If the former turns out
to be true, I'd love to see the newsreels that those scenes were based
on.  You wouldn't believe some of the gung-ho jive that John Glenn (the
Clean Marine) was spouting!  It was a riot!

On the Commodore's Scale of Merit (six bells being all's well) I'd give
this movie a 4.


Commodore Perry