List Price: $26.98 Our Price: $13.47YOU SAVE $13.51!
Buy it
DVD The Right Stuff (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Philip Kaufman's intimate epic about the Mercury astronauts (based on Tom Wolfe's book) was one of the most ambitious and spectacularly exciting movies of the 1980s. It surprised almost everybody by not becoming a smash hit. By all rights, the film should have been every bit the success that Apollo 13 would later become; The Right Stuff is not only just as thrilling, but it is also a bigger and better movie. Combining history (both established and revisionist), grand mythmaking (and myth puncturing), adventure, melodrama, behind-the-scenes dish, spectacular visuals, and a down-to-earth sense of humor, The Right Stuff chronicles NASA's efforts to put a man in orbit. Such an achievement would be the first step toward President Kennedy's goal of reaching the moon, and, perhaps most important of all, would win a crucial public relations/morale victory over the Soviets, who had delivered a stunning blow to American pride by launching Sputnik, the first satellite. The movie contrasts the daring feats of the unsung test pilots--one of whom, Chuck Yeager, embodied more than anyone else the skill and spirit of Wolfe's title--against the heavily publicized (and sanitized) accomplishments of the Mercury astronauts. Through no fault of their own, the spacemen became prisoners of the heroic images the government created for them in order to capture the public's imagination. The casting is inspired; the film features Sam Shepard as the legendary Yeager, Ed Harris as John Glenn, Dennis Quaid as "Gordo" Cooper, Scott Glenn as Alan Shepard, Fred Ward as Gus Grissom, Scott Wilson as Scott Crossfield, and Pamela Reed and Veronica Cartwright are superb in their thankless roles as astronauts' wives. --Jim Emerson
Review(s): DVD The Right Stuff (Two-Disc Special Edition)
One of the Best Movies Ever!
I have seen this movie at least 25 times and it never gets old. I saw it twice at the movie theatre and bought it on video as soon as it was released. I have since purchased it on DVD and enjoy the extras. It's great for all ages, plus the music is awesome. Funny fact: A soundtrack was never released until after it actually won an Academy Award for Best Original Score by Bill Conti. And even then, it was slapped together in a hurry, because people ran out to buy a soundtrack that didn't exist!
It's a wonderful story about a facinating subject that everyone in the family can enjoy. It is longer than average movies, but that's okay. Well worth the time spent. If you have never seen it, treat yourself and your family to a movie night, with The Right Stuff, popcorn and goodies. You'll be so glad you did!
The All American Heros
Great movie. The photography, sound, story line and acting was outstanding.
The Right Stuff almost
As a fan of the space program and it's great history I really like this movie. This is an excellent dvd of the movie, and it contains much printed information on the movie, actors, etc,. but I was a bit disappointed that it didn't contain footage and interviews of the making of the film. I would still recommend it to Right Stuff fans however.
Related DVD's The Right Stuff (Two-Disc Special Edition)
NASA's worst nightmare turned into one of the space agency's most heroic moments in 1970, when the Apollo 13 crew was forced to hobble home in a disabled capsule after an explosion seriously damaged the moon-bound spacecraft. Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and Bill Paxton play (respectively) astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise in director Ron Howard's intense, painstakingly authentic docudrama. The Apollo 13 crew and Houston-based mission controllers race against time and heavy odds to return the damaged spacecraft safely to Earth from a distance of 205,500 miles. Using state-of-the-art special effects and ingenious filmmaking techniques, Howard and his stellar cast and crew build nail-biting tension while maintaining close fidelity to the facts. The result is a... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Ron Howard DVD Release Date: Released the 29 March 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
List Price: $12.98 Your Price: $9.89YOU SAVE $3.09!
Buy it
Originally broadcast in April and May of 1998, the epic miniseries From the Earth to the Moon was HBO's most expensive production to date, with a budget of $68 million. Hosted by executive producer Tom Hanks, the miniseries tackles the daunting challenge of chronicling the entire history of NASA's Apollo space program from 1961 to 1972. For the most part, it's a rousing success. Some passages are flatly chronological, awkwardly wedging an abundance of factual detail into a routine dramatic structure. But each episode is devoted to a crucial aspect of the Apollo program. The cumulative effect is a deep and thorough appreciation of NASA's monumental achievement. With the help of a superlative cast, consistent writing, and a stable of talented directors, Hanks has shared his... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 20 September 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
List Price: $59.98 Your Price: $59.99YOU SAVE $-0.010000000000005!
Buy it
When Stanley Kubrick recruited Arthur C. Clarke to collaborate on "the proverbial intelligent science fiction film," it's a safe bet neither the maverick auteur nor the great science fiction writer knew they would virtually redefine the parameters of the cinema experience. A daring experiment in unconventional narrative inspired by Clarke's short story "The Sentinel," 2001 is a visual tone poem (barely 40 minutes of dialogue in a 139-minute film) that charts a phenomenal history of human evolution. From the dawn-of-man discovery of crude but deadly tools in the film's opening sequence to the journey of the spaceship Discovery and metaphysical birth of the "star child" at film's end, Kubrick's vision is meticulous and precise. In keeping with the director's underlying theme... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Stanley Kubrick DVD Release Date: Released the 12 June 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
List Price: $19.98 Your Price: $14.99YOU SAVE $4.99!
Buy it
One of the greatest screen biographies ever produced, this monumental film runs nearly three hours, won seven Academy Awards, and gave George C. Scott the greatest role of his career. It was released in 1970 when protest against the Vietnam War still raged at home and abroad, and many critics and moviegoers struggled to reconcile current events with the movie's glorification of Gen. George S. Patton as a crazy-brave genius of World War II.
How could a movie so huge in scope and so fascinated by its subject be considered an anti-war film? The simple truth is that it's not--Patton is less about World War II than about the rise and fall of a man whose life was literally defined by war, and who felt lost and lonely without the grand-scale pursuit of an enemy. George C. Scott embodies his... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Franklin J. Schaffner DVD Release Date: Released the 23 May 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
List Price: $19.98 Your Price: $11.47YOU SAVE $8.51!
Buy it
