Author Topic: "The Right Stuff" (TV Series) (Read 16020 times)

Oersted · « **Reply #20 on:** 06/05/2020 11:06 am »

Gustav Holst's original Planets Symphony isn't half-bad either... - Especially "Jupiter"!

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #21 on:** 08/20/2020 03:37 pm »

https://twitter.com/disneyplus/status/1296446898270765058

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To carve their place in the world, they’ll have to leave it. Discover the story of America's first astronauts in The Right Stuff, an Original Series from @NatGeo, streaming Oct. 9 exclusively on #DisneyPlus. #TheRightStuffSeries

MATTBLAK · « **Reply #22 on:** 10/06/2020 03:30 am »

I recently found some 35mm promotional slides I got way back about 1983 for the movie of 'The Right Stuff'. I got them professionally scanned last week and I'll upload them here for you guys if you want to collect them. They are a collection of behind the scenes and stills from the movie.

MATTBLAK · « **Reply #23 on:** 10/06/2020 03:30 am »

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MATTBLAK · « **Reply #27 on:** 10/06/2020 03:33 am »

I'll put up the rest tomorrow!! Matt.

MATTBLAK · « **Reply #28 on:** 10/06/2020 10:28 am »

More Right Stuff 35mm slide uploads:

MATTBLAK · « **Reply #29 on:** 10/06/2020 10:28 am »

MATTBLAK · « **Reply #30 on:** 10/06/2020 10:30 am »

Aaaand the last batch...

Oersted · « **Reply #31 on:** 10/07/2020 08:35 pm »

Super stuff, thanks a lot Mattblak!

Thorny · « **Reply #32 on:** 10/10/2020 01:03 am »

Just as a reminder, the first two episodes ("Sierra Hotel" and "Goodies") are now available on the Disney+ Streaming Service.

spacenut · « **Reply #33 on:** 10/29/2020 01:44 am »

I've seen 4 episodes. Are there any more? Is there a second season?

racevedo88 · « **Reply #34 on:** 10/29/2020 11:43 pm »

Disappointed, so far, book and movie so much better. Also offended that producers didn’t even take the time to ensure military uniforms are correct. They had Alan Shepard Sr. Wearing the ribbon of the Medal of Honor.

Blackstar · « **Reply #35 on:** 10/30/2020 03:42 pm »

So, did anybody like it?

Oersted · « **Reply #36 on:** 11/05/2020 05:09 pm »

Saw the first episode, waste of time in my book. Just actors acting out scriptwriters fantasies, with very little regard for the actual personalities involved.

Skylon · « **Reply #37 on:** 11/10/2020 12:13 pm »

It was doing okay in my book until the last episode, which exposed some lingering problems I have been having. Overall, while it started with a better portrayal of the NASA side of things than the film (which IMHO made NASA look like a joke), the human "drama" is getting a bit stale and I am worried they are taking too long to get into space.

My biggest problem remains that this does not feel like "The Right Stuff." Wolfe's tone is almost totally absent, while my problems with the film aside, it at least maintained the voice of the source material - which translated to the Edwards/Yeager stuff being entertaining and some memorable portrayals of aspects of the book (the absurdity of the press-frenzy around the Mercury 7 for example). It feels like they just took the recognizable name of the book to grab viewers in order to tell "general-2020 dramatization of Project Mercury."

libra · « **Reply #38 on:** 11/10/2020 12:51 pm »

That's a good point. I mean, I watched (and loved) the movie long before reading the book, electronically then on paper.

The movie has its qualities and flaws. Most important fact is that the book, having been written by Tom Wolfe, also has peculiar style and character.

It is not as if The Right Stuff movie turned a flat and boring novel into a brilliant thing (cough, case in point: The bridges of Madison country... the novel is Barbara Cartland level of litterature, yet Clint Eastwood movie turned that into a gem).

The Right stuff novel by itself is singular enough, a good and original serie could be done out of it - yet completely independant from the movie.

Instead, the new serie suffers from BOTH book and movie comparisons - talk about shooting his own foot...

RoadWithoutEnd · « **Reply #39 on:** 11/23/2020 10:44 pm »

On the fence about trying this show. I'm always looking for things to recreate the magic of the Wolfe book and the movie, and also HBO's "From The Earth to the Moon," but early reports (also in this thread) are not encouraging for The Right Stuff series.

The trailer is very broad and cliche. They make it look like cookie-cutter fictional characters rather than actual history.

I would love to hear if anyone has had good experiences of this show though.