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Author Topic: The Right Stuff Evans A Criswell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1579 From: Huntsville, AL, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 03-10-2003 10:50 AM                        Due to the shuttle disaster, my friends and I decided to have a space theme for our get-togethers for two or three weeks. "The Right Stuff" was a movie I wasn't aware of. I was really surprised after seeing it, and finding out that it came out in 1983, that this one slipped by me back then. I thought that this movie told a neat story of how the space program started, from pilots trying to break the sound barrier for the first time in a plane to orbiting the earth in a space capsule. This was a long movie but it held my attention, and everyone I've talked to that has seen this movie has had a high opinion of it. I felt the movie needed to be long to get all the detail in place as the story moved along. When it was over, in a way, I was hoping it would continue on to the moon missions. The movie made me want to learn more about these early astronauts (in the same way that seeing "A Beautiful Mind" made me want to learn more about John Nash). This is a movie worth owning on DVD. I was surprised that this movie was shot in "flat" format rather than "scope" like most movies of this type are.  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 03-10-2003 11:06 AM                        I haven't seen this movie in a long time but I do remember that it was really good. Now if I only had a 35mm print of it...  |  IP: Logged Michael Coate Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1904 From: Los Angeles, California Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-10-2003 01:01 PM                     quote: Now if I only had a 35mm print of it... Why settle for 35mm when 70mm prints were made??? The 70s would certainly do a better job showcasing the film's Oscar-winning music score and sound mix (even if faded and scratched at this point). For the home theatre crowd, a Special Edition DVD is in the works....  |  IP: Logged Evans A Criswell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1579 From: Huntsville, AL, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 03-10-2003 01:17 PM                        Did the 70mm prints preserve the "flat" aspect ratio, or were they vertically cropped or panned and scanned to 2.20:1?  |  IP: Logged Paul Linfesty Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1383 From: Bakersfield, CA, USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 03-10-2003 02:56 PM                     "flat" preserving the original 1.85 ratio. In this era of 70mm blow-ups, I can only think of "Rocky II," "Rocky III" and "War Games" as being blown-up to full 70mm 2.2 width (from flat 35mm photography. At least, of the ones I saw (and I saw most of the blow-ups in the 70's in L.A.)  |  IP: Logged Michael Coate Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1904 From: Los Angeles, California Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-10-2003 04:39 PM                     quote: In this era of 70mm blow-ups, I can only think of "Rocky II," "Rocky III" and "War Games" as being blown-up to full 70mm 2.2 width Rocky II???  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 03-10-2003 04:46 PM                     Paul wrote: quote: I can only think of "Rocky II" , "Rocky III" and "Wargames". Paul where did you see "Rocky II" in 70MM in Los Angeles? "Rocky II" played at the Regent and Plaza in Westwood and Hollywood Pacific in Hollywood. Maybe your thinking "Rocky IV".  |  IP: Logged Paul Linfesty Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1383 From: Bakersfield, CA, USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 03-10-2003 05:10 PM                     Yes. Rocky III (Chinese III) and Rocky IV (main Chinese). (I always get my sequel numbers mixed up).  |  IP: Logged Greg Mueller Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1687 From: Port Gamble, WA Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-11-2003 05:28 PM                        Trivia... At the Happy Bottom Riding Club...The little bar tender guy with the funny hat was Chuck Yeager. He appears a couple of times briefly  |  IP: Logged Hillary Charles Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 748 From: York, PA, USA Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-11-2003 05:50 PM                     "F#*kin' A, Bubba!" I saw this in the theater way back, and it was so grand, it gave me goosebumps. The Bill Conti score is inspiring, and it's a shame they never released a soundtrack album (or CD).  |  IP: Logged Michael Coate Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1904 From: Los Angeles, California Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-11-2003 06:43 PM                     quote: The Bill Conti score is inspiring, and it's a shame they never released a soundtrack album (or CD). I seem to recall a soundtrack being available on the Varese Sarabande (sp?) label paired up with another film. There's a very good recording of the main theme included on the Erich Kunzel/Cincinnati Pops CD compilation Star Tracks II (Telarc; CD-80146). Hillary: Something tells me you have the Xena: Warrior Princess soundtrack. [ 03-12-2003, 01:31 PM: Message edited by: Michael Coate ]  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 03-11-2003 06:47 PM                        Soundtrack: The Right Stuff -- North and South  |  IP: Logged Hillary Charles Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 748 From: York, PA, USA Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-12-2003 05:35 AM                     Cool! It must have taken a few years after the release of the movie to get that album out. At the time, I had no luck finding music from this movie. I think "Blade Runner" had the same problem, and a re-recording of the score was released. Since it's not the actually soundtrack recording, I wonder how this one compares. I'm guessing it's equally majestic. And Michael, you are mostly correct about the Xena soundtrack. Can you believe that there are actually SIX volumes of music from the series? Now the more unbelievable part: I ONLY HAVE FOUR! At some point, I may get around to acquiring the other two. What I enjoyed most about that show were the feature-level production values including the music. The composer, Joseph LoDuca produced 135 hours of music for the series, and it is fantastic. There are many passages reminiscent of Korngold, Hermann and others from Hollywoood's golden era, as well as Dvorak, yet much is also unique. One reviewer called "The Right Stuff" " 'Animal House' in space" which was very unfair. Even if they thought the storyline concentrated too much on the Mercury 7's monkeyshines, the music surely elevated it to a sweeping American epic.  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 03-12-2003 07:40 AM                    The Right Stuff will be the opening film at next month's Overlooked Film Festival aka Ebertfest with Phil Kaufman scheduled to attend.  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 03-12-2003 10:26 AM                        Hillary "THE RIGHT STUFF" with music from "THE NORTH & THE SOUTH" has been available for years and is one of my favorites. The finale is the best and features music that reminds me of Gustav Holst's "THE PLANETS" and the Polonaise from Peter Ilitch Tchaikovsky's opera "EUGENE ONEGIN". The score actually did use some music from the "PLANETS" as well as Claude Debussy's "CLAIR DE LUNE" It is a pity that the entire soundtrack is not available because what is on the CD is only a concert suite of the Academy Award winning score. By the way, Warner Brothers Home video will be releasing a two disc special edition DVD of "THE RIGHT STUFF" later this year and will replace the 'flipper' which has been available for years. The new edition will be very much like the reissued DVD of "AMADEUS" with a lot of extra materials on the production of the film as well as other 'Right Stuff'. Sorry for that pun . -Claude  |  IP: Logged

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