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The Right Stuff (1983)
Posted on 3/1/14 at 10:42 am
Posted on 3/1/14 at 10:42 am
One of my all time favorite movies
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Posted on 3/1/14 at 10:44 am to mizzoukills
It should have won Best Picture over Terms of Endearment that year. The Right Stuff is definitely on my list of favorite movies.
It was the first movie to pioneer the notion that men walking together in a straight line in slow motion was bad arse.
LINK
It was the first movie to pioneer the notion that men walking together in a straight line in slow motion was bad arse.
LINK
Posted on 3/1/14 at 10:58 am to mizzoukills
One of the movies that helped make nerds cool. Yeager and the astronauts weren't nerds, but everybody else was.
Posted on 3/1/14 at 11:02 am to Jim Rockford
Love that movie!
Posted on 3/1/14 at 11:08 am to Kingwood Tiger
actually they were nerds, moreso than the average stud pilot. those guys learned the technology. they weren't just cocky test pilots.
I'd argue that they were super nerds in the sense that they blended athleticism, panache, and technology into truly remarkable human beings.
I'd argue that they were super nerds in the sense that they blended athleticism, panache, and technology into truly remarkable human beings.
Posted on 3/1/14 at 11:33 am to mizzoukills
They were super nerds. Most of the Apollo procedures and hardware were co-developed by the astronauts alongside the engineers.
Posted on 3/1/14 at 12:43 pm to mizzoukills
Crazy fact from the IMDB page about the movie.
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While filming the lung-capacity sequence - in which the seven original Mercury astronauts need to blow into individual tubes to keep toy balls suspended in a beaker and end up in a competition of physical stamina - the seven actors portraying the astronauts actually competed with each other for the same reason. Gordon Cooper was third, John Glenn was second and Scott Carpenter won (in the movie). In reality, Gordon Cooper - the astronaut portrayed by Quaid - was the only non-smoker among the seven original astronauts, and therefore possessed a far-greater lung capacity than any of the others.
Posted on 3/1/14 at 12:57 pm to mizzoukills
Great Movie. 
When Tom Wolfe was writing the book, his original intent was to cover the entire US space program.
He found the Mercury project so interesting that he decided to expand on it and change his scope to cover that project only.
When Tom Wolfe was writing the book, his original intent was to cover the entire US space program.
He found the Mercury project so interesting that he decided to expand on it and change his scope to cover that project only.
Posted on 3/1/14 at 1:02 pm to mizzoukills
No Bucks. No Buck Rodgers.
Posted on 3/1/14 at 1:27 pm to Methuselah
Oceans 11 ripped off the fan dance at the end of The Right Stuff with the girl dancing to Claire de Lune and the astronauts looking at each other. In Oceans 11, the crew was at the fountain at the Bellaggio with Claire de Lune playing.
Same basic scene. Same music. Fountain instead of fan dance.
Same basic scene. Same music. Fountain instead of fan dance.
Posted on 3/2/14 at 12:49 am to mizzoukills
+1
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