Comments on: Do You Have The Right Stuff? A Critical Overview of The Movie

By: Kristin

Kristin — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:35:32 +0000

Yes, love this movie!!! Have seen it so many times! I love how the press sounds like locust and every character was just perfect!

By: Mickey Tapp

Mickey Tapp — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:44:10 +0000

I grew up with the SPACE RACE , I love thiis movie

By: Mickey Tapp

Mickey Tapp — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:40:58 +0000

I grew up with the

By: Mindy

Mindy — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:54:49 +0000

I ADORE this movie!!!!!!

By: rita

rita — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:29:23 +0000

I love the movie too, and I can't believe you failed to mention the remarkable performance of Sam Shepard as Yeager. He epitomized the appeal of the fighter jock.
Kim Stanley was wonderful as the pioneer aviatrix Pancho Barnes, and William Russ was fine as the renowned free-lance test pilot Slick Goodlin. What a great name for a fly boy.

By: Grace

Grace — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:53:06 +0000

I LOVED this movie!! Had the good fortune to see it in a theater (on "the big screen"). I remember thinking that it looses at lot when I saw it on the smaller TV screen years later.

By: Ken A

Ken A — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:48:12 +0000

Thanks to Mr. Wiebe for giving this film the recognition it deserves. I was truly stunned that year that the hokey "Terms of Endearment" won everybody's award and I was taken with "Stuff" from the get-go. I also really think Sam Shepard's performance as Yeager deserved more recognition than it got.

By: Gaiking6

Gaiking6 — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:46:16 +0000

I watched this movie on video so many times I have it memorized and can't watch it any more. I practically learned how to speak from it, but what it did give me was a lifelong love of music in film. I've hunted high and low for all the bits of music in Glenn's flight (Holst, Mancinni). I still don't have it all. But I can hum it to myself whenever I see the stars out at night.

By: Michael Bate

Michael Bate — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:13:47 +0000

This is one of my all-time favorite films. When I saw "Apollo 13" I kept thinking how much better "The Right Stuff" is, and made a point to see it again.

Hopefully this film will soon be available on Blu-ray.

By: Mike v

Mike v — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:00:21 +0000

I love this movie--then and now. I remember wanting to see it when it first came out (I was a "fly boy" myself at the time). It faded at the theaters so fast, the only place I could see it was at one of those $1 movie theaters in Tacoma Washington. I think they had beer for sale there. I put it up there with the Godfather! I recently played the DVD for my 20-year-old son and he loved it too ("Wow, Dad, Dennis Quaid looks so young!"). I think his favorite parts were in the scenes in the President's meeting room.