We watched this movie on blue ray tonight. Even though we have watched and enjoyed it so many times, we noticed new aspects and felt that same swell of pride in times and events that have become history. Watching this movie and even reading the book always makes me think how much I wish I would have paid more attention when the events were happening. I guess we were busy living our lives.
So many of the men who are portrayed in The Right Stuff have since passed on. But watching them in the forties, fifties and sixties brings back so many memories of what it was like to live in Central Florida at the time near Cocoa Beach, Cape Canaveral, Patrick AFB and Martin-Marietta. Fun to watch the scenes "filmed" there or made to look like Cocoa Beach in the fifties and sixties.
Better than the book and, in my opinion, one of the best movies ever made.
So many of the men who are portrayed in The Right Stuff have since passed on. But watching them in the forties, fifties and sixties brings back so many memories of what it was like to live in Central Florida at the time near Cocoa Beach, Cape Canaveral, Patrick AFB and Martin-Marietta. Fun to watch the scenes "filmed" there or made to look like Cocoa Beach in the fifties and sixties.
Better than the book and, in my opinion, one of the best movies ever made.