A Few Words About A few words about...™ The Right Stuff -- in Blu-ray (1 Viewer)

[davidmatychuk]

The sound design, old-school curated audio at its finest, is magnificent. Turn it up for maximum effect!

 

[ChromeJob]

Heard back from Sherri within a day, she's still sending replacements. Really delighted, I've had bad experiences with Warner Home Entertainment in the past (incl. mis-represented audio/video encoding).

 

[ChromeJob]

Six days after writing Sherri, and I have a replacement disc in hand. Way to go, Ms. Bogard.


I can't hear a difference, though if I understand the Dolby white paper, the idea is to upscale the audio to enable a filter, then send the higher quality audio stream to the AVR to decode into analog. Audible differences? Probably not. Benefit to giving the AVR as much as twice as much information to work with? Probably so.


So my AVR identifies the audio stream as 96Khz as expected. For those who don't have a way to display the sampling rate ("fs" on some AVRs), I can tell you my Panasonic player shows the size of the stream in real time. The moment when Yeager is riding to Pancho's Happy Bottom Riding Club and comes upon an engine test of the X-1, there's a closeup of the cockpit glass with the sun glinting off it, louder drums, and a cut to Yeager's face ... the stream is barely 2.0Mbps on the 48Khz disc, and goes over 3.1Mbps on the 96Khz disc. Likewise it jumps that high at the beginning of the chapter (shot of the X-1 by a hangar) where Glennis is driving him up in a Jeep for his flight.

 

[davidmatychuk]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/robert-chartoff-dead-rocky-raging-719777

 

[Charles Smith]

RIP Sam Shepard, who enriched the culture in many ways, and personified The Right Stuff right here.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/31/theater/sam-shepard-dead.html

 

[Charles Smith]

Why Sam Shepard Has “The Right Stuff”, by Philip Kaufman

https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/sa...utm_campaign=FC08-04-17&utm_content=version_A

 

[ChromeJob]

Why Sam Shepard Has “The Right Stuff”, by Philip Kaufman

https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/sa...utm_campaign=FC08-04-17&utm_content=version_A

Wow. Fantastic good read (of course, Kaufman is a grand storyteller). Thank you!

 

[Winston T. Boogie]

Why Sam Shepard Has “The Right Stuff”, by Philip Kaufman

https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/sa...utm_campaign=FC08-04-17&utm_content=version_A

If you like Sam Shepard I highly recommend Cold in July. Shepard is excellent in it, as usual, and it is a very good neo-noir with some interesting twists and turns.

 

[Robert Harris]

And now I have to watch my favorite American director's film again.

One can never get enough of The Right Stuff.

 

[Robert Crawford]

And now I have to watch my favorite American director's film again.

One can never get enough of The Right Stuff.

I have a vivid memory of my first viewing of that great film in a near empty movie theater in Champaign, Illinois. It might have been six people at that afternoon matinee.

 

[Jonathan Perregaux]

I find Hidden Figures makes an excellent companion piece to The Right Stuff.

 

[Robert Harris]

I have a vivid memory of my first viewing of that great film in a near empty movie theater in Champaign, Illinois. It might have been six people at that afternoon matinee.

Plitt. LA. 70mm print struck from OCN.

One of the greatest films ever created about the lost concept of American Patriotism.

 

[RMajidi]

One of the greatest films ever created about the lost concept of American Patriotism.

Is that what it was? There I was thinking The Right Stuff and Apollo 13 were films about humanity at its finest.

Of course, one might legitimately make the case that the just values enshrined in a sane and balanced American Patriotrism is humanity at its finest.

 

[Robert Harris]

Is that what it was? There I was thinking The Right Stuff and Apollo 13 were films about humanity at its finest.

Of course, one might legitimately make the case that the just values enshrined in a sane and balanced American Patriotrism is humanity at its finest.

Patriotism, regardless of nationality, via which good and positive things occur, and neither people, nor other nations are being harmed, is a good thing.

One of the marvelous attributes of this film revolves around the Aboriginal fireflies.

 

[RMajidi]

Patriotism, regardless of nationality, via which good and positive things occur, and neither people, nor other nations are being harmed, is a good thing.

One of the marvelous attributes of this film revolves around the Aboriginal fireflies.

Agreed. Still, those NASA moments were rare instances where national boundaries seemed to fall away and the world looked on and marvelled as one ...and for me that spirit is captured so profoundly in both these films.

 

[Charles Smith]

Definitely time to watch, and I'm taking it off the shelf so it happens. I'd wanted to devote an evening to it when Sam Shepard died, and life has been so crazy that didn't happen.

 

[Charles Smith]

RIP Tom Wolfe, 87, whose unique prose provided the inspiration.

 

[Angelo Colombus]

Have this great movie on my shelf so will see it soon in his honor.

 

[Dick]

I have a good friend who has always criticized the mixed tone of the film with his belief that the humor in the film is a little too broad and that it undermines the dramatic tone of the film. He feels that if it had been played straighter that the epic qualities of the story would have been better received. I disagree, but perhaps others felt that way as well. (?) This mixed tone may have hurt Kaufman's chances for a Directing nomination.

Yes, but this was taken from a novel by Tom Wolfe, a rather brilliant satirist. What can one expect from a fairly faithful adaptation of one of his books?

 

[PMF]

In his own lifetime, Tom Wolfe had ascended as an author to that rarified level of why others writers write.