So, which is the more tragic epilogue? Swayze’s death or Grey’s nose-job?

Solid movie, and eminently watchable, the kind of film you can just fall into by accident if you catch it somehow. Those montage scenes are excellent (didn’t know that tickle scene was a rehearsal shot, that enthusiastic, unselfconscious personality is part of the charm of both actors) the heightened music, the sort…

I have never seen this film, but feel as if I have.  When I was a teenage boy, EVERY teenage girl I knew would endlessly quote from it, and they all had the soundtrack.

Wonderful article! This movie was one of those “life changing” movies for me. Being a skinny girl with curly hair and a big nose, it gave me hope. And Patrick Swayze’s black pants. What a gift he was. We were so lucky to have him for as long as we did.

The Right Stuff - the book - is what made me want to become a professional writer. Every creative person has that one book/song/movie/etc. that they wish that they had created - and The Right Stuff is mine. For me, it is a perfect book, a perfectly told story, and I was in no way sad when I discovered that at one…

The MOVIE is my all time favorite, so no way do I miss this.

What good has it done? Encouraging people to double down on prejudice only makes it harder to change things.

He became famous because he exploited the willfully ignorant. I’m not sure he is in a position to talk about the manipulation of people.

“if it supplants that shit Kaufman version”

The people who have retconned the retcons have themselves been retconned, therefore returning the original continuity.

Neglected to mention that this all started because of the 70s craze for Satan-based horror films like The Exorcist and The Omen, and of course Marvel’s first instinctive response to something being popular was always “how can we get a superhero out of this?”

The retcon responsible for the previous retcon has been retconned. We are not responsible for any retcons which may be retconned by future retcons.

As much as anything, I consider that a movie about Chuck Yeager - brilliantly played by Sam Shephard - as much, if not more, than the Mercury 7.

I will watch this.

The best part of the book (and also the movie) was Wolfe contrasting the Mercury 7 astronaut’s stories with those of other test pilots who either didn’t make the cut or weren’t qualified to try out in the first place, Chuck Yeager being the most prominent one. This review doesn’t make any mention of that subplot, so…

Obviously Satan would be a bad dad, but would kind of bad dad would he be? Is it the “going out for a pack of smokes and never coming back” kind, the “verbally/physically abusive asshole” kind, or the “emotionally withholding and never going to your Little League game” kind?

That retcon has probably been retconned. 

When I was a kid, I spent nearly every weekend with my grandparents. One of the best things about that was my grandma’s love of comic books. She’d buy new ones every week - whatever caught her eye along with every issue of any series where she happened to buy the first issue.

Roberts talking about the hydraulics that went into giving her that cleavage given her relatively modest proportions was pretty funny.  She credited wardrobe with being the real stars of the movie.

Well considering I never knew the first thing about the real Brockovich I guess I’ll just carry on enjoying the film and Roberts’ and Finney’s performances.