{"id":84634,"date":"2020-10-08T17:00:15","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/roush-review-the-right-stuff-remake-rarely-takes-flight\/"},"modified":"2020-10-08T17:00:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T14:00:15","slug":"roush-review-the-right-stuff-remake-rarely-takes-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/roush-review-the-right-stuff-remake-rarely-takes-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"#Roush Review: ‘The Right Stuff’ Remake Rarely Takes Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Roush Review: ‘The Right Stuff’ Remake Rarely Takes Flight<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

Men will be boys.<\/p>\n

Drawing back the squeaky-clean curtain of public relations shielding the pioneering Mercury 7 astronauts in NASA’s early days, Tom Wolfe\u2019s 1979 bestseller The Right Stuff<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and Philip Kaufman\u2019s Oscar-winning 1983 movie version humanized this rowdy, raunchy crew of ambitious space jockeys. A tepid eight-part remake, originally announced for the National Geographic channel but now airing on Disney+, feels more like underpowered soap opera. (Two episodes premiere Friday, October 9, with the rest airing weekly.)<\/p>\n

\u201cFor some reason, people are captivated by their ordinariness,\u201d observes public affairs officer John \u201cShorty\u201d Powers (played by executive producer Danny Strong), and this new version of a now oft-told story complies by being all too ordinary, doing little to illuminate these extraordinary lives.<\/p>\n

Disclosure: It probably didn’t help that I rewatched the\u00a0Right Stuff<\/em> movie a few months ago during one of the weekend “movie nights” my household instituted during the COVID-19 lockdown. The memory of Dennis Quaid’s robust portrayal of the cocky and cocksure Gordo Cooper makes Colin O’Donoghue<\/a>‘s pinched, pained performance of a regretfully unfaithful spouse that much more disapp<\/a>ointing.<\/p>\n

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(National Geographic\/Gene Page)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Though it rarely achieves electrifying liftoff in the five episodes available for review, what resonates most is a character study of straitlaced den father John Glenn (a solid Patrick J. Adams<\/a>). He’s prone to lecturing his less disciplined brethren, which includes in underwritten roles\u00a0Mad<\/em>\u00a0Men<\/em><\/a>‘s Aaron Staton as Wally Schirra, One Tree Hill<\/em><\/a>‘s James Lafferty as Scott Carpenter, Micah Stock as Deke Clayton and Michael Trotter as pugnacious Gus Grissom. But\u00a0the devout Marine is a supernova of unchecked ego who\u2019s hardly a team player when it comes to lobbying to become the first man in space.<\/p>\n

Glenn’s rivalry with self-destructively reckless Alan Shepard (the charismatic Jake McDorman<\/a>), whose vertigo threatens to ground him, is the stuff of good drama and almost reason enough to watch.\u00a0If only, as they say about the Russians while playing catch-up, they’d gotten there first.\u00a0Which, of course, ultimately they did.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Right Stuff<\/em>, Series<\/a> Premiere, Friday, Oct. 9,\u00a0<\/b>Disney+<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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