So, if you are familiar with the TV comedy "Scrubs", you should understand where I'm going with this post. But for those of you who aren't, here’s a quick background. Basically, the show is about a bunch of hospital interns who have just recently graduated from medical school. The show depicts their progression from interns into residents and then eventually fully qualified doctors. It centres around a guy by the name of J.D., his best friend Turk and the people they meet whilst working in Sacred Heart Hospital. The events of each episode are depicted through self narration by J.D. Each episode is called "My..... something" and comes from his perspective. Much like my blog, which by its very nature has to come from somebody's perspective and because it's mine, it should be my perspective right? Not necessarily. As fans of Scrubs would know, once in every season, J.D. will pass the reigns to one of his offsiders and the events taking place are depicted through their perspective and titled "Her/His....... something". What's this got to do with me you ask? Well basically the last movie I watched was The Right Stuff and I fell asleep. So instead of giving you a review that would read something along the lines of "boring action movie about the race to space", I thought I would let my wonderful and supportive partner Tim write this post. He did enjoy the film and managed to watch it from start to finish. Bonus:)
Hey folks, Turk here. I liked the movie. The End.
If you’re looking for a little more information about the movie then here goes. I don’t know any of the actors in the movie so I can’t really tell you that. I didn’t pay too much attention to who the Director was, so I can’t really tell you about that either. What I can tell you is that the movie is about a group of test pilots all wanting to be the best, the fastest, the strongest, the one with the biggest balls. It starts off with the men dragging their wives out to the desert to live as they try and fly their test planes faster than the speed of sound. Some of the pilots crash and die and there is one guy who does succeed. The guy who does go the fastest is held as being the champ. He always gets the best equipment and if someone goes faster than him then he pushes himself to go faster. He always manages to stay on top. The race then turns on who could fly twice as fast as the speed of sound and then three times the speed of sound. With each accomplishment, less and less people care about it and less men travel to the desert to become test pilots.
As the air speed race slows down and less people care about it the next race turns to space. It now becomes a race between Russia and the USA to see who could get the first person into space. Russia puts a lot more effort towards this at the beginning and ultimately is the first person to achieve this. USA is not happy and they make it a priority to make sure that they beat Russia from then on. USA picks seven test pilots who ultimately become astronauts. All seven astronauts get to go into space and each one made it safely back and each achieve a greater goal.
The movie ends with cutting back to the desert with the original champ being the only person left there as everyone has moved on to the space race. He is there with a new plane that had just been delivered for him to test. He and the mechanic believe this plane could beat the record for the higest altitude that a plane could get to. He quickly jumps in the plane and goes for it. He reaches the record but runs into trouble and crashes the plane. He survives and walks away.
So Tim gives this movie a 7/10. Pretty good, but I guess if you want to watch it, you’ll have to take his word for it cos I aint vouching for this rating:p
By the way the director of this film was Philip Kaufman and it starred: Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris and Dennis Quaid, just in case you were interested!
Until next time, “that’s robot for goodbye” (JD, Scrubs)
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