A fave of mine...
Posted on 07/17/2019 6:52:57 AM PDT by Rummyfan
In a just world, O.J. Simpson would currently be serving the 24th year of a double life sentence; Ronald Reagan would have been president during America's bicentennial instead of Gerald Ford — and Galaxy Quest would've earned half-a-billion bucks at the box office when it came out in 1999.
But inept and indifferent studio marketing (plus competition from another "sci-fi" comedy, Ghostbusters) relegated Galaxy Quest to semi-cult status. Which is ironically appropriate, given its plot:
At a science fiction convention, fans await an appearance by the cast of Galaxy Quest, a hokey interstellar TV adventure series unceremoniously cancelled in the early 1980s. The show's fatally typecast has-been "stars" (played by Tim Allen, Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver, Tony Shalhoub and Daryl Mitchell) are reduced to reluctantly signing autographs at tacky gatherings like this one, when they're not cutting ribbons (in full costume) at supermarket openings.
That is, until genuine aliens — who, in cargo cult fashion, have based their civilization on Galaxy Quest re-runs transmitted through space — touch down and beg "the crew of the NSEA-Protector" to help them defeat the villain bent on destroying their planet. The adorable Thermians innocently believe the program's "crew" are fearless, intrepid space warriors and technological geniuses, not just washed-up actors in laughable uniforms....
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A fave of mine...
Mine too. Hilarious movie.
Very funny movie. “Never give up, never surrender!”
I liked it, though I thought it could have been made hilarious.
Maybe they should have hit it with a rock.
Great movie!!!
"You lost me..."
Sigourny never looked better, either ...
Top 3 definitely. Defined as any scene can be on at any time and I wouldn’t wish to be watching anything else (shares that with Tangled, & M.P.’s Holy Grail)
“Didja even watch the show?!?”
Ahh, yes. Crewman number 6. “I’m not important enough for a last name!”
I love Galaxy Quest. But Ghostbusters was a better movie. IMHO anyway.
If either are on I’ll change the channel to watch them. Tim Allen’s shirtless Shatner impression is priceless and those ST actors (other than Shatner I assume) find Galaxy Quest hilarious.
Sigourney Weaver is pretty hot in either movie but best wearing brief, briefs in Alien.
Ah the late great Hans Gruber. Yippee kai yay MF.
Mmmmmmm...I dunno. She caught my heart in "The Year of Living Dangerously."
One of my favs as well.
A sequel was cancelled when Alan Rickman passed away.
I wrote the synopsis of a possible sequel to Tim Allen on his website, that would take into account the untimely death of Rickman..................
Loved that movie.
“- Jason Nesmith: All right, let’s settle down. If we’re going to get through this we’re going to need self control.
- Gwen DeMarco: Self control? That’s funny coming from the guy that slept with every Terrakian slave girl and Moon Princess on the show.”
Look, I have one job on this lousy ship. It’s stupid, but I’m going to do it, okay?
“Mommy”
“Don’t open that! Is there air? You don’t know- gulp”
We could go on and on all day...
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