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Galaxy Quest
Steyn Online ^ | 20 Feb 2021 | Kathy Shaidle

Posted on 02/21/2021 8:32:31 AM PST by Rummyfan

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I own the movie, and every so often I haul it out and watch
it again.

I like it.

Tim Alan does a good job, and I can’t imagine Kevin Kline in
that roll.


41 posted on 02/21/2021 12:52:35 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the Founders Party.)
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To: Rummyfan

Kathy Shadily will be missed. She well understood the style and verve of Steyn online. I wonder if she was hired and then adapted her skill to it, or was hired because of it. Either way well done, and we will see her on the other side.


42 posted on 02/21/2021 1:00:21 PM PST by BDParrish (God called, He said He'd take you back!)
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To: Pollard

“Sam Rockwell who played Guy, is one hell of a character actor. He played the insane guy, killer of two little girls, in The Green Mile.”

Also, 3 Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri

Loved him in 7 Pyschopaths!


43 posted on 02/21/2021 1:38:50 PM PST by ProudVet97 (E)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Have you seen him in, ‘Moon?’ We really enjoyed that. :)

That was a well done and thought provoking sci-fi movie. Pretty much a one-man performance.


44 posted on 02/21/2021 2:41:28 PM PST by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: Rummyfan

Rd later.


45 posted on 02/21/2021 5:44:49 PM PST by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: ProudVet97

Sam Rockwell’s one of my all time favorites because one has to look hard to tell that it’s him playing his character. A great gift!


46 posted on 02/22/2021 8:38:06 AM PST by PfromHoGro (Orwell was optimistic.)
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To: discostu

GQ also lifted the comic premise of “Three Amigos” which was better! “Tropic Thunder” also did the same thing better.


47 posted on 02/24/2021 1:00:20 PM PST by Borges
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To: Rummyfan

Great movie. Very funny. Love it.


48 posted on 02/24/2021 1:03:24 PM PST by Fledermaus (The Republican Party is DEAD! It took 160 years but The Whigs Struck Back!)
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To: Rummyfan

But the ribbon cutting scene was at an electronic store, noy grocery store.


49 posted on 02/24/2021 1:04:27 PM PST by Fledermaus (The Republican Party is DEAD! It took 160 years but The Whigs Struck Back!)
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To: Flick Lives

“Miners, not Minors “


50 posted on 02/24/2021 1:06:29 PM PST by Fledermaus (The Republican Party is DEAD! It took 160 years but The Whigs Struck Back!)
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To: Borges

Well the comic twist part. But no Three Amigos isn’t better. Three Amigos is basically unwatchable. Oh that movie blows.


51 posted on 02/24/2021 1:06:44 PM PST by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick )
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To: SauronOfMordor

Understatement. She was proud of her new additions.


52 posted on 02/24/2021 1:07:34 PM PST by Fledermaus (The Republican Party is DEAD! It took 160 years but The Whigs Struck Back!)
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To: discostu

I liked it! Maybe it was the age I saw it. I do know it’s had something of a rehabilitation as a cult classic. I thought GL was just bland. This scene is funnier than anything in GL...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh7eAG2jJkA


53 posted on 02/24/2021 1:12:00 PM PST by Borges
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To: discostu

Just curious, do you feel the same way about “Spies Like Us”?


54 posted on 02/24/2021 1:19:33 PM PST by Borges
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To: Borges

It’s too forced. They’re trying too hard and the timing crap. You can even see it that scene, the rhythm is bad, the jokes are flat, and they’re pushing too hard on the sell. I know a lot of folks see it as a classic, but it’s just not there. I do wonder if it didn’t have that “all star” cast if it would have been better. I think they created expectations and it just couldn’t handle.


55 posted on 02/24/2021 1:23:28 PM PST by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick )
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To: Borges

Yeah, that was when Chevy Chase lost the narrative. He just started overcooking everything. Then everybody hated him.


56 posted on 02/24/2021 1:26:24 PM PST by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick )
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To: Borges


57 posted on 02/24/2021 1:27:54 PM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: discostu

Well they are playing the part of “celebrities” for the crowd. It’s supposed to have a cringey, glad handing, smarmy feel to it.


58 posted on 02/24/2021 1:32:49 PM PST by Borges
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To: Borges

Problem is it plays the same joke over and over. The townsfolk think they’re gay and they think the townsfolk are impressed by their celebrity. And it just hits that note from slightly different angles, like “did you think that version of the joke was funny, well what about this version, how about this one, no, well you’ll love this version.” And none of the versions are funny.


59 posted on 02/24/2021 1:38:25 PM PST by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick )
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To: discostu

No the townsfolk think they are hired killers! That was why they were so scared of them. At least tell me you think this was funny...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUMkcBctE7c


60 posted on 02/24/2021 2:03:44 PM PST by Borges
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