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Movie Reviews:GalaxyQuest
Allright truth be told, I'm a not a super trekkie. I'm right on the border. I mean sure, when I first got the sci-fi channel last may, for like 2 months I tuned in every night at 7pm and watched an episode of the original series, and I enjoyed it. But over the years the series has come and gone, and repeated itself. Voyager is mediocre, but sometimes great. DS9 had potential and then turned into a soap opera. TNG was fun, but oh so preachy. And about half of the movies are absolute crap (My favorites are in order, Kahn, Spock, First Contact and Undiscovered Country. The worst are Generations and last fall's total crapfest, Insurrection).
So the truth is out. When Trek is good, its great, and when its bad, its horrible. I think even the most die hard trekkie can accept that. And I also think that even the most die hard trekkie can accept the healthy lampooning that they take in GalaxyQuest.
Tim Allen play the Captain, Alan Rickman plays a surly Spockish role, and Sigourney Weaver plays the largest breasted crewman who's primary job is to repeat whatever the computer she says... and even she knows that its a stupid job.
Essentially, these 3, along with the Scottyish charachter (who has the best lines and scenes in the movie) and the "Extra" who died and was forgotten in some episode way back when are washed up actors from the early 80s television program "GalaxyQuest". These days they get by making personal appearances and GalaxyQuest Conventions where Questarians pay fifteen bucks a pop for autographs.
At one of these cons, a group of wacky looking costumed kids asks captain Tibbit for a 'Personal Appearance' (and yes, they get the requested limo). Of course you've seen the trailers, they turn out to be aliens who intercepted the signals of the bad 80s space adventures, and interpretted them to be "Historical Documents" of a real band of space heros. They then modeled their society after them: complete with building an exact replica of the Protector. Now that they are in conflict, they need help, and they retrieve our heros to save the day.
So thats the plot. Comedy follows. The range the spectrum of "Good trying to look Bad" all the way to just bad, to pretty dang cool. The acting is all great... the aliens are quirky and naive tenticled beings that squeeze laugh after laugh just with crazy facial expressions. The cast themselves are right on the money, parodying the conventions that the original Star Trek series created (the running gags about the "Extra" dying are just great... he's the red shirted guy with no last name: he's destined to die, it happens every episode right?).
And of course there are the Trekki-I mean, the Questarians. Geeks who ask technical questions about contradictions between episodes, or scientific questions derived from badly written episodes of a low budget television program. You know these guys. I know these guys.
The truth is that this movie was lovingly crafted by people who obviously knew their stuff about the star trek world, and the bizarre cult that has sprung up around it here in the real world. They've seen that its crazy, and they've had a lot of fun with it. This isn't the greatest parody in the world (Mel Brooks pretty well has a lock on that between Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, and Spaceballs) but its more than a parody of a movie or a genre, its a parody of something that has surpassed the small screen and the big screen, and become part of lives in a way that few programs have. Its about the show that causes people to dress up with pointy ears, or write a book so that others can learn the tongue of a fictitious warrior race.
See this movie. Hell, its better than half of the Star Trek movies.
SciFi was running a special mockumentary about the history of the Galaxy Quest television show. It was hilarious. I might just have to see it before the world ends this weekend.
Another good movie that parodies a lot of those cool science fiction movies is Space Balls. It's directed by Mel Brooks and it was quite funny when I first saw it.
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Does this mean that we can expect more movie reviews in the future? I just hope that a mob of trekkies don't show up at your house this afternoon demanding you take back your star trek comments. :)
I saw the movie over the weekend, and I thought it was pretty good, too. There is definately some humor in there for the Star Trek fan, and the movie's not as cruel to the fans as the trailers make it seem. It's a good film for any Trekker, just don't go in there expecting Shakespere. And, Sigorney Weaver looks pretty hot as a blonde!
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I saw the previews for Galaxyquest and was immeadiatley appauled by the movie, just by the preview. It looked incredibly low budget, and in no way did it look any funnier than a Little Ceasers "Pleasure Pleasure" commercial, let alone a full blown movie. Sure, I hate it when companies give away the whole plot / funny lines in the trailer of the movie, but their marketing strategy works, and lots of people go and see the movie, regardless of how much, or how little, they know.
If it were not for this article, I would have not even thought that this movie was worth the $9 some-odd dollars Canadian to go to the theatre and see it. I probably still won't, simply because I can't stand lame comedies - something that the trailor has showed me.
I know there's going to be contradicting points, but please keep them down to a low growl.
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I saw GalaxyQuest last night with my fiance - we were dying laughing! It is a great spoof - to me, the best Star Trek & various S/F series spoof yet. I was never a fan of Space Balls - it forced every line to be a spoofed line from Star Wars. That's no fun to me. This managed to have some life of it's own. Really good movie, and for once, I agree with a /. movie review!
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saw it christmas day (in a packed theater) and have to say it had some good chuckles for the buck. loved the piglizard.. definately one of the non-sappy, good laugh, not too serious movies released this holiday season. mr. ripley a good holiday classic? i think not.
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Silly songs like Star Trekkin', "Theeeeere's Klingons on the starboard bow, starboard bow, scrape 'em off Jim!", and the various skits such as Star Dreck, "Ach! Well I tried shovin' a weiner inta the warp drive Captain, but it didn'ta do a bit o good!". And Star Trip, "Captain! Captain! All the stars have gone out!... No you fool! You've leaned on the button. Turn the viewscreen back on!" "[crewman] Oh wally! Oh wally! Oh wally! Oh wally! [Captain] Hey! This is a broom closet! What are you two doing in there? [crewman] We're engaged, sir! [Captain] Well, DISengage and get back to your posts at once!"
I saw this last night during "cheap-ass Monday" at the local theater. I expected more of a biting sarcasm about the entire sci-fi genre. Despite many high dollar actors, good production values, a few amusing scenes, it sucked.
I paid too much.
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They also gave the show a pretty good review, and I must admit I am looking forward to seeing it. This review gives away a little more plot and character information, so beware!
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I took my 6 1/2 year old son to see this movie Saturday afternoon. He didn't get the in jokes, but he still loved it. I loved it also. I'm not a trekkie, but I have gone to the conventions, and the movie did a great job spoofing the whole scene. It didn't even do any real put-downs and the violence was at a very low level.
All in all, I've been recommending this to all my friends. Definitely worth seeing.
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The movie was frickin' hilarious.
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Come on, Rob. Everyone knows that the absolute worst Star Trek movie of all time has got to be ST V:Final Frontier, aka "The Quest for God". Ridiculous plot, laughable characterizations -- and it had the audacity to use the sub-title "Final Frontier", which really should have been reserved for the last ST movie.
ST:The Motion Picture isn't much better, but it's forgivable as the first attempt to bring ST back to the public (also as the by-product of the first failed ST II series).
And while it is possible to laud the merits of the ST films you've enjoyed, you've ignored ST IV:Voyage Home, which was a total joy to watch, despite making no sense.
Now I will step down off my fanatical soapbox, lest someone parody me in Galaxy Quest II...
- Richie
Very funny movie. Though one has to have certain back ground(namely trek view experience.), and has to be in a certain mood--suspension of suspension of suspension of disbelieve to enjoy it.
I'm sure the story told is in every trekie's dream at one point or another. The only thing I'm wondering is why aren't the trek fans all out there seeing it again and again to improve ticket sales? It is such a fantasy come true! I can feel my inner child hoppning on the Protector with the actors...
Go see it! Have fun!
I've been to a few Star Trek and SF conventions, and they had the con scenes down pretty pat.
With the aliens, they did a Coneheads-ish shtick that, while it worked for the movie, could have been handled differently.
It wasn't great cinema, but a good, solid comedy SF movie.
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Some people have said that GalaxyQuest is the best Star Trek movie of the series. Ponder the irony if this is true.
I'd love to know what people associated with Trek think of the movie. Does Shatner recognize himself (and his toupee) in Tim Allen?
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I haven't seen the movie, but I already have a high opinion of... its marketing team. That's right, marketing. Why? Because they created this utterly brilliant fake fanpage for the original series. Now that's funny.
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With the Star Wars prequels coming out now, Mel Brooks ought to crank out a new parody... Star Wars Zero: the Birth of Yoda!
You just got into it. :-)
The next century technically doesn't start until 2001. :-)
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Nobody in this movie is as bad as Shatner. (and probably no one in the orginal star trek is as good as any of the main cast members in this)
However, the plot and the jokes don't live up to the cast: don't pay $8.00 to see this thing. Wait and rent it. (or at least go to a matinee)
think the Protector looks like the Quake Logo?
Or mabey it's just me..
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It's commonly understood that the so called 'fifth' Star Trek movie was a clever hoax; and so successful in fact that the official movie releases skipped 'V' entirely in order to avoid confusion.
To clarify: There _is_ no Start Trek: V 'Final Frontier'. It was just a dream. A bad dream. Probably brought on by too much pizza. Really.
... well if you look at it sideways.
Tony Shalhoub is probably the best comic actor in the US right now and he plays the anti-Scotty perfectly. One of my favorite moments in this movie is the requisite call from the engineering room during the pitched battle. Instead of the near-hysterical "She canna take any more, Captain!" we get something to the effect of "Like, the um, engines are um, like falling apart and stuff? And we need to, like slow down I think. (turns to crewman) Is that right?"
Of course, this is much funnier in the movie then the way I tell it, and there are many more moments like this in the movie where our sci-fi series stereotypes get turned inside out. GO SEE THIS FILM! It probably IS the best Trek film yet.
Marc
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Ok, is it just me or does the large green alien look almost identical to the large green alien in unreal? It's almost like they copied it exactly. Even the spikes on the head are the same.
Just a thought,
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I think this trekker bullshit came about when trekiEs became defensive about the more ludricrous aspects of their subculture. C'mon no less a personage than Shatner ridiculed it to the dogs and back and the trekkies couldn't stand it. I think the trekkies wanted to jump on the political correctness bandwagon and generate a little artifical respect. I am forced to use politically correct language for various disabled and ethnic conditions. I REFUSE to use a politically correct term for FANS OF A TV SHOW! You parental basement dwellers are trekiEEEZE and no amount of PC is going to make you look dignified when you show up for jury duty in your Starfleet uniform.
Just for future reference: "its" is the possessive form of "it," while "it's" means "it is." Sorry, this is just one of those things that bothers me, and with ./ being more and more popular, good grammar (and spelling) can't hurt.
Aside from looking completely different, they are entirely the same. The Skaarj are green, and have claws, and they are bipedal. But this thing has a plate over one eye, spikes from his back, some eyepiece thingy, a rastafarian thing on his head and so on.
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I thought I was the only one who remembered these parodies. I found myself saying the lines as I read them on the post. Thanks for the memory jolt. Someone should have Dr. Demento online, anyone know where he is?
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What the hell are you talking about? I know you can't be talking about Kahn, because that was the best damn movie they've ever made.
My favorite crap scene was in Insurrection where Riker uses a $20 joystick to shoot some torpedo or something. That was just so pathetic.
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I'm not complaining! I've had a crush on Sigourney Weaver since I was 13, and I thought I was going to die when I got to see her get all slinky with Winona Ryder in Alien 4. This was almost as good. Those Miracle Bras are amazing things.
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You can't be serious, that would be just too unbelievably cool. BTW, I hope you all taped the MST3K Chain Reaction yesterday. Oh yeah, baybee!
No "Spaceballs 3: The Search for Spaceballs 2"
...Kirk meets God. Kirk is not impressed.
"Join Starfleet! Travel to exotic lands! Meet strange and interesting Gods! Kill them!"
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It was always my opinion that Kirk's first "death" in that movie--getting sucked into the Nexus while saving the Enterprise-B--was the perfect death, exactly the way Kirk would want to go out.
Now, dying under a pile of rocks while pulling Baldy's ass out of the fire, that's a different story altogether.
Sigourney Weaver looks pretty hot no matter what.
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I seem to recall some short story Star Trek fiction from the 1970's that had a similar theme to GalaxyQuest. In a nutshell, Kirk/Spock/McCoy/Etc step onto the transporter pads on a real Enterprise, and beam into the Television set. Humor ensues. A followup story (in another story anthology) has Shatner/Nimoy/Kelly/Etc appearing on the real Enterprise during a crisis situation. I enjoyed both stories, but since I can't find the books in my voluminous bookshelves, the titles escape me...
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Also, if you just go to www.galaxyquest.com, you get sent to an amazon page. WTF? Anybody have any idea why that should happen?
I went high and it was efkin cool. Anyone would laugh... It's funny on so many different levels. The kids loved it, the dope smokers loved it, and the responsible citizens loved it.
This was back when his show was 4 hours long, live, on now long gone LA radio station KMET. Where else are you gonna hear stuff like "It's a Gas" or "They Ain't Makin' Jews Likes Jesus Anymore" or "Pencil Neck Geek"? Hey wait! He's got a monopoly on this market. Feds should sue!
I haven't seen this movie yet, but I think the premise is the same as the 'Three Amigos': movie actors are mistaken for the real thing by a third party that isn't a participant of the 'mainstream' media. Smells like a variation on a theme.
it's not going to stop until you wise up, no it's not going to stop. so just give up.
My family ( me, 15 year old daughter, She Who Must Be Obeyed ) all enjoyed the film. We've all watched the various Trek tv & films. It's a fine parody done lovingly.
I've attended a number of science fiction conventions. I think the portrayal of us crazed fans was a kind & loving one. The questions in the autograph line were pretty much on the mark. I've had occasion to step between a couple of women about to come to blows over the relative merits of Trek & Babylon 5. Things can get more crazed than they were in the movie. Also the fans were generally thinner, *g*, than in real life. Thank you GalaxyQuest casting.
Otherwise, a pretty goofy movie that was worth wasting a couple hours and a few bucks on a Sunday afternoon--just like Trekkies last Spring(?).
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I went and saw GalaxyQuest last night, too. Enjoyed it- although it was a bit slow. Having the entire Star Trek/trekkie parody was great- as a non-Star Trek fan, it's funny to see them poking at the trekkie type. Kept us laughing, but it _was_ a hollow movie. -ted
I hear that song on a regular basis - I work with church kids on a state level, and they have this silly dance they do along to Star Trekkin'... funny the first couple of times you see it.
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Yeah, I agree - although in Alien: Ressurection she was looking pretty haggard. But in Galaxy Quest - sweet pete! Yowsa...
Was it a good ST *movie*? No way. But it was a great TV episode. You can't say that about ST:V
This, of course, is to balance out NT service packs, where the even-numbered releases are crap, and the odd-numbered ones are good (well, as good as NT gets, anyway).
My biggest problem with "Galaxy Quest" was that the audience laughed so loud that I missed quite a few follow-up lines. I can't be harsh on them, though - I was laughing that hard, too.
I'm normally kinda cheap - seeing movies just once in first-run theaters, then waiting for cheaper venues ($1.75 theaters, videotape, etc.), so I can save up for that next motherboard or hard drive. But I'll be going to see "GQ" again tonight at a first-run theater - that's how good I thought it was.
Spaceballs was mentioned in the article, along with a few other Mel Brooks movies. It was right at the end too. Let me guess, you didn't actually read the article. Why doesn't this surprise me?
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Disclaimer: I have not yet seen Galaxy Quest, but I do intend to despite the following comments.
I respect parody, but recognize it as inferior to the original form. It is far easier to laugh at the original clichés than create new ones or bend the existing ones.
Consider the genre of action flicks. Often the pace of the action is choreographed to the music. The Fifth Element took this oft-repeated cimenatic effect one step further by having background characters actually dancing to the music.
And consider The Matrix whose producers attempted to create a world in which comicbook-style superheros would be believable. We often see sequences of reduced speed action. As the audience, we know that we're being manipulated, but these scene just fit in because we know that it's all a computer simulation anyways!
Turning now to Galaxy Quest, what new elements will it introduce? The appeal is to fans of the StarTrek series and movies, but will anyone else really care? Even the Trekkie/Trekker audience has been saturated. We've seen the self-congradulatory Trekkies and now we've got yet another parody to add to the collection.
Movies like
Galaxy Quest
appeal to Hollywood. These are viewed as safe choices with dedicated audiences. I, on the other hand, wish the money were spend to highlight new ideas about the future. Science Fiction is a rich genre celebrating a diversity of ideas. Star Fleet and the 'Prime Directive', despite cosmetic attempts to update them (black commanders - DS9, women commanders & black vulcans - Voyager), are concepts of the 1960s. Let's move on to something new.Given one hour to live, the student replied: "I'd spend it with professor FP who can make an hour seem like a lifetime."
Disclaimer: I have not yet seen Galaxy Quest, but I do intend to despite the following comments.
I respect parody, but recognize it as inferior to the original form. It is far easier to laugh at the original clichés than create new ones or bend the existing ones.
Consider the genre of action flicks. Often the pace of the action is choreographed to the music. The Fifth Element took this oft-repeated cimenatic effect one step further by having background characters actually dancing to the music.
And consider The Matrix whose producers attempted to create a world in which comicbook-style superheros would be believable. We often see sequences of reduced speed action. As the audience, we know that we're being manipulated, but these scene just fit in because we know that it's all a computer simulation anyways!
Turning now to Galaxy Quest, what new elements will it introduce? The appeal is to fans of the StarTrek series and movies, but will anyone else really care? Even the Trekkie/Trekker audience has been saturated. We've seen the self-congradulatory Trekkies and now we've got yet another parody to add to the collection.
Movies like Galaxy Quest appeal to Hollywood. These are viewed as safe choices with dedicated audiences. I, on the other hand, wish the money were spend to highlight new ideas about the future. Science Fiction is a rich genre celebrating a diversity of ideas. Star Fleet and the 'Prime Directive', despite cosmetic attempts to update them (black commanders - DS9, women commanders & black vulcans - Voyager), are concepts of the 1960s. Isn't it finally time to move on to something new.
Given one hour to live, the student replied: "I'd spend it with professor FP who can make an hour seem like a lifetime."
If you are farmiliar with Star Trek, this movie will make you laugh till you cry. I highly recommend it, it's worth the full theatre price and then some.
Of course, I really should back this up with some examples, but to do that would be to create spoilers (I can't open source the movie!). So you'll have to take this on faith.
It's a brilliantly written, brilliantly acted comedy, and the second best movie I've seen all year. go see it.
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It started with the Blair Witch Project, now it's reared it's ugly head in Galaxy Quest.
It's the "It's real. *SMIRK* I swear man!" type of advertising.
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...with the sub-title, "or the inside story behind the antagonism of a certain network toward a certain segment of the population". You can read it at:
The sequel, "Visit to a Weird Planet Revisited", showed the flip side of the same events-- Shatner, Nimoy, and De Kelley on the real Enterprise. This story is included in the 1976 short story collection Star Trek: The New Voyages (currently out of print).
Finally, "Revisiting a Visit to a Weird Planet Revisited", a fanfic story based on the same premise but featuring the TNG cast, can be found at:
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Son, you gotta get with the spell checker. It's your friend. This is about the sixth movie review in the last year that you spelled character as "charachter." One H, that's it.
Other than that, nice review... look forward to seeing the movie.
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saw this movie; it is hilarious! Makes you think about the old shows. Esp. the part where the countdown does not stop till it reaches 1!
while were on the topic of scifi, anybody know what happened to futurama? looks like fox is going to replace it next season. that was a nice show...
Just did a quick search, and look at all the articles where Rob has misspelled "character:"
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9 times. Doh! I'm telling Nitrozac, maybe she'll take away your $$$ in AfterY2K!
As a self defined trek fan (not trekkie/trekker ytiad) I feel it is my duty to point out that this is clearly a spoof of B5 not ST, because no one would ever make fun of ST, right ? ;-)
personal fave scene: When tim allen is talking to the fan club kid on the communicator, and tells him that "its all real" and the kid immediately reverses himself saying "I KNEW IT! I /knew/ IT!!!" I loved that scene :) :) :)
STOS ruled for its time; STTNG kicks azz, DS9 is occasionally almost as good as STTNG; Voyager should be cancelled, burn scripts, hang writers/actors, melt tapes.
Voyager = Episode 1 (shallow, unispired grab for $$$)
The quick rating is that if you've got a sense of humor, you'll enjoy it.
Now this must include everybody, because I have yet to meet a person who believes they don't have a sense of humor, even though I'm pretty sure some of them don't.
Just because an alien is green you think all aliens look the same.
Man, you better recognize! Some green aliens have sucker tentacles, some have three heads, some are real slimy, some have acid for blood.
You probably also stereotype aliens as all wanting to kill the human race. Some also want to enslave all humans, while others just want to extract a special fluid produced in our brains when we have sex (see Liquid Sky).
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I guess that this film is based on a story from Isaac Asimov's magazine. I do'nt have the reference with me but it describe an encounter with aliens in Mars and they did'nt show Star Trek but Mickey's Club (I do'nt now the exactly name because in my infancy I just read portuguese).
If someone have the name of the story please write some comments comparing the film and the story.
It doesn't hurt that there are some similarities between Tim Allen and William Shatner. Were they played up? And does he, even once, get to say, "Get a life"?
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Hey, check out the resume on the fan site: http://www.galaxyquest.com/galax yquest/resume.html Especially look at the Linux-related entries on his resume. I thought it was absolutely hilarious; I'm going to have to redo my resume so it doesn't look anything like his. Some of those bad examples hit a little too close to home...
Man that movie was really funny, I liked the dumb alien characters, and I've always hated Miss Weaver, but she looked like she had a nice set of uh... "thingies"
Did anyone see the Christmas Episode of Futurama?
I'm telling you... that show just plain rocks.
"You better not run, you better not move, you better not breathe, I'm telling you dude,
Santa Claus is gunning you down!!" la la la!!
LOL awesome show.
ok..
I'm shutting up.
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You've got to check out the 'fan site' for the original Galaxy Quest TV series here:
http://www.galaxyquest.com/galaxyquest/
It is a GREAT spoof on every bad tv show fan site on the web. From blinking text and bad HTML, to contrasting colors and clashing background tiled images... It took a real talent to make something this bad on purpose!
Wile you are there, be sure to read the episode synopsis for the TV series. Just wonderful!
"Banned from Argo" was written by Leslie Fish, who has given permission for her lyrics to be posted. I'm sure a search would find it....
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... Yep. AltaVista, even.
The first dozen hits were to various of the many parodies. (There are so many parodies of this song that someone is putting together a song book called "Bastard Children of Argo". It's going to be
However, this one is the original lyrics:
Argo lyrics on Robert Lentz's web page
(Hey, Robert, I posted your URL on Slashdot... INCOMING!!
When Tim Allen is ridiculously over-acting, he KNOWS he's doing comedy. When Shatner does the same thing, he's SERIOUS!
From the sourcefile for employee.htm:
... probably won't show up in the post, so go look between the H1 tags in the source if you really care to catch this most sublime form of parody :P
<h1 ALIGN=CENTER>EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH - 11-1-99</blink></H1>
Improperly nested, opening tag MIA, yadda yadda yadda
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I went with the family to two shows this Christmas. Galaxy Quest and Bicentenial Man. Of the two, the one I found worth my $8 for a ticket was Galaxy Quest. I just could not stop laughing. It makes me wonder what any other civilizations might take our forms of entertainment as... pr0n :o-)
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That the plot of GalaxyQuest (Trek references notwithstanding) is basically The Three Amigos in space??
Not that I have a problem with that -- I loved The Three Amigos. One can only hope that Commandar Taggart doesn't accidentally kill the invisible swordsman again this time.
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I'm old enough to have grown up on the original series. The ST movies never brought back that same sensation as the series did, nor did the (IMHO) mostly inferior spin-offs. Remember that ST started in the same time frame as man walking on the moon and astronauts were heroes, particularly if you were a ten year old. But somehow, over the years the new movies and series lost that and became too preachy. GQ is a spoof, but within it is also one rocking ST episode. Go beyond some of the jokes, and you've got one really fun show on your hands. Not elaborate, but that's the point. The original ST was kind of a fun cowboys in space shoot em up and that's what you also get out of GQ.
I love Futurama, It's no Simpsons or South Park, but it's too damn good to be cacelled in a world that continues to allow Ally McBeal and The Soprannos to exist
AFAIK, "Trekkie" was originally just a name for a fan of the series, but devolved into a name for those who treated Trek almost like a religion. "Trekker" was supposedly supposed to mean what "Trekkie" originally meant. Or something like that. I agree, "Trekker" sounds awfully pretentious, though.
Is it just me or does the ship look like a Quake symbol?
If you think you know what the hell is going on you're probably full of shit.
If you think you know what the hell is going on you're probably full of shit.
jdube is who I am
What the shell do you mean, "except for 2"?????
2 was the best! The only one worth seeing again and again and again and again and again and...
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- Sean
It's a fine line between trolling and karma-whoring... and I think I just crossed it.
- Sean
I thought Mel Brooks had died. Otherwise I love the title. Pretty cool.
yep, I noticed that when the ship was disabled, and I think the FX director deliberately made it look like Quake logo for that shot.
PS. Any Mac fans notice that the bad guy aliens' guns are EXACTLY the machine gun from Bungie's Marathon??!!
I just about fell off my chair when I saw that.
Pope
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
then you are someone who doesn't understand what trek is all about - of the movies this one was the one who came closest to what its all about (though still somewhat short of the mark)
I have to agree, I was totally surprised by
CmdrTaco's review. The commercials make the movie
look awful, and I know my reaction was --
Sigourney, oh Sigourney! How far hast thou fallen? Oh, the humanity...
I'd rather you kept your head shaven than become a busty dumb blond.
How could a movie goddess become so desperate?
Lynn
The principle of aggrandizement is the fundamental law of every government. - Frederick the Great