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411 giving a look at GALAXY QUEST
Well here's a report from an agent who's very name means information... That's right, 411, is here with the listing and info for GALAXY QUEST. I can't wait to get a glimpse at this film as it sounds like it is right up my alley. We should be able to tell alot from the trailers. It sounds funny... but will it look right? Hmmmm...
Just a short note to let you know that I read the GALAXY QUEST script and, if
they hew close to the draft I read, it could be one of the funniest sci-fi
films ever! It's almost a direct take-off of Star Trek (i.e. the egomaniacal
Captain that is hated by the rest of the cast, the "serious" actor that gets
stuck playing the alien, etc.) It starts off at a sci-fi convention where
the cast is reluctantly making a personal appearance. The Thermians,
disguised as fan geeks, spot Nesmith and soon after approach him to help them
in their fight against the evil Sarris. He thinks it's an acting gig and
agrees, but then they transport him halfway across the galaxy to their ship
-- a faithful recreation ofthe NSEA Protector. (The joke of all this is that
the Thermians don't realize that the Galaxy Quest TV show was fiction -- they
think it was a historical record of the crew's voyages).
Well, Nesmith soon recruits the rest of the cast to help him and, as they
say, hilarity ensues. All of the characters are well-drawn and funny --
especially a character named "Guy" who once played a "red shirt" in the
original series and now is petrified that he is going to be killed on this
adventure. Believe me, Harry, this is every sci-fi film (esp. Star Trek)
geek's dream flick!
Just thought I'd give you the 411.
411
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This looks like a very cool film whens it out?
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Ahah! There's the rub! But I agree about the look, Harry. This thing could try too hard to be dopey like Spaceballs, or it could look too serious. It would be way cool if this is better than the last several Star Trek movies--not a very hard thing to do IMO. There last really good one was Star Trek 6. Even Star Trek 5 had better interaction and chemistry than the Next Gen outings.
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I think that this sounds like something a studio wrote. And Harry I do not mean anything negative, I love the site and check it every couple of days. What the article tells a little about the movie so it is useful but it does not seem right, maybe it is the line "Believe me, Harry, this is every sci-fi film (esp. Star Trek) geek's dream flick! "
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Has anyone else noticed that this movie "borrows" a great deal of its plot from The Three Amigos?
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This one REALLy seems suspicious. Has 411 ever written in before?
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Sounds like that old Chevy Chase, Steve Martin an Martin Short comedy called The Three Amigos - about a trio of actors who acted in a series of films as 3 great Mexican heroes. And then a small town in Mexico calls them up to save them from the evil oppressor thinking they are real, and they go along thinking that its all an acting gig.
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"The Santa Clause" was Tim Allen placed haphazardly into the role of Santa to save Christmas. "Jungle 2 Jungle" had him placed as the role of responsible father, although he didn't even know he had a kid. "For Richer Or Poorer", Allen must fall into the role of a humble Amish farmer. Now, Tim Allen is placed in a role to save the universe based on his job where he's placed in a role of saving the universe on tv. Oh, mercy.
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Did anybody but me read (I forget which magazine) that the monster is named after famed Village Voice critic Andrew Sarris?
Also, though the idea sounds good, I think it should be known (I read this in Premiere; no scrounging or anything) that Harold Ramis was originally going to direct but dropped out because the studio hand-picked Tim Allen for the role. It sounds like this movie has been kicked in the butt before it could put its pants on.
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Yeah, I read that bit about the monster's name too. I think it was in entertainment
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I have to agree with the previous poster who suggested that a studio hack wrote this review. It reads like a press release for the movie and not a review of the script. It could almost have been an extended pitch when it was written. "See, it's the toolman as Captain Zoom."
I have deep reservations about this project, especially since the only Tim Allen movie I have ever seen that was at all funny was The Santa Claus, and even that wasn't great. Ever hopeful, but doubting..... Thinker -
The plot is awfully similar to Babylon5's Peter (Londo Mollari) Jurasik's 1998 novel (co-written with . . . I forget). The story is essentially the same: aliens grab the star of a ST-like TV show to solve a galactic standoff, but in his variation, the aliens also insert one of their own into Hollywood to take the place of the galactic hero (actor) they kidnapped. Both characters grow into the roles that have been thrust upon them. Haven't read the novel, but heard Jurasik talk about the co-writing process at 1998 DragonCon in Atlanta.
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Harry, is your source on the level? (Obviously it didn't give away much, but I wouldn't necessairaly trust the comments on quality just yet).
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doesn't it?
movie/tv stars mistaken for their on-screen personas,
enlisted to save the day.
though they bumble through it,
in the end, they prevail...
been done.
but not in space, so we'll see...
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I received an early press kit on this flick last week at the TV station where I work (we get stuff like this all the time).
The one-page release spun the fiction that this film originated as a 1979-83 TV series that "finally" is being made into a motion picture. A weak tongue-in-cheek attempt at creating a false history of this film-within-a-film...and I should note that the release presented it totally straight. Unwitting journalists are going to fall for this. Look forward to seeing all kinds of erroneous references to this flick's TV origins in articles and reviews. The release came with some GQ trading cards.
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I don't think there's more than 5 regular viewers of this page that know what "hew" MEANS, and no more than 1 that can use it in a sentence without snickering. But then again, who CARES if this was a plant? Heck, Harry ran the trading cards last week, so either he or someone he knows got the press release too. And as for ripping off the Three Amigos, who cares? The real joke of this film (assuming they get it right) will be the parody of the Star Trek phenomena and the fans and the way the actors are all hobbled by the show decades later. If they don't get that right, then all this will be WILL be a rip off of Captain Zoom, The Three Amigos, The Shooting of Rance McGrew or any of the other times this plot's been pulled out.
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Aug 16, 1999 12:33:57 PM CDT
You think sounded like a plant? Check the "Mickey Blue Eyes" re
by smilin'jackruby
Meow
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I find it funny that we get suspicious because one of Harry's sources uses an intelligent vocabulary and we automatically assume he's a "plant." Guys, the studios make the "plants" DUMB DOWN their entries w/misspellings to make them seem more "Generation X-y." I think this guy might be given too much to hype, but maybe it's just enthusiasm for the script. Let's not get overly paranoid here, OK? BTW, even with Tim Allen attached, I really don't think that this movie would have to work too hard to be better than Capt. Zoom!
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In fact back when Harold Ramis was still attatched to direct I would have pegged this to be a film to watch but now with him gone and Tim Allen on board both my interest and expectations have plummeted. Although Sigourney Weaver and especially Alan Rickman are both fine performers I just don't think anything will be able to save from Tim Allen's one note approach to 'acting'. Bring me the head of the idiot exec that chose Allen over Ramis I say.
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If you want to call this movie a copy, the earliest, closest, yet most obscure plotline to this is the short story, "Visit to a Weird Planet, Revisited", where William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, and DeForest Kelley accidentally get beamed aboard the Enterprise. You can find it in the really old Trek anthologies.
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There's this snapshot of Sigourney Weaver in Galaxy Quest, in the newest issue of Movieline. Doesn't her hairdoo look like Barbarella's?
By the way Barbarella ROCKS!
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