The Reel Rejects - GALAXY QUEST (1999) IS A PERFECT COMEDY! MOVIE REVIEW!

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Starting point is 00:00:48 Let's do it, baby. than the sequel not doing the sequel they did it in movie they did it in the movie brilliant oh i was i i was brilliant what i knew i loved that movie as a kid i was so glad it's better as an adult all right ladies and gentlemen uh we just watched galaxy quest i haven't seen this movie since 1999 most likely and i said two thousand at the at the latest and uh want to thank prepper for any down these highlights you guys are an amazing group and an amazing part of real rejects we've been working with you guys for years now so thank you so much please also if you made it this far leave a like on this video really does help out with uh promoting

Starting point is 00:01:36 the video youtube will promote it more and hey subscribe click that bell we do comedy reactions uh every single saturday and yeah we also take what we've the royal rejects they get the shooting schedule that we have so uh i want to kick off this review with um answering just a few questions that they've left in regards to Galaxy Quest and I don't think there's anything specific originally there were two different names for Galaxy Quest that I think went out

Starting point is 00:02:04 but you guys don't need to know that the first one Andrew Laxton how do you think this movie holds up today I really like that they went all out for the production even though it wasn't a big hit when it originally came out well that answers a question we were wondering about that during it

Starting point is 00:02:20 goy please take this one first I think it holds up better than it might have been 99. I think it has a bigger audience. I think it is something that is ahead of its time in a lot of ways that might not have translated. I recently watched Last Action Hero with John

Starting point is 00:02:36 and I had the same feeling of Oh, dude, it's so good. Love that movie. It was my last Shane Black film I hadn't seen and I was blown away by how ahead of its time it was because it's universe building, it's super meta, it's a commentary and I was like, oh, I bet this was obnoxious

Starting point is 00:02:51 to people then that wouldn't have had any sense of it. Yeah, people hated it. And that it's, people hit it now. It's got a 41% round tomatoes. Cowards, I don't understand. But like, it's incredible. No, I think it's a brilliant movie. And I've loved it in a whole.

Starting point is 00:03:02 I imagine this was probably similar. Like, that was 80s, late 89, 91, something like that. This is 99 going. So the late 80s version of this, to me, is last action hero. Where I think that was ahead of its time by 10 to 15 years. This was ahead of its time by 10 to 15 years. Now what this is referencing is king. Like, I mean, some could argue that it's just past the,

Starting point is 00:03:23 era, but comic book movies and nerd stuff is still the predominant piece of pop culture. I remember my dad showing me this because it was unique. I remember, like, in 99, 2000, yes, we had certain things, but this was two years before, you know, Spider-Man. This was a year before X-Men. This was the year after Blade. That was kind of when everything launched from the superhero side. Yes, we had Star Trek generations, and that was on, like, network TV.

Starting point is 00:03:53 You didn't have TiVo yet. You had to, like, watch it when it aired. Conventions were a niche thing where people bought DVDs and, like, they paid lots of money at Sunco's video. I saw Sunco's video in this thing. It was a, it was a culture that was thriving on specificity. It was a culture that thrived on people being so passionate, they kept it afloat. It wasn't the masses.

Starting point is 00:04:12 It was a passionate few. That is why I think it didn't make the money, because the passionate few were the niche that made this possible. Now that passionate few is the broad. And I think now the reason comment, con can be pop culture con is because this translated from that. I think this is a movie that came out before the thing

Starting point is 00:04:29 it was talking about had the strength to uphold the film itself. You make a really good point there and it's interesting, especially the latter part because one thing I said during it was I didn't feel like anyone would feel left out watching it.

Starting point is 00:04:46 Maybe the marketing of this movie, I can't recall what a trailer for this movie looked like or if I ever even saw one. But I imagine the marketing in the movie made it, maybe made it feel niche. You know, it was like specific to this, like, core group. And that is not the actual experience of the movie. I think anyone could watch this movie.

Starting point is 00:05:11 And we all have, like, a basic understanding that nerds gather, geeks gather, to go watch the fandoms gather, basically, right? And I imagine that's probably why it wasn't a hit. but this is devil's advocate what's up then i don't think we had the cultural acceptance that we do today so i don't think people that would see this movie would have been like this is for everyone they'd be like why would i watch a movie about a convention of like i think there was a barrier of entry even in the subject matter whether the movie was performing that or not i think we were more judgmental of these people then yeah yeah and i

Starting point is 00:05:44 imagine maybe it looked a little bit more um like a star trek's parody so i think that's the marketing yeah that's what i mean i so because the movie succeeds doesn't matter if you don't go sit and try i've probably i'd fathom that it's a uh it was a marketing issue i think we're also nerdier today because this movie is really good if you're gonna ask a question about like how you hold up today uh i think it's so strong like my my recollection of it is mainly i know my dad loved this shit out of this movie he i know he loved it and it is a film that when i hear at galaxy quest my mind immediately hops to a movie that my dad loved And I, I, I remembered finding it, like, funny when I was younger, but, you know, as an adult now watching it, like, it is a, it is a masterful screenplay for a comedy film, especially, you know, even without that adjacent term, the asterisk for a comedy, it's a brilliantly scripted movie.

Starting point is 00:06:44 Like, everything's fleshed out. Everything's paid off. uh there's so many nuances to the way the characters are done that way it makes everything rewarding and and it's not it's not it's not it's a comedy that's not written in the way of like we need a joke punch up here punch up joke punch up joke everything sounds rooted within what the characters 100% and their arcs feel so natural exactly what their backstories are I love the bookend honestly 20 minutes we got all their characters in 20 minutes we know exactly who these people were thousand percent and the book end of it of showing what their life is like at the con at the

Starting point is 00:07:21 beginning and what they're like as a team to then visually represent it the end the audience versus the diminutive quality of judging the audience the fact they were so lonely that they'd even take that risk that like all of that so it was so smart and and watching um yeah there areks like with tim allen growing into a genuine leader by the end uh alan rickman learning to appreciate uh what what it is and fall in love with it the the more recognition of like the entire cast the the inclusion of day player guy yes so and named guy yeah just named guy and watching him evolve too and there's there's their personality everyone's personality is so distinct like the one thing i don't hear talked about when i hear about this movie i don't hear the word ensemble

Starting point is 00:08:14 this is a such a good ensemble brilliant ensemble three leads and five supporting it's insane like it really holds up and they all listen to each other yeah they're

Starting point is 00:08:23 no one seems like they're trying to steal the show or like look at them they blend in to the movie they just fit yeah like oceans like the truly great ensembles

Starting point is 00:08:35 where it's a huge cast that you don't notice anyone trying to be the moment yeah and the writing allows for that they're just servicing the experience and so I think this movie holds up very strong and and i think whatever commentary it has now is even bigger yeah you know like i imagine like it did tend to the niche audience back then for the niche who would

Starting point is 00:08:54 watch it but as it's grown it mean it is like it has all themes of like wonder discovery heart love reflection and uh advancements and what and the the the the way they wrote the line of not becoming a spoof of itself still telling an original story and not insulting the audience or making a commentary on like what these nerds are like you know like it seems like whoever wrote this movie and directed

Starting point is 00:09:24 it had a respect yeah 100% I'm really curious what else they did yeah yeah and it's a great it's I think it's just a great what if plot you know what if the Star Trek cast actually got thrust into space and had to

Starting point is 00:09:39 yeah what if aliens registered this as a as a documentation of like true history of the human race is so smart it is brilliant film thank you thank you for that question uh lay marks thank you seeing alan richman in a rare comedy role is so refreshing what aspects of this movie oh damn we answered a lot of this this movie do you think contributed to being a bomb in the theaters but allowed it to become a cult classic you think there's a formula for movies to become a cult classic interesting um boy it's funny because of dogma I think of Alan Rickman in comedy like like my access boy dogma I'm just seen most of Kevin spitz movies it's it's get it's touring right now

Starting point is 00:10:20 because it's the 25th anniversary and you just got the rights back you should watch dogma man uh Alan Rickman I think of his comedy because I was not as big of a diehard guy as most people but I was a huge dogma guy so to me Alan Rickman is very funny uh but I will answer the second half of this which we did not touch on we touched on the first half of your question here um I do not think there is a formula for movies become a cult classic because then studios would make that formula and try to make studio films into classics and they've failed. So I think by the nature of cult classic, I think there's an authenticity. I think the formula is be true to the subject matter by being true to the audience that you want to appeal to.

Starting point is 00:10:55 I think the more, it's kind of oxymorical. I think the more specific you are, the broader a film can be. I think the broader you are, we've talked about this. I think the broader you are, the narrower your film becomes. When you're trying to make a movie for everyone, often it's for no one. And so I think studios often think we're going to make this four quadrant film and then it feels like it's just bland wonder bread. I think when you make something that is like this, that is for a certain audience, but it actually is for everyone because the universal themes of what nerds love are true, it becomes a cult classic. So I think the way you package it is the difficulty.

Starting point is 00:11:30 And that's why marketing is such an art because you can overmarket and undermarket just as easily. And I think this might have suffered from when it came out. it also might have suffered from marketing but either way it finding its audience because of how good it was and how true it was honestly the the fact that it became a cult classic adds more of the meta commentary to the film exactly because galaxy con looked like it was a certain type of people and those types of people found the movie a man like cult classic and in the know and stuff you haven't heard about being done and recommendations like that's what happens with cult classics is if we go why haven't more people's seen this movie uh a because it's great or a it's like so bad it's good or b you know like there's there's variations of of why but it's a film that you just feel like more people should have seen and then it becomes shared and then for this one that plays into the audience of a con i'm sure the con groups then it became a staple of it yeah i don't i don't really know it

Starting point is 00:12:30 this felt so i didn't follow the con experiences or know anything about them really but i could imagine from what I do know that this spread amongst fandom as a representation of it and that's how it became a cult classic and you're absolutely right like you can't you can't try to be a movie that's so bad it's good you can't try to be a cult classic you can't try to do those things just doesn't work like that because then that limits the sincerity of it I don't know if you can achieve the goal of like they can become a cool classic I don't know if you can actually achieve that I think it's even harder now to become a cult classic due to the volume of how much is out on a daily basis.

Starting point is 00:13:12 And the authenticity, even in the film, like, I know every one of those actors. I've done panels with each type of those actors. And that comes from being authentic. And I think that even translates to people that like it that are now in the industry. Like, look at where Justin Long was then versus now. Look at all the things that came from that. And I also think, like, the screen junkies, as they were evolving as a company, they did a full documentary and interviewed everyone.

Starting point is 00:13:31 Yeah, yeah. Roth. Yeah. Roth, Cornett. Like, the whole team at screen junkies made a full, documentary. I think it's actually next on Amazon on the Scroly. I saw a logo for something. And I think that's as close to a

Starting point is 00:13:43 sequels we're going to get because that was passionate nerds about movies and nerd stuff, screen junkies, making something that is a continuation of like 25 years later. Look at this thing. That doesn't come back. That doesn't come by a studio saying we're going to get that one day. That comes from something being true. I mean, this is

Starting point is 00:13:59 the ultimate fan fulfillment movie. We keep talking about cons and sure, it's like the con part is only really the bookends, really. Yeah. But it's kind of a thing that permeates it, the entire film of watching, like, the aliens who are the fans, the ultimate diehard fans who take this so serious. One comment you made very early on that I so appreciated is how cosplay is, it's a genre. It's at art now. It's a thing that is celebrated and respected.

Starting point is 00:14:30 And you go to cons and you watch people just want to take photos with cosplayers. And ask how they made it. What's the material? What's, like, your process? Like, now it's an art. Art. It is an art form. And the movie does kind of make fun of that a little bit.

Starting point is 00:14:44 It is used as a punchline here because that was the culture then. And they were all weighing the same thing. It didn't feel like art. It felt like everyone bought that one outfit to dress like blank. Yeah, yeah. Our friend Jasmine, like she spends hours and creates from scratch because she's able to see the art of the outfit and recreate it versus like here's this thing from Walmart. Absolutely. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:15:05 This is great. uh sci-fi extremist thank you uh says for one absolutely love this movie my dad and i i can imagine this is like a dad and son it feels so much i mean it was mine and yours minimal imagine it really is my dad and i constantly quote it to each other lives rent-free anyway my question is with the majority of star trek cast embracing how wonderful this film is oh that's good good to hear can you think of any other tv shows that could get this type of treatment actors find themselves in a real situation and it actually works just as well i mean star star star star wars uh i can imagine i could see chris hemsworth a hundred percent being in something like this where it's like

Starting point is 00:15:52 him as thor because he is that guy but comedically that toe sure sure like i could see some of marvel working can you think of any other tv shows that you get this type of treatment huh oh wow what a fascinating question but that's the thing it's like that's like the magic see if you try to become a movie that does it yeah exactly it wouldn't really achieve it has to be so i mean passionate of an audience i think it actually know what i got one uh which one criminal minds why criminal minds because there's such a passionate fandom but like one of the detectives finds themselves having to solve an actual murder case and they get in it over their heads and there's like a whole like who done it but they're like framed because they're always in the scene of crimes so like

Starting point is 00:16:30 someone that's always at the seat of crimes because they're in a crime show gets put in a world where that's actual crime but they think and because they've solved so many crimes they know detective work oh wait in that universe that's a great it got me thinking this show supernatural i think that would actually 100% supernatural to 100% be the those two guys or three guys like it come across werewolves they come across all kinds of creatures throughout and there's such a the the fan base around that is so hardcore so yeah if we're not just going to pull in our sci-fi one i would i would say supernatural will be the one to do and actually it would be complimentary you got sci-fi one would start with a sci-fi one galaxy quest and you get supernatural that'd be fun uh kev b

Starting point is 00:17:08 always with these creative questions let's see here uh imagine an alien civilization has learned everything they know about humans from just one episode of your favorite t-show doesn't have to be sci-fi which episode oh wow what a great question that's a great question um one that one's a thinker which episode would you want them to see and how do you think it would shape their entire society this is really well done dude like their technology culture or even their sense of humor would you try to set them straight or just let them roll with wow brilliant question uh i don't know if i can answer one episode but i feel like i'd have better luck with like a show to yeah if they were to look at it the way how the aliens did here as a historical documentation um damn technology culture and humor please you go first i have nothing you're going to Is it friends? It's friends. Why would it be friends, though?

Starting point is 00:18:04 I don't know how that would be... I think you'd need a slice of life show where people get into day-to-day hijinks, not high-stakes ones, because if you think about living in the Marvel universe, everyone's in peril. If you think about living in, like, in extreme sci-fi,

Starting point is 00:18:16 everyone's always in danger. It would have to be a show where, like, the mundane thrives. So, to me, you'd want an alien race to see, like, a Seinfeld, a friend's, uh, cheers, something where it's like, we have to operate day-to-day.

Starting point is 00:18:30 Like you wouldn't want them to come in guns blazing And anytime it's You know elevated So I think that like technology wise Friends was right before the internet ruined everything I think culture wise It was a little backwards in some of its jokes But if you're only showing them one episode

Starting point is 00:18:45 You could avoid some of the things that like Gen Z hates about friends You can cherry pick And then sense of humor Each of the different friends has a different sense of humor showing them the universal language of humor Okay, that's fun Yeah We try to let them set them straighters, let them roll with it.

Starting point is 00:19:02 Honestly, I'm quite, I love your answer. I mean, right, because you'd have to temper violence, which Friends wasn't. You'd have to be aware of technology, and I think everything, because, like, movies today often find reasons to get rid of cell phones and internet in order to tell a story. And I was thinking that way with the aliens. So Friends is the perfect right before, but it's not so backwards. We don't have microwaves. I thought about this very deep in here.

Starting point is 00:19:22 I might opt for the office a little bit. Oh, there you go. I think the office of the, we're talking of mundanity and, like, the typical, at least American lifestyle of just working, even though it didn't arrive from America. The British office was first, but we like our American. Parks and rec would be great, too.

Starting point is 00:19:38 It's something that is like, because friends are just like hanging out and lounging. Show them we work. Yeah, yeah. Like, that's what most of our lives are. That's true. We clock in, but then you find the friendships there and the love there.

Starting point is 00:19:51 And I think the office would, yeah, I've probably said the office. There's a little bit more technology involved. That's true. Okay, I like the office. Because they watch how technology evolves, too, that the company has to keep up with. That's true. There's a commentary on technology.

Starting point is 00:20:05 A little bit more diverse cast. That's what I was saying. We had the biggest are an episode. Yeah, like, Friends is, they are all whiteys. Yeah, yeah. They can aliens be confused. Like, what's about the 80% of the planet? Why aren't we showing other folks?

Starting point is 00:20:17 It's like they treat the ones who are not white as aliens. Well, that's how some people would want them to roll with it. Exactly. Certain people wear a lot of hats trying to get that world back. But yeah, I think. think we'd we'd want that to be a conversation starter not the base all knowledge of an yeah yeah so i'd probably offer the office but thanks for those questions all right now let's elaborate a little bit more here on what we want to talk about and before we do that uh i want to

Starting point is 00:20:43 pull up the cast list because i just keep referring to them by their actor names and some other actor names i don't know we've talked so much about celebrating this movie yeah let's uh mix up this conversation a little bit coys or anything about it where you felt like there's a potential like some things that you wish they did a little bit more or something that you didn't think quite worked um you know i i think like it wow 7.4 is too low um i think uh i would have liked a little bit more tony shalub just because i feel like they did a really good job making him blend in with everyone like on the ship and i would have kind of wanted to see that perspective that was the only thing i noticed i was missing that could just be because i love tony shaloolew but i did find i wanted a little bit more of like the day to day slice of life of the aliens but to give myself devil's advocacy there that isn't something you'd show on the show so kind of the metadness of that is they wouldn't be written beyond what we got exposed to well you that's the only thing i'd add you learn to care about them through the interactions that the with the humans right and then you watch as you don't break the perspective of the humans

Starting point is 00:21:46 then that's what i mean like it kind of works as a narrative to not do what i'm suggesting but that's the one character i wanted more of and that's the only thing i really noticed yeah the the main thing i noticed and it's someone who just front of diversity or you're probably going to like star trek is very diverse that that's a big part of it was the uh first interracial kiss yep and it's super progressive by the nature of the stories it's a very diverse diversity was intentional with that and there's not really a diverse cast and even though i think the ensemble is perfect that's so like it's kind of counterproductive what i'm saying but i think a little bit more diversity some people i know fucking hate hearing that but i i do think

Starting point is 00:22:24 if they're doing a representation of what the shows are like and stuff that aids. And then to that point, I do feel that the Tommy character did not get as much of a spotlight as he deserved. He had like joke moments. He was the Kevin Hart in the early Kevin Hart career. I mean, it feels like, yeah, how do we? He's really good, but it does feel like the black guy role. Yeah, and that was a problem in the 90s. Without it, without them calling him the black guy.

Starting point is 00:22:54 right there but there's the the the shades of like yeah that is the type that they would do at that time and even though it it goes above a cliche um it still felt like on the ensemble for me i felt like he got the least like he learns to become a pilot his arc is can't drive you know he can't learns to drive yeah so i do i do wish he got a little bit more development sure out of anyone yeah that is probably my one little doubt i think tony shalub actually i understand I understand wanting more, but I think he works in the doses. Yeah, and I don't disagree. I think it's just selfishness.

Starting point is 00:23:31 Yeah, that would be my one main thing. But in terms of like scripting, I think this is a pretty near-perfect experience. I really want to shout out, the guy I played Mathisar because I couldn't pull his name. Enrico Collin-Toney. Which is what a name. What a cool name. Italian boy right there. I knew him from the show, Just Shoot Me.

Starting point is 00:23:52 Oh, I remember that show. Yeah, so I met him at Whole Foods, and I was like five. I was like, you the guy from just shit? Remember, like, looking up at him and he just sounds like holding fruit. He's like, I just walked away. Just walked out. When you said it, I thought you've been like within the last few years. No, no, no.

Starting point is 00:24:09 Every time you mentioned, I was like, oh, recently Greg Red is that guy at Whole Foods. And now I see a totally different story developed. That's so good. And when you're when you're a child and you meet anyone who's been in a movie or a TV show. It's transcendent. Yeah, it's a completely. different type of like we we've met real famous current famous people yeah and uh sometimes it's it's a crazy time like harrison for was like holy shit um but more often than not i'm because i'm kind

Starting point is 00:24:39 of more used to it even if i'm really excited part of our job though i think if you're not in our space it would still be that for a lot of people so as a child like sometimes i'm watching shows and i forget that i've met them before sure sure whereas with him yeah i didn't even know his name and that still impacted you yeah it's a child though i just remember like looking up and i hear that guy from a tv show yeah he is brilliant in this so good in this he is i i really this is gonna sound like a weird comparison i just watched scooby-d oh dude did i overhype uh no no i i want to give a kind of a parallel to how i felt about matthew lillard is this is a character that errico is playing math that could have been nothing but a cartoon

Starting point is 00:25:24 Nothing but a bunch of quirks and the funny mannerisms with his voice and delivery. The way he was able to make the, you use the word earnest, I use the word sincere. Both words are applicable to it. The way he was able to fuse a genuineness to this character. So that way it feels three-dimensional. Like the scene where I, I was like, yeah, this guy fucking nailed it was the scene where he's tied up and it looks like he's going to die. Yeah. Tim Allen's confessing because he still does

Starting point is 00:25:55 all the weird voice stuff that was used for jokes. But it's painful. But it hits now. Yeah. Emotional. You're not laughing at it. And the way they illustrated him was so, so good. And Tim Allen, I think, is kind of an overlooked actor because what you say about him?

Starting point is 00:26:15 He's a gnarc. What do you know? He literally was dealing cocaine and ratted a bunch of his friends out to avoid jail time. Like, he's a definition of nark. Oh. I don't pay for him. for his movie tickets because i don't respect narks oh dude didn't know that yeah even arked on like tons of his friends and avoided 30 years of jail time like he was dealing cocaine oh geez well besides

Starting point is 00:26:33 i i think uh he's a real i i don't remember much of home improvement but i pretty sure i saw i watched a lot but i don't remember much of it and uh loved him there and and yeah he he's we said it during the reaction of how he he he's really believable as as this guy Jason, but you can see how he is the one cast to play the lead actor in the Galaxy Quest show. And that is, he has to do it. You have to get a guy who can do the dualityable. Yeah. And I think he does it.

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Starting point is 00:29:26 like this and the santa claus and even home improvement i there's a skill set in that i think of myself very highly but i have to be able to humble myself to do xyz that that's the buzz light year arc yeah like he plays that's right you're damn but that's how good you have to be to be able to do that even in voice work he's very good at being the egoist that finds himself and humbles himself he's good at drama yeah so like he's not the most dramatic of actors. But if you look at the scene that really humanizes him is the bathroom scene when he's overhearing

Starting point is 00:29:56 people talking. And then when he goes off on Justin Long, it's very believable. Because you see that he cares. And that's the hook to give you why you want to follow in the rest of the movie. That has to happen early so you go, oh, this guy is insecure about his life. Yeah, I don't know what his history is with acting. I believe he's a stand-up turned actor

Starting point is 00:30:12 part of that era where they were like, oh, he's a thriving. He's funny. Give him a movie or show. Help improvement. That'd be funny. And the way he learns how to do drama moments to help elevate it to be funnier. Yeah. I think he's a great leading role here. I really like that Scornie Weaver leaned into what that role in not necessarily Star Trek,

Starting point is 00:30:35 but in the cliche sense of sci-fi women written as and her arc not only standing up for herself in 99 when a lot of roles were written to be damsel in distresses, but also like breaking out of just repeating other people's line, like not just being the computer. I really liked her arc like getting a chance. chance to go from I serve the narrative to I'm my own woman because like that is such a struggle for women in in things. And the metanness of that being that she is the ultimate sci-fi badass. Like I love that Ellen Ripley got to be a character that is written like not good Ellen Ripley roles. So they cast the woman who is the ultimate badass to play the opposite of the spectrum and

Starting point is 00:31:12 she has to find the middle round through arc. When we talk about legendary actresses, cool, Scornie Weaver is not brought up enough. I would, I, I am so good at, she might be my Harrison Ford. Like, I think I would really struggle to be in a room with Sigourney Weaver. Like I, I, and I did with Harrison Ford, but now that I've done that, I have overcome. I would absolutely struggle to be around Sigourty Weaver. Sigourney Weaver is, I think as weirdly, as famous as she is, I also feel like she's an overlooked actor for how powerful of an actor she is. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:31:45 And she's cast appropriately. Like, I feel like casting directors and directors know what we're saying, but the day-to-day person doesn't. Yeah. Because, like, she gets, like, the voice in cabin in the woods and all these big things where it's like, feel her power. She's so unique of a talent. She's very, she can play. It's a chosen name. Did you know that?

Starting point is 00:32:02 I learned that because I've, I love Sigourney Weaver. So I watched a couple of interviews of her as looked up interviews. And then she, she, that's not her real name. It's got a, I'm pretty sure she got it from a book. It's a cool name. But, but the way she can play, she can play Ellen Rippen. yeah and then you do this that's what I loved about the casting choice then she could be the mom and heartbreakers yeah she can do comedy and drama uh I believe she's a working girl with

Starting point is 00:32:27 Harrison for yeah so yeah she's she's an amazing amazing actor uh missy pile it's driving me crazy can we find out yeah pretty sure she's been in like a lot of comedies i think it's drove me nuts the whole rest of the movie plane or so maybe what she's most known for because it drove me insane because like all right captain god girl bringing down that i mean i've seen these movies but yeah i don't know 2001 credits good for you missy pile she's a work wow that's that there's that side in acting where you just show up where you have like you make a career off of consistently work yeah she is one of those yeah jumping um yeah that's amazing uh and alan rickman one of the qualities that i think they excel at here is they never have to do an exposition

Starting point is 00:33:17 dump on someone's backstory yes they they do the way they excel the most with any character it's undoubt like they do that really well with sam rockwell which i want to talk about but alan rickman in particular you understand thespian theater actor got cast when going into film and now this is all he has because he he probably was never able to get another job after this they probably only saw him as the character in galaxy quest like haunted by this portrayal when he wanted to be an actor with versatility an actor to explore roles because he cares about the craft and then to be pit against um like a tim allen type who like uh he wants to make the money he loves the fame he wants to you know all this shit it's like two different sources of of

Starting point is 00:34:06 different types of validation they are looking for um and then tim allen gets to eat it up and then also takes the credit away from yeah that scene where he like saves them all and they're like thank yeah yeah it's it's i imagine there that i feel like there's something there with lennon nemoi probably because i believe he became like a director i think even directed some of the star trek movies if i'm not mistaken um and i imagine lander nemoe was more of like a serious actor than william yeah i imagine that was a commentary and them i just don't know enough star trek lore but i i i really love that Alan Rickman. Alan Rickman is so tongue and cheek about it because of his gravitas.

Starting point is 00:34:40 That's how I felt about him in dogma. Like in dogma he plays like a literal angel and he's so self-aware because he brings so much presence. Yeah. His arc is great. I love how they, everyone gets an arc, but they never have to say what it is. And they never have to go, we're

Starting point is 00:34:56 following this arc now. It is the whole ensemble breathes into each other. Yeah. This is such a great script. It is a phenomenal script with amazing direction. And Sam Rockwell, please. Coyer. Guy Flegman is the perfect name for Sam Rockwell in this movie. I'm a huge Sam Rockwell

Starting point is 00:35:12 guy. I think this was one of the earliest things I'd seen of him. I know he's in Teeny Vy Ninja Turtles as henchment number one, but this was early in his career. And I think he does something so amazing. I think him and Colin Farrell do it the best. They are able to be guys that you feel

Starting point is 00:35:28 like you wouldn't like because they're scummy, but then you realize the reason they're scummy is because they're such good guys. Like, there's a judgment about their appearance. that I think serves like it's like Brad Pitt is a character actor trapped in the handsomest body ever they've done that but every man way like Sam Rockwell I feel like the reason he's always such a dancing wise cracking it's because he looks like a guy that would try to sell you a used Toyota like there's something about him and then like this is so beautifully the archetypal version of that character

Starting point is 00:35:58 where it's like the guy that wants to be an actor so bad and he's just got a day player role and he milks that the rest of his life he doesn't get to go anywhere with it so I love that his role was like, invalidation to validation. And I love that to me, if there was a character, like I said throughout this, there are,

Starting point is 00:36:14 uh, I know each of these actors. Sem Rockwell literally is my career. I was in Star Trek. I played a day player. I'm an alien in Star Trek into darkness. And now I host cons. So like if I,

Starting point is 00:36:26 if I was everything that I've got to relate to, it's like, what is validating me, Coydandro as a person? I have now discovered. it's I love holding up a mirror to the talented actors that I used to admire and want to be but I never broke through as an actor

Starting point is 00:36:43 and I was never going to be as good as I wanted to be so now I love using my brain and using questions to go let me lift you up and that also makes them go hey you're cool too and I'm like yeah but your work's so cool and that elevates Sam Rockwell's playing that role Sam Rockwell's going like please validate me actors on show oh my God I'm part of this

Starting point is 00:37:00 oh I've actually found myself in this and that was cool for me as someone who's lived this yeah i love how they the way they use his character as a guy who wants nothing more than to be part of the cast and be included and then once he's thrust it into the mission he's the most fraught he's the most panic induced yeah he's so good in the movie so good i mean uh sam rockwell is almost like

Starting point is 00:37:24 watch anything sam rockwell does and he elevates a lot and even script wise the way he he grows into being part of the ensemble yeah excellently done can't imagine the movie same i do kind of feel though again this is like this is the part of the commentary where there's one camp that hates when people talk about it is that um i do feel like weirdly as the day player guy he got way more time

Starting point is 00:37:49 in development than than uh darrell mitchell oh sure sure so yeah that is the i wonder why they did the uh back pellet a tiny bit there i don't know um but yeah in terms of all the roles and everything uh everyone one's great i want to know a little bit more i don't know i've never heard of these riders parisotte and robert gordon and david howard i've literally saying them out loud nothing okay dean parisot what has he done oh he did bill and ted face the music he directed red two and charley countryman this is an interesting career so par oh it's kind of for to die that is a show

Starting point is 00:38:24 that pisses me off that never got that got canceled oh he did some monk so he worked with tony Shalub again. Okay, let's go back to the tick. Trying to go to a nice. A fascinating career. Okay, let's start 99. See if there's anything here. Episode Curb. I could see that.

Starting point is 00:38:40 Definitely. Boma Dick and Jane. I've seen that. Didn't really love that one. Didn't love it. So he mainly does TV. Yeah. He's a working director. At least, at least he's working.

Starting point is 00:38:51 Now, these writers. Clearly a Star Trek fan. Yeah, I did Trek the movie, which is not have good ratings. Oh, they haven't done much. I'm sure they've probably, they've probably sold me. more than I've actually made that. Ah, Men and Black 2. Black 2. Sky Captain

Starting point is 00:39:04 in the World Tomorrow. Only six credits, but a lot of big stuff. Series and fortunate events, Men and Black 2, Galaxy Quest. All right. A lot of these types of working screenwriters have probably sold a lot that haven't picked up. TV series, Greg.

Starting point is 00:39:17 Oh shit. What? This is really happening? What? Would we want this? Did we just come across the thing we were positing? But then it might be becoming the thing that... That itself is a commentary of.

Starting point is 00:39:30 Will it do? do it so self-aware will it break the fifth wall can it i don't know god i just don't like i kind of don't want to stop i know we have to end this but i kind of don't want to stop talking about it uh let's just read a little bit of trivia um do do do do okay oh fascinating uh want to read that yeah the scene where tim al's in a men's room over hearing how the cast of a guy's quest are nobody's and all the car stars can't stand him mirrors an actual event in william shatner's life he discovered the exact same things about himself and he attended in 1986 convention

Starting point is 00:40:03 well that answers that question about you literally said in that scene I think is that like Shatter that's cool that they it's not just a scene or a moment that is a defining part of this guy's arc that is that is like it is so integral to the part that brings him down

Starting point is 00:40:21 you know and and he gives him something to hope for so it's cool that they took from a real life thing but made it a truly essential I love the second one. Tim Allen admitted that he was quite starstruck when he met Sigourney Weaver, as he's a huge fan of alien. Alan even got Weaver to sign some of his alien memorabilia between takes.

Starting point is 00:40:40 She ultimately did writing, stolen by Tim Allen, love Sigourney Weaver, which she said made him very upset. Oh, for this next one. Oh, I love this. The casting director loved Enrico's audition so much. she broke protocol and showed this to the other actors to demonstrate how the thermines should behave. That is all the mannerisms in Tixie were talking about.

Starting point is 00:41:07 And he's the leader and it shaped everything. He developed it. That is incredible. And then that developed that everyone had to fall. That is nuts. Do you want to know a cool inside baseball thing? Of course. From this to Star Trek the movie, Star Trek Into Darkness,

Starting point is 00:41:21 I wonder chicken or egg, the guy who played the lead Nibberin on Star Trek into darkness, Jeremy Raymond, literally had us with a motion coach for all of his movements so we could replicate it and then he designed the language. So in real life, a Star Trek film that followed this movie

Starting point is 00:41:37 had the lead alien teacher saw how to be him. Oh, smart, smart. They had a website, one of the earliest ones to have an actual like the GalaxyQuest.com. That's cool. And it was deliberately made

Starting point is 00:41:49 more like a fan page with screen captures and poor HTML. All right. Oh, let's go here. William Shander has seen the film and apparently enjoyed it he has said how jealousy was this production was allowed to introduce rock monsters 10 years after paramount studios refused to let him include them in star trek five i think he directed that one uh on account of budgetary issues he also stokely said that he had

Starting point is 00:42:12 no idea who tim ellen was supposed to be working but he did recognize someone playing nishel nichols character that's funny okay um oh please damn it's so good i'm sorry i know we're like way past our time but please keep going okay yeah If you're fine and keep going a little bit. According to director, Dean Parasot, Tim Allen became very emotional after film in the scene or Jason reveals the truth to Malthazar saying, yeah, I don't like these feelings I'm having.

Starting point is 00:42:35 I'd like to go back to my trailer. After he left, Alan Rickman quipped, oh my God, I think you just experienced it both in character. Coincidentally, this is the day after DreamWorks head, Steven Spielberg visited the set. He complimented Alan's acting. That's great to hear, especially because that's one of the things we talked about. I think he just experienced acting.

Starting point is 00:42:51 I love that Alan Rickman in the real life gave a quote. That is so Alan Rickman. this makes so much more sense now tony shaloobs character you know the thing in heat about uh what alpuccino's characters oh yeah he's really a cocaine addict yeah but they don't show they don't show they don't show us who's yeah um so this is kind of what i'm thinking about here tony shaloup's character was written and acted with the idea that he was high for the entire film that is why he is unfazed by the events occurring a random way he's constantly holding back his next that's cool because it also is done in a genuine way it he's not playing it like a

Starting point is 00:43:26 stoner and stoner comedies the 90s are always really over the top yeah there's like a type to play a stoner yeah it's not a middle-aged guy this is one of those now when i hear it yeah i'm like oh that makes sense that adds to that that that does make sense but usually when you play high it's very obvious you're playing high Quinn de marco which is corny weaver's character lament that her tv guide interview with six paragraphs of my boobs and how they fit into my suit this actually happened to jerry ryan who played seven of nine wow oh my totally see this. I totally see this. Sam Rockwell based yeah. Yeah, I totally see it. Bases portrayal on Bill Paxton's

Starting point is 00:44:04 performance in James Cameron's classic aliens. In particular, his elevated fear being killed and his mental collapse once seen a motion detector that shows her enemy closing on them. I so see that. That's so perfect. A thousand percent see it. Tim Allen and the director have revealed an interview is that the original turn in the film was much darker with more scenes of violence after test screens. The film was recut to emphasize the comedy of seen a PG. And we saw that one F word. It totally makes it. And this was, what a good PG.

Starting point is 00:44:33 I mean, I watched this with my dad when I was 11. He probably wouldn't have let me watch a dark PG-13 at 11. Like he was very, he was strict about that sort of thing, but only with certain things. Like, ratings-wise, I had a very flexible family, but hyperviolence wasn't something my family was cool with. So that, that's an interesting thing about like a sci-fi. I might not have seen this early it really bums me out that the dean director dean parisad is not more known or get more work because to go from a movie that is much darker with more scenes of violence and then get it down to a pg rating shows a lot of skill it's a lot of skill because damn it that does not show no that does not feel like a shocked up movie not at all especially the modern movie today is being so

Starting point is 00:45:13 studio cut it is smooth yeah it is a smooth experience i i've never enjoyed reading facts honestly i've never enjoyed like we do this sometimes i're usually like all right i'm over this um although allan rickman hated sci-fi as a genre but he could not resist taking part of the film as they found the material very very funny uh let's see here just after the crew arrives via the pods that thermines appear without their appearance generator when the captain asked who wants a tour sigourney weaver didn't know that guy was going to scream at terror like he did oh yeah yeah yeah that's so good you can see a very real reaction for her at that moment cool it's great too the film proved quite popular with star trick fans of course um it's included it's part of the star check rankings oh that's awesome when it's time of release of voting ballots that's really cool the seventh best star trick film's out of the star trick film um oh that's good it's correct like there's more about the mariko guy making the voices yeah that influenced the entire it's like he influenced the entire race it's like that's another thing this he just he doesn't I never hear that talked about.

Starting point is 00:46:22 No. I mean, granted, I don't really dive until I'm looking for a shit about this movie, but yeah. Wow, Lilarie is the first main role of Missy Pyle and a future film. She's worked a lot since. Her role is expanded if the producers

Starting point is 00:46:36 noticed Sigourney Weaver is the only female main character. As you said. Like, there's not a lot other than white dudes, but at least they gave another woman some work. Alexander Dane never removes his headpiece throughout the entire film.

Starting point is 00:46:49 Let's skip a little bit more forward here. as an explanation for this is the fact that he had to make appearances as dr lazarus two days in a row once at the convention the next day yes and since the headpiece was a detailed makeup appliance it made sense to wear it all night than to have it removed that makes a lot of sense that's why he's in the same and it was over two days that makes sense that's what i mean it's so thought out yeah they really put some work into the movie it's so thought out without ever being like look at me so thought out it could also be a dick at the character being physically unable to escape his role similar to Leonard Nimoy. Maybe. Oh, what did J.J. Abrams say about it? In the audio commentary for Star Trek, director J.J. Abrams says, by

Starting point is 00:47:33 the way, I think we've all gone on record as saying one of our favorite direct films is Galaxy Quest. And this sequence where Kirk and Sue are falling toward Vulcan without a parachute is clearly no much to turn the loop's great save in that film. Oh, that's good. All right. No, no. I think we're getting more into the

Starting point is 00:47:51 the more my new show yeah yeah i mean we talked for an hour about it may it's amazing so good okay so he did timon did channel um uh specifically william yeah the thinking position i noticed i don't even i don't even follow track but definitely that the way he sits in the chair love this okay harold ramis wanted to cast alec baldwin turned it down steve martin kevin were also considered tim alman was perfect for it yeah just the long's debut that's cool that's cool what a good tip you oh my god it's so good in the movie yeah uh it's so so good in the movie okay oh there were plans to make a sequel to the untimely death of alan richmond uh appeared to bring into an end uh during 2021 interviews scorny and sam ellen state they might be moving forward to that

Starting point is 00:48:34 after all please don't yeah i don't think you can do it i don't want a fucking legacy sequel no not for this honestly even if all rightman was alive and still with us which would be amazing uh i don't feel like we should get the sequel i think it would kind of undermine this experience perfect um so yeah we caught it yeah we did right here this is what i'm looking for hey yeah director dean paris let's say they dislike the studio's decision to dub over scorni weaver's buck that line would screw that as it got some of the biggest laughs among test audiences parisot even admitted that he directed weaver to give a bad reading of the tamer line so that audiences would notice that that's amazing layers that is intentional i love the skirting reader bread it drool so we clocked it

Starting point is 00:49:18 Even that was intentional. What a buttoned up movie. Yeah, because we totally noticed that. That's amazing. All right. That is a perfect buttoned in on it. Yeah, man. Thank you.

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