If you love Sigourney Weaver as much as I do - and you don't, that would be impossible; but you try and you fail nicely so don't feel too bad - then you've gotta boot-scoot your ass over to io9 to watch a video clip from the extras on the newly released Galaxy Quest DVD. It is fucking classic. Siggy raps! With co-stars Daryl Mitchell, Missi Pyle and Sam Rockwell! It is love itself.
io9 also mentions the fact how it makes a lot of sense to re-release Galaxy Quest right now with Star Trek mania everywhere, and that in turn reminded me that I actually thought of GQ in the middle of watching the new Star Trek and had forgotten about it. One of my favorite parts in GQ is when Siggy and Tim Allen are on the run and that door opens and it's that nonsensically booby-trapped room with all those smashing mechanisms that was built because they needed fake tension in an episode of the original series which is so something that was always happening on old sci-fi shows.
Well in JJ Abrams' movie there's that scene where Scotty teleports into the water system of Enterprise and goes shooting through this ridiculously tangled web of water-tubes and that scene in Galaxy Quest was all I could think of. I mean, who the hell would build their water system like that? It was ridiculous. I was so distracted that I had no idea what my boyfriend was talking about when he leaned over and made a reference to my favorite Willy Wonka character Augustus Gloop shooting up the chocolate tube*, which was obviously the other thing I should have thought of.
io9 also mentions the fact how it makes a lot of sense to re-release Galaxy Quest right now with Star Trek mania everywhere, and that in turn reminded me that I actually thought of GQ in the middle of watching the new Star Trek and had forgotten about it. One of my favorite parts in GQ is when Siggy and Tim Allen are on the run and that door opens and it's that nonsensically booby-trapped room with all those smashing mechanisms that was built because they needed fake tension in an episode of the original series which is so something that was always happening on old sci-fi shows.
Gwen DeMarco: What is this thing? I mean, it serves no useful purpose for there to be a bunch of chompy, crushy things in the middle of a hallway. No, I mean we shouldn't have to do this, it makes no logical sense, why is it here?
Jason Nesmith: 'Cause it's on the television show.
Gwen DeMarco: Well forget it! I'm not doing it! This episode was badly written!
Well in JJ Abrams' movie there's that scene where Scotty teleports into the water system of Enterprise and goes shooting through this ridiculously tangled web of water-tubes and that scene in Galaxy Quest was all I could think of. I mean, who the hell would build their water system like that? It was ridiculous. I was so distracted that I had no idea what my boyfriend was talking about when he leaned over and made a reference to my favorite Willy Wonka character Augustus Gloop shooting up the chocolate tube*, which was obviously the other thing I should have thought of.
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* "shooting up the chocolate tube"
is my new favorite euphemism
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is my new favorite euphemism
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Gwen's freakout about the "chompy, crushy things" is without a doubt my favourite scene in that movie, among so many I love so very much. When she finally howls "This episode was badly written!" I just lose it completely, now matter how many times I watch the movie.
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