Galaxy Quest --- Ridiculously underrated

[jmc]

Just finished watching it again. Fantastic movie.

 

[TheDreamMaster]

Has anyone ever seen the stupid series Dino Dan on Nick Jr? Every time my daughter watches it, I swear it is Galaxy Quest because the theme sounds very similar through most of it.

 

[Smegger56]

Such a good film. It really is. They whole cast are awesome.

And.... Sigourney Weaver is rather hot in this too. Oh yes

 

[jmc]

Thing I noticed today that I forgot is that the film actually has a lot of heart to it, the entire film is really a tribute to geek culture, it's not being made fun of, it's being celebrated and that's what makes it great.

 

[Raoul Duke]

the best parodies are always loving. they're not mean spirited. the film makers have got to have a love for the thing they are making fun of. this is a perfect example of it.

 

[bkong0]

This is one of my favourite sci-fi films and comedies too, I recommend it all the time. Shows a real love of the source material and it's just a blast to watch.

 

[Dave McFly]

I just re watched it on the blu ray today, even after 13 years it still looks fresh as it did in 99. the great cast, the great visuals (how can you go wrong with Stan Winston creature FX, and ILM visual FX?), love the music (I got the soundtrack by David Newman on my PC).

 

[Morg]

Speaking with Lindsey Collins—producer of the massive Disney blockbuster that hit theaters this weekend, John Carter—recently, Collider’s Steve Weintraub was informed of some long-lost buried treasure of sorts.

Apparently Galaxy Quest, the fantastic 1999 sci-fi comedy starring Tim Allen, Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver, Sam Rockwell, Tony Shalhoub, and Daryl Mitchell (as well as a slew of other familiar faces) as the stars of an old sci-fi TV series (a la Star Trek) who inadvertently find themselves beamed out to space to help very real aliens put an end to the ongoing threats of an evil being named Sarris and his crew, was initially an R-rated comedy before being cut down to the PG version fans know and love.

Collins explained how she came to find out this information while dining with Weaver:
“We had lunch with Sigourney, who was telling us that there actually used to be an R-rated version of that movie which was awesome.

It was the director’s cut and it was R-rated and everybody was swearing and there were sex scenes, and the whole thing. They didn’t know what to do with it, so they had to re-edit the whole thing and made it what it is today. We were like, ‘How do we get our hands on the R-rated version of Galaxy Quest?’ She said ‘I don’t know!’ and we were like, ‘Come on, Sigourney!’”

I’m a total advocate for the R-rated motion picture. Far too often these days do studios force filmmakers to make a movie PG-13 to appeal to a larger audience, thus hoping to increase the amount of money that ends up in their pockets. It’s led to awful installments in great R-rated franchises such as Live Free or Die Hard and Terminator Salvation, with the possibility of The Expendables 2 soon joining that conversation.

All of that said, Galaxy Quest isn’t part of that conversation because it’s not a movie you’d ever expect to be rated R. It’s perfectly fine as it is, and will always be so…but that also makes this new knowledge of a more mature cut of the movie so very intriguing. An R-rated version of a PG movie? Unheard of!

It’s become a constant these days for PG-13 comedies and horror flicks to release “unrated” cuts when the movie hits Blu-ray and DVD. Usually these are just money-grabs and useless, but sometimes the adult-aimed version can be fun. Before it became the norm we saw movies like Daredevil or Michael Bay’s Armageddon and Pearl Harbor do it as well. But rarely does the presence of one so random as this surface.

Which brings us to the big question asked above: where in the sweetest of Hells is this R-rated version of Galaxy Quest, and how to we get our eyes on it?!

DreamWorks released the film, so it would be up to them to release some kind of special edition with it on there. A new Deluxe Edition and the Blu-ray version of the movie were released in 2009, so they do still know the movie exists. Let’s just hope they didn’t destroy all copies of it.

Would you want to see an R-rated version of Galaxy Quest?

a R rated one? now I wanna see it again

 

[matrix_ghost]

It was the director’s cut and it was R-rated and everybody was swearing and there were sex scenes, and the whole thing

Pretty much the only reason to see this.
The question of course is...who's getting nude

 

[Morg]

Pretty much the only reason to see this.
The question of course is...who's getting nude

probably Allen

 

[DaddlerTheDalek]

I love Galaxy Quest! I always hoped for a Sequel (Like I always hoped for a late Spaceballs Sequel).

 

[Whiskey Tango]

I hope that director's cut gets released. The film is close to perfect as it is but I want to see the extra material even if it's just a bunch of lowbrow gags.

 

[Teelie]

probably Allen

Or Shalhoub with that tentacle-sprouting alien chick.

Either way an R-rated cut sounds like it could be even better. I liked the PG cut but it could've been better.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Such an underrated movie. This is what a satire should be. It shouldn't be a scene by scene recreation of a more popular movie that adds a different aspect to the scene (like the "_____ Movie" franchise). It should take a concept and poke fun of it in a clever, subtle way while crafting it's own story (like this did with Star Trek and the fandom). Such a great movie, Tim Allen's finest hour.

I prefer Toy Story

 

[green]

An R-rated directors cut???? Yes, please!

 

[matrix_ghost]

probably Allen

I was hoping for some Weaver nudity t:

 

[matrix_ghost]

I hope that director's cut gets released. The film is close to perfect as it is but I want to see the extra material even if it's just a bunch of lowbrow gags.

Can you imagine.

Weaver and Rickman getting it on
" By Grabthar's hammer, by the sons of Worvan, you shall be ploughed !"

 

[gwynplaine]

Great Movie.

 

[CGHulk]

I want a sequel! Just for sh**'s and giggles!

 

[DarkKnight88]

Personally, I think that innocence the film carries is what makes it so timeless. I'm curious to see the R-Rated cut but I think, in this case, making it PG-13 was the right call. It doesn't need any of that extra vulgar stuff.

 

[Maximus One]

Yea it's hard to imagine an R rated version of this that would actually be better.

 

[Sawyer]

 

[thangaran]

Lool that is savage of Alan Rickman. Apparently they became very good friends later on. This was an excellent highly underrated movie. I wished it was a bigger success. So tightly written and hilarious

 

[Spider-Aziz]

I watched this again this year for the first time in quite some years, and it was a well made decision.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Yeah, this movie is great.

More importantly, I just wanted to post a gif of Weaver in this movie. She's never looked better.