The first time you watched Galaxy Quest, either in a theatre or at home, when Laredo is easing the NSEA Protector out of the space dock and it begins to drift to the left, did YOU try some body English to assist him as you were watching the movie?
I’m like, ‘Dude. It’s not that difficult.’
Oh, thought this post would be announcing some great savings.
Come again?
More just mental vibes and tensing up, rather than actually moving my body.
I don’t remember if I did or not, but I totally understand the impetus.
The first time I watched, I gritted my teeth and grimaced so hard I could barely see.
In subsequent viewings I’ve had to make an effort not to do that again, so I can enjoy the humor of the “body English” all the other characters employ.
Spectacular movie !
I definitely winced at the side-swipe. Not sure I did that once through several Fast & Furious.
I don’t recall whether I had actually performed the actual body English, but I certainly felt the urge to do so.
It perfectly captured every teenager’s experience of backing Dad’s car out of the garage for the first time.
This is certainly the best Star Trek movie and the best version of Three Amigos. I probably winced and leaned the first time I saw it – those sound effects…shudder!
Oh, that’s not right!
That’s gonna leave a mark!
The fact that everyone just remained quiet and calm makes it funnier.
The scene under discussion:
I definitely did. I saw it in the theater when it first came out. I know I saw a lot of the audience leaning too.
I was thinking “how can the main hull be scraping against the wall when the ship has those big, curving parts farther back?”
Movie physics.
Me, too.
This isn’t some weird metaphysical concept. All the effects folk had to do was a simple model to see how that was wrong.
Kid, it IS that kind of movie! or it should be.
By Grabthar’s Hammer, I will avenge physics!
I sort of feel like this was intentional in Galaxy Quest, to poke fun at all the movies where the shapes and positions of things like spaceships don’t make sense.
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?
That episode was badly written!