It doesn’t matter if some scifi fans on this thread - and people on this thread who’ve said they aren’t scifi fans - have said that they don’t know this movie. This guy should have known.
It would be like a Shakespeare scholar never having heard of the film Shakespeare in Love. Never having watched it? Sure (partly because it was awful), but never having heard of it? Nah.
Maybe he was trying to flirt, in a way? Pretending ignorance to get you to talk to him?
Not knowing “Galaxy Quest” for someone who deals in Media Fandom is like not knowing “Bimbos of the Death Sun” if you are in traditional fandom. If anything GQ is far more accessible - its more recent that BofDS and less about con politics.
Sure, a lot of people think that when they see an actor on a talk show, they’re seeing the real person. But a talk show appearance is almost as much of a performance as a role in a movie. The real person is who they are when there’s no camera around.
I never saw Santa Clause 1, but the Robo-santa parts of SC2 had me belly-laughing as a sort of self-parody (of a self-parody). The rest of the movie was sub-par, though.
A co-worker, who has been working in public health and TB prevention for almost as long as I’ve been alive, one day asked me what a “deltoid” is. She’s in her 50’s.
Is it unreasonable to be surprised that someone with a health-related background wouldn’t know this? Because I was surprised (and a puzzled that she didn’t google the answer herself).
I know a guy who’s subscribed to Entertainment Weekly for years, and apparently tosses this magazine away, unread. We were talking about Kristin Stewart and Robert Pattinson, and he said, “who are they?” Uh, the Twilight movie? Have you heard about the Twilight movie? Featured on every other cover of EW? Blank look. Derp. Maddening! Another one of those I’m-too-cool-for-popular-culture types, I guess.