If there was ever a funnier and yet serious spoof of Star Trek and Sci-Fi then I’ve not yet seen it! I had the chance to re-watch this movie over the weekend and it made me laugh and smile with the over-the-top performances of the characters and actors!
From Time Allen’s portrayal of Commander Taggart to Sigourney Weaver’s emotional portrayal of Lt. Tawny Madison-with her gorgeous body center stage! Alan Rickman’s interesting and yet controlled performance of the alien Dr.Lazarus. Tony Shaloub as the tech sergeant responsible for fixing the ship under any circumstances! Reminds me of Mr. Scott on Star Trek, and he falls in love with an alien-who is really very attractive with her pale, white skin and the dark straight hair! Missy Pile plays Laliari the alien emissary to Tim Allen’s character-after her translator is fixed-and the soon to be love interest and first assistant to tech sergeant played by the actor Fred Kwan and in real life Tony Shaloub. There are supporting roles by Enrico Colantoni who plays Mathesar the alien leader and commander who puts all his people’s hopes and dreams into one basket. The one carried by goofball Tim Allen!
From the convention where the cast is upset and angry over their co-stars apparent lack of respect for their craft, or for punctuality, to Tim Allen’s astonished look when he’s about to be transported like some over-sized pneumatic tube across the universe back to earth this film has some very good special effects, decent writing and good acting by all. It presents us with the question of what do you do when you find what you do for a living really does matter to someone-even if you never thought it did and it hadn’t mattered to you before? Even more is what do you do when you find that others are relying on you to help them? Do you turn away from them, run and let them down? Or do you accept the challenge and work hard, get the help of your friends and accomplish your goal?
Maybe this movie is simply meant to be funny, but many people may think of their jobs as not having much impact in the larger picture. Yet if we all didn’t do whatever it is we do for a living wouldn’t there be a large hole? Wouldn’t things end up not getting done? And then perhaps we’d see just how important our role really is both at work, and with those we care about-friends and family.
Galaxy Quest on imdb.com
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177789/
Monday, December 01, 2008
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
Monday, December 1, 2008
Galaxy Quest~!! [1999]
If there was ever a funnier and yet serious spoof of Star Trek and Sci-Fi then I’ve not yet seen it! I had the chance to re-watch this movie over the weekend and it made me laugh and smile with the over-the-top performances of the characters and actors!
From Time Allen’s portrayal of Commander Taggart to Sigourney Weaver’s emotional portrayal of Lt. Tawny Madison-with her gorgeous body center stage! Alan Rickman’s interesting and yet controlled performance of the alien Dr.Lazarus. Tony Shaloub as the tech sergeant responsible for fixing the ship under any circumstances! Reminds me of Mr. Scott on Star Trek, and he falls in love with an alien-who is really very attractive with her pale, white skin and the dark straight hair! Missy Pile plays Laliari the alien emissary to Tim Allen’s character-after her translator is fixed-and the soon to be love interest and first assistant to tech sergeant played by the actor Fred Kwan and in real life Tony Shaloub. There are supporting roles by Enrico Colantoni who plays Mathesar the alien leader and commander who puts all his
people’s hopes and dreams into one basket. The one carried by goofball Tim Allen!
From the convention where the cast is upset and angry over their co-stars apparent lack of respect for their craft, or for punctuality, to Tim Allen’s astonished look when he’s about to be transported like some over-sized pneumatic tube across the universe back to earth this film has some very good special effects, decent writing and good acting by all. It presents us with the question of what do you do when you find what you do for a living really does matter to someone-even if you never thought it did and it hadn’t mattered to you before? Even more is what do you do when you find that others are relying on you to help them? Do you turn away from them, run and let them down? Or do you accept the challenge and work hard, get the help of your friends and accomplish your goal?
Maybe this movie is simply meant to be funny, but many people may think of their jobs as not having much impact in the larger picture. Yet if we all didn’t do whatever it is we do for a living wouldn’t there be a large hole? Wouldn’t things end up not getting done? And then perhaps we’d see just how important our role really is both at work, and with those we care about-friends and family.
Galaxy Quest on imdb.com
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177789/
Monday, December 01, 2008
From Time Allen’s portrayal of Commander Taggart to Sigourney Weaver’s emotional portrayal of Lt. Tawny Madison-with her gorgeous body center stage! Alan Rickman’s interesting and yet controlled performance of the alien Dr.Lazarus. Tony Shaloub as the tech sergeant responsible for fixing the ship under any circumstances! Reminds me of Mr. Scott on Star Trek, and he falls in love with an alien-who is really very attractive with her pale, white skin and the dark straight hair! Missy Pile plays Laliari the alien emissary to Tim Allen’s character-after her translator is fixed-and the soon to be love interest and first assistant to tech sergeant played by the actor Fred Kwan and in real life Tony Shaloub. There are supporting roles by Enrico Colantoni who plays Mathesar the alien leader and commander who puts all his
people’s hopes and dreams into one basket. The one carried by goofball Tim Allen!
From the convention where the cast is upset and angry over their co-stars apparent lack of respect for their craft, or for punctuality, to Tim Allen’s astonished look when he’s about to be transported like some over-sized pneumatic tube across the universe back to earth this film has some very good special effects, decent writing and good acting by all. It presents us with the question of what do you do when you find what you do for a living really does matter to someone-even if you never thought it did and it hadn’t mattered to you before? Even more is what do you do when you find that others are relying on you to help them? Do you turn away from them, run and let them down? Or do you accept the challenge and work hard, get the help of your friends and accomplish your goal?
Maybe this movie is simply meant to be funny, but many people may think of their jobs as not having much impact in the larger picture. Yet if we all didn’t do whatever it is we do for a living wouldn’t there be a large hole? Wouldn’t things end up not getting done? And then perhaps we’d see just how important our role really is both at work, and with those we care about-friends and family.
Galaxy Quest on imdb.com
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177789/
Monday, December 01, 2008
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy [2005]
I’ve seen this movie on several occasions and can never get over despite its inability to convey the entire meaning and theme of the original book and TV series that it’s still a good movie to watch on a rainy afternoon. Especially when you have no desire to get out of bed and think that it’d be so much better if the world were to just end!
How appropriate it is to watch this movie then-since at the beginning we have the earth being destroyed to make way for an intergalactic by-pass. How odd really that the main character [Arthur Dent, played by Martin Freeman] is about to lose his house because of a planned by-pass to go right through his house, and then not but ten minutes later in the movie the earth itself is destroyed all for the same reason!
Ah the irony of those Brits and their humor to boot!
There are plenty of very good supporting actors in this movie that make it worthwhile to watch. Such as; John Malkovich playing the rival political candidate who lost his bid for president of the galaxy-can’t see why anyone who has THAT many legs could lose! Then Zooey Deschanel plays Arthur Dent’s love interest in the movie-Trillian. She has quite a bit of spunk, but doesn’t’ seem to mind at all-nor bat an eyelash-when the current president of the galaxy offers to take her on his space ship, and she is willing to leave poor Arthur at a party for what ought to be a crazed, drunken nut-case! Not sure but most people that tell me they want to show me “Their space-ship” I tend to refer to psych at work! Mos Def plays Arthur’s friend Ford Prefect-who is in reality from another planet and is working on an update for the current addition of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, not to mention he is rather indisposable to Arthur in getting out alive in most of the difficult situations he finds himself in throughout the movie.
If you enjoy dry wit and humor in movies and are not looking for the average shoot them up, kill them with the most destruction possible and spilling the most blood on screen type of movie, then this may offer you a laugh or smile throughout the movie!
It also affords you the chance to think about your role in the universe!
Are humans really the smartest species on this planet? Or do you just think that we are?
It offers some interesting questions, and your answers may tend to be very ego-centric!
Consider kicking your mind open a bit wider than it is now!
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy [2005]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371724/
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Web Site
http://video.movies.go.com/hitchhikersguide/global/index_street.html?countryID=us§ion=undefined&datastr=undefined&pastStreet=1&
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
How appropriate it is to watch this movie then-since at the beginning we have the earth being destroyed to make way for an intergalactic by-pass. How odd really that the main character [Arthur Dent, played by Martin Freeman] is about to lose his house because of a planned by-pass to go right through his house, and then not but ten minutes later in the movie the earth itself is destroyed all for the same reason!
Ah the irony of those Brits and their humor to boot!
There are plenty of very good supporting actors in this movie that make it worthwhile to watch. Such as; John Malkovich playing the rival political candidate who lost his bid for president of the galaxy-can’t see why anyone who has THAT many legs could lose! Then Zooey Deschanel plays Arthur Dent’s love interest in the movie-Trillian. She has quite a bit of spunk, but doesn’t’ seem to mind at all-nor bat an eyelash-when the current president of the galaxy offers to take her on his space ship, and she is willing to leave poor Arthur at a party for what ought to be a crazed, drunken nut-case! Not sure but most people that tell me they want to show me “Their space-ship” I tend to refer to psych at work! Mos Def plays Arthur’s friend Ford Prefect-who is in reality from another planet and is working on an update for the current addition of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, not to mention he is rather indisposable to Arthur in getting out alive in most of the difficult situations he finds himself in throughout the movie.
If you enjoy dry wit and humor in movies and are not looking for the average shoot them up, kill them with the most destruction possible and spilling the most blood on screen type of movie, then this may offer you a laugh or smile throughout the movie!
It also affords you the chance to think about your role in the universe!
Are humans really the smartest species on this planet? Or do you just think that we are?
It offers some interesting questions, and your answers may tend to be very ego-centric!
Consider kicking your mind open a bit wider than it is now!
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy [2005]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371724/
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Web Site
http://video.movies.go.com/hitchhikersguide/global/index_street.html?countryID=us§ion=undefined&datastr=undefined&pastStreet=1&
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
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