Would you have watched the original Galaxy Quest show?
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Pharaoh Osmosis — 9 years ago(April 15, 2016 11:57 AM)
The scene where Tommy watches the show, replicating his younger self's motions while repeating "Pedal to the metal, Commander!" By Grabthar's hammer, that scene he was watching looked like something out of pre-1970 Doctor Who, or worse.
I think you mean more like 1970s 'Doctor Who' which was the cheapest era for sets and effects and probably the worst for acting where even the better actors were trying to stop themselves laughing through any scenes where they were attacked.
This is especially true for Tom Baker's era in regards to acting, though Jon Pertwee's era probably takes the cake for overall cheapness (that being said the wobbly sets archetype is probably most represented by Tom Baker's 'The Invisible Enemy'). -
ContinentalOp — 9 years ago(July 10, 2016 04:33 PM)
Yeah, there seems to be a myth that the 60s episodes of Doctor Who were the cheapest. This is very wrong. The fact that a great deal of Pertwee stories were set on Earth is due to the budget for the show being lowered. When the Doctor returned to space in the later episodes of Pertwee and in the 70s episodes of Tom Baker's era, the show looked terribly cheap and had appalling wobbly sets.
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TVholic — 10 years ago(January 27, 2016 10:25 PM)
Sadly, I probably would have watched it too. That's what happens when you're a sci-fi fan, and there really wasn't anything in the way of quality SF TV right around 1980. We had Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers, neither of which were very good. Then short-lived junk like Beyond Westworld, The Powers of Matthew Star, The Phoenix and Automan. It wasn't until the late 1980s when Star Trek TNG and Quantum Leap took off.
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TakeTwoTheyreSmall — 9 years ago(August 08, 2016 03:51 PM)
As others have pointed out, you have already watched "the show". Galaxy Quest is a movie about a parody of a TV show. A comedy knock-off about a cheesy sci-fi TV show, about a cult-hit TV show fandom. So, you've already watched it, in watching the movie, and the show(s) it parodies. The whole GQ set and direction is supposed to be cheesy. Not just cheesy, but super cheesy. As far as the "quality" of the set, effects and direction, it only had to be on a level with a SNL skit to succeed. Which it did. Any less "cheesy" and it would not have worked.
The special effects, IMO, were too good at times. The "transporters", the alien "babies", and the kill-shot of Sarris, not to mention the fabulous space scenes. They could (should) have been "cheesed" a lot more.
A Winnebago traveling through space was no accident. The cheesy effects in GQ weren't either.
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