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Unspooled

Galaxy Quest

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.64.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2021

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

Paul & Amy beam aboard 1999's TV sci-fi satire Galaxy Quest! They discuss how fandom has changed over the last 20 years, learn about an in-joke that inspired the villain's name, and debate whether Tim Allen was the right choice for the Shatner-esque lead role. Plus: Paul shares his secret history with this film. You can join the conversation for this series on the Unspooled Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/unspooledpodcast, and on Paul’s Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6. Learn more about the show at unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. You can also listen to our Stitcher Premium game show Screen Test right now at https://www.stitcher.com/show/unspooled-screen-test, and apply to be a contestant at [email protected]! Photo credit: Kim Troxall

Transcript

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0:00.0

The year is 1999 and by Grabthaw's hammer we will review the film Galaxy Quest.

0:30.6

Hello everyone and welcome to unspilled. I'm Amy Nicholson. And I'm Paul Sheer and this is the

0:37.7

podcast where we are watching some of the best films ever made and we are using that to compile

0:44.3

a list of the top 100 films of all time. It doesn't matter if it was made in the United States,

0:51.2

it doesn't matter if it was made in the 1910s, we are trying to find the best films ever and when we do,

0:58.8

we're going to launch them into space. And Amy, it's interesting that we're launching them into

1:04.4

space because we are starting our space mini series. I mean, I know last week was kind of an

1:10.0

unofficial kickoff to this series, but we are going to be looking at films in space and we are

1:16.2

starting off with a really fun one today, Galaxy Quest, which is kind of an outlier I think

1:22.2

if you're thinking about films in space because I don't think you often think of comedies in space.

1:26.4

Oh, yeah, I mean, what's funny about like being surrounded by the infinite cold blackness,

1:32.4

which will kill you. Oh, wow. Okay. You really brought it in dark at the beginning.

1:38.6

You know, I will say that for everybody listening, you know, we're doing things a little bit

1:42.3

different just to kind of switch it up, try new things and we always want to hear your opinions.

1:47.3

We're making this series a lot more based on what you want to hear us talking about and then we

1:52.2

would kind of pick what we want to talk about and together we form a perfect list for each mini

1:57.6

series. You can head over to my discord or discord.gg slash Paul Sheer or discord.gg slash HDTGM

2:06.4

and on both of those, there are unspooled boards where conversation will be going on and we can

2:11.0

continue conversation about the movies that we're talking about here and it'll also give you a

2:16.4

place to even submit a t-shirt designer or two because we haven't relaunched a t-shirt in quite

2:22.7

some time. No, and I'm about to be going out into public. I want to have some fresh new gear,

2:26.6

man. I want something I can rip the sleeves off. That's a bonus. I think we need to figure out some

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