Monday, April 25, 2011

30DMC: Day 25

The most hilarious movie I've ever seen.

Here are the 9 runners-up because they are worth mentioning:

Elf: You sit on a throne of lies
Raising Arizona: the chase scene
Ghostbusters: the stay-puft marhsmallow man
Airplane: Oh, stewardess, I speak jive.
Parenthood: Keanu Reeves should have stuck with this character.
Bananas: Woody Allen parking scene
A Fish Called Wanda: Don't call me stupid.
Hot Fuzz: One thing you haven't got
Clue: What, another door?

Galaxy Quest. Imagine actors, famous mostly, if not only, for their tenure on a sci-fi show, and who now make a living opening big box stores dressed in costume and attending conventions, try hard now, can you think of people like this? Well, then, imagine aliens coming down to earth and kidnapping them to take them to space--where the aliens have, based on the TV show they intercepted and thought was a "historical document", built a replica of the ship from the show. Thinking the actors are their characters, well, hilarity ensues. I especially love this movie because I was a hanger-on with a whole college crowd of sci-fi geeks. So some of this may be lost in translation. But this is my very favorite comedy. Ever.

4 comments:

tz said...

galaxy quest is a freakin' classic! Love it when the guy freaks out on the 'mission' when he realizes his character doesn't have a last name and Sigorney Weaver says, but you do have a last name and he answers "but no one knows it!" almost peed my pants.

Bridgett said...

Do I?!! DO I?!!

I also like: Is there AIR? You don't know! and Tony Shaloub sniffs the air and says it seems all right.

Helen said...

That was fun... I've never seen Galaxy Quest, which was obviously a great loss on my part. I shall rectify that soon.

Indigo Bunting said...

I LOVE GALAXY QUEST!!!