Galaxy Quest

WHAT WENT WRONG

Sad Boom Media

Hollywood, Acting, Directing, Blockbuster, Movie, Flop, Film, Disaster, History, Tv & Film

4.9 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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What do you do when the number one on your call sheet won’t stop farting? Embrace it! This week, Chris & Lizzie travel to the Klatu Nebula to cover Galaxy Quest, a nearly perfect film almost undone by a terrible marketing campaign. Learn how this production survived the loss of its first director, on set script changes, and Alan Rickman’s despair at working with Tim Allen to become one of David Mamet’s favorite films.

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0:00.0	My Grabsaw's Hammer!
0:21.7	Hello and welcome to What Went Wrong, your favorite podcast full stop that just so happens
0:26.6	to be about movies.
0:27.6	Just that felt very unnatural for me to say that, but here we are.
0:31.4	And now how you know how Sir Alexander Dane felt whenever he delivered that line, except
0:37.4	when he said it's a quellic.
0:39.1	Sir Alexander Dane, that is the character Alan Rickman plays in this movie.
0:42.9	Sorry, I cannot actually absorb the character names from Galaxy Quest that are not their
0:48.6	TV show characters.
0:50.4	Fred Kwan, tech sergeant Chen, but Kwan's not even his last name.
0:53.9	Yeah, I'm a big fan of this movie, Lizzie.
0:55.6	It's fun.
0:56.6	Welcome back guys, thank you for picking Galaxy Quest.
0:59.6	I'm thrilled.
1:00.6	Yeah, this was a pull movie.
1:02.8	It was a pull movie.
1:03.9	I love this film.
1:05.5	I saw it in theaters when it first released, seven months after seeing the Phantom Menace,
1:11.4	and really didn't think that I would like this one, like a hundred times more than Star Wars,
1:15.3	but I did.
1:16.3	I thought it was amazing.
1:18.6	I hadn't seen Galaxy Quest in years.
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