R-rated "Galaxy Quest"?

[Danja]

Most sci-fi fans know of the (semi) family-friendly Galaxy Quest, which served as a capable and sometimes hilarious meta spoof on Star Trek. But did you know the original cut of the PG film was actually rated R?

https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/are_you_ready_for_an_r_ra

 

[JirinPanthosa]

How would that work, more of a Kickass type parody?

 

[Tosk]

No, it was mostly just down to language. Which is why there are a few obvious lip-flap scenes with replaced dialogue.

 

[StCoop]

No, it was mostly just down to language. Which is why there are a few obvious lip-flap scenes with replaced dialogue.

Sigourney Weaver has the most obvious one in the scene with the giant pistons. Her mouth says "F***" but her voice says "Screw".

 

[Morpheus 02]

I am glad they cut those...this is generally a fun movie to watch with my kids

 

[UssGlenn]

I'm sure they would have left in her alien seduction scene as well, as seen in the deleted scenes.

 

[FormerLurker]

I wonder at the legitimacy of this story. I have and have read the novelization, and there is no such language or seduction scene in it. As the novelization is clearly from an earlier draft of the script, if such a version exists, it may be full of ad libs and other types of unscripted material.

I'm unfamiliar with the deleted scenes as well, so I have no knowledge of any filmed seduction scene that was left out. That still follows the idea that it was an unscripted improvisation. Does anyone have a copy of the shooting script for comparison?

 

[Tosk]

That still follows the idea that it was an unscripted improvisation.

There's almost zero chance it was improv, it was at a crucial moment in the story and affects continuity of the rest of the film, to the point where if you know where it goes you'll notice a continuity error that occurs due to it being removed.

Edit:

I'm unfamiliar with the deleted scenes as well, so I have no knowledge of any filmed seduction scene that was left out. That still follows the idea that it was an unscripted improvisation. Does anyone have a copy of the shooting script for comparison?

I Googled and the first hit was a copy of the final draft.

https://sfy.ru/?script=galaxy_quest

It contains at least two of the harder language lines I am aware of, as well as Gwen seducing the guard.

 

[David cgc]

^Oh, cool. I was never able to find a copy of the script or a novelization when I looked previously, but I had heard some tantalizing stuff about deleted scenes beyond what was on the DVD (Guy's freak-out in the shuttle being longer, explaining why Jason was using his last name in the next scene, and a bit with a panel being knocked open revealing the Star Trek-style mechanics were as much of a facade as the crews' human forms, and the actual technology running the ship was much more alien).

 

[JD]

If the only things that made it R was swearing and one sexual scene, then I don't really mind it being cut down. The story being told really didn't need that stuff, and if it had been left in there, it could have easily felt unnecessary.
To be clear, I have no problem with R rated comedies, I love movies like Deadpool, and Animal House.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Yeah, not worth limiting the audience to throw in a few swears that don’t meaningfully affect the tone of the film.

 

[Mudd]

The seduction scene was, in fact, the pay-off to the whole notion that Weaver's character was included on the show primarily for her sex appeal.

 

[JD]

How explicit was it? Couldn't they have just toned it down to fir the final version of the movie?

 

[Jayson1]

I would like to see this cut just for the novelty of it. Jason

 

[David cgc]

How explicit was it? Couldn't they have just toned it down to fir the final version of the movie?

I have a feeling it was mostly cut for pacing. Like, she zips down her top a bit, but that probably wasn't an issue, since she never zips it back up for the for rest of the movie (the continuity error mentioned earlier in the thread). The aliens are a bit frank about talking about how attractive they (don't) find her, with one comparing it to beastiality and the other one being kind of into that but, again, that's not much more risque than the alien make-out scene in the same part of the film. On the other hand, I've seen "This Film Is Not Yet Rated," so I know it's not unthinkable the MPAA thought America's children would be driven mad with lust by seeing Sigourney Weaver actually in the act of putting a bit more cleavage on display, but not by having said cleavage inexplicably appear unannounced for the last fifteen minutes of the movie.

Watching the deleted scene on the DVD, and considering how the sequence plays in the finished film, it just stops a fairly propulsive ticking-clock sequence dead in its tracks, and blunted the whole "The countdown can't stop until '1'" gag since they'd spent two minutes on a very cheesy scene. But don't take my word for it, the deleted scenes are on Youtube.

I think the article exaggerates the situation a bit, probably from a combination of how long it's been and Weaver making it a better story in the telling, and the writer doing the same for the clicks. Given the script linked above (which is actually missing the aforementioned "Oh, that's not right!" romance subplot entirely) and the deleted scenes, my guess is the director was going for PG-13 (one solitary "fuck," a few "shits" here and there, no actual nudity or gore), caught the ratings board on a bad day (maybe they thought "Fuck that!" counted as using it as a verb), and since there was so little objectionable in the movie to start with, the cleaned-up edit brought it all the way back down to PG.

 

[Qonundrum]

That article is like 27% of the people I've ever dated: Pure tease bait.

Something as deliciously salacious as that would have made a super-dee-duper extended special release, aka "The Unedited Galactic, Don't Call Me Surely Edition" onto blu-ray ages ago.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

That sounds like it would have been a good scene, making fun of the trope in scifi where human women are attractive to aliens of all species regardless of whether they look anything like their own women. That actually comes up more in Star Wars than Star Trek though because most Star Trek races look similar enough for some kind of compatibility.

Like, it makes no sense Jabba would find Leia attractive. He should only be attracted to female slug people. Unless he just happens to have that specific fetish.

 

[Danja]

The seduction scene was, in fact, the pay-off to the whole notion that Weaver's character was included on the show primarily for her sex appeal.

At the time the film originally came out, she was said to have been intended as a spoof of Seven of Nine.

 

[Marsden]

I enjoyed seeing the scenes but I think they were all good cuts.

My favorite was Fred asking the little guy in the back how to fix the Be sphere and then they all thank him instead of the guy that explained it.

 

[FPAlpha]

At the time the film originally came out, she was said to have been intended as a spoof of Seven of Nine.

I always took it as a critique of generally using attractive women to lure in the nerd crowd ( the assumption being that boobs would boost sales which, if we're honest, they do).

Since it's a Star Trek spoof i can see it though.. sexism has always been there with Trek, even as socially progressive as it was. It just couldn't avoid the short skirts and tight fighting shirts and to cast attractive women with no real plan other than to have some eye candy for the show.

In one Q&A at a con i saw Marina Sirtis speaking about her role and she directly adressed this.. the producers on the show didn't have a clue for the first few seasons what to actually do with her and early on she was at high risk of actually being cut from TNG if not for Denise Crosby leaving.

Now i actually got a bit annoyed, maybe angry, and also disappointed when Seven was introduced.. on its own a cool concept having a Borg drone be freed and see her reintegrate into society but of course they chose a very attractive and curvaceous woman and put her in a skin tight bodysuit for the entirety of the show (and in the process they cut another female character who was no sex puppet). She became a really good character and Ryan played her well but to this day i'm still disappointed.

They basically did the same with T'Pol on Enterprise though not as obvious (she was "allowed" to wear normal clothes but still rather close fitting) but then upped the ante with the decontamination scenes

Thankfully Discovery managed to avoid this and i don't expect Picard to have some obvious sexualized roles so there's hope the franchise has put this in the past and moved on.