Right down to ripping of Sarris’ “Give me the device or I will destroy your ship” line. (Except that Galaxy Quest was actually funny, and this trailer wasn’t.)

You mean you’re instinctively afraid of people who dress differently and don’t look like you?

You must be a blast at parties.

The Essay complains about oversimplification.

Surely, you can’t be serious?

Those movies were about fake feminism on other planets ruled by women, Wonder Woman, a character written by a real feminist, is from Paradise Island, a small island on Earth. I wish that video would mention “Star Maidens,” a planet ruled by women, with men as second class citizens. It was an attempt to be a comedy…

Gene Roddenberry made not one, not two, but three pilots for a series based on the Lady Land premise; Genesis II (1973), Planet Earth (1974) and Strange New World (1975).

This. There is a straw man argument being made here that these were not the feminist movies that they pretended to be. But they never pretended any such thing.

Fun fact: the astronaut’s uniforms and most of the weapons in Queen Of Outer Space are recycled from Forbidden Planet (MGM, 1956), which itself has a strong “damsel in distress” theme.

“Tell me about this thing you Earthmen call doggie style”

I was hoping there would be some self-awareness in this video. That it would give at least a slight wink at the silliness of dredging up a fat, easy target such as 60s pulp sci-fi to be deconstructed from a modern feminist perspective. Nope, not a bit. In my opinion, this contributes to the stereotype that modern…

Is there any evidence that these movies/tv shows had any intent to empower women?

Yeah, but Matt Damon didn’t have to fight a Martian air elemental like Don Cheadle. Also, he didn’t watch Tim Robbins turn into a human popsicle.

What in the fucking fuck?

Well i mean, this is a movie afterall, so they could make some amazing tech to save us, maybe we fond out how to control the core of the earth and we use it to keep the earth “working” after being exiled from the solar system, or maybe we use a new discovery from a crazy scientist to find a wormhole that eats the…

Parts of the premise might be plausible but, yeah, ain’t no saving the world from a black hole that just pops in! It will be laughable to see what they come up with for an ending if they somehow “stop the black hole”.

I get a little tired of the LGBTQ community defining everything in relation to being LGBTQ. Bert & Ernie aren’t gay. They’re T(-.-T) MUPPETS. It’s not as if there are other Muppet couples banging away on screen. THEY’RE NOT GAY THEY’RE MUPPETS

Fuck, I hate that Don Bluth movie. The book is as close to hard scifi as you can get when you have animals communicating with each other. I could have lived with the clothes and such, but what makes directors so determined to add magic to kids stories that don’t fucking need it? See also: The Secret Garden.

2001? Nah.. I’m thinking they have a Lego fan