Stargate

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Summary: Not that bad
Review: I have seen many, many movies and this particular one is nowhere near as bad as some reviewers are making this out to be. It is not a classic, but that was not the intention. All must agree, whether you like or hate this movie, it is certainly not a boring movie. This is a very good case of rent before you buy.

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Summary: Simply magical and Brilliant.
Review: the 1994 cult hit " Stargate" is about a group of Soldiers who go into a Portal and sucked into a World enhabited by Aliens who resemble the old egyptians. This DVD is amazing, features more scenes so that the movie makes more sense, trailers and everything that a Stargate or ID4 owner can own.

Recommendations: The Fifth Element, Independence Day, Total Recall, The Matrix, Heavy Metal, Dune, Star Wars, Legend, The Dark Crystal, City of Lost Children, Dark City, The Mummy and Army of Darkness.

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Summary: THIS MOVIE WAS MEANT TO BE SEEN IN WIDESCREEN
Review: Stargate is a beautifully filmed movie. The scenery and effects are outstanding. The letterbox format on the DVD version adds so much. The story is also very intelligent and yes, very different. An extremely clever and thought provoking storyline make this movie a satisfying treat to watch over and over again. I enjoyed Stargate on VHS but the DVD version is much better. Stargate is an absolute must for every sci-fi collection.

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Summary: Ra, Ra, Ra!
Review: First of all, James Spader is really cute in this movie. I don't know if it's the horned-rimmed, slightly nerdy scientist thing he's got going on, or what, but that is a real plus. Also, after several viewings (and after "3rd Rock From the Sun" became a hit) I realized French Stewart is in this movie, and he's actually got his eyes open! All right, maybe that isn't enough for you-what is perhaps the movie's best selling point is the idea that the Egyptian pyramids are actually alien landing pads, and there's a "lost" tribe of Egyptians on another planet that is reached, how else, through the Stargate. Kurt Russell as the hardened Col. Jack O'Neill, is a bit emotionally staid throughout the film, but Spader makes up for that in spades with an energetic performance, particularly when he is thrown into a ritual in which he is supposed to "perform" a certain rite with his romatic interest Sha-uri (Mili Avital.) Jaye Davidson ("The Crying Game) gives a striking portrayal of the beautiful, almighty alien calling himself Ra. Part action/adventure, part sci-fi, this movie has many great facets. Great effects on the transformation of Ra's thugs, Anubis, Osiris, et al.

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Summary: Stargate is Awesome
Review: I was swept away by the movie Stargate. It just fascinated me in so many ways. If you haven't seen it you need to get this movie and watch it for yourself. I know it is just another sic-fi movie but I really enjoyed it and have since been reading the Stargate books by Bill McCay which you should also check out if you wandered "what now?" at the end of the movie.

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Summary: Stargate
Review: I saw this movie on HBO or whatever, the movie is awsome, however, I did not buy a big screen tv to watch half a screen, this movie is great but almost all the movies available on DVD are widescreen, I will not buy a movie in this format!

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Summary: very Grand and Beautiful.
Review: a film you will never forget and this is a film that fans of ID4 can enjoy.

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Summary: Okay, But Nothing to Shout About
Review: A familiar story with some minor new twists (aliens colonized our planet...in a sense)about a linguist (Spader) enlisted by the military to travel through a mysterious gateway to another universe, where they help liberate an oppressed people from a super race that wants also to destroy earth.

Good production from the same guy who did "Independence Day" and, more recently, "Patriot," but much of it is hard to believe. A primitive people become very comfortable with advanced automatic rifles, for instance, despite having initially been horrified by a Zippo. Spader is able to understand their language once he "gets the vowels down," which he does very quickly. (This is an ancient Egyptian dialect--remember, these people were the ancient colonists--which over thousands of years has not changed! Absurd!) Jay Davidson, looking as lithely feminine as ever, plays "Ra," god to both the ancient Egyptians, and the primitives in this other universe. He is cagey enough to survive for thousands of years, but so inept that he gives a weapon to Spader, expecting him to kill his comrades...Duh, Ra! How could you be so stupid?

Small details like this can spoil a movie for me because they are so easily fixed...but aren't, apparently, out of sheer laziness. This is a B-movie in fancy clothes, but enjoyable enough, and worth a look if there's nothing better available.

James Spader is great in this, as he is in practically everything he's in.

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Summary: This Movie Blew Me Away!
Review: You would think this hunk of barn yard droppings would have been enough to have had Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich chased out of Hollywood by quality directors and producers. But then, I just said the magic word, 'Hollywood', which means so long as the film's plot can be understood by studio executives it is therefore suitable for consumption by the flat-line encephalograph movie-going public. The fact that movies like Stargate get made is proof positive that people really will watch anything. These are also the same people who like to call movies like this 'intelligent science fiction'. Let me explain things to you: There hasn't been an intelligent science fiction movie made since 'RoboCop'.

Stargate deals with the unearthing of an large stone circle in Egypt during the 1930s, and it's immediately shipped back the States where, after almost seventy years of examination, the brain trust assembled to study can't tell us anything more than it's a big stone ring. Along comes James Spader and his big brain and figures it out in, like, five minutes. That is except for the last symbol, which he finds on the back of a news paper that he snatches out of the hand of a confused guard. The symbols correspond to stars, hence the first part of the title. They quickly figure out how to open the Stargate and send a military mission led by Kurt Russel.

Okay, I worship Kurt Russel. Sure he's short, but he's also been Snake Plisken and Jack Burton! Here he plays his future roll from Soldier, only with more dialogue. I swear, give Russel another six inches in height and he'd be a shoe in for Nick Fury.

Spader, Russel, and his nuke-equipped, tough-as-nails, dumb-as-fence-post soldiers step out into, well, Egypt. Well, another planet that looks exactly like Egypt, there's even pyramids. Only they find they are now trapped because Spader can't figure out how to reopen the gate on this end. I also want to know when writers will come to understand a simple fact (are you paying attention Mr. Lucas?): large deserts preclude the existence of large desert dwelling creatures. Large creatures need gallons of water and tons of food each day to sustain themselves, and do not run wild where the only thing to eat for miles is sand. Aside from large sand dwelling creatures, we also find out that all those nuts who preach pyramid power and ancient astronauts were right! The pyramids of Egypt were built by aliens. Really DUMB aliens, but aliens nonetheless.

Why would a culture so technologically advanced that they can build galaxy-spanning devices like Stargates, pyramid sized space craft, energy weapons and cool morphing armor, why would such a culture keep slaves? Societies that can do all that usually have funky equipment to build all of their things, but I guess monuments mean more when 20,000 sweating slaves lug thousands of tons of stone to build your pyramid. I guess Devlin and Emmerich would assume that the audience wouldn't pay attention to things like that, or how 20 US Marines can be killed by two Chip n' Dale dancers in Horus head gear.

Suffice it to say this movie stinks worse than a Celine Dion cover version of Led Zepplin's 'Whole Lot of Love'. It presents the characters with unsolvable plot twists, only to have them resolved by unconvincing means such as newspapers and graffiti on pyramid walls. The really weird part is, the movie is now a TV show: Stargate SG-1, starring Richard Dean Anderson, and it takes the basic premise then throws out everything else, improving it immensely. The TV series IS intelligent science fiction, the movie should be used to prop up your couch.

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Summary: Truely one of the best Movies and sci-fi Movies i ever seen.
Review: excellent Roland Emmerich Film with ID4 but never " Godawfulzilla". a confusing story which will dazzle you with Special Effects and everything but the kitchen Sink, i would recommend you to buy this with Independence Day and i would also recommend similar Movies: "Dune", " Secret of NIMH", " The Dark Crystal", " Highlander", " Transformers: The Movie" and " Spaceballs." Avoid Emmerich's Godzilla and see this and ID4 instead.